After ‘Holiday Tree’ Controversy, RI State House Has a ‘Christmas Tree’ Once Again

Photo Credit: THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL/ BOB BREIDENBACHThe previous two years of Governor Chafee’s administration, the invitation for the annual tree lighting at the State House called it a “holiday tree.”

This year, it is going by another name: “Christmas tree.”

Ahead of Thursday’s tree lighting in the State House, which during the past two years tended to light up controversy over what to call it, the governor said in a statement Monday that in 2011, his “first year celebrating December in the State House I gave a simple six-word instruction to the planners of the annual tree lighting: ‘Do what they did last year.’ ”

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