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Every year since 1917 the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia sends a tree donated from someone’s yard to the city of Boston as a thanks for the help received during the aftermath of the horrendous Explosion in the harbour when the Imo a Belgian cargo ship hit the Mont Blanc a French muniton ship which was illegally overloaded.  The collision resulted in the worst man made explosion to date.  This year the tree was delivered from a little town called Jordon Bay about 180 miles from Halifax.

One Response to “A special bonus tree picture”

  • SherryPA:

    Just thinking what an amazing trip it would be to travel and see each of these trees lighted in person.  That would definitely be a super WOW!  Thanks again so much for posting these ABBE.  Really enjoying checking them out!

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