Hundred Tree Timeline
Personal memory by Sean Clayton
2010 • Randolph, NJ, USA
Back in 2010, I was living in New Jersey. There was a park not a mile from my home that had been completely destroyed so that corporations could build a new outlet mall. Now, sitting where that park stood, is a barren lot of grass and sand. They killed over a hundred trees. As of 2017, they abandoned the project.
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