"My family hasn't sat under the same oak tree for the last 500 years, " he said.
Tucked away on winding, oak tree-lined roads or in one-traffic-light towns, bastions of smoked brisket have lured the palates of many discerning carnivores.
Mr. HANK CLEMITIS: (Singing) On the first day of Christmas, Katrina gave to me my boat sitting in an oak tree.
Neal's body was dragged through town and hanged from an oak tree on the courthouse lawn, his fingers displayed as souvenirs.
Scottish Parliament Presiding Officer Tricia Marwick also planted an oak tree at Holyrood marking the Queen's lasting connection with the institution.
Perhaps the message of the little oak tree is that, if we take the time to look, there are shoots of hope.
When I first began to use it, the box was attached to an old oak tree a bit back from the road.
The famous sessile oak tree had a girth of 42ft 5in (12.9m).
For the barn owls, cameras were set up in a nest box on an oak tree which fed pictures back to the wooden hide.
"When Shearer arrived at the source of the fire, he found a pile of debris burning under an oak tree, " a News Press article said.
The Spaniard's tee shot on the 10th hole somehow came to rest about 15 feet up in an oak tree, sitting between two large branches.
There is another anxiety reflected in that little oak tree, though.
With help from his father and after many mistakes Aidan ended up with two models: a traditional flat-panel array and a tree-shaped solar collector designed to mimic the branch sequence of an oak tree.
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Many said they were angry that the students, dubbed the Jena 6, were being treated more harshly than three white students who hung nooses from an oak tree on Jena High School property.
In September 2006, as the school year kicked off, a black Jena High School student asked the vice principal if he and some friends could sit under an oak tree where the white students typically congregated.
The set will feature real grass, an oak tree and "clouds" suspended from wires above the stadium - one of which will produce rain, provided the British weather does not provide its own on the night.
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The incident followed months of racial tension, sparked originally when three white teens hung nooses from an oak tree the day after a group of black students violated an unofficial rule among students that only whites sit in that area.
One ejection seat shell ripped through an oak tree and crashed into a condo fence, and the other seat shell landed next door, suggesting that the two Navy pilots ejected at a low altitude, another resident, Keith Gutkowski, told CNN.
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Even baseball televises its draft held during the playing season which is hilarious, since player development in baseball takes far longer than most sports. (Watching a baseball draft is like watching the planting of an oak tree.) There's summer-league NBA to follow and signing day and of course the heat-seeking thrill circus that is intrasquad spring college football.
"Schools understand that students want to leave their mark on the way out the door, but a better way to do that is to take up a donation and plant an oak tree, " said Mark Goulet, a lawyer for the school board in Smithville, Texas, where students last month were suspended after a cafeteria food fight involving burritos.
The memorial site features a stone inscribed with words from the president's inaugural address in 1961, a 50-step pathway, hawthorn tree and American Scarlet Oak.
They include the sessile oak, which has been designated the national tree of Wales, and one of only two oaks native to the British Isles.
"The tree was one of the biggest and oldest oak trees on the planet, " said Mr McBride, who lives close to the Pontfadog Oak.
The main tree you see in this image is a large oak, and I used it to frame the shafts of light.
Rob McBride, a so-called "tree hunter" who measures and logs trees, said it was rare for an oak to live to such an age, with most usually lasting around 900 years.
Tree species such as larch, spruce and pine will be felled and replaced by native varieties such as oak, hazel, rowan, alder and holly.
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