The Senator

"The Senator" burning

The whodunit

at Big Tree Park is solved.

It wasn’t lightning

or spontaneous combustion

that killed “The Senator.”

A drug user set fire

to the beloved cypress tree.

She needed

some light to see

while she got high.

But, there’s another culprit

in this tragedy.

Seminole County

let Big Tree Park become a haven

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for drugs and prostitution.

“The Senator” was the most

ancient and majestic cypress tree

in the United States. And we let

our most ancient tree

become the victim of petty crime.

“The Senator” died at the hands of a druggie.

But it also died of negligence.

 

“The Senator” was the name given to a 3,500 year old tree, 125 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 17.5 feet.  It was destroyed by a fire on January 16, 2012.

 

© 2012 Catherine Giordano

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