‘Memoir of a Redwood’ erected in Memorial Park near where the tree was felled in April 2024
There is a saying among some in the creative community that great art comes from great pain, and that may be an apt description of a recent addition to the public art inventory in Newberg.
A wood sculpture titled “Memoir of a Redwood”, recently erected in the northwest corner of Memorial Park on Blaine Street, is the product of what some consider a painful chapter in the city’s history: the felling of one of the city’s signature giant redwoods…