State Sen. Judy L. Schwank, like a lot of Berks Countians, said she used to drive down Angora Road at the edge of Antietam Lake and spy a dead tree and a broken-down fence and wonder “What was that?”

She’s not wondering anymore, because the site isn’t looking so shabby these days since the rededication Friday of the historic Mother’s Tree, a weeping white birch, surrounded by gleaming monuments and bedecked with flowing white ribbons and a wreath of pink and white carnations.

All of it is neatly bordered today by a black iron fence.  Read more at The Reading Eagle →