“Not a single one of the stories has a drop of forced sentimentality,” DePoy says of “Christmas at Sweet Apple.”"I didn’t get into Christmas until I was out of the house and sort of in the hippy world,” DePoy says. “And then it was like the most beautiful thing in the universe. … All of our hippy friends would come over and we’d gather around the fireplace and we’d sing Christmas songs and we’d give each other things that we made. …