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.
Rick Davidson was either a visionary or a fool for investing in late 1996 in a 150-year-old building in a downtown where his brew pub would be among only a handful of attractions....
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