[Archers] BBC: 600 Year-Old Yew Tree in England

[John Atkins]

To play off of Mungo's post here, and specifically "if the tree could talk,
what would it say?" question, let me recommend the movie Red Violin.  While
it is about a violin it does play off of the question "if my antiques could
talk what stories could they tell?".  Trust me, you will enjoy this movie.

cog

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Subject: [Archers] BBC: 600 Year-Old Yew Tree in England

Noble friends,

The BBC recently featured this brief story about the Wakehurst Place yew, a
600 year-old tree in England: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-16288408 .

So what's important about an old tree? For one, it was apparently
deliberately planted around 1391 as an early landscaping project. 
Second, a great many important events happened around that time, and if
trees had eyes and memories, it would have been witness (sort-of) to a lot
of important stuff. Finally, we archers have, or should have, deep respect
for the yew, since yew staves were used for the great English longbow. Set
aside for a moment the fact that English yew is twisty and doesn't make good
bows, and that nearly all yew bows started with continental wood, it reminds
us of how valuable this slow-growing and rare tree was.

Yours Aye,


Lord Mungo Napier
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