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The Giving Tree Now Gone

September 11, 2017 By Debbie Young

At current posting, we are not getting much news out of the Keys. I received an email Saturday morning from a friend who was riding out Irma at our house. Our neighbor’s ficus tree had crunched his house. It’s the same ficus that fell on our house in 1998, right after Dick and I had moved into our newly restored Conch home in Old Town, KW.

When Hurricane Georges struck Key West that September, Shel Silverstein’s ficus tree toppled onto our home, miraculously not causing much damage. Shel asked if we would leave it until he could get a tree crew to right the tree. The ficus, he said, had been his inspiration for The Giving Tree.

From the Miami Herald:

There was plenty of damage in Key West: Surge swamped streets to hip level near Mallory Square, wrecked boats near Galleon Marina and toppled ficus trees onto cars. The huge trees also smashed parts of two houses on Williams Street — one, neighbors said, belonging to the late, great children’s book author Shel Silverstein.

The view after the storm.

The Giving Tree Movie Spoken By Shel Silverstein

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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