BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
A three-year search for the origin of former Mahwah resident Joyce Kilmer’s famous poem “Trees” ended with the discovery of a letter from his wife stating the poem was written there.
Local historian Alex Michelini discovered a notebook with his find at Lauinger Library in Georgetown University last week.
According to NorthJersey.com, the notebook contains a page with the first two lines of the poem and the date February 2, 1913, along with the letter Kilmer’s widow Aline wrote to a graduate student in 1929.
