a beautiful day in a neighborhood a beautiful day for a neighbor will you be mine and quote from mr rogers if you have to have an idol or a hero he was mine when i was growing up watching mister rogers neighborhood all the time and i got a sense of community that and a sense of helping people one of the things that mr rogers mom told him when he was just a little boy he wasn't quite as tall or strong as is the other kids and was bullied a lot but he would always tell him always look for the helpers because there's always folks out there willing to help you and so he built his life on that in a in a ministry of t v reaching out to children from all over and so that's kind of a good role model and a good he road to have so rich robertson here from a village of welcome to this segment of the village we're talking about christmas right now christmas in the village of any should we start of this four years ago when we moved to peter's township took a lot of good ideas from franklin p a where i'd lived for a while and then from the other north hills community and also from sharon from these great light up nights that we there or perhaps to the ball fields of little league it's right there the old schools there the church is there right up the road is the country store and open restaurants they have all the elements of what in colonial america what they would call a village to set this little part of the world apart from from other places in the tri state area and let's come up with a light up night and call it christmas in the village of any show that's what we did this would be the fourth year december first through the third and someone to come down and help us put lights on and we put more lights on it every year than the year before so we'll be doing that before thanksgiving to have that tree ready for december the first at six thirty  with the cow though their cows going to think he's got another engagement that night but we'll have chick fil a sandwiches there but that's all the kind of begin the christmas season that's two days before i think we like the tree here at the to be for that whole weekend while you're there on friday night the the old school the venetia heritage club that runs that society on the third floor of that is that they're train club and if you they they meet all year put trains together all year around and that's on a third floor of the old anita school and for christmas they're going to have a christmas display they have gosh probably eight displays up there that rivals  go to carnegie science center and see the train displays down there this would be in my opinion equal to that sun and it's all free to come on out in see what the their students are doing for for their christmas display on the second floor of the old school is the will have a crafts from the red bird mission in beverly kentucky and beverly kentucky is the poorest county in the united states and these appalachian folks  s put together crafts their handmade their own made in their own homes and they put them all together on a truck and go around the country raising money for their community the money that directly goes from the sale of these crafts that they  make goes back to their school goes back to the small dispensary they have the food pantry they give the clothes closet in that poorest county in america and so we're glad to host them for the for the third year and it's all kind of things i mean saturday from one to two and then on sunday also from twelve to five red bird mission crafts on the second floor of the school while all that's going on the junior girl scout troop fifty two for ninety nine is going to do a mitten drive to and so you can scouts from the boy scouts will be there on friday night also we've been privileged and honored to have two eagle scout projects to be done in a village of a nation this past year one is right there at the school you'll see it when you pull him it's one of one of  those free standing free libraries it's a three story and one of the fellows from the community put that together with some help in and it's ready to go in fact it's filled with books and it's big and read it looks kind of like the school itself and it's a free library we're going to dedicate that on friday night and also make mention of the other eagle scout project done in the village which is over at the right house the right house that celebrated two hundred years this year anniversary behind that is one of the original cabins in peter's township when we were still part of the  friday night new this year now all those other events have been fantastic for the last three years in this year's the bethlehem village and that's kind of an outdoor drama in a way it's a tour of the butcher the ba just like we're talking you know two thousand years ago and the rumor is an abbot to him village they'll be a baby born somewhere within that village probably in a stable in a manger and so that's all part of that outdoor drama and that happens all at the same time  while this is going on so after the tree lighting we invite you to come over to the church which is all right there together in get some food and while you're waiting or while when you're done eating take a tour go with with the group out there now there is a dollar donation that we're asking for that that's going to go to missions one of the many missions about twenty five that we support right there from right united methodist church we're still looking for actors and actresses if you ever thought  gee i always wanted to be a shoe cobbler or i always wanted to be a rabbi in a synagogue we've got a script for you to read and for you to be a part of part of that bethlehem village and so there's a village is go constructed within the next week and campfires bonfires and everything else out there and so call a call a seven two four three four eight fifty seven eighteen and say i'd like to be a part of that outdoor  i've got a little bit of experience i had no experience at all but we'd like to have you come and be a part of that so give us a call and we'll sign you up now that all happens on friday which is exhausting enough but