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December 19, 2022

Your Guide to Boise’s Best Christmas Lights

We’re getting extra festive with the creator of the Boise Christmas Lights Map. Host Emma Arnold finds out what inspired William Higginson to first build the map in 2015, and what it takes to keep it twinkling every year. Plus, we learn about the cross-state community of holiday display map builders. 


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