10/23/2025 Bayside Editorial: Symbol of endurance in one little planting - Worcester County News Bayside Gazette

10/23/2025 Bayside Editorial: Symbol of endurance in one little planting - Worcester County News Bayside Gazette

Symbol of endurance in one little planting From Babylon to Berlin and from ancient King Nebuchadnezzar to the town’s horticultural advisory committee. That’s the scope of the divide between the day a bald cypress seedling poked into the daylight in a southern swamp and Tuesday, when that great tree’s immediate offspring was returned to the earth in Stephen Decatur Park. Two thousand six-hundred thirty years ago, give or take a century or two, is…