By Will Tuell

In what has quickly cemented itself as a Downeast Christmas tradition, the Wesley Tree Festival returned to the Lee Pellon Center in Machias last weekend. The festival, which got its start in and quickly outgrew the East Machias Town Hall (fire department), seems to get bigger and bigger with each passing year, even though four-year-old Wesley Keeton lost his life a decade ago in a tragic four-wheeler accident.