Parque Municipal Summit

This guide to Parque Municipal Summit in Panama City opens on a hillside farm the Panama Canal Company carved from the jungle in nineteen twenty-three to grow the world's future construction wood. It follows James Edgar Higgins, the Cornell-trained agronomist who arrived in nineteen twenty-seven and bet on slow-growing teak he would not live to see harvested, and the nursery hands who spent the nineteen thirties raising rubber trees from six hundred collected seeds. The Second World War changed the stakes for that rubber nursery almost overnight.