Canterbury Cricket Week ceremonies. As of 2017, there have been 166 Canterbury Cricket Weeks held. The week continued through the Second World War with cricket being held on the ground each season. The politician and journalist Bill Deedes wrote in 2000: "while the Second World War was on, I consoled myself by thinking that Canterbury Cricket Week, founded in 1842 with its tents and famous lime tree, unchanging in a changing world, was the sort of thing I was in business to preserve." Traditionally Canterbury Cricket Week has included a Ladies day with prizes being awarded for the best hat on the day.
The Learning Tree that underprivileged black males find themselves. Gordon Parks composed and wrote the following selections of score music in "The Learning Tree": "New York Times" reviewer Roger Greenspun praised the film's score in his review, saying that the music "telegraphs and then drains each crisis". When "The Learning Tree" premiered at the Trans-Lux Theater in New York City on August 6, 1969, it was well received by critics. Greenspun commented in his review that the scenes in the film took on a "kind of ceremonial vitality and lifelikeness". Parks and Guffey's strong attention to detail helped to make this film beloved