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Santa's Village

By Phillip L. Wenz

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2007
ISBN
9781439633267, 2007925452
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
43 MB (45340637 bytes)
Series
Images of America
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-03-15 00:08:04
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

Since 1959, Santa s Village in Dundee has entertained millions. The park was born of a man who as a child had no real Christmas. Glenn Holland grew up in California during the Great Depression. His parents died by the time he was 18 years old, leaving him to care for his younger sister. As a father, he tried to give his own children the type of Christmas that he only knew in his dreams. In the early 1950s, struck with inspiration, Holland sat at his kitchen table one day and started to sketch his idea for a Christmas fairyland where all the magic of the holiday would come to life: Santa s Village. Holland and general contractor Putnam Henck built three Santa s Villages, two in California and one in Dundee.

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