Connecticut Tree Spruces Up Rockefeller Center

The Associated Press is reporting that a 76-foot Norway spruce on a Connecticut school teacher's property was picked as this year's Christmas tree for New York's Rockefeller Center. Crews are planing to cut down the 10-ton tree this morning at Maria Corti's home in Easton, about 90 minutes northeast of Manhattan. "The tree, which is 40 feet in diameter, will be hoisted by a crane onto a trailer and transported to the Big Apple. It'll be put in place at the center Thursday." Reports AP. It's among several recent Rockefeller Center trees that have come from Connecticut. Some other Norway spruces that ended up there had their roots in Shelton, Ridgefield, Manchester and Killingworth.