Every Man Needs To See 'Train Dreams'

While watching the hauntingly beautiful new film Train Dreams, I found myself thinking of the four hemlock pines that stood side-by-side in the grassy yard beside the house where I grew up. Their trunks were as tall and straight as ship masts. Who knows how old they were, but I’m guessing they were planted when the house was built in the 1920s. By the time I was a boy, their tops towered high above the roof.