Holiday decorating trends come and go with the same quick pace of the season. Bows were trending last year. This year we all can’t get enough of paper chain garlands. And yes, yes, we know—everyone ...

When most people think of Christmas trees, they think evergreen — whether real or artificial. However, vintage aluminum Christmas trees are enjoying a resurgence in popularity, particularly among ...

The 50s and 60s were the golden era in terms of Christmas decor. And we mean that figuratively, but also literally, because it was all about shine. Aluminum trees were one gift these decades gave us, ...

A miniature aluminum Christmas tree with vintage Shiny Brite ornaments (both late 1950s to early 1960s) (photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge) Post-World War II American prosperity combined with the sprawl of ...

The Gem County Historical Museum has many decades of Christmas trees set up around the museum. You can learn about the 1800s Feather Tree, Victorian Age Christmas trees, Christmas trees during the ...

Ah, yes, we remember the Christmases when presents were piled ’neath the aluminum tree, when homemade fruitcake was a serious gift requiring weeks of preparation, and when kids excitedly opened Sears’ ...

When television’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” special took aim at the holiday’s creeping commercialism a half-century ago, it targeted one particularly clanging symbol. So why is the Vermont Country ...