Last year, for the first time, the community of Pirtle, just south of Kilgore, attracted crowds of onlookers for a live depiction of the birth of Christ. Every year, some people are concerned about Christmas becoming too commercialized. That's not likely to happen in the rural East Texas community of Pirtle.

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