A worker from Classen’€™s Crane Service from Waterford, Vermont gets ready to cut down a branch from one of the last elm trees in Concord near the corner of Green Street and Blake Street on Friday, September 22, 2017. Area artisans are going to take pieces of the downed tree to make reflections of their memories of the iconic tree.
A worker from Classen’€™s Crane Service from Waterford, Vermont gets ready to cut down a branch from one of the last elm trees in Concord near the corner of Green Street and Blake Street on Friday, September 22, 2017. Area artisans are going to take pieces of the downed tree to make reflections of their memories of the iconic tree. Credit: GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff

Workers cut down one of Concord’s last elm trees this Friday. Like elms across New England, it succumbed to Dutch elm disease. Area artisans are going to take pieces of the downed tree to create reflections of their memories of the iconic tree.