12/17/16: John Wilking has been hanging Christmas lights outside his home since his kids were little. In the last three years, he has taken it to the extreme, doubling his electric bill and decorating his home with 25,000 lights which utilize 3,700 feet of extension cords. The lights are perfectly timed to music, which plays on your car radio at 88.1 FM. Each full performance lasts about an hour and the display is up from Thanksgiving to mid-January.
Locals know John’s house on Dorset Street (down the road from the Vermont National Country Club) is one to watch every holiday season. The Holiday Lights Tour has been stopping there for years. Organized by South Burlington Recreation and Parks, this bus of seniors travels around to the best holiday lights displayed in South Burlington. John’s house is the only one they stop at to enjoy the full show with a hot cocoa and cookie break.
Music: “Messiah” by George Frideric Handel
This episode of Stuck in Vermont was made possible by
Hotel Vermont and New England Federal Credit Union
This article appears in The Winter Reading Issue 2016.
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Flint Motorsports In West Topsham Vt also has a light display Like this one Look us up on facebook @ Lighting up West Topsham Our lights will be on from Thanksgiving unit December 31ST from 5 PM-9 PM with 3 different shows running on different nights and you can see all the shows on Sunday nights only. So stop by and tune your radio to 98.7FM to hear the music and if you could please make a donation to the east orange church. The bucket is next to the tune to sign.
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I don’t know which I love more… the lights, or that bus load of seniors! Thanks for another great story, Eva!