Some do, some don't...like the lighted Christmas HL's,that is.
I'm on the "I really like them" side. When they are set out in a more prominant display during the holidays, the light brings them to life. You can imagine the keeper and his wife and children actully being there, going about their holiday.
I especially love Bodie, because it's one of my favorite lights anyway. Interesting though, a couple of years ago after the Bodie Island Christmas was released ('04), a group of us approached the National Park Service about decorating the real Keeper's home in the same fashion. We were told we could, IF, we could prove that the decorations were historically correct.
We failed in finding any documentation, and John Gaskill, son of the last keeper there, told us that he could not remember ever seeing Christmas wreaths hung, and they never had a tree.
So much for that idea.
Judy