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• Pat Shingleton: "The Charter Oak and Great Sand Dunes..."

  August 19, 2020 6:20 PM

  Dutch explorer, Adrian Block described in his journal an unusually large white oak tree growing in a clearing on what is now Hartford, Connecticut. In the 1630s, a delegation of Native Americans approached the property’s owner where the tree was located. Intending to remove the tree, Samuel Wyllys preserved it... more »