and it was right in front of me,” Pauze said in a news release. “I knocked on the door and met Earl Albert. I asked if he would someday consider donating the tree to Rockefeller Center.

“I saw the beautiful Norway Spruce as I drove down the road, and it was right in front of me,” he told Rockefeller Center’s newsletter. “I knocked on the door and met Earl Albert. I asked ...