Ed, I’d like to know if anyone else feels as I do about that tree in Hamilton. I feel it’s wrong to cut down a 75-year-old tree just to stand out for 30 days in New York City. Within two months, that tree is going to be a bunch of mulch, where it could have stood in Hamilton for another 50 years. I see something really wrong about that. How about other readers?

Tree hugger

While I don’t feel bad for the tree per se, I do see your point. Besides, you ever go into Rockefeller Center to see the tree? It’s not as imposing as it looks on the TV. The whole thing is silly. And let’s not even think about the cost of cutting the tree, transporting the tree, getting the tree up, decorating the tree, and the cost to maintain the tree. How many Christmas dinners you think you could buy for the less fortunate with that dough?— Ed. Note