“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in 1913 from a bedroom window looking out upon a winding network of fall colors in rural New Jersey. “Trees” is a poem ...

WEST SAND LAKE — Betty Murphy's West Sand Lake Elementary first-grade class stood in a row before their schoolmates Thursday afternoon, ready to recite by memory the 32-line poem they wrote. Murphy ...

The man who regularly trims trees and cuts down dead ones at our cottage found a tree he thought might need to go. I wasn’t there, but my sister was. Even though she’s part-owner, he said, “Call your ...