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Chestnut is my favorite wood. It always has been. Growing up, we had it in my house in New Jersey. And when it was time to scrape and sand the windows before painting the trim, my dad would always tell us, this house is made with chestnut. I could hear the pride in his voice. And when I made my first piece of real furniture, I knew I wanted to make it out of

reclaimed chestnut. So I bought some old boards from a barn and I made this little coffee table.

The wood, it actually cost me a fortune, but it was worth it. Wood from the chestnut tree is

beautiful. It's rare, and it's almost all gone. It turns out I'm not the only fan,

and for good reason. It was called the perfect tree. The American chestnut grew fast and straight.

At over 100 feet tall and up to 10 feet wide,

it towered over the eastern forests. It was plentiful, too.

Legend has it that a squirrel could travel on the canopy of the chestnuts from Georgia to Maine

without ever touching the ground. In the spring,

oceans of white blossoms

decorated the mountains. In the fall,

delicious nuts encased in spiky shells

blanketed the ground.

The chestnut tree was fundamental

because it fed people and livestock.

And it built schoolhouses,

cradles, and coffins. It defined a region and a people.

And then, it vanished. Over the short span of 40 years, just one generation, four billion chestnut trees were wiped out.

The perfect tree became functionally extinct.

But that might be changing.

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