Remembering An Artist Who Made the Most of Discarded Trees
Air date: Week of 05/19/2010
Story length: 4:18
Producer: Leah Kauffman
A man who was a new kind of urban forester died after an accident May 13. John Metzler took city trees damaged by disease or storms and turned the wood into furniture, art, and flooring. But while working outside his studio recently, he was struck and killed by a trailer that unhitched and rolled into him. The Allegheny Front's Leah Kauffman interviewed Metzler at the Urban Tree Forge in Pittsburgh a year before the accident.
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