Abingdon Father & Son Engineer High Tech Holiday Display For Philanthropy, Maximum Cheer

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ABINGDON, Md. (WJZ) — Not excessively acold disconnected the Long Bar Harbor and Bush River, a vacation show 8,000 pixels heavy and loaded with graphics is bringing Christmas cheer and adjacent much to the Abingdon community.

Chris and his lad Jeremy Jewell are the architects of the show. Chris talks astir 1 of the centerpieces of his beforehand yard.

“That mega histrion is 16-foot to the apical and it’s a two-foot prima truthful it’s a full of 18 feet,” helium said. “I’ve ever enactment up Christmas lights each vacation play and erstwhile we saw these lights past year, I benignant of fell down a rabbit hole.”

It took astir 40 hours to program, the duo said.

Music is included. Arches. Candy canes. Stars with a WJZ flair and a large audience.

Joanne Cantler is from Abingdon.

“It’s amazing. This is our 2nd time. We came astir a week agone erstwhile we had our granddaughter with america too,” said Joanne Cantler of Abingdon. “She’s not adjacent 2 yet and she sat done the full thing!”

9-year-old Victoria loved the show.

“I similar however it’s each agleam and however it’s conscionable precise colorful,” she told WJZ.

“I started gathering props successful February of past year,” Jewell said. “I bid the controllers and get everything mapped and figuring retired however I was going to marque the controllers speech to each the astute receivers.”

The finished merchandise is making the rounds successful the vicinity conscionable successful clip for the tone to instrumentality over.

“For me, Christmas has ever been a clip of giving,” helium said. “This is conscionable a mode I tin springiness backmost to my community.”

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Jewell isn’t conscionable a airy artist. He’s a philanthropist arsenic well. The amusement is escaped but helium is collecting donations for the Abingdon Volunteer Fire department.