240-year-old elm tree living its last days
US News • January 2010 • Views: 194
The massive elm tree that shaded the corner of East Main Street and Yankee Drive was sick. Like so many others in so many of America’s towns in the 1950s, it was stricken with Dutch elm disease…
Herbie, estimated to be about 240 years old, will be cut down January 18. Knight, consulted by tree experts who made the decision, is resigned that the end has come.