The road one takes to the 500 year old Granby Oak is Day Street. In 2010, a large box truck clipped off a limb which had hung across the road for centuries. Town authorities attributed it to the increased use of GPS for navigating shortcuts. Soon after, another limb was lost to a snowstorm. Despite the mishaps, it’s still one of the most remarkable white oaks in the country. While I was editing the picture this morning, it occurred to me that the oak was over 200 years old when photography was invented in 1839. And when Gifford Pinchot was born in the next town south of here in 1865, the tree was already historic. It would be interesting to know if the most important graduate from the Yale School of Forestry ever visited the tree as a boy.
JOHN TODARO 
Fascinating. Pennsylvania has a State Park named after Gifford Pinchot, about a 50 minute drive from us. 😎
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I’ve read that, and there’s also Grey Towers NHS (aka The Pinchot Institute). The home where he was born in Simsbury CT is still there (currently an inn), and there’s another huge tree which I happened to photograph yesterday, “The Pinchot Sycamore.” He left a trail of commemoration, it seems 😊
Terrific associations! Thank you for the information and your musings. Out here there’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
I’d forgotten about that forest! Happy you you liked the post