The upcoming holiday season bodes many social engagements with all the seasonal trappings. No doubt all of these parties will include liquid refreshments, some hard, some soft and many sparkling. It ...

I have heard about common sassafras, the Ague tree, or the scientific name Sassafras albidum, since I was a kid. One of the reasons I remember sassafras is I had a Cub Scout leader who founds some ...

Once in awhile, on the way down the lane, my granddad would stop the truck, reach out the window and break off some twigs of sassafras. I don’t remember the root beer taste; it was more the novelty of ...

Native America turned the bounty of the land into the essentials of life. The tree that the Narragansett Indians called sasaukaka-pamuch, which we today call sassafras, was no exception. Long before ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

While walking on the Stage Trail at Hickory Run State Park, I was attracted to several unusual bronze, golden and yellow leaves beneath my feet. I put some little "mitten" shaped leaves in my pocket ...

I grew up with a sassafras grove. It was down the street from our house, a little forest in wild suburbia, our secret camp. We’d eat apples in there from a nearby orchard and chew sassafras leaf stems ...

AGAINST the Indian-summer sky, a tree lifts up its hands and testifies to glory, the glory of a blue October day. Yellow or orange, or blood-orange, or sometimes softest salmon pink, or blotched with ...

I grew up with a sassafras grove. It was down the street from our house, a little forest in wild suburbia, our secret camp. We’d eat apples in there from a nearby orchard and chew sassafras leaf stems ...