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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, December 2, 2015
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Locally-grown Christmas tree gets national exposure in the Big Apple
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“It’s so nice that the tree is coming
from New York,” said longtime Plattekill
resident Ester Coppola as she watched the
tree get cut down on Nov. 4. “We don’t need
trees from New Jersey or Connecticut. We
have plenty right here.”
Coppola was just one of the many
on-lookers who shared such feelings.
From behind the “Rockefeller Center”
marked crowd barriers, scores of community members took turns exchanging
cameras to take pictures with the 78-foot
Norway Spruce as their backdrop. They
watched in awe as the Center’s head gardener, Erik Pouze, with his crew of over
20, chain-sawed through the base of the
10-ton tree with ease, and when the team
(with the help of a massive crane) finally manipulated the tree safely upon the
truck bed, the people swooped in for more
photos.
And to think the mighty tree had
become something of a nuisance for
Albert Asendorf and Nancy Puchalski,
the homeowners who donated the Spruce.
“We were gonna knock it down,”
said Asendorf following the cutting
Wednesday. “then we thought somebody
might want it.”
Little did he know that “somebody”
would be a city of over 8 million people.
The tree has been on the property
since Albert’s family moved into the home
in 1957. At the time, he was 4 years old.
The tree was 6 feet tall. Over the years, the
Asendorf family has grown alongside the
tree.
But the Spruce, as sentimental as it
may be, grew too much. It was good for
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