Author: William Bridges ISBN 1-58939-646-4 (Softcover) 182 pages In Under the Heaven Tree, journalist and poet William Bridges paints a rich picture of growing up in two Indiana towns, Franklin and Vincennes, from the 1930s through the 1950s. In "Under the Heaven Tree," journalist and poet William Bridges paints a rich picture of growing up in two Indiana towns, Franklin and Vincennes, from the 1930s through the 1950s. Tree of Heaven, commonly known as, ailanthus, or in Standard Chinese as chouchun, is a deciduous tree in the Simaroubaceae family. Unlike other members of the genus Ailanthus, it is found in temperate climates rather than the tropics. Tree-of-heaven is native to Taiwan and central China, where it occurs from 22oto 34oN in latitude. It is nonnative in North America, where it is distributed from British Columbia, southern Ontario and Quebec, and Maine south to Florida, Texas, southern California, and Mexico [105,158,208,297,328]. Nor did they know who Guevara was. Friday, October 10, 2003 [Essay included in "The Church in the Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives," ... People under fifty did not recognize the allusion to the Guevara poster, which had been popular in the 1960’s. Tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) is known by a number of names: stinking sumac, Chinese sumac, varnish tree and stink tree. It is native to both northeast and central China and Taiwan. The tree of heaven is a rapidly growing deciduous tree with pale gray bark, light … No matter what you call it, it's an invasive species. Under the Heaven Tree. It is the story …