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PHOTOS: Boston Tree Lighting Ceremony

Photographs from last Thursday's Boston Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Boston Common and Boston Commonwealth Avenue Mall.

Elizabeth Libert, Neighbor
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Hundreds gathered last Thursday as dignitaries lit the city's main Christmas tree on Boston Common. Each year the Canadian province of Nova Scotia provides the tree, in a gesture of friendship with Boston. The Canadians are grateful for New England's help in the aftermath of the horrific Halifax Explosion of 1917, in which 1,900 people died.

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