PLYMOUTH – Despite a year of challenges, including long-delayed improvements to the Leo F. DeMarsh Boat Ramp, Plymouth’s local fishermen have come through again. The Lobster Pot Christmas Tree has ...

Over the past two decades, a holiday tradition has emerged in coastal New England, one befitting the area’s Yankee resourcefulness and penchant for celebration: the lobster trap Christmas tree. It’s a ...

It doesn’t take a seasoned fisherman to see the beauty in a 25-foot-tall tree-shaped tower made of more than 400 lobster traps and decorated with colorful buoys and hundreds of white lights. The ...

PROVINCETOWN — The Lobster Pot Tree that illuminates Lopes Square has been a tradition in town some 16 years, marking the holiday season and celebrating the lobstering industry in town, according to ...

The seaport made famous in Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm is the city that started the lobster pot madness in 2001. And Gloucester's Lobster Trap Tree—which measures 45 feet in height—has become a ...

HULL -- Kids and parents rocked around the Christmas tree over the weekend, but it was no ordinary tree. This one was made of lobster traps. Hull Nantasket Chamber of Commerce held a “Hullidays” ...

Dec. 27—STONINGTON — Day and night for the past month, even in the rain, people have lined up to see and take pictures of the 25-foot tall lobster trap tree at the Town Dock in the borough. Now the ...

PORTLAND, MainePORTLAND, Maine — Lobster fishermen are known for bragging about who has the fastest boat or the biggest pickup truck. Now, some of the top lobster-fishing ports in New England are ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas as people deck their halls with fir, pine, spruce and other popular conifers. But for some, having a lush evergreen as their holiday showpiece just isn't ...