Poetically needful of a blacksmith. Were the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow still with us and in Winona, he would tell us about a brawny smithy under this mighty chestnut. Err, it’s an oak. And this is 2025. This mighty oak stands ready to burst forth its leafy canopy of green along the Gilmore Creek ditch on Vila Street on the West End. Image: Steve Lunde