A man has raised money for a school in the US that provides scholarships for students from an impoverished area by selling scrawny-looking Christmas trees. Frank Pichel’s wild pine trees resemble the droopy, pitiful tree made famous in the 1965 children’s animated classic A Charlie Brown Christmas. Mr Pichel, a commercial animator and part-time professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, does not have children or any other connection to the school. Ms D’Arville, who met Mr Pichel at a local dog park, offered to provide Christmas music as soon as she heard what Mr Pichel was doing for the school. “Those trees, they represent that whole spirit of the Charlie Brown Christmas,” she said.

Source: Irish Independent December 22, 2020 16:58 UTC