One Christmas, when my son was 17 and going through a rebellious stage, I opened the box and was dismayed to find the green star hadn’t survived the year. Two points had broken off and there was ...

Fans watching MLB games in the month of May might notice an added ornament to the upper left shoulder area of player jerseys: A small, green ribbon.

Much later, in the 1990s, ornament artisans began relating the apocryphal story of the pickle, saying its green color blended with the tree and that a child would be rewarded for their "keen ...

“The Art of the Ornament” continues daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Dec. 11 (or until sold out) at the Campbell Pottery Store’s Stonewall Gallery, 25579 Plank Road, just south of Edinboro.