A 1930 Ford truck advertisement featured one of their red trucks loaded with a Christmas tree. In 1984, The New Yorker ...

As you gather around the Christmas tree or the yule log, have you ever wondered how all these traditions started? Some of them have roots right here in our area. As you gather around the Christmas ...

“I grew up with the Christmas tree. At this time of the year, it is always present and I never wondered where it comes from,” said Cindy Verheul, a Canadian who lives in Abu Dhabi. The Christmas tree ...

My family usually bought a Christmas tree, but one year we went into the woods behind our house. We climbed over one of the old stonewalls that spiderweb throughout New England and followed the ...

All living things leave their roots somewhere. The roots can be in the form of family, or by where someone or something calls home. In Salem, one seedling went in the ground and took root, leading to ...

One June day in 1978, strangers came to the door of William and Helen Myers of York, Pa. Three burly men had a curious request: They wanted the tree that stood in the front yard. It was no laughing ...