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Pastor Finds That a Lost Tree in Bridgehampton Keeps Giving

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The Reverend Joanne Utley, with a piece of unfinished beechwood, in John Halsey's Mecox wood shop. The Communion set he made for her sits in front of him. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

The Reverend Joanne Utley, with a piece of unfinished beechwood, in John Halsey's Mecox wood shop. The Communion set he made for her sits in front of him. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

The Communion set that John Halsey made as a gift for the Reverend Joanne Utley, the pastor of The Hamptons United Methodist Church. COURTESY REVEREND JOANNE UTLEY

The Communion set that John Halsey made as a gift for the Reverend Joanne Utley, the pastor of The Hamptons United Methodist Church. COURTESY REVEREND JOANNE UTLEY

The Reverend Joanne Utley leads a prayer service at the foot of the damaged and diseased 150-year-old European weeping beech next to the former Bridgehampton United Methodist Church Prior to its removal in July 2022. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

The Reverend Joanne Utley leads a prayer service at the foot of the damaged and diseased 150-year-old European weeping beech next to the former Bridgehampton United Methodist Church Prior to its removal in July 2022. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

The Reverend Joanne Utley leads a prayer service at the foot of the damaged and diseased 150-year-old European weeping beech next to the former Bridgehampton United Methodist Church Prior to its removal in July 2022. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

The Reverend Joanne Utley leads a prayer service at the foot of the damaged and diseased 150-year-old European weeping beech next to the former Bridgehampton United Methodist Church Prior to its removal in July 2022. STEPHEN J. KOTZ

authorStephen J. Kotz on May 10, 2023
Last summer, when an old weeping beech tree that had graced the corner of Montauk Highway and Church Lane, just east of the former home of the Bridgehampton United Methodist... more

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