Tyler Hart (left), Dennis Hart and three-year-old Bailey Hart from
Caldwell County consult with a crew member at Lil' Grandfather Mountain
Christmas Tree Farm in Laurel Springs as they contemplate a purchase.
Choose and Cut event rated 'a big success' by chamber
By ROBBY LUCKEStaff
The sky was blue, the fields were green and the bright sun shone warmly as customers dressed casually in T-shirts traipsed around the rolling hills in search of — Christmas trees in early December!
While the remarkably unseasonable mildness of the weather (temperatures were almost 70 in some parts of the county by the afternoon) didn't exactly set a Christmas mood, it was conducive for the many visitors who traveled to Alleghany County last Saturday to obtain their Christmas tree and enjoy the related festivities.
Choose and Cut Day — the focal point of Choose and Cut season, which began in mid-November and will continue until shortly before Christmas Day — is a promotion sponsored by the Alleghany County Chamber of Commerce and the N.C. Cooperative Extension's Alleghany center, held the first Saturday in December.
Donna Fulton helps her daughters, three-year-old Abigail (left) and
four-year-old Tristen, shop for Christmas ornaments. The family, also
including Fulton's husband Rodney Fulton, visited the crafts displays at
the Bickerstaff barn from Lexington.