On a recent December day, Mark Latino and a handful of his workers spun sheets of vinyl into tinsel for Christmas tree ...

JAMES CITY — Zachary Wolicki operates an old-fashioned Christmas tree lot. It’s the kind of hometown lot where people return year after year to seek fresh, live trees at a place where owners create ...

Artificial Christmas trees have been around since the 19th century, if not earlier. Trees made of dyed feathers originated in Germany and were introduced to the U.S. by the early 20th century. The mid ...

For the next few weeks, this column will focus on “Christmas in the Past,” a series of columns that will feature ways Americans celebrated Christmas in the past and how the way we currently celebrate ...

On a recent December day, Mark Latino and a handful of his workers spun sheets of vinyl into tinsel for Christmas tree branches. They worked on a custom-made machine that’s nearly a century old, ...