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- From: Jim@bepcp.UUCP
- Newsgroups: nj.misc
- Subject: Re: Candles by the driveway
- Message-ID: <gate.5J3HwB1w164w@bowker.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 11:05:39 EST
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- Re: Re: Candles in every window
- By: shagan #0 @gandalf.rutgers.edu (Susan R. Hagan) USEnet
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- > On Christmas eve, go out for a drive and you may see many houses
- > that have their front walks lined with candles. They take white paper
- > bags, fill them about 3-4 inches with sand, then put a candle in each
- > one. They line their front walks with these, kind of like landing
- > lights.
- > These are called Luminiares, which is properly pronounced lum-in-yares,
- > but the locals call them Luminaries. Its a french word with means
- > lights or something like that. There is a religious significance
- > to them, but I don't know what it is. Some people say that they
- > are Santa's landing lights - but I think thats a joke.
- > Anyway, when my dad gets home from work, I'll ask him - he knows.
-
- Luminiares became popular during the Iran Hostage crisis. The first memory I
- have of them was during the oil shortages in the 70's.
-
- - Jim
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