Join FRIENDS Vice President and seasoned tour guide David Karabell for a leisurely walk from the southeast corner of Central Park to Bethesda Terrace. As we make our way past the Zoo, the Arsenal, the Lake, and the Mall, we’ll find out how one of the Park’s oldest buildings turned from fortress to museum to weather bureau, explore one of the largest and last remaining stands of American Elm trees in North America, see the first public art commission granted to a woman in New York City, find out why the Park has only one straight thoroughfare, figure out what coconuts have to do with conservation, and meet the most famous poet whose name you’ve never heard.