HOPE – Main Street of Hope has bestowed the coveted “Deck the Town” trophy to a local family who won this holiday’s season’s popular vote for best outdoor Christmas display.
The winner is the home of Kylie and Jon Griffin, located at 1607 Manor Drive in Hope. Their residence was chosen from 15 other finalists.
And the coveted trophy? It’s a classic from the 1983 film “A Christmas Story.”
In that film, a mother decides that the female leg lamp her husband receives as a “major award” is so distasteful that she breaks it, rather than allow it to be displayed in her front window. But after the film became a holiday classic, replicas of the same lamp have been bought in communities across the nation and handed out as tongue-in-cheek “major awards.”
In Hope, one such replica is passed on every December to the winner of the “Deck The Town” competition, sponsored by Main Street of Hope.
Besides the leg lamp, the Griffins’ name will be placed to a commemorative plaque that will travel with the lamp to the homes of future winners, Main Street of Hope executive director Susan Thayer Fye said.
For more on this story, see Friday’s Republic.
