Wrote a book and lived to tell about it

Shall we talk a little about it?

A year and a half ago the tallest tree in New York fell. My friend Philip was hiking with another friend when they found it and alerted nearby forest rangers to her. Her name was Tree 103 and she stood alongside her sisters for more than three hundred years in a place near me called Elders Grove. When she fell, one nearby forestry professor said, she wo…