'The Old Lady' Of Kensington, A Record-Holding Tree, Comes Down | New Hampshire Public Radio
(Editor's note: we highly recommend you listen to this piece.) After surviving centuries of New England weather, and no shortage of children trying to climb it, the sugar maple that has stood in front of Buxton’s home sustained catastrophic damage in a recent windstorm. Buxton surveying damage to the trunk suffered during a recent windstorm. Credit Todd Bookman/NHPR “You could hear it creaking open,” she said. A crack in the trunk left it wounded beyond repair. Buxton and her arborist, Micum Davis of Cornerstone Tree Service, agreed it was time to take it down. “I love my tree. I’m ...
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