2020 Downtown Brattleboro Tree Lighting

Without cheers, or fanfare, the Brattleboro Christmas tree was lit with just a small handful of people in attendance. The tree lighting event normally happens on the Friday after Thanksgiving, but Vermont Governor Phil Scott ordered full-scale events not to happen this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tree, from Elysian Farm in Dummerston, was put up on Tuesday morning by Dick DeGray, chairman of the design committee for the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, with help from two Retreat Farm workers, and was lit later in the evening.