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Yarmouth, Maine, residents fondly called their 200-year-old elm tree Herbie. Dutch elm disease claimed the giant last winter. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Townspeople can pay respects to downed elm tree Herbie

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

Yarmouth, Maine, residents fondly called their 200-year-old elm tree Herbie. Dutch elm disease claimed the giant last winter. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Yarmouth, Maine, residents fondly called their 200-year-old elm tree Herbie. Dutch elm disease claimed the giant last winter. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) – A 217-year-old elm tree that was cut down in Maine earlier this year is going on display.

A 6-foot-wide section of the tree known as Herbie the Elm will be displayed in an open-air shelter outside the town office in Yarmouth.

The 110-foot tall tree, which suffered from Dutch elm disease, was believed to be the biggest in New England when it was cut down in January.

Sections of its stump were bolted onto plywood and displayed at the Yarmouth Clam Festival last summer.

WMTW-TV reports that the tree, which yielded more than 6,000 board feet, was also made into furniture and other items, some of which will be auctioned off Nov. 13 at the Delorme Mapping Store, on U.S. Route 1 in Yarmouth.

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Information from: WMTW-TV, http://www.wmtw.com

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