A lesson from Clark Griswold for 2020: focus on the light
This holiday, take a tour of lights and share your favorites on our Facebook page.
The Lake Highlands home belonging to Jim and Linda Shultz features 37,000 colored lights in Dallas. Jim said the front yard Christmas lights display takes 55 hours to install, and the pair started setting lights up in October. Perhaps the Shultzes or their neighbors will post a photo of their home on The Dallas Morning News members Facebook group this week.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
In the classic holiday movie
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Clark Griswold’s greatest moment of joy comes when he sees 25,000 Christmas lights blazing atop his house. The “Hallelujah” chorus plays and the audience knows that, despite the citywide power outage, the dead cat, the torched Christmas tree, the disappointing Christmas bonus, the abduction of Clark’s boss, and the SWAT team, there was joy, at least for a moment, in the