In honor of the centennial of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, N.Y., artist Katie Holten is creating a Tree Museum, and the trees tell stories. Holten has marked out 100 trees along the Concourse, a street about four and a half miles long. Each tree will have a sign that gives a phone number and a code to listen to short recordings of people speaking about the Bronx, their lives and their work. The tree museum will open on June 21, 2009. Four of the stories can be heard online, accompanying "A Museum of Trees That Speak of History," a story about the project by Jim Dwyer. You can hear stories by architect Daniel Libeskind, preservationist Dart Westphal and community gardener Lurry Boyd, as well as Carlos Lazarte's recording of the chirps of coquis, Puerto Rican tree frogs. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham