The removal of the large shade trees on Pennsylvania avenue between Broad and Bennetts street has been anything but an improvement to the appearance of that thoroufare. A view of this block from the corner of Eddy’s Studio gives you a shock like meeting an old friend who has just had his head shaved. If the old trees had to be removed, let us at least replace them with new young trees, preferably Maples. Try to imagine this desert-like block on a hot summer day; the very thought of it is appalling. Our shade trees are the crowning beauty of our town. The bleak and barren appearance of a street without shade trees is a disheartening sight to the most optimistic person in the world; so let us have shade trees planted on this desolate block that just a present looks like the back street in a Colorado mining town.
From the front page of the Sandhill Citizen, Southern Pines, N.C., Friday, Nov. 24, 1922
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