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GEORGE WALLACE PENNIMAN, D. D.
WALPOLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Norway Spruce. The village streets were filled with great trees which had blown down. Walpole had beautiful trees but most of them are gone.

How did you fare in the gale? And do you know whether the great oak in front of my birthplace is still standing. You, of course, remember the great gale of Sept. 1869 when we were in the High School that took down the third oak which stood in the corner next the Uphams. From the top of Blue Hill over thirty years ago. I could identify our great oak. I think it was as large as any tree in town.

How are Hazel & her family?