Excerpts from Pocket Observatory

Excerpts from Pocket Observatory

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Wrap me in a Necklace of Lights

Wrap me in a Necklace of Lights

and tell me what you're grilling this summer

Meg Conley
Apr 14, 2023
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Wrap me in a Necklace of Lights
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A postcard of the Necklace of Lights from the 1930s

It is finally warm here in Denver! The evenings are lovely! It’s time to eat outside!

If we still lived in Oakland, we’d be packing bean and rice burritos to eat by Lake Merritt most nights. We’d know it was time to go home when the Necklace of Lights came on.

The necklace is a string of lights that goes …

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