Sunday, December 26, 2004
Regionalism?
I keep forgetting to post this.
We were riding around one night recently, admiring the Christmas lights in the course of the drive, and Deb asked me what was up with the individual lights in windows.
I was jaw droppingly surprised, and explained they were essentially electric candles, very common around here all my life. Something to do with an ancient practice of putting candles in windows to light the way for the Christ child, or something. Many houses use only those and perhaps an inside Christmas tree visible in a window; no outside lights.
She had never seen them and I was surprised to learn it’s apparently a regional thing. Is anyone else aware of it being regional to use the candle-like single bulb Christmas lights in windows? If it really is regional, I wonder how widely it is practiced.