In his column this week, Dan Rodricks mourns an elm tree that provided shade and beauty for more than 100 years in Mount Vernon.

ONE YEAR LATER. IT’S 430 ON A MONDAY AFTERNOON, AND QUINN PATTERSON’S WORKDAY HAS JUST WRAPPED UP, BUT SHE STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO UNTIL SHE MAKES IT FROM HER JOB IN PASADENA TO HER HOME IN ...