Billy Partridge and the Pear Tree

At war with the neighborhood grump

Image by adege from Pixabay

He owned the tree, but technically Mister Wilson didn’t own the land where it currently stood. Developers had cleared a vast tract of land to build new houses for all the GIs returning from the war in Europe. Money ran out before they could finish the massive home on that piece of property, and construction seized. After remaining vacant for a…