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Late this October, Katherine Romans and I headed down to New Haven’s Hill neighborhood to document a mass tree planting being conducted by an unlikely bunch of volunteers from across Connecticut. High school students, ex-offenders, and bankers labored alongside one another for the better part of a day, all driven by the motivation to plant a whopping 50 trees and enliven a stark street-scape. This multimedia piece provides a snapshot of the week’s work and some of the characters who contributed to its success.