Page 4 - Talk of Tequesta - February '24

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It Takes A Village

By Lynn Doyle, Tequesta Resident
You’ve possibly heard of the story, The Sisterhood of Then COVID hit! David’s parents began
the Traveling Pants, but this is a story about a traveling spending Christmas in Florida. Family
village. gatherings were held on Zoom. Later, family
Over the years, my mother and “Grandma” to my son, members came to Florida to join them for
David, collected pieces to form her version of a Dickens the holidays. However, there was no village!
Christmas village. She and grandpa spent weeks setting Christmas without the village was just not the
up the village in their Wisconsin home. Everyone loved same.
it, especially David. Each family member had a favorite But in 2023 grandma’s village found its way
piece. Mine was the Christmas tree lot made by grandma to Florida. In secret, David packed tables, tubs,
herself. My brother chose the church, and the lighthouse lights, and bags of artificial snow in his car. He
won the vote of my husband. But David had two favorites, drove 1,443 miles to our condo in Tequesta, Fla.
the roadhouse and firehouse. Like Santa himself, he set up the village, turned around, After a revealing phone call to David, the mystery was
As David grew – so did the village. When grandma and and drove back to Wisconsin. No one was the wiser for solved.
grandpa passed away, the village tubs had notes on them this act of Yuletide spirit until his parents arrived to the Days later, David went back to Florida to celebrate
that said, “This village goes to David.” No longer a child, condo. Imagine their surprise! Christmas with the family. But this time he flew!
the dilemma was that David lived in a small apartment. What’s this? The question remains, “Where will the traveling
The only solution was to rent a storage unit. Each year Looks like grandma’s village. Can’t be! village be in 2024?”
thereafter the tubs came out of storage, and the village How did it get all the way here?
was set up wherever Christmas dinner was being held Did David ship it?
that year. Who set it up for him?

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