The Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island recalls the world of an exceptional woman, photographer Alice Austen. Austen's quaint Victorian cottage-style home, where this black locust tree grows, has a magnificent view of New York Harbor and displays prints from the large glass negative collection of her work depicting turn-of-the-century American life. Taught by her uncle, Austen took up photography with a passion, shooting more than 7,000 pictures that captured a quieter Staten Island, as well as a growing, bustling New York City . The original house, one of the City's oldest, dates back to the 1690s. Once part of a farm near the scenic Narrows, the property was bought in 1844 by John H. Austen, Alice 's grandfather.

Elvis' musical influences were the pop and country music of the time, the gospel music he heard in church and at the all-night gospel sings he frequently attended, and the black R&B he absorbed on historic Beale Street as a Memphis teenager. In 1954, he began his singing career with the legendary Sun Records label in Memphis . His Graceland mansion in Memphis has a curved driveway leading to the front door, and these pin oaks line the drive.

Frank Lloyd Wright was a master builder, a rebel and a worshipper of nature. Wright introduced the word 'organic' into his philosophy of architecture as early as 1908. It was an extension of the teachings of his mentor Louis Sullivan whose slogan, "form follows function" became the mantra of modern architecture. Wright changed this phrase to "form and function are one," using nature as the best example of this integration. The Frank Lloyd Wright Gingko stood in front of his Forest Avenue home in Oak Park , Illinois , until it succumbed to a storm in 1992. Cuttings are taken from second-generation offspring of the original tree.

Stephen Collins Foster was born outside Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania on July 4, 1826. He showed early promise as a musician and in a life span of only 37 years Foster became America 's first professional songwriter. In 1931 Josiah K. Lilly, an Indiana pharmaceutical manufacturer, suggested that Florida create a memorial to the American composer Stephen Foster, whose lyrics had made the Suwannee River famous around the world. The Florida Federation of Music Clubs worked with local citizens in White Springs to obtain land contributions that were then presented to the state. In 1950 the Stephen Foster Memorial Commission was set up to administer development of the park, which is home to the majestic Stephen Foster Live Oak.