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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Sequoia National Park rangers trekked the redwood wood to spot a elephantine wreath astir the Nation's Christmas Tree successful a astir century-old tradition.
According to the National Park Service, successful 1924, R.J. Senior, president of the Sanger Chamber of Commerce, visited what was past General Grant National Park and recovered himself admiring the towering 267-foot General Grant Tree.
The communicative goes that adjacent to him stood a small girl, who said, "What a fantastic Christmas histrion it would be!"
R.J. Senior and Charles E. Lee, the past caput of the Sanger Chamber of Commerce, took the thought to heart, and successful 1925, the archetypal Christmas programme was held astatine the Grant Tree.
Upon returning home, Lee wrote a missive to President Calvin Coolidge. Four months later, connected April 28, 1926, the General Grant Tree was officially dedicated arsenic the Nation’s Christmas Tree.
Thirty years later, President Eisenhower dedicated the histrion arsenic the country's archetypal and lone surviving nationalist shrine "in representation of the men and women of the Armed Forces who person served and fought and died to support this Nation free."
The yearly "Trek to the Tree" is held connected the 2nd Sunday of December astatine 2:30 p.m. astatine the basal of the General Grant Tree successful Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park. Bus services are disposable from the Sanger Chamber of Commerce.
