Karen
Duquette and line dance friends
in McAdenville North Carolina
December 12, 2022
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Situated within 1.5 square miles of historic charm,
McAdenville is proof that the best things really do come in small
packages. Each season just west of Charlotte, the quaint town of McAdenville
becomes a Christmas wonderland. Almost overnight, the little textile-town-that-could
is transformed into Christmas Town U.S.A.®, attracting visitors from
across the country. Visitors can walk OR drive through McAdenville’s
downtown and see hundreds of brightly illuminated red, white and green
Christmas trees aglow along the Christmