Show year old oak may not survive the winter natick mass the john eliot oak whose age horticulturists estimate as high as bears 5 ears will not survive the rigors of another winter natick na fives I 1 fear ear it was under this tree during the middle of the seventeenth century century that john el ot ministered to the ind ans whom he believed to be the de ants of the lost tribes of israel and it was this same tree last cen tury fury that red longfellow to per the poem be nning thou ancient gaii whose myriad leaves are loud with sounds of ble speech killed by leaking gas fumes that en its gnarled roots five years ago the old oak has continued to stand though only tour four stubby I 1 spread out from its almost bar klesh trunk today and those who have watched it down through the years fear another winter will see the re mains of the landmark forever re moved |