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  • MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times Ward Two City Councilor Melissa Cox rests while building the annual lobster trap Christmas tree Saturday in downtown Gloucester. MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times

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  • MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times Donna Ardizzoni helps build the annual lobster trap Christmas tree Saturday in downtown Gloucester. It took a group of eight or nine volunteers all day to construct the tree, which has been a tradition in Gloucester for 12 years.

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  • MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times. David Brooks works on top of the emerging lobster trap Christmas tree Saturday in downtown Gloucester. It took a group of eight or nine volunteers all day to construct the tree, which has been a tradition in Gloucester for 12 years.

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  • Cape Ann Art Haven founder David Brooks, left, hands a lobster trap up to Rick Moore while building the annual lobster trap Christmas tree Saturday in downtown Gloucester.

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  • MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times Ward Two City Councilor Melissa Cox shares a laugh with another volunteer while building the annual lobster trap Christmas tree Saturday in downtown Gloucester. It took a group of eight or nine volunteers all day to construct the tree, which has been a tradition in Gloucester for 12 years.

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November 26, 2012

Trap tree takes shape

By Times Staff Gloucester Daily Times

A day before the lighting of Gloucester’s Kent Circle Christmas tree, another downtown Gloucester tradition began to take shape as well.

David Brooks and volunteers from the Cape Ann Art Haven began construction Saturday on the city’s Lobster Trap holiday tree, built in its usual spot alongside the city’s police headquarters on Main Street.

The tree, which will ultimately be decorated with more than 300 painted buoys, isn’t yet in full glory however. It’s completion and lighting ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 8, in conjunction with a series of downtown Gloucester events and the annual Middle Street Walk.

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