This is an oldie but goodie.  The history of the Quad trees is fraught with occasional despair, and in a couple of much-lamented episodes, the trees have had to be thinned (as happened a few years ago) or taken down altogether (as was the case in 1987-88 when we had a blight of Dutch Elm disease that required taking them all out).

Back when the Quad trees were thicker and more plentiful, fall was especially grand.  Here’s a Throwback Thursday aerial from 2005, showing the trees in their former splendor.

An aerial view of Reynolda Hall and the Hearn Plaza (the Quad) with fall color, made from the Wait Chapel bell tower on Monday, November 7, 2005.

An aerial view of Reynolda Hall and the Hearn Plaza (the Quad) with fall color, made from the Wait Chapel bell tower on Monday, November 7, 2005.

— by Betsy Chapman

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