Deeply moved by the beauty of the stars shining between the branches of a fir tree, he brought home an evergreen tree and decorated it with candles to share the image with his children.
But when really hard economic times hit, when sustained high unemployment sends the number of Americans living on the edge of poverty sharply higher, those mainstream retailers lose market share to ultra-discounters like Family Dollar, Dollar General ( DG) and Dollar Tree ( DLTR).
But Audubon told his share of whoppers too: in a serious paper he described to rapt British scientists how American rattlesnakes could hop from tree to tree after their prey a claim that was later retracted.