AMHERST Small, cut-up pieces from the Merry Maple, removed from the North Common in November, are available to people who want a keepsake from the iconic tree.Tree Warden Alan Snow this week delivered the tree rounds to Public Shade Tree Committee.
AMHERST Looking up in awe at the large maple, touching the bark on its trunk and remarking on how sturdy the tree seemed, 7-year-old Xavi Veatch was among those saddened to be saying goodbye to the original Merry Maple.“I just have a lot of.
AMHERST Looking up in awe at the large maple, touching the bark on its trunk and remarking on how sturdy the tree seems, 7-year-old Xavi Veatch was among those saddened to be saying good-bye to the original Merry Maple.“I just have a lot of.
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.” And thus, in 1952, the foundation was laid for what four decades later would become China’s most ambitious engineering project a scheme to haul some 45 billion cubic meters of