";s:4:"text";s:12901:"Learn more. A Witness Tree is a collection of poems by Robert Frost, most of which are short lyric, first published in 1942.The collection was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1943. Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment for more than a century. A "witness tree" at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The witness tree shown was drawn by a gentleman named Ted Drummond. CBS News "For many years after the Battle of Gettysburg, we had the veterans … The photo was taken on … I worked for a surveyor for 2 years and we set several survey markers with witness trees as references to our marker. If it is NOT a hanging tree, and DOES NOT have any religious significance… would you believe… It is an ancient oak tree, that towers over our 100-acre estate and used as a a surveyor’s landmark in 1854, bearing “witness” to the northwest corner of the Donation Land Claim No. Share
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