You’re invited to the 2024 Capitol Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
Editor's note: This livestream event was recorded Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. Watch the recording below.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—You are cordially invited to virtually join Chief Randy Moore, members of Alaska’s congressional delegation, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and others for the lighting ceremony for the Capitol…
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Finding the people’s tree
Out of thousands of trees, only one gets selected and named the People’s Tree each year.
The Monongahela National Forest, however, has a special history with the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, as it was the first national forest selected to provide the People’s Tree in 1970. Six years later, the Monongahela was asked again to provide the nation’s Bicentennial People’s Tree in 1976.
Forty-seven…