GREAT movie! Especially if you're one that values the history of the wood in the instrument or weapon you use!<br><br>Saphir<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:21 AM, John Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cogworks@triad.rr.com">cogworks@triad.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">To play off of Mungo's post here, and specifically "if the tree could talk,<br>
what would it say?" question, let me recommend the movie Red Violin. While<br>
it is about a violin it does play off of the question "if my antiques could<br>
talk what stories could they tell?". Trust me, you will enjoy this movie.<br>
<br>
cog<br>
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Subject: [Archers] BBC: 600 Year-Old Yew Tree in England<br>
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Noble friends,<br>
<br>
The BBC recently featured this brief story about the Wakehurst Place yew, a<br>
600 year-old tree in England:<br>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-16288408" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-16288408</a> .<br>
<br>
So what's important about an old tree? For one, it was apparently<br>
deliberately planted around 1391 as an early landscaping project.<br>
Second, a great many important events happened around that time, and if<br>
trees had eyes and memories, it would have been witness (sort-of) to a lot<br>
of important stuff. Finally, we archers have, or should have, deep respect<br>
for the yew, since yew staves were used for the great English longbow. Set<br>
aside for a moment the fact that English yew is twisty and doesn't make good<br>
bows, and that nearly all yew bows started with continental wood, it reminds<br>
us of how valuable this slow-growing and rare tree was.<br>
<br>
Yours Aye,<br>
<br>
<br>
Lord Mungo Napier<br>
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