Elm trees make a comeback

The campus where I spent my college years, Ohio University, in Athens Ohio, had a beautiful college green graced with elm trees called the McGuffey Elms, after one of the founders of the college. (He was the same chap who invented McGuffey Readers.)

The trees were ancient,venerable,stately, majestic. They were also doomed, afflicted with Dutch elm disease, which eventually killed them all off.

New trees have grown on the campus since then, and it looks pretty good. But I am glad to see that elm trees are making a comeback.