I'm all about whimsical and enjoy most of the results but in some instances I can't help but wonder why...for instance in a small Oregon town (Harper) and several other states across the nation there are shoe trees. The one In Harper started with a pair of women's dress shoes and a pair of men's tennis shoes. Was it a couple who decided the tree looked like it could use some shoes? or was it an attempt at decoration? or were they simply ready to ditch their shoes? The legend of the Harper shoe tree is:"A weary traveler with worn shoes saw a pair of shoes just his size hanging in a tree and put them on. Grateful for the new shoes and subsequent improvements in his life,the traveler started a shoe tree in another area to help another lost soul." I don't know about everyone else,but that story reads a lot like a fairy tale. I have no idea which tree bore shoes first but there is a second shoe tree between Mitchell and John Day Oregon that has had shoes adorning it for around 15 years.
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