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Speaker 1: Not to be a scrooge, because who doesn't love a

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Speaker 1: beautiful Christmas tree?

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Speaker 2: But I'm a little surprised.

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Speaker 3: Well, here on the Common, it's fond memories of the

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Speaker 3: tree lighting of a spruce that's cut down in Nova

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Speaker 3: Scotia and shipped here every year. It's amazing, profess for

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Speaker 3: the first time ever a Boston mayor helped cut it down.

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Speaker 3: Maryor Michelle wou ceremoniously digging in a chainsaw.

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Speaker 1: They're really pretty. But in today's day and age, how

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Speaker 1: often are we going to keep cutting all these trees

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Speaker 1: down for like a two week celebrate, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, like cutting down Christmas trees for.

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Speaker 2: Like, you know, to have them in our in our

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Speaker 2: homes for a month.

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Speaker 3: It's a tradition that was born out of tragedy Canadians

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Speaker 3: thanking Boston for the supplies. It's sent to the site

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Speaker 3: of the mass fatal Halifax Harbor explosion of nineteen seventeen. Today,

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Speaker 3: it's a sight to behold the lights flicker on December

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Speaker 3: fourth at the Common. Jable Lette WBZ, Boston's news radio