WBUR TODAY: A forgotten tradition returns to Boston
❤️ Donate Wednesday, December 24, 2025 🌤️ Partly sunny, with a high of 40 and a chance of mixed precipitation . Good Morning Boston, Happy Christmas Eve! A quick scheduling note: this is our last regular WBUR Today newsletter of 2025. We have a special end-of-year newsletter coming up next Monday, and then will resume our normal daily newsletters on Jan. 2. Thanks for reading and supporting us this year — and happy holidays! Now to the news: Stay brassy, Boston: A long-forgotten holiday tradition is returning to Boston today. As WBUR's Amanda Beland reports, a group of trumpeters will play holiday carols live from the balcony of the Old State House on the corner of Congress and State streets, reviving what used to be an annual practice for the first time since World War II. The backstory: The tradition started in 1913, a year after the city hosted the country’s first public Christmas tree lighting. ( Some people in New York City think they hosted t...