Broken-hearted Tree Hugging Hippie
July 13, 2005 – 12:20 pm | by nerd's eye viewWelcome to Nerd's Eye View. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Want to know more about this site? See the Meet the Nerd page. And thanks for reading!
I missed this item in the news as it went to press just after we left for Canada. That means I found out the hard way, by walking through Volunteer Park, which I do often as it’s just over THERE from my place, and coming across a great scarred stump and a handful of shellshocked neighbors. “I used to come and play under this tree when I was a boy,” said one embittered guy who’d taken to using the broad remains of the tree as a soapbox. He tried to engage me in converstation about how the city was cashing in on the wood from this giant maple, but I wasn’t having any. I was just too sad.
RIP, grand old tree.