on saturday morning we start all over again with a  frozen character breakfast from nine to eleven right there at the church and also will be there on the cons i don't know if olaf if you have snow off will be there too but there's a frozen character breakfast we invite you to call and get a reservation for that there's no charge for it but we want to make sure that we have enough places for you to come and meet those characters from from that great movie and so that's saturday morning at that same time the redbird craft show is starting up next door so while the weather kids are eating pancakes with your folks here your grandparents are shopping next door at the red bird crafts and and also looking at the trains on the third floor of the school building so lots of things going on there in between all of that there's lots of lights in the village we try to have the largest christmas display in washington cammy i mean you can go to ogleby in west virginia it's very nice maybe a few more lights than we have but i invite you to come to the village of any ship there's an animated display that i purchased from a kaufman's when macy's went out of business what three or two years ago downtown i went to the fire sale to the yard sale they were having  beautiful downtown building where kaufman's used to be if you ever went by those animated storefronts windows that go back gosh to the turn of the century they were selling everything that they had and i purchased one of those animated displays and will assemble that right at the parson house there right on the porch and you get a chance to see that you may remember it i remembered it when i was going through the bottom couple floors when they were selling everything to the bare walls down there at macy's and i kept seeing pieces in different parts of the store and i said well this looks like a display and i put all the pieces together put in the back of the pickup and will assemble that for this for that weekend one of the old kaufman's displays come out and see that all of that is gosh on saturday redbird will be there from ninety two now on sunday we're back at it again and from noon to five redbird will be there at the school and at the same time soup and stroll be going on at the sponsored of the peter's historical peters creek historical society they run the right house in the museum of western expansion that's right kind of cattle corner from  school where we're at the cabin seven hundred seventy four they'll be last year george washington was there and i was looking a little old but he was there and some of the characters dressed in in costume from the colonial time and nice bonfire going on in the cap and some food from two hundred years old but some food with the same kind of recipes were there also plus the eight dollars to buy a bowl of soup and support  that peter's creek historical society to keep up the right house there you get to make the tour and it's if you've never done that it's well worth your while to do that and especially during the super install from twelve to five on december the third on that sunday if this past year we did scenes in the musical hamilton over there at the church two separate times for the historical society because that the whisk rebellion the village of unease the founding of our country was all very very had some foundational blocks right here in our village and so we kind of celebrated that if you read different histories of the whiskey rebellion  one of the history says maybe alexander hamilton himself actually was in the nation you know depends on your read the history so we celebrated that with with the scenes in that musical and no we'll probably do that again this next summer a from washington will be there with the chicken sandwiches the open restaurant the german italian restaurant there in our village and also the country store that has a new porch going on it there keeping that log cabin motif of  continue into the future if you can go to rites u m c dot com to get the latest information if you've forgot anything or need some more information or give us a call at seven two four three four eight fifty seven eighteen or we've got posters that we're putting out all over town in fact on november the twenty second if you've got that issue of the almanac we've got a great big half page page ad in there that's going to tell you kind of detail for you a little bit about what we're doing on that first weekend of december the first through the third redbird crafts their model train display right house soup and  year is the bethlehem village it's a village that's going back to two thousand years ago and we'll put tents up there and have different characters plot portray different parts of what a village would look like back when and and we need your help to make that happen so again call us if you want to play a part it's just fine you'll be there for about an hour and a half outside so dressed warmly but but you get hot cocoa be got  approach the village and so bring the family you can come right from work will have enough food to feed you that night and again all the money goes to the different charities and mission things that we that are supported  right on a methodist church in the red bird mission and even the right house nonprofit organization so i hope to see you on that friday saturday and sunday december first second and third and it starts friday night six thirty it's going to start with honoring our two eagle scouts from the village and into projects they did there and and how important scouting has been for for this area and for the folks that are participating in that came out and be a part of that and bring the kids you won't see another christmas tree in washington cammy that is taller and have more lights on than what we have so we just invite you to come out and enjoy them so i'm rich roberts for the village of nation and i want to say happy thanksgiving to you if the show gets out before thanksgiving and certainly i'm merry christmas and and even after the event on the first weekend of the summer just ride through the village any time between almost the end of january