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“New Haven shorn of its elms would be like Jupiter without a beard, or a lion shaved of his mane,” wrote Henry Ward Beecher in 1867. In the twentieth century, New Haven was shorn. This panorama of the New Haven Green was taken in 1915. By then, modern life, in the form of road construction, electric lines, and an invasion of leaf-devouring beetles accidentally brought in from Europe, had taken their toll. |
