STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - NORTH SHORE - From Tompkinsville to Elm Park, flourishing fig trees prompt stories about family history, told by children and grandchildren of those who planted what are now ...

Amazon was going to get delivery of a 55-foot-tall ficus tree (a type of fig) between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Monday. We should send our photographers out to capture the scene as crews lifted the giant, ...

This is an opinion column. That first bite instantly took me back to Nannie’s strawberry fig preserves. The bulbous fruit connected me with the dog days of a hot Georgia summer long ago. For a moment, ...

If someone you know has gone missing, if your loved ones in recent days are distant, let me suggest where to look: The fig tree. We have figs on our grounds at the Mobile Botanical Gardens, perhaps ...

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