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Tis the season to chop down thriving trees! This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree hails from Easton, Connecticut and will be arriving at 30 Rock today. The Daily News reports that the 76-foot Norway spruce is 50 years old and was growing in the yard of teacher Maria Corti. Once the tree is set up in its new temporary home, it will take about two weeks to decorate, with the official lighting ceremony on December 2nd.
Corti said she was sad to see the tree go, but is happy that after its time in the spotlight it will be donated to Habitat For Humanity, used to build a home in Connecticut. Back to its roots! And for Corti, workers are planting three new trees in the place of her old one.
Fun fact about Easton: Did you know that the road signs in Westport for Easton and Weston were echoed in The Great Gatsby's "East Egg" and "West Egg"? (F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived in Westport for a spell.) Ergo, the Rockefeller Tree is from East Egg!
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I always understood West Egg to be Great Neck (Kings Point, to be exact) and East Egg to be Sands Point, both on Long Island.
I'm probably wrong, but I've always hoped it was East and Westhampton.
Why would someone allow her 50-yr-old tree to be chopped down, to provide a month or two of decoration? I must be missing something...
To bring in money for the city.
yeah is one ever happy that this grand tree is taken out of your yard for the "honor" of being a giant christmas tree?
this is an abhorrent "tradition" and I wish it could be banned.
I like to believe that this tree met it's death the way an Aztec virgin went proudly and painlessly (for being drugged) to the ritual chopping slab. Ah, well. Humans and their idiot need for Spectacle. Hail Treesus!
Why not permanently plant a tree and save the trucking each year.