The idea for outdoor Christmas lights began a century ago in Denver with a sick boy

The idea for outdoor Christmas lights began a century ago in Denver with a sick boy

Once upon a time, there was a sick boy with a window. So sick was little David Sturgeon that he couldn’t leave his second-floor bedroom, even to celebrate Christmas. He couldn’t go down the stairs of his family’s Denver home to see the tree or the decorations hung upon it. But what David did have was a window. And outside that window was a pine tree. He also had an electrician for a father. It was 1914, two years after the elder Sturgeon — also …