{"id":59300,"date":"2014-11-30T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=59300"},"modified":"2014-11-30T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T12:29:10","slug":"gsc-christmas-tree-sale-and-festivities-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=59300","title":{"rendered":"GSC Christmas Tree Sale and Festivities Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GSC-logo-high-res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49039\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GSC-logo-high-res.jpg\" alt=\"GSC logo high res\" width=\"226\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GSC-logo-high-res.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/GSC-logo-high-res-150x136.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>(Town of Lenox, NY \u2013 Dec. 2014) Plan on getting your fresh cut Balsam Fir Christmas tree at the Great Swamp Conservancy of Canastota on Dec. 6 and 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Balsam fir trees, with their dark green appearance and long-lasting needles, make a perfect Christmas tree for the season. They also retain their pleasing fragrance. Please call ahead and pre-order your tree to insure supply at 697-2950<\/p>\n<p>New this year, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both days, families are invited to visit Santa and have a photo taken with Old St. Nick. A professional photographer, a member of the Swamp Snappers\u2019 camera club, will be taking the photos. They will be for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors will be able to make a gingerbread house \u2013 all ingredients provided by the GSC &#8211; and enter it in a contest, make a corn husk doll, take a holiday ride in the new 4 wheeler on the Swamp trails, do Karaoke Christmas carols, toast marshmallows over a bonfire, try a piece of \u201cSwamp Cake\u201d (panettone ), eat sugar cookies and drink hot cocoa.<\/p>\n<p>Cross country skiing will be available weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>There also will be a program on caribou reindeer at this Christmas gathering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Town of Lenox, NY \u2013 Dec. 2014) Plan on getting your fresh cut Balsam Fir Christmas tree at the Great Swamp Conservancy of Canastota on Dec. 6 and 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Balsam fir trees, with their dark green appearance and long-lasting needles, make a perfect Christmas tree for the season. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}