While we're on the subject of Christmas trees, specifically ones from Maryland, this air tree has been chosen to become part of a famous tradition at New York City's Rockefeller Center.
If you're thinking, more like a tree-scraper, keep in mind that this was only about 30 years after Elisha Graves Otis invented his elevator safety system that made elevators more secure.
Many trees, two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off at no great distance from the ground; and the branches of many of the largest and tallest had given way, as if the forest had been swept by a tornado.
The sound of the breeze in those towering trees, the solitude, and, perhaps more than anything else, the wildlife, drew Nixon, 66, to retire here in 2018 from suburban Kansas City.