Schuenemann continued the tradition her father, Captain Herman Schuenemann, had started in Chicago. “The Christmas Tree Schooner,” by local artist Charles Vickery, depicts families at the ...

cutting down wild trees in the woods and sending them to Chicago by schooner. He was part of a trade that made Christmas trees — a traditional German custom — both accessible and popular in ...

I imagine Griffin is going for the same retro-loving audience that enjoyed “The Christmas Schooner” on Chicago’s North Side for so many years; “The House Without a Christmas Tree,” with ...