Margery Tallcott relates that during the Depression she and her husband were barely making the money stretch from week to week. It was particularly tight during ... along the way. They were able to scrape together enough to purchase a small, straggly tree and trimmed it with pitiful-looking decorations. It still seemed beautiful to them. Tallcott writes, “Yet, on Christmas morning, never was a tree heaped with such riches! The gifts were only pictures of gifts, to be sure, cut out or drawn and colored and ...
