This time of year we hear laments, understandably so, about the eroding meaning of the holiday season. It’s all about shopping–kick-started by “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday.”
Even the literal landscape is changing. At Clearwater’s Westfield Countryside Mall, for example, there were signs of the season last weekend that included more than Salvation Army kettles and Yule tide displays. The mall was debuting SkyWatch, a two-story, manned mobile surveillance tower. It’s meant mainly to deter vehicular burglaries.
Nothing says contemporary Christmas holiday season more than a watch tower.