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Remembering the planting of the oak TO THE EDITOR: Just to let you know that we look forward to getting our copy of The News-Reporter each week. Dee and I both devour it whenever it arrives here in the mail. Sometimes we get it on Friday, sometimes it is as late as Wednesday of the following week. We have actually received two different issues in the same mail. But, whenever, it is our link to our many friends in Washington and Wilkes County. I really wondered what The News- Reporter would be without your dad but it has not missed a beat. The News-Reporter continues with the same small town flavor that has made its mark on more than one generation now. I have read local papers from several similar towns and none compare with The News-Reporter. Keep up the good work. It is hard to believe that almost twenty years have passed since we moved from Washington. We have spent most of our time working with a Christian Youth Camp just out of Dahlonega, Georgia. Our mission has been to present Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior to a lost and dying world that desperately needs to know that every person can know with certainty he or she will go to Heaven when they die. Well, enough of that and on to what prompts this letter. I just read on the front page that the 100- yearold oak tree was to be removed. Either I am a lot older than I think I am, or my memory is worse than I think it is, or that tree is not quite as old as it is claimed to be. am just 67 years old and I remember distinctly standing in front of Meadows Brothers Grocery on the west side of the Square, 14 West Square to be exact, with my dad and watching Mr. Rochford Johnson plant that small oak. I remember the comments of more than one man at the time that the tree would be a nuisance with the leaves and that somebody would have to worry with cutting it down and cleaning up the stump that remained. Many people have enjoyed that tree for many years. In the long run it has given more than it has cost. I think the big oak trees that were along the sidewalk around the outside parking spaces in front of the stores had just been cut down about that time and the stumps were still standing. If I were asked to date it I would guess at the late 1940’s or the early 1950’s. Maybe somebody else has got some better memory of this and would help me out. Much love to all at the News Reporter and throughout Wilkes County.
AUSTIN MEADOWS
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