Tree toppers
November 20, 2018 11:00 pm
• Last Updated: November 22, 2018 3:29 pm
Mystic Seaport Museum lead rigger Matthew Otto secures a small pine tree to the top of the foremast of the Joseph Conrad, one of the museum's three historic tall ships, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Mystic — Riggers at Mystic Seaport Museum raise small pine trees Wednesday to the tops of the foremasts of the museum's three historic tall ships, Joseph Conrad, Charles W. Morgan and L.A. Dunton.
The tradition at the museum dates to before lead rigger Matthew Otto arrived.
The trees, purchased from Ukleja's Tree Farm in Quaker Hill, will remain aloft through Twelfth Night.
Mystic Seaport Museum rigger Sarah Clement hauls on the halyard to raise a small pine tree to the top of the foremast of the Joseph Conrad, one of the museum's three historic tall ships, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Mystic Seaport Museum rigger Sarah Clement "lays her finger aside of her nose," a joke referencing the Clement Moore poem "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" as she is raised in a bosun's chair to the top of the foremast of the Gloucester fishing schooner L.A. Dunton, one of the museum's three historic tall ships, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 to secure a pine tree atop the mast. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Riggers at Mystic Seaport Museum Becca Buckler, left, and Matthew Otto, rig a halyard to raise a small pine tree to the top of the foremast of the Gloucester fishing schooner L.A. Dunton, one of museum's three historic tall ships, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, as rigger Sarah Clement waits aloft to secure the tree. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Mystic Seaport Museum rigger Sarah Clement positions a pine tree atop of the foremast of the Gloucester fishing schooner L.A. Dunton, one of the museum's three historic tall ships, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
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