The redbuds are in full bloom at the Core Arboretum.
And so was the delighted laugh this past Thursday afternoon of a certain director of the old-growth expanse off Patteson Drive — as soon as he learned of the trajectory a certain local song that celebrates the colorful tree is now taking … in Oklahoma.
“Chris is out here a lot,” Zach Fowler said.
“That’s awesome. Great song. I’m gonna have to congratulate him.”
Fowler is a WVU biology professor who oversees the botanical doings of the place rescued from the development boom at the end of World War II, when soldiers-turned-students on the G.I. Bill began marching into Morgantown.
He’s referring to his university colleague Chris Haddox, a professor of sustainable design who also knows how to pick a guitar and write a song.
In 2021, Haddox, with the help of Mountain Stage musical director Ron Sowell, released a self-titled album of original tunes, heartfelt and hilarious, that…
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