More than 20 years after it became a Christmas icon, a famed live oak tree in Wilmington was getting plenty of national attention. Dubbed the World's Largest Living Christmas Tree, its lights were ...

From the archives: Wilmington gets World's Largest Living Christmas Tree a TV show

MSN: Who’s Performing at the 2025 National Christmas Tree Lighting? Here’s When It Airs

Who’s Performing at the 2025 National Christmas Tree Lighting? Here’s When It Airs

MSN: From the archives: Wilmington gets World's Largest Living Christmas Tree a TV show

If you’re like me, there’s something about the holidays that puts a little pep in your step. I put my Christmas trees up on Nov. 2 this year – the earliest I’ve ever done it -- simply because it makes ...

Did you know the first electrically lit Christmas tree appeared all the way back in 1882? Inventor Edward H. Johnson — a partner of Thomas Edison — hand-wired 80 red, white and blue bulbs onto a ...

Wilmington's residential area lies between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean, and the city developed as a commercial port in the colonial era. The city was founded in the 1730s, preceded in its foundation in the area by Brunswick Town and Charles Towne.

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