Campers' Xmas lightshows at Disney World campground


Over the Christmas holidays, I visited the Fort Wilderness Campground at Walt Disney World to check out the famed, over-the-top Christmas displays put on by some of the regular campers. These people come back every year, some reportedly pitching their Winnebagos for months, and set up thousands of dollars' worth of lighted Christmas decorations, hanging them from the trees, stringing them on their fences, setting them up on the lawns and in the windscreens of their RVs. It's a remarkable bit of virtual community group activity, part status-display, part potlatch, part celebration. And all Disney Xmas geek. Link

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