WEBVTT

0
00:00:00.930 --> 00:00:01.090


1
00:00:01.169 --> 00:00:02.369


2
00:00:03.809 --> 00:00:04.900


3
00:00:05.969 --> 00:00:08.319
So I had two big containers down there with lights.

4
00:00:08.770 --> 00:00:09.329
Santa Claus,

5
00:00:09.430 --> 00:00:09.609
Mrs.

6
00:00:09.729 --> 00:00:10.090
Claus,

7
00:00:10.130 --> 00:00:11.289
I have my manger set,

8
00:00:11.369 --> 00:00:12.720
and then if you look up there,

9
00:00:13.050 --> 00:00:16.629
probably 75% of that will go out in the front yard somewhere.

10
00:00:17.530 --> 00:00:19.149
I think it also was driven by

11
00:00:19.420 --> 00:00:19.809
Bill.

12
00:00:20.729 --> 00:00:22.829
And every year it's gotten bigger

13
00:00:23.290 --> 00:00:24.069
and bigger

14
00:00:24.649 --> 00:00:25.309
and bigger.

15
00:00:27.670 --> 00:00:28.770
People ask me often,

16
00:00:29.069 --> 00:00:29.829
how did this happen?

17
00:00:30.659 --> 00:00:31.120
Everybody

18
00:00:31.299 --> 00:00:31.680
did it

19
00:00:32.729 --> 00:00:34.930
Half a mile of houses can't make anybody do anything.

20
00:00:36.639 --> 00:00:38.900
My grandfather always made these Christmas projects.

21
00:00:39.069 --> 00:00:40.740
It was all part of our family tradition.

22
00:00:41.279 --> 00:00:42.880
In 1985,

23
00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:44.259
his eyesight had gotten too bad,

24
00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:46.189
so he wasn't going to make something that year,

25
00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:48.080
so I thought I'll try and make something.

26
00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:49.400
I just finished college,

27
00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:50.580
but I pulled it off,

28
00:00:51.080 --> 00:00:52.860
and I've been making my projects ever since,

29
00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:54.560
so that the tradition continued.

30
00:00:56.409 --> 00:00:58.930
Just accidentally became what Seabury

31
00:00:59.209 --> 00:00:59.560
is,

32
00:00:59.569 --> 00:01:01.770
and what is then spread around Fairview Park.

33
00:01:02.590 --> 00:01:03.389
2012,

34
00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:04.629
I knocked on some doors.

35
00:01:04.800 --> 00:01:06.809
The neighbors that I thought would be an easy sell,

36
00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:07.779
they said yes,

37
00:01:07.839 --> 00:01:08.959
and then I knocked on more doors.

38
00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:12.319
We had 60 houses plus of the 70 plus

39
00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:13.339
that first year.

40
00:01:13.839 --> 00:01:14.510
It was just fun,

41
00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:15.839
and we started seeing some cars,

42
00:01:16.110 --> 00:01:19.319
and then there was one year early around then that was especially warm,

43
00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:19.599
and,

44
00:01:19.639 --> 00:01:19.830
hey,

45
00:01:19.839 --> 00:01:21.059
people out there walking.

46
00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:22.519
So Diane,

47
00:01:22.610 --> 00:01:23.080
my wife said,

48
00:01:23.160 --> 00:01:23.269
hey,

49
00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:23.779
let's go

50
00:01:23.889 --> 00:01:25.319
do some hot chocolate in the driveway.

51
00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:26.769
So they started doing that more and more,

52
00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:29.819
and we were doing thousands of cups of hot chocolate a year.

53
00:01:30.489 --> 00:01:31.709
We had a donations jar.

54
00:01:31.930 --> 00:01:33.050
We would get a couple 100 bucks,

55
00:01:33.089 --> 00:01:35.830
and every year we happen to come across a story of somebody

56
00:01:36.089 --> 00:01:37.110
who was having a bad

57
00:01:37.410 --> 00:01:38.169
go of something,

58
00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:39.089
and we would buy,

59
00:01:39.199 --> 00:01:39.330
you know,

60
00:01:39.410 --> 00:01:39.949
gift card.

