In Durham, New Hampshire, Christmas is out – replaced by “Frost Fest.”

There’s no more Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony, or customary wreathes greeting motorists along Main Street, or Santa riding in on a fire truck this year.

Instead, a town working committee decided the newly created “Frost Fest” will feature a bonfire, s’mores, music, cookie decorating, and crafts. There’s also “Ruby the Photo Bus” and raffles at the free Dec. 7 event.

The change stem from a complaint following the Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony last year, which prompted a public meeting and working committee to make the event more secular, town councilor Sally Tobias told WBZ-TV.

“There was another private citizen that came forward and said that he had always had a problem with the Christmas tree, as he called it,” she said.

Durham Manager Todd Selig told WBZ-TV last year that the city had been careful not to describe the tree as a Christmas tree, but officials felt compelled to re-evaluate the town’s holiday festivities in light of the complaint.

“We’ve viewed the tree for many years, since I’ve been here, as a holiday tree, a non-denominational tree,” he said.

The issue was also complicated by a request from Rabbi Berel Slavaticki, with the Seacoast Chabad Jewish Center in town, to put a 10-foot tall Menorah at Memorial Park to celebrate the eight days of Hanukkah. Selig denied the request.

“The broader concerns … was, do we want to open the public square up to all religions?” he said.

The town’s Human Rights Commission ultimately decided the answer is “no.”

“The intent of the commission was either all or nothing,” Commission chair Kitty Marple said.

A working committee later came up with the new rules for “Frost Fest” that essentially minimizes references to Christ.

The formal tree lighting is now gone, as is Santa’s big entrance on a fire truck, though he will still attend the event, city officials told WBZ-TV.

Tobias told the new site she’s not the biggest fan of the changes, but said officials plan to collect feedback and possibly make other changes next year.

“I will state that trees and Santas and wreaths are not Christian,” she said, “and we would like to hear back from the community.

“We’d like to hear what they think about it, how they would like to see it evolve a little differently and how we can make it better.”

Rabbi Slavaticki, for one, is gladly offering feedback.

“To stop cultures and faiths from practicing publicly would be very un-American. I think that’s the beauty of our country,” he said. “The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that the Menorah and the Christmas tree both represent the holiday winter season.”

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Plenty of other locals are also weighing in, and there seems to be a theme.

“Your decision is un-American, pathetic and down right asinine,” one person wrote to town officials, according to an editorial in Fosters. “I hope you and your ilk are removed from office for this idiotic decision.”

“Who let the Grinch in?” Dan Hurley wrote in a letter to the editor. “Twill be a sad year without Christmas in your town.”

“Keep Durham liberal and soon enough you will have no presents under your tree,” Hurley wrote.

The blowback eventually convinced city officials to walk back some of the changes, and wreaths will now return to the event, according to media reports.