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The real Giving Tree

By: McCoy's Editorial Team

So you may or may not be familiar with the Shel Silverstein classic, “The Giving Tree.” In the story a tree befriends a little boy and provides for him as he grows—shade under which to sit, apples to eat and branches with which to build a home, and finally a stump on which to rest his weary, old bones. That tree gave its all. Well, it’s not the only tree to do that.

The Giving Tree is real. The massive Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in New York, a 10-ton, 76-foot Norwegian Spruce, is the tree that keeps giving. Since 2007, after being taken down, the tree is used to furnish lumber for Habitat for Humanity construction projects.

The tree that gave the gift of shelter

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