Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Baker and Cocoa In this and my next two essays, I’d like to explore: (A.) How, in the first half of the 20th century, ...

The dogs howled and growled, their low moans threatening as they circled the gnarled trunk of the old chestnut tree. Expecting to find a possum or a small mammal, the hunter hurried through the brush ...

The monumental chestnut tree that cheered Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis was toppled by wind and heavy rain on Monday. The once mighty tree, now diseased and rotted through the ...

Richard Wilhelm knows about the rise and fall of the American chestnut — how a foreign blight inadvertently wiped out the grandest tree in the North American forests in little over a half century. He ...

SOUTHWICK — Over the last several weeks hundreds of motorists have traveled along Congamond Road, and most wouldn’t recognize the prickly burrs on the branches of single American chestnut tree that ...

The wild chestnuts around this leafy college town used to grow in such great numbers that locals collected the nuts by the bushel and shipped them off to New York City for a small fortune. These days, ...

Question: I would love to grow American chestnut trees on my property to harvest the nuts for the holidays. Is this possible? Answer: The quick answer to this question is no – though work on ...