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Article: The return of the mighty chestnut. (The woodlot).
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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KEN SCHARABOK
Hear the word "chestnut" and one of several recollections is likely to come to mind:
As a novice blacksmith myself, the Longfellow poem Junior High English students once had to memorize has significant meaning--"Under the spreading Chestnut tree.... "The tree and smithy actually existed in Cambridge, MA. The tree was cut down to widen a road and later turned out to be a European Horse Chestnut, a cousin of the true American Chestnut.
Perhaps the Christmas carol "Chestnuts roasting by the open fire ..." will come to mind.
For older readers perhaps it will be "That's an old chestnut," for a well overused joke or comic ...