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Christmas in March: Folks are putting up lights while quarantined at home

With the dark cloud coronavirus has cast, people are spreading some light and cheer with Christmas lights

5 Facts About Holiday Light Displays Thomas Edison is credited with putting up the first Christmas lights display. Australian David Richards holds the Guinness World Record for the largest display of Christmas lights on an artificial tree. A 15-year-old named Albert Sadacca is said to have popularized Christmas tree lights. Lighting a Christmas tree could cost as much as $300 in 1900. That's $2000 in today's dollars. Each year, 20 million Christmas lights are recycled in Shijiao, China.
By Stephanie Toone
March 19, 2020

In one of the darkest times of our country’s modern history, people are seeking to shed a little light by digging in their basements for Christmas cheer.

According to numerous social media posts, many Americans are putting up Christmas lights and trees to relieve some of the morose thoughts that have entered psyche while being sequestered due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As of Thursday afternoon, there are more than 10,000 cases of coronavirus across the country and at least 150 deaths.

Many folks on Twitter have said their children and their own need for a bit of amusement and joy led them to decorating their home for December in March. Here are a few of the light shows springing up across the country amid the coronavirus crisis:

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