The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been carefully selected and is due to make its way to the Big Apple next week for a lighting ceremony hosted by Kelly Clarkson on Wednesday, Nov.
29.This year’s sappy specimen — a Norway spruce 80-feet tall and 43 feet in diameter that was donated by the McGinley family in the Binghamton region — hails from the town of Vestal, New York, about 190 miles northwest of NYC.Currently casting a shadow over a residential driveway basketball hoop, the tree is to be cut down Nov.
9 and arrive at the Rock two days later, on the morning of Veteran’s Day. After its joyous lighting of 50,000 LED bulbs that stretch 5 miles long, the spruce will stay up until Jan.
13.This tree’s selection was an incredibly fateful one, said Rockefeller Center head gardener Erik Pauze, who has the most wonderful job of the year as its picker.“I found the tree in Vestal, New York, when I was on my way to look at another tree, not too far away.
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