Trimming the trees
For weeks, beginning in the late fall, the electrical staff has been out decking, if not the halls, at least the trees. Up in a cherry-picker, Americo Lample tosses a string of Christmas lights around a branch three stories or so above the gardens behind the main dining rooms. Deftly, he wraps each branch, spacing the coils of lights about an inch or so apart.
"It takes 10 weeks on a very...


