A Tree Grows In South Philly

It took a skilsaw, a jackhammer and a 30-pound sledge to bust through the eight inches of concrete in our front sidewalk. Joe's cousin Lucca labored diligently for several hours before we finally had a hole 3 feet square, into which we lovingly placed a crabapple tree. Let's hope that it thrives on dog pee, litter and bus fumes, the three most prominent ingredients in the environment on 12th Street.