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San Antonio's Christmas is lit on a Friday and understood two weeks laterNan Palmero / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0

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San Antonio's Christmas is lit on a Friday and understood two weeks later

San Antonio's river is lit on the Friday after Thanksgiving, but that night is the switch, not the celebration. What explains the city, the paper light of the luminarias, the masa of the tamales and the market, arrives on the weekends of December, at 18 degrees and without snow.

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Leavenworth switched off the countdown and Christmas stayed lit until FebruaryThayne Tuason / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0When to go

Leavenworth switched off the countdown and Christmas stayed lit until February

For decades, Christmas in this Cascades town had a time slot: at 4:45 pm on three December Saturdays, a countdown switched on half a million bulbs in front of a crowd. In 2021 the countdown vanished and the lights began staying on every night from Thanksgiving to the end of February. What remains is an equation of light and snow, and that equation works out better in January than in December.When to go · 11 minRead the article →

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