Disneyland gets a dreaming tree.Disneyland's 50th Celebration festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. kicked off with a tree presentation at the California theme park. Delegates from Walt Disney's hometown, Marceline, Missouri Marceline is a city in Chariton and Linn County, Missouri. The population was 2,558 at the 2000 census. Marceline is best known for being the boyhood hometown of Walt Disney. , presented horticultural director Karen Hedges with a descendant of the founder's so-called Dreaming Tree. Kaye Malins, a former Mouseketeer, owns the farm where Disney grew up and where the Dreaming Tree, a cottonwood cottonwood: see willow. cottonwood Any of several fast-growing North American trees of the genus Populus. Members of the willow family, cottonwoods have heart-shaped, toothed leaves and cottony seeds. The dangling leaves clatter in the wind. , still grows. Disney said he spent many hours on his stomach beneath the huge tree, observing the natural world. This "belly botany," as he described it, later inspired his Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse Famous character of Walt Disney's animated cartoons. He was introduced in Steamboat Willie (1928), the first animated cartoon with sound. Mickey was created by Disney, who also provided his high-pitched voice, and was usually drawn by the studio's head animator, and Jiminy Cricket characters. Hedges said the tree would be planted in a prominent place when it has reached a suitable size. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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