Chessboards now sit outside Dundee Elementary, thanks to some forlorn tree stumps, a lonely little boy and a concerned dad.
Tim Cayford prepares a stump for another coat of varnish.
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Tim Cayford with son Elliot and daughter Emmaline. They both helped with the chessboard project.
Tim Cayford with Elliot and Emmaline. They met a few other families while creating the chessboard.
Emmaline watches her father, Tim Cayford, put another coat of varnish on a tree stump at Dundee Elementary.
Cayford burned "Gens una sumus" into a tree stump chessboard he made at Dundee Elementary School. It means we are one family.
Photos: Dundee man adds chess boards to elementary school tree stumps
Emmaline watches her father, Tim Cayford, prepare a stump for another coat of varnish on a tree stump at Dundee Elementary located at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Cayford put a chessboard on the stump.
Emmaline watches her father, Tim Cayford, put another coat of varnish on a tree stump at Dundee Elementary located at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Cayford put a chessboard on the stump.
Elliot Cayford poses for a portrait next to a tree stump his dad converted to a chess board at Dundee Elementary located at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
Tim Cayford, puts another coat of varnish on a tree stump at Dundee Elementary located at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Cayford put a chessboard on the stump.
Tim Cayford, puts another coat of varnish on a tree stump at Dundee Elementary located at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Cayford put a chessboard on the stump.
Tim Cayford, prepares a stump for another coat of varnish on a tree stump at Dundee Elementary located at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Cayford put a chessboard on the stump.
Tim Cayford, center, poses for a photo with his son, Elliot, left, and daughter Emmaline, right, at a tree stump, Tim converted to a chess board at Dundee Elementary located at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
Tim Cayford burned "Gens una sumus" into a tree stump chessboard he made at Dundee Elementary at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. It is the Latin motto of FIDE, the world chess federation.
Tim Cayford put a chessboard put on several tree stumps at Dundee Elementary at 310 N 51st Street on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
