With a ritual blessing and clean cut, Nova Scotians prepare Christmas tree for journey to Boston

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Hat tip, WBZ.

With a ritual blessing and clean cut, Nova Scotians prepare Christmas tree for journey to Boston
By Brendan Ahern The News, November 14, 2019, 7:27 p.m.

Editor’s note: The annual pilgrimage of the Nova Scotia Christmas tree to Boston never fails to stir the holiday spirit in Metro Minute. Last week, we wrote about the couple who donated the tree. Here is an account, from a Nova Scotia newspaper, of the first steps in a journey that will culminate in a Dec. 5 tree-lighting on Boston Common.

BLACK POINT, Nova Scotia – It was a festive atmosphere in Pictou County on Tuesday as hundreds of people gathered in a wide ring around a 45-foot white spruce.

This tree, on the property of Desmond Waithe and Corina Saunders, will soon be Boston bound.
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Since 1971, Nova Scotia has sent the city of Boston a Christmas tree to thank it for the support and aid for Halifax after an explosion 102 years ago killed 2,000 people and left the city in ruins.
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We discussed that at DU back in 2017:

The Halifax Explosion, December 6, 1917, One Hundred Years Ago Today

[msongs]

1. a sad and wasteful end for a beautiful tree nt

[friendly_iconoclast]

2. On the contrary, it's a beautiful end and people around here (E. MA) really appreciate it

White spruce aren't endangered- and better a Christmas tree than cut into lumber