Word: tree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nights. Ranger Brad Wolgast, 21, an eagle scout and psychology student from Kansas, observes privately that the troop's adults and boys communicate poorly. "Things get left unsaid," he explains. Staff members at base camp tell of a stressed-out troop that tied one of its hikers to a tree earlier this year. Philmont chaplain Rusty Cowden, 38, remembers his own trek in 1967: "We got lost. A bear ate our food, and it rained 11 out of 12 days." But Cowden recalls the trip joyously. Coping with blisters, bears and soggy meals somehow adds texture to the chill...
...They're murderers. That's my tree. They can't cut that down. I believe it's a big plot, a conspiracy between a whole lot of people to cut that tree down. That's how much power the Lampoon...
...Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, on the city's removal of the locust tree formerly located outside the Harvard Lampoon's One Freedom Square headquarters. The Lampoon president denied any association with the tree's demise. But the Cambridge arborist said members of the semi-secret society, which periodically publishes a humor magazine, contributed to the gradual deterioration of the former Mt. Auburn St. landmark by attacking it last year. Over 140 axe marks were found in the tree when it was felled, some of which were six inches deep...
...Those nice little gentlemen at the Lampoon took it upon themselves to put an axe to that tree...
Epps said that the Lampoon had agreed to payfor the tree's removal in the aftermath of lastyear's incident. He added that the organizationhad also agreed to make amends for the dark deedby planting another tree in its place, as well asnumber of others in the general vicinity