Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.
Charles Fang, of Boonton, N.J., reads a biography of Fred Dykman Jr. hanging from an antique John Deere tractor that Dykeman bought in Argentina. The tractor will go up for auction Saturday at Dykeman's estate in Duanesburg, one of 400 pieces of farm and construction equipment that will be auctioned.
