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Jesse's Oak?

I sense a huge marketing opportunity here for someone!

How would you like to have growing in your Buckeye Backyard, a descendant, or even a clone, of an Oak Sapling given to Jesse Owens by the German Olympic committee upon his winning of his four gold medals in the '36 Olympics. What better way to own a piece of Buckeye History? What better way to keep his legacy alive than to have thousands of tall stately beautiful English Oak trees - all offspring of the original Jesse Oak - scattered across this state in his honor and his memory!

Click on the NRP link to read the interesting story - Jesse Owens' Legacy, And Hitler's Oak Trees. Thank goodness we have a NPR to do these kinds of things.