Holiday rerun: The First Christmas Tree

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 1 a.m.

b'Episode Notes:\\n For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohio immigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. But was Imgard really the first? Ninety-nine years after he spruced up a fir and enchanted his neighbors, a Wooster professor would go looking for the answer.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'