In the 1965 holiday classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” Lucy tells Charlie to go pick out a “great, big, shiny aluminum” tree for their Christmas play. Charlie, eschewing the over-commercialization ...

For me, the Christmas season does not begin until the smell of a fresh-cut Frasier fir fills my family room. Once a live or fresh-cut tree is in the home, the unmistakable smell of pine, spruce or fir ...