61
00:01:40.730 --> 00:01:41.959
Then in 2018,

62
00:01:42.410 --> 00:01:43.959
we took in over $1000 and we're like,

63
00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:44.489
holy cow,

64
00:01:44.569 --> 00:01:44.720
what,

65
00:01:44.809 --> 00:01:44.959
what,

66
00:01:44.989 --> 00:01:45.120
what,

67
00:01:45.169 --> 00:01:46.129
what are we gonna do with this?

68
00:01:47.150 --> 00:01:47.809
We now

69
00:01:48.110 --> 00:01:50.110
donate to the Fairview Park Hunger Center,

70
00:01:50.269 --> 00:01:51.110
Meals on Wheels,

71
00:01:51.269 --> 00:01:52.190
and the senior Center.

72
00:01:52.589 --> 00:01:55.550
So we've given over $25,000 only to Fairview Park.

73
00:01:55.589 --> 00:01:56.769
It stays in Fairview Park.

74
00:01:58.349 --> 00:01:59.069
Right now,

75
00:01:59.269 --> 00:02:02.489
we're in the process of finishing adding the lights around the house.

76
00:02:03.029 --> 00:02:05.019
Each deer kind of represents

77
00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:06.339
different family members.

78
00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.610
People have lost loved ones to cancer or

79
00:02:10.610 --> 00:02:13.160
people have really struggled with health issues.

80
00:02:13.169 --> 00:02:13.589
And

81
00:02:13.929 --> 00:02:16.570
when they come down to Seabury and they walk through the lights,

82
00:02:16.610 --> 00:02:17.690
they forget about it.

83
00:02:18.369 --> 00:02:18.600
Hey,

84
00:02:18.669 --> 00:02:19.350
who is that?

85
00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:22.880
Well,

86
00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:23.110
hey,

87
00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:24.440
it's nice that you stopped.

88
00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:26.710
Oh,

89
00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:27.110
you,

90
00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:28.360
you keep coming back around.

91
00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:29.660
I'll have a lot of stuff out.

92
00:02:31.429 --> 00:02:32.679
Happy holidays to you.

93
00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:33.440
All right,

94
00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:33.960
see you.

95
00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:36.300
That's exactly

96
00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:37.779
what I mean right there.

97
00:02:38.160 --> 00:02:39.179
What a chill.

98
00:02:39.559 --> 00:02:39.800
I mean,

99
00:02:39.880 --> 00:02:40.460
I,

100
00:02:40.559 --> 00:02:41.639
I it's goosebumps.

101
00:02:42.429 --> 00:02:44.850
Just random people just stopping to just

102
00:02:45.190 --> 00:02:46.070
say that kind of stuff,

103
00:02:46.149 --> 00:02:46.309
you know,

104
00:02:46.350 --> 00:02:46.889
it's cool.

105
00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:48.960
People were posting,

106
00:02:49.210 --> 00:02:50.729
why can't our street be like Seabury?

107
00:02:50.889 --> 00:02:51.440
It can be.

108
00:02:51.690 --> 00:02:51.960
You just,

109
00:02:52.050 --> 00:02:52.869
you just have to do it.

110
00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:53.949
Be happy to share

111
00:02:54.210 --> 00:02:55.369
some ideas for what we do.

112
00:02:56.889 --> 00:02:58.000
Hearing the laughters,

113
00:02:58.100 --> 00:03:02.869
knowing that the people are forgetting their troubles just for the short period of

114
00:03:02.869 --> 00:03:05.559
time that they're down in the street by looking at all the lights,

115
00:03:05.729 --> 00:03:06.850
you can't replace that.

116
00:03:07.559 --> 00:03:10.279
To know that you're a part of that process for people,

117
00:03:10.610 --> 00:03:15.309
that it's something really big that brings that kind of healing and peace to people,

118
00:03:15.490 --> 00:03:16.869
I'll take that all day.

119
00:03:17.990 --> 00:03:18.369
Yeah.