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So, This Is Christmas!

Decorating our homes at Christmas time is a tradition we all look forward to. This festive act brings joy and holiday spirit to us, our family, and our neighborhood. Using lights to decorate at Christmas time can be traced all the way back to Yule, a Norse tradition celebrating midwinter. This tradition involved drinking “Yule”, a type of beer, while watching the Yule log burn. Lighting the Yule log was believed to summon the sun’s return while driving away evil spirits. In Christian terms, it’s been argued that this idea was built upon and now represents Jesus lighting up the darkness. There was a trend in the 1800s that used candles to light up parts of the Christmas tree, but this came with obvious hazards. It wasn’t until Thomas Edison had a bright idea in the 1880s that lighting up your Christmas tree started catching on. He strung up a bunch of incandescent bulbs outside his Menlo Park laboratory in an attempt to promote the use of electric light, but also to spread a bit of Christmas cheer. In 1882, Edison and fellow inventor Edward Johnson introduced the first ever electrically decorated Christmas tree. Even though the Christmas tree became a novel attraction, it took several decades (into the 1900s) for this trend to catch on and people started lighting up their Christmas trees around the world. #christmas #winterwonderland #merrychristmas #happyholidays #christmastime #christmaslightsdisplay #christmaslights #chicagoland #thegreatchicagolightfight #thegreatchristmaslightfight #somewhereinmymemory