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Hawaii fires scorch 150 year old tree in Maui

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    A banyan tree stands along Lahaina town's historic Front Street in February 2018, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The 150-year-old tree was scorched by a devastating wildfire that started Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, and tore through the heart of the Hawaiian island of Maui in darkness. The tree was just an 8-foot (2-meter) sapling when it was planted in 1873, a gift shipped from India to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Protestant mission in Lahaina. It was planted a quarter century before the Hawaiian Islands became a U.S. territory and seven decades after King Kamehameha declared Lahaina the capital of his kingdom.

    Ring by ring, majestic banyan tree in heart of fire-scorched Lahaina chronicles 150 years of history (msn.com)

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    Knothead, Aug 10, 2023
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    I visited that very tree in the 70's.
     
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    What a shame that fire was. 55 dead. A thousand missing. Sad.
     
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