hi rich roberts here at the village of a nice a christmas in the village is our fourth year for doing this big event it grows a little bit larger every year began as a vision when when we moved to peter's statut four years ago  we we looked at the area here in venetian and what is what is the uniqueness of it you uniqueness is that it's a village there's a store the country store there's a restaurant the open restaurant the old school right next to us in a church and in colonial days that was the definition of what a village is and so i looked at that and said how can we create a village atmosphere and we sent it around christmas we had the tallest christmas tree in washington county and we've been lighting for the last  displays that they do and i talk to their club in the saying why don't we open this whole vent up to everyone in the community and so they're a part of it for the last three years we've had red bird missions from kentucky red bird mission is down in southeastern kentucky and it's a very poverty stricken area but appalachian craft for does through redbird mission is we buy our work from the people in that area it's handcrafted traditional it's and it's a it's a means for them to make money off for their craft work and through the graciousness of the churches all over the united states this is my thirtieth show this year and this is one of our greatest shows it's great festival days but they host us so we come out we're all nonprofit the money goes back to running the program and to helping the people in the area and so they've been doing that for the last three years and we hope to have moved back again next  year on friday nights we light the tree and we have a hot chocolate and smores out to a couple open fires in the marketplace here this year we do something new we started what's called the bethlehem experience and so we have outside in tents all part of an outdoor theaters in other words if you come out on a friday night you'll see there's a baker there's a potter there's a clothier there's someone out there is spinning war like they did in those days and then the rumor has it there's a baby being born somewhere in this little village of bethlehem in a stable that's what i hear and so it ends with  going to visit the stable and talking to the innkeeper and you know answering those fire hard questions why didn't you have any room and those kind of things but but it's a friendly village here the girl scouts are here with a mitten drive and then also games for the there they've been a partner with us for the last four years the brownie troop that meets at the school and and that we're just so glad to be associated with them we also celebrating to eagle scout projects this year one is a free and and he built some new benches here for the village too because there's a lot of activities in the summertime you know we do concerts every every noon every at noon right on the front steps of the church here from june july and august and different entertainers and the ladies from the church cooked a lunch for five dollars so so we needed new benches and then he rose to the task on sunday december the third the right house is celebrating their one zero one zero fundraiser soup and stroll in the right house two hundred years old the cabin behind it goes back to seven hundred sixty two one of the first settlements in peter's township when this was still virginia and and so they'll be colonial reactors there i think last year george washington was there in south and he's looking kind of old couple you know hundred years old but he served up a good a mold cider that he had in the fireplace so it's just a lot of fun