The People’s Tree Goes

Rev. Alison Patton has been here just over a year.

A tree at the corner of the Post Road and North Compo Road has been here a lot longer.

It’s been here through a couple of decades of People’s Savings Bank. It was here, shading the original home of Ed Mitchell’s. It was here before that too, when the building housed a heating contractor.

Now it’s gone. But as it was being cut, Rev. Patton snapped a photo.

I’m not sure why it’s gone. Maybe it was diseased. Maybe the bank worried it would fall during the next storm. Or maybe someone just didn’t like it there.

Whatever the reason, there’s one less tree on the Post Road.

And, as Rev. Patton says, it’s on a corner that “could use more, not less green.”