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 Great Kapok Tree frogs, snakes, sloths, birds, anteaters, and monkeys. The animals explain their dependence on the tree and also the importance of the tree to the world. The man wakes up, picks up his ax and prepares to cut the tree, but before he begins to cut the tree he remembers what the animals had told him, and finally decides not to cut down the tree by dropping his ax and leaving the rain forest. Lynne Cherry conceived the idea for "The Great Kapok Tree" while on a train ride between Washington, DC and Connecticut. Afterwards, she started studying photographs from the