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Have you ever stood next to a tree that was alive when knights rode horses through muddy fields in Europe?
In this episode of Skookum Kid’s Stories, Peter and his American Eskimo dog Gracie follow their dad into Cathedral Grove - a breathtaking old-growth forest tucked inside McMillan Provincial Park, right on the highway between Parksville and Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. The moment Peter steps off the path, the noise of the world disappears. Even Gracie, never one to stand still, goes quiet. Together they find an enormous western red cedar, about eight hundred years old, its trunk four metres across and its roots spreading across the forest floor like sleeping giants. As they settle on a wide root and Gracie tucks herself between them, Dad begins a journey through time - from knights in armour and quill pens, to Gutenberg’s printing press, to the first ships arriving on the Pacific coast. Peter fills his small green notebook. Through it all, the tree simply stands - patient, enormous, and quietly keeping its own kind of record.
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