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The Tin Can Christmas Tree — Logan County, 1934
In 1934 the company would not sell trees, and no one had a dollar to buy one. In the Blankenship cabin, six kids wanted a Christmas tree.
Their mother, Della, took empty pork-and-beans cans from the dump, washed them, punched holes in the sides, and stacked them in a pyramid. The kids cut stars from tobacco tins and threaded popcorn for garland.
On Christmas Eve they put a single candle behind it. The punched holes threw light like stars across the walls. Neighbors came just to look.
That tin can tree stood for three Christmases. Della said, “We didn’t have pine, but we had light.”
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