Thanks for reading and supporting us this year — and happy holidays!
Now to the news:
Stay brassy, Boston: A long-forgotten holiday tradition is returning to Boston today. As WBUR’s Amanda Beland reports, a group of trumpeters will play holiday carols live from the balcony of the Old State House on the corner of Congress and State streets, reviving what used to be an annual practice for the first time since World War II.
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- The backstory: The tradition started in 1913, a year after the city hosted the country’s first public Christmas tree lighting. (Some people in New York City think they hosted the country’s first tree lighting, and they are wrong. Boston beat them…