20151202 - Chirstmas Village (HRB)

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com It's Christmas, and Pam Jacobs started celebrating five years ago by turning one of the rooms in her McHenry home into a mini Christmas town includes LGB and Lionel model rail lines that loop through the town.

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com It's Christmas, and Pam Jacobs started celebrating five years ago by turning one of the rooms in her McHenry home into a mini Christmas town. The village stays up all year, but really comes to life every December.

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com The police and fire station of Pam Jacobs Christmas village in one of the rooms in her McHenry home. May of the figures and buldings were found in thrift stores.

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com Pam Jacobs place is a vehilce in her mini Christmas town, that maker her feel like a kid most of the time. The village stays up all year, but really comes to life every December.

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com All the buildings in Pam Jacobs' Christmas village have interior lighting. Jacobs started celebrating five years ago by turning one of the rooms in her McHenry home into a mini Christmas town. The village stays up all year, but really comes to life every December.

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H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com A Lionel steam train arrives in the Christmas village Pam Jacobs created with purchase from thrift stores. Jacobs started celebrating five years ago by turning one of the rooms in her McHenry home into a mini Christmas town. The village stays up all year, but really comes to life every December.