June 19, 2017 at 4:08 p.m.
There is a property in Newbold that has been owned by the same family for 100 years. On that property stands a flowering crabapple tree that has grown with the family. Julie Edwardson's father, Larry Rappley, was born in his grandparents' log cabin, which wasn't too far from the tree. The cabin is gone, replaced by a garden, but the tree still stands. Over the years it has been marred by woodpeckers feasting on the bugs that inhabited it. There is a hole big enough to put an arm through, and on one side it is hallowed out like it has been burned. Despite all that, the tree still blooms snow-white flowers, and bears a heafty amount of fruit. While growing up and into adulthood, Edwardson and her father gathered the fruit and made batches of pink-colored jam. "The jam is the best, it has a pink color to it and I would say a little sweeter than your normal crabapple," Edwardson said of the flavor.
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