It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — on the first weekend of spring.
Christmas decorations have begun popping up during the coronavirus pandemic, as subdued and nervous Americans seek to reassure children (and adults) that life will return to normal someday.
A Rhode Island father has strung Christmas lights on a tree in his family’s front yard, the Religion News Service reports. A woman in Saskatchewan, Canada, told USA Today she put lights on her house to bring her “back to Christmas.”
The KELO television tower above Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been illuminated in bright Christmas lights — reprising a decoration typically only seen during December.
And Hallmark Channel says it will play a marathon of its prized cache of Christmas movies titled “We Need a Little Christmas” — starting Friday — just in time to calm the nerves of stuck-at-home viewers.
The films will include “Snow Bride,” “Mingle All the Way,” and “Pride, Prejudice & Misteltoe.” A Hallmark representative told The Washington Times the marathon came after encouragement from fans on social media. “Hallmark Channel has a weekend of what viewers asked for,” said a statement from CrownMedia in Studio City, Calif., on Thursday.
The return-to-Christmas trend seems to have been sparked by a baseball announcer in Milwaukee, who encouraged folks to turn on Christmas lights as a sign of hope.
“What if we all put our Christmas lights back up?” asked Lane Grindle, play-by-play broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers in a tweet last Sunday. “Then we could get in the car and drive around and look at them. That seems like a fair social distancing activity.”
On Wednesday re-tweeting a story from HouseBeautiful.com, Mr. Grindle wrote, “Folks, people are really doing this!”
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