Christmas in a Box

Christmas in a Box
Do they ship the tinsel, too?

As much as we may complain about shelling out $30 for a Christmas tree from the Rotary Club lot down by the supermarket, there are folks for whom a genuine Maine holiday tree is worth any price. And Jim Corliss has met some of them.

Corliss owns and operates Piper Mountain Christmas Trees in Newburgh, near Hampden, and he ships Christmas trees all over the country. "I have regular customers in Alaska who order a tree every year," he notes, "and each year I get orders from Hawaii.

 




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