Grant Hadwin got a chainsaw and did something terrible

The New Yorker ^ | 11-04-2002 | John Vaillant

[Clara Lou]

People sometimes take themselves and their opinions far too seriously. What an idiot this guy is/was.

[Cicero]

Terrible and fascinating.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[dts32041]

So how many houses where made out of this tree?

[Carry_Okie]

A facet.

[Carry_Okie]

Scary to say, I think I know how he felt.

[Arkie2]

That's a helluva story.

[texas booster]

One year later, while it hasn't grown very much, our little tree survived its first winter outdoors and is thriving. Its golden foliage has now become quite prominent.

Latest from the Port Charlotte website.

[Freeper john]

Does anyone have a picture of the golden spruce before it was felled? I was unable to find anything but the new seedlings through a google search.

[IronJack]

Grant Hadwin reminds me of a Robert Service poem:

"There's a race of men who don't fit in,
Men who can't stay still.
So they break the hearts of kith and kin
And they roam the world at will."

[Prodigal Son]

Scary guy. Reminds somehow of that McCandless fellow the book "Into the Wild" was about. Intense loner. Finally went to the Alaska bush with a .22 rifle and his body was found some time later- starved to death. It's an interesting read. By John Krakauer. There's some real nutters out there.

[Cicero]

Paul Bunyan comes to mind, and he was in the same line of work. But I've known two people who remind me of this guy, one about fifty years ago, and one living near me now--in fact, one of my inlaws.

[eddie willers]

He may be crazy....but, whew... talk about an Alpha male.

[willyone]

He was born two hundred years too late. He would have been something on the frontier. Wonder if Crockett and Boone were like this?

[ofMagog]

Into the Wild is indeed a wonderful book.
A little schizophrenia is like a little pregnancy...

[altayann]

The last time Wilson saw him, he was wearing earplugs; he had to wear them, he told her, because every word he heard felt like a direct insult.

Sorry to say, but that sounds a lot like schizophrenia to me. It's strange, but some of those who suffer from the condition believe that sounds, words or ideas are literally real, physically real.

[ganesha]

This is the only Photo I could find of the full size tree.

[Freeper john]

THANK YOU!!!

[Ditter]

We went salmon fishing on the Queen Charlottes a few years ago. No one mentioned the golden tree. Too bad cause I would have had a picture of it.