Tradition behind Boston Common's Christmas tree has endured decades and a pandemic: "This is a symbol of what we can do"
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About 40 miles outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the Gourley family's fifth-generation dairy farm, a tree stands so tall it still holds the lights that were strung some 20 Christmases past. The lights remain on the tree because it outgrew the family's highest ladder long ago.
Bette Gourley, the matriarch of the family, told CBS News' Nancy Chen that the white spruce has been growing alongside her family for nearly four decades now. But, as a Christmas tree-in-waiting, it's still a few feet short of reaching the height it needs to be before it is sent more than 600 miles away to Boston, Massachusetts.
"It's been five or eight years since they said they might consider us," said Chester Gourley. "So it's something we've been waiting for. And it's a big honor."
