“It’s a simple decoration,” he says. “You can make them out of anything.” By Black Friday, the wooden market stand owned by the Waltons down the road from the schoolhouse is filled with holiday greens ...

EVER SINCE festive 16th-century hausfraus first took to the forest with hedge clippers, wreaths have played a featured role in holiday-season décor. Nowadays, with no need to wrangle with underbrush, ...