This is, admittedly, a very strange subject. But its one of those deals that sucked me down the rabbit hole so fast before I knew it I had links open all over the place. Its about trees that have witnessed events in hostory that are still alive. Like the tree in that Chris Stapleton song, ‘Sticks That Make Thunder’ that witnessed Gettysburg.
Anyways, there a whole bunch of folks I guess that are interested in the subject. Check this out. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/h.../witness-trees
You’ve always heard people say ‘If these walls could talk’. A tree is like a wall I guess, but they’re alive. Which as humans we look at with our short livesand wonder what the hell its like to live that kind of span. There a bunch of groups on FB about witness trees. And there are books written about the ones on Cemetary Ridge at Gettysburg.
My first wife and I were headed out to the Smokies and stopped at the Natchez Trace and saw an old pecan that was alive during the War of 1812. Its dead now I guess and they’ve removed it. It was friggin YUGE.
And I read that there are Revolutionary War Witness Trees still alive.
Anyways. Its strange, but kinda cool to think about, these old trees standing there. Knowing stuff.
BKb