This is the Rockefeller Christmas trees surprising fate after it leaves NYC: Just wow

Every morning when Felicia Hanna grabs a coat from her closet, she finds herself face-to-face with a reminder that her home holds more holiday spirit than most.Her Elkton, Maryland home was built with lumber cut from a former Rockefeller Center Christmas tree — which was processed into boards and given to a charity group after delighting Manhattan revelers during the 2021 yuletide season.“It’s so special.It’s not just a Christmas tree anymore,” Hanna told The Post.“We watched that tree on the television in New York City, and now I have it in my home forever.”Every year since 2007, Rockefeller Center has donated its tree to the housing organization so that its lumber can be milled and used to help at least one family build their new home.Hanna’s home marked the first time the tree was returned to its original community for a new lease on life.The 79-foot-tall behemoth had been growing across town on Devon and Julie Price’s property until Rockefeller Center’s head gardener, Erik Pauzé, came knocking in 2021.The couple debated whether or not to let go of their tree, which they had watched grow for the three decades they lived at their home — though the tree is estimated to have been closer to 90 years old.

Ultimately, they decided the opportunity was too great to pass up.Around the same time the sprawling behemoth was being adorned with 50,000 lights and celebrated by the likes of Harry Connick, Jr.and the Rockettes, Hanna was applying to the housing organization — a gamble she felt like she had a slim chance of winning.As fate would have it, Hanna and her three young kids were chosen — and floored to discover that the tree they saw on the television would soon make up their future house.“It felt like I won the lottery,” Hanna, a pharmacy technician, recalled.The process was long — after the Rockefeller Christmas tree was removed from the busy Big Apple hotspot, it was processed in a dry kiln, and chopped up into 48 2”x6”x8’ pla...