Coming to grips with mortality. It's a good thing.:D
"It's been cut about 13 times because of disease, but it was such a beautiful tree," said Knight. "There were some bigger, but none more beautiful, with that nice straight trunk."
Knight thinks it's funny that stories about him and Herbie make him look like "the biggest tree lover."
Having been a pulpwood dealer and a woodlot owner, Knight said, he probably "has taken down more trees than anyone in Maine."
But there's at least one tree that he won't watch come down. He doesn't plan to be on hand for Herbie's last day.
"No," he said, "I don't need to see that."
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (UPI) — A 70-year-old Norway spruce, this year’s Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York, is to return to Connecticut as lumber for affordable homes.
The tree, almost 80 feet high, was taken down Thursday night and cut up by a milling machine Friday, the Stamford Advocate reported. The wood is to be used in an eight-unit condominium being built by Habitat for Humanity in Stamford.
Iveth Bowie, who is to occupy one of the condos, came to New York to watch.
“It’s like Christmas continues shining in my house,” Bowie said. “It’s so beautiful that this has a place in my house.”
Torsilieri Inc. of Far Hills, N.J., took the tree down and cut off the branches to be fed into a wood-chipper to make surfacing for nature trails. The trunk was cut into sections before being sawed into planks.
This year’s tree was donated by Maria Corti of Easton, Conn. Rockefeller Center has contributed trees to Habitat for Humanity for the past three years.
I think, if possible, that part of Herbie should be dried, and fashioned into a casket.
Then, when the time arises, two friends will be joined again.