Gayla Marty in Minnesota Women's Press

By Heidi Clausen

Minnesota Women's Press

September 26, 2013

Marty_Memory cover Most people don't take much notice of the trees around them every day, but Gayla Marty thinks they should.

While she hasn't lived there in many years, Marty easily recalls trees on her family's east-central Minnesota dairy farm, which was settled in 1881 by her Swiss immigrant great-grandparents.

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