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                  My misconception of aluminum Christmas trees
                                        
Bunny walked into the Computer Room bearing a copy of the The Transylvania
Times [1]. “Do you know what's open in Brevard?” 

“No,” I said.

“The Aluminium Christmas Tree Exhibit [2]!” she said, showing me the lead
article in section B of the paper.

Yes, it's that time of year again, when the Aluminum Tree & Æsthetically
Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum and Research Center [3] (aka ATOM
(Aluminum Tree & Æsthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum and
Research Center)) is open to the public.

I first came across this wonderful exhibit fourteen years ago [4], and at the
time, I mentioned that my only exposure to aluminum Christmas trees was “A
Charlies Brown Christmas [5].” What I didn't mention in that post was that I
thought aluminum Christmas trees were tall aluminum cones [6]—the reality was
a bit different:

[An image of three aluminum Christmas trees, all sitting on tables; two are
silver, one is gold. “Aren't you a bit short to be a Christmas Tree?”] [7]
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(Note: Bunny and I actually saw the exhibit back in December of 2012, but I
did not blog about it then—perhaps I was being lazy or something)

I was mildly disappointed they were not the large cones of painted aluminum,
but they're cool nonetheless.

[1] https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/
[2] https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/story/2020/11/19/news/atoms-aesthetically-challenged-trees-return-brevard-nc/47178.html
[3] http://www.transylvaniaheritage.org/content/aluminum-christmas-tree-museum
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/11/17.1
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17n1du9bFg&t=1m23s
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2020/11/23/thumb-atom.jpg
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2020/11/23/atom.jpg

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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