A little "dust up" occurred last week when Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island erected a "holiday" tree in the State Capitol. It looked and smelled like a Christmas tree but officially it was described as a "holiday" tree. Naturally, this offended many members of the Christian faiths who deemed this one more effort to remove Christ from Christmas. It reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry Stiller complained that whereas the Christians had their Christmas, the Jewish folk had their Hanukuh and the African Americans had Kwanza - there was nothing to celebrate for the "rest" of us so he created a new holiday and called it the "Festivus for the rest of us" and erected an aluminum pole with appendages and called it a "festivus" tree - not quite a "holiday" tree. But be it fir or spruce I have always enjoyed the sweet fragrance of a real Christmas tree.
tjs
P.S. - The title comes from an OLD song whose opening line was "Poor little Rhode Island, smallest of the forty-eight" - so you can see just how OLD it was.
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