[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/20/2016 1:36:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:

Reminds  me of my Pop's story of the only time he "went down to City Hall 
to  complain".  Seems  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
 
I had an event about 20 years ago that did inspire me to go down to
Village Hall and verbally accost the "Village Engineer" of my dinky  home
town in NW Wisconsin (Grantsburg, pop. 1,300).
 
After the devastation of the Dutch Elm Disease (easily half the trees  in
the village were American Elms), the village got busy replanting.   Somehow
they came up with Yellow Bud Hickory (Carya cordiformis) trees for
a two block stretch along the street where the family home was  located.
Hickories are almost impossible to transplant because of their  prodigious
taproot, but in this case the trees prospered until they were about  40'.
Then, the Village Engineer decided that their roots might be a  problem,
and despite protests, they were all sacrificed.  
 
I pointed out their unusual qualities to a somewhat surprised Village  
Engineer,
who knew who I was because my family was a big fish in a little pond.
He was resolute in the righteousness of his actions.  I did get a  chance
to ventilate to the person responsible, and that felt good.  
 
It didn't bring back the hickories.  
 
 
David S.