- Dates
- 2020-11-07 – 2020-11-08
- Kind
- Local observation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- ecologyforestrylandscapeoral-history
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In November 2020, forum participants discussed numerous distinctly bent trees noticed along Beaver Island’s West Drive after the leaves had fallen. A reply preserved the local recollection that an area had been called the “Rheumatism Forrest” in the 1970s.
Evidence limits
The thread records a landscape observation and an unverified local recollection. It does not establish why the trees are bent, how extensive the phenomenon is, or whether the quoted name referred to this exact area.
Sources
- A visitor reported photographing numerous distinctly bent trees along West Drive after leaf fall. Replies suggested soil, sunlight, or randomness; John Bolton recalled that local residents called an area the “Rheumatism Forrest” when he arrived in 1975. The thread provides observation and oral recollection, not a botanical survey, causal explanation, or verified historical name.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015817
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Beaver Island Archive, “Residents discuss distinctive bent trees along Beaver Island’s West Drive, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bent-trees-west-drive-discussion-2020/, accessed [date], citing Meade family and forum participants, “Unique bent shaped trees on island,” Beaver Island Forum, November 7–8, 2020..
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