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Article: LOVELY DOGWOOD IS DESERVEDLY OUR STATE FLOWER.(LOCAL)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2000
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If I ever had any reservations concerning the wisdom of the Virginia legislators who chose the dogwood as the Old Dominion's state flower in 1916, they were laid to rest on April 8, when a good friend and I drove up to Jamestown on a serenely sunny day and later decided to take the Colonial Parkway to Yorktown on our return trip to Norfolk.
From the place where the English established their first permanent toehold in Virginia in May 1607 to the site of the joint French and American victory in October 1781 that guaranteed the 13 colonies their independence from the Mother Country, the freshly green, pine-scented woods along the way were accented with contrasting ...