My Neighbors Destroyed My Grandparents’ 50-Year-Old Apple Tree — They Never Expected the Price They’d Pay

New York, one of the few survivors of a blight that had destroyed most of his trees in the 1960s. When my grandparents relocated for my grandfather’s engineering job, they had carefully transported the young tree in the back of their station wagon, keeping its roots moist during the entire eight-hour drive.

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