Post edited 2:53 pm – June 11, 2009 by PlantHero
Hello Everyone…
During the past (40?) years we have seen the worth of this Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in the 1972 film classic Deliverance, its breakout role as a piece of riverside foliage, and its best known (scene-stealing) role as a stately old-growth conifer in The Deer Hunter.
With well over 40 movies to its credit, the woody plant died in the blue ridge mountains of North Carolina, on the steep, north-facing slope it called home, of complications relating to adelgid beetles and a recent lightning strike – the tree was planted in 1722; it was 286 and 98ft tall.
Some of its most notable movies and roles were 1974 episode of Gunsmoke as a treacherous mountain-pass fir; 1985 thriller Runaway Train and Three Days of The Condor; 1992's The Last of the Mohicans as an Adirondack black spruce. 
In the 8o's the tree did a series of commercials for Honeycomb as the 'Hideout' and public service announcements for the Smokey Bear campaign.
In 1989, actress, Margot Kidder fell in love with the tree and traveled often to wrap her arms around it and meditate in its shade.
In 1993 the tree won widespread critical praise when it was leaned against by Harrison Ford during a wilderness escape scene in The Fugitive.
More recently it was in Monster's Ball (one of the trees glimpsed through the living room window), HBO miniseries John Adams and in Director M.Night Shyamalan, 2008, film The Happening (tree swaying in the wind #3).
According to its publicist the attorneys for the tree announced that, in accordance with its will, the tree will be carved into (25-30) canoes for underprivileged youths with Robert DeNiro (co-star of Deer Hunter) paying for the shipping of 5 canoes to be placed at various summer camps for the underprivileged in the New York State area.
I will surely miss this most critically acclaimed vegetation,
Perennially,
Plant Hero
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