It was lined with trees, offering some beauty as well as a shield from this summer’s unusual heat.
Then she met her neighbor Ed Rodriguez, an 82-year-old tree evangelist on a mission to fill the neighborhood with trees.
This month, Mr. Rodriguez planted a crab apple tree in front of her home — his 90th tree in 13 years.
“I love to dig and mess around in the soil,” said Mr. Rodriguez who grew up in Puerto Rico, where he said he was surrounded by trees.
He moved to the New Haven neighborhood in the 1960s.
Persons:
Maria Gonzalez, Ed Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Rodriguez, “, ”
Locations:
New Haven, Conn, Puerto Rico