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Jimmy Dwigans stands next to the concrete trunk filler his father-in-law built 50 years ago to stabilize the Muster Oak. Photos by Jeff Wick -
CTL Tree Service workers, from left, Zane Caddell, James Hargrove (who has been with the company since 1976!), Jimmy Dwigans and Brandon Dwigans stand next to the Muster Oak last week.
When Jimmy Dwigans opened up his copy of The Fayette County Record on Aug. 8 he couldn’t help but smile.
In our “50 Years Ago” feature in the newspaper that day we detailed the preservation effort that saved La Grange’s Muster Oak, the massive live oak at the corner of Washington and Colorado streets.
That effort was headed up by the late Clarence Bubela, a man who Dwigans said taught him…
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