Article: The Baltimore Sun Jacques Kelly column: There's nothing like the scent and shape of a good Christmas balsam.(Column)

Byline: Jacques Kelly

Dec. 2--It used to be common, sold on many a Baltimore street corner, but is now difficult to locate: a Nova Scotia-grown balsam Christmas tree. My tree detective called last week to say he'd spotted that kind of tree, the type we both prefer for scent and structure. Gone are the days when we walked two blocks east from the family home on Guilford Avenue and bought a balsam at the old Butcher family grocery store. We thought nothing of carrying the tree home as the yellow streetcars glided down Greenmount Avenue and passed the oil drums filled with fires made of discarded evergreen branches and scraps of wood. Was it a scene from a ...

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