This tree is truly an engineering marvel, as well as a survivor. "A hundred years ago, there would have been hundreds of white oak trees all in and around here," offers Mr. Pickett.

His occasional verse, scattered through his works, ended up running over 200 pages when collected in a posthumous 1869 volume called “Ballads and Tales.” Among those poems is an old favorite of the ...

Each poem is a snapshot of the human experience — whether it be joy or sorrow. The Little Free Poet Tree gives people a chance to connect in a myriad of ways.

A schoolboy who wrote a poem pleading with the Hydro Board to spare a tree has been gifted one 68 years on to make up for its loss. Ian Mackinlay penned the poem in 1947, when he was ten years old ...