Philip Paige, a real estate broker from Madrid, St. Lawrence County, stands atop the splintered stump of a white pine in the Adirondacks that was thought to be one of New York state's tallest trees.

There are yardsticks (unwritten) that a majority of people expect anybody with the prefix ‘Dr’, ‘Eng’ or ‘Prof’ before his or her name to meet. Such people are presumed to be highly intelligent.