All the way from the sixth floor of the former Downtown Lazarus store, a talking tree — which some say had more visitors than Santa — will return in a replicated form to the Columbus Metropolitan ...

Former Lazarus employee Ronald Rau donated a Santa figure and Snow Queen to the Fran Ryan Center to help recreate the iconic ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — In a heartwarming tale of nostalgia and community spirit, a beloved Christmas icon is making a triumphant return to spread holiday joy. Mr. Tree, the “talking tree,” originally ...

On an early December day 40 years ago, I went out to interview Christmas tree sellers for a Dispatch story. On that assignment — one of my first at the newspaper — I met 19-year-old Brent Patterson, a ...