Salt Lake City Christmas tradition ends after 30 years as owner faces health challenges
SALT LAKE CITY — For more than three decades, families from across the Salt Lake Valley made an annual drive to a brightly decorated home where thousands of Christmas lights, festive displays and treats helped create holiday memories for generations. Now, the man behind the beloved tradition is turning off the lights for good. Forrest Nunley, whose hillside Christmas display became a seasonal landmark in Salt Lake City, recently decided to sell hundreds of his beloved decorations. "Making people happy is a real blessing to do," he said. Nunley said he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease five years ago, prompting him to sell his business and move to a farm in Moab. "My life's kind of changed into being in Moab right now, where there's no traffic, no noise, no pollution," he said. Despite the move, Nunley returned to Salt Lake City each year to assemble the Christmas display, but after…
