Retro aluminum Christmas trees on display through Dec. 21

A sparkling display of aluminum Christmas trees has returned to downtown Brevard, adding a splash of tinsel to town during the holiday season.

The aluminum tree collection, which has been set out for public view sporadically over about the past 10 years, has returned to the Transylvania Heritage Museum, 189 W. Main St. in downtown Brevard. The museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The last day to see the trees is Dec. 21.

The collection, owned by Brevard architect Stephen Jackson, is out for public view for the first time in four years. It’s affectionately known as the “Aluminum Tree and Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum Research Center.”

Visitors can marvel at 15 shiny trees that recall America’s love affair with the space-age fever of the 1950s and ’60s. The trees went out of style—and out of production—in the ’70s. But with popular culture’s long-lasting love of the Peanuts characters and their Christmas special (Lucy wanted an aluminum tree) and renewed interest in the ’50s and ’60s, spurred by such shows as “Mad Men,” the trees are hip again.

“A friend gave me an aluminum tree in the late 1980s as a joke,” Jackson

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