Rei Alvarez picks out a tree at Frank Pichel’s tree lot on Dec. 6. Mr. Pichel cut Charlie Brown-style Christmas trees from his land and sold them for whatever people wanted to pay to benefit the Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School in Richmond’s East End.
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'Charlie Brown’ Christmas trees lift school, spirits
Frank Pichel’s Christmas trees will probably never be chosen to light up New York’s Rockefeller Center. They look more like the droopy, pitiful tree made famous in the 1965 children’s animated classic, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
