Budleigh Past and Present

[In Brewster, as in Budleigh Salterton, trees are a much-loved part of the landscape and the proposal to remove one particularly cherished specimen is meeting with opposition]. It was Joyce Kilmer who wrote, “I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree,” but a petition, while not as lovely either, may spare one particular tree. At least that’s the hope of a group that gathered on Memorial Day beneath the 70-foot white spruce on the traffic island at the intersection of Satucket and Stony Brook roads in Brewster. They were collecting signatures in opposition to the town’s plan to chop Brewster’s unofficial Christmas tree as part of a redesign of the intersection and Stony Brook mill site. “I want to preserve Cape Cod,” declared Chris Nolin. “I’m a young guy of 27 but I’ve been coming out to Cape Cod since I was little and that’s why I moved out here. I feel very strongly about preserving old Cape Cod and Brewster. That whole area has a certain charm.” Nolin lives within walk...