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Daniel Rubin: New Hope's Franken Tree: Much too ugly to stay dead

Sure, the spindly hawthorn outside her store on West Mechanic Street was ugly. And yes, it was dead. But Meshell Kimbel loved that tree. And now she and her friends have created a monster, a Franken Tree.

Meshell Kimbel refreshes some of the leafy decoration on the patched-up old hawthorn outside her shop.
Meshell Kimbel refreshes some of the leafy decoration on the patched-up old hawthorn outside her shop.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
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