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...contended that Protestantism would soon die. The other, enraged, thrust his walking stick into the ground, shouting, "As certainly as this stick shall take root and grow into a tree, so also will Luther's faith remain." The stick, the story goes, grew into the 120-ft. Luther Elm...
...first postwar years, Pastor Theodor Distelmann, holding services in the ruins of the Magnuskirche, sadly wondered where the money to rebuild his church would come from. His old friend, Pastor Alfred Herrnbrodt, thought he knew a way to get some. In 1949, when the 400-year-old "Luther Elm" on Pastor Herrnbrodt's property died, the pastor commissioned a woodcarver to make 30,000 small "Luther roses" and 500 "Luther plaques" out of the tree, which was rich in Lutheran tradition.* Sale of the mementos (plus a recently granted West German government subsidy) should bring in enough to meet...
...Elm Avenue Methodist Church Portsmouth...
...Thurber's own start in life came at the hands of Midwife Margery Albright, who rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that...
...fracas followers usually gathered at the famous Rebellion Tree, an elm east of Hollis Hall. It was there that John Quincy Adams' son George heroically told the mobs, "Gentlemen, we have been commanded, at our peril, not to return to the Rebellion Tree: at our peril we do return...