Listening to memories in a Wewa church - The Port St. Joe Star

Listening to memories in a Wewa church - The Port St. Joe Star

Along the Gulf Coast, the trees remember things we forget. There are many ways to read a tree’s story. Foresters read tree rings to understand the conditions in which a tree grew. We, too, can learn what trees have to say: part memory, part experience; part adaptation, part transformation. Along coastal roads, you see them standing out of place: old pines and oaks leaning permanently this way or that, as though they tuned in to hear the gossip o…