James Ragsdale Memorial Grove

4A. The Ragsdale Memorial Grove—Crab Apple (Malus spp.) The Grove was designed and planted in 1995, in memory of James Ragsdale, a civic leader in New Bedford and editor of the Standard-Times. Ragsdale had called Jim Sears and offered five crab apple trees for the campus shortly before he died.

4B. English Oak (Quercus robur) These two Oaks were grown from acorns by Jim Sears at his home and transplanted 7 years later to the Ragsdale Memorial Grove. The acorns were originally collected by a botanist from an allée of English Oaks that grow along the Falmouth to Woods Hole path. He sent Jim Sears such a large box of acorns, Jim gifted the extras to his students.