Tree time at Dartmouth

Dartmouth College tree worker Scott Melendy, left, and campus arborist Brian Beaty install lifting slings on a balsam fir tree to be placed by crane on the Green in Hanover, N.H., on Nov. 30, 2020. The tree was cut from the Keyes-Cadwallader Tree Farm in Wallingford, Vt. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Crane operator Rick Hutchins lowers a 54-foot balsam fir into a five-foot-deep hole on the Dartmouth Green in Hanover, N.H., on Nov. 30, 2020. The Christmas tree was cut from the Keyes-Cadwallader Tree Farm in Wallingford, Vt. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. valley news photographs — Geoff Hansen