Dr. Gary Keever guessed 81. He was under by two to four years. According to Keever, an Auburn Professor of Horticulture, and associate School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences professor Brian Via, the Toomer’s Oaks were between 83-85 years old when they were removed on April 23, though there were just 81 growth rings counted. [...]

The oaks are gone. The Toomer’s Oaks grooms cake tradition is not. Here’s 2011 Auburn grad (and new husband to Marie) Jeffery Huntley’s. It’s most likely the first Toomer’s Oaks grooms cake to ride the internet since the oaks were cut down (note the commemorative “Final Roll” toilet paper at the base). Via @AU_Grant. … [...]

The biggest sign that this Toomer’s Oakss trading card is, in fact, a legitimate, officially licensed, actual real thing isn’t the “Auburn” instead of the “Toomer’s,” (’cause that’s important) it’s that someone has already bid it up to $61. And there are still five days left. The eBay description reads: You are bidding on a [...]

Come fall, you won’t be able to roll Toomer’s Corner on an around-the-block whim after kissing the bride, or after Bill Clinton is elected, or probably even after your average basketball victory (as monumental as that would be). As TWER first reported in March, the triangle of poles and wires that will serve as the [...]

It’s getting harder to “remember Dunkirk” after David Housel’s speech at the final rolling of the Toomer’s Oaks, which is fast becoming his most memorable, at least if our search term analytics are any indication (they usually are). A day hasn’t passed since that it’s-OK-to-call-it-epic day that someone hasn’t come to TWER searching for a [...]

Less than two weeks after the Toomer’s Oaks were cut down (but not completely removed), and its predecessors either harvested or trampled, there it is: the first rhizomic shoot from the oak closest to College Street, working its way from the tree’s still very much alive roots toward the sun through a crack in the [...]

You’ve probably seen that aerial shot of the final rolling of the Toomer’s Oaks. More than a million people have… and we’re talking just the original image posted to Auburn University Photographic Service’s Facebook page, which saw its Total Reach record shattered beyond shattered the week of the oaks’ final rolling and removal thanks mostly [...]

In central Vermont, you’re apparently nothing if you don’t have one of Bo Muller-Moore’s “Eat More Kale” shirts. So many people have them they’ve apparently been “part of the central Vermont landscape, culture and vernacular” since at least 2008. But they could soon become a collectors item. Muller-Moore has been fighting to save his small, [...]

If you’re the one and only Brandon Cox, it’s not as if you need an excuse to be in the Bahamas and rolling a palm tree. But he had a pretty good one last week. His latest tweet: “Even tho we were in the Bahamas for the Last Roll of Toomer’s Corner,we weren’t going to [...]

Ed. note: Beyond “Thanks, Harvey,” Justin Lee didn’t have much time to reflect on it all. He was busy working up the nerve to film folks with his quasi-functional camera for the video that would be his final project for Austin Phillips’ multimedia class. Obviously the only way he could get people to agree to [...]