Crop Comments: For a Long Winter’s Nap
Crop Comments
October 16, 2024

Crop Comments: For a Long Winter’s Nap

Originally, the Christmas holiday season started with Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. But in recent years the commercial thrust for getting people to buy presents inches forward on the calendar toward Halloween. For too many shoppers and merchants, the dollar signs are becoming more important than the person for whom the holiday was named.

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