When you live on Main Street in a quaint New England town, there is great pressure to put up white lights in your windows in the weeks leading up to Christmas. I'm not sure how long this tradition has been going on in Hingham, Massachusetts, but it likely traces back to the 17th century town fathers. You know, the ones who missed the boat to Plymouth and had to settle for Johnny-come-lately-to-the-New-World status. The ones who don't have a famous "rock" to celebrate, as anticlimactic as the [...]
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