When I first spoke to Harry on the phone I could tell he wasn't entirely comfortable with the idea of my coming to do a story on the way he celebrates Christmas. "I don't want to be set up on a pedestal," he said. But after assuring him on the phone that there would be no pedestals and no heroes, he reluctantly agreed to meet with me. So upon arriving, I wasn't too surprised to hear that he'd had second thoughts:

HP: Hi how you doing?
SH: Good, how you doing?
HP: Did you get my message?
SH:: Oh no I didn't.
HP: Yeah I said I wasn't interested?
SH: Oh I?m sorry.
HP: No - not a problem. I thought it was someone coming to get a tree. I was just coming out to help them.

I wasn't sure if the interview was over as Harry explained his misgivings?

HP: I don't need any limelight. I'm an easygoing guy and secondly I don't want to have 20 people coming up here that...
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Intro: When reporter Sean Hurley heard that one of his neighbors was giving away Christmas Trees, he wanted to find out more about this charitable act.

And what he found was that this man?s very public act, letting people wander over his property to pick out and cut down one of his Christmas Trees, was also very private.