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Christmas Color: Lights evoke the season and nostalgia for traditions 2011-12-15 - Photo by Pen. Christmas color with a bit of nostalgia: If you are a child of the 50's, you remember the excitement of the colored lights on the cedar tree your family cut, with the farmer's permission, yourself. You may remember feeling, too, that you weren't rich when other families had store bought pine Christmas trees, or, even more high faluting society folks had silver store boughts. You felt working class when a rich classmate talked about the "bubble" lights on their Christmas tree. But today, more people remember that circumstances, with the simple colored bulbs and the native cedar tree were the prettiest of all. -EW Permalink | Comments?

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