New chapter for iconic Pickity Place tree
Keith and Kim Grimes of Pickity Place in Mason plan to carve their iconic tree into a little library. Ben Conant photos / Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Keith and Kim Grimes of Pickity Place in Mason plan to carve their iconic tree into a little library after the white ash tree broke apart in a recent storm. Staff photo by Ben Conant
Keith and Kim Grimes of Pickity Place in Mason plan to carve their iconic tree into a little library after the white ash tree broke apart in a recent storm.
Keith and Kim Grimes of Pickity Place in Mason plan to carve their iconic tree into a little library after the white ash tree broke apart in a recent storm. Staff photo by Ben Conant
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/3/2021 5:15:38 PM
Mason landmark Pickity Place is, quite literally, a storybook setting, as its cozy cottage and iconic gnarled white ash tree were once immortalized as illustrations in the Little Golden Book version of “Little Red Riding Hood.” That made it all the more devastating for owner Keith Grimes in December, when the ancient white ash finally gave up the ghost amidst a blizzard, tearing asunder as nearly half of the gnarled tree went down.
“It was a miracle it missed the cottage,” Pickity Place owner and chef Keith Grimes said in an interview with the Ledger-Transcript. “I’ve been thinking about this tree coming down for years.”