<img width="2560" height="1920" src="https://www.wpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/loading-tree-scaled.jpg" class="" alt="A person in a mask secures a large Christmas tree to the roof of a silver car in a parking lot; other cars with trees are nearby." /> Journalist Dan Simmons of Shorewood remembers when 'da twee was not on da woof'

Journalist Dan Simmons of Shorewood remembers when 'da twee was not on da woof'

‘Oh Christmas Tree’: One family’s holiday fiasco

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