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Posted on December 14, 2021December 14, 2021

Sharing the History of a Family Business

Personal Historian Maia Fischler of Personal Historians NW tells about Hal Schudel in Sharing the History of a Family Business. A image of Holiday Tree Farm in Corvallis Oregon is shown

by Maia Fischler A Idea Whose Time Had Come When Hal Schudel got his PhD in agriculture in the early 1950s, Christmas trees were very different from what we know now. Most people opened their presents around scraggly trees that they cut themselves in the forest. A couple of companies were providing wild trees from …

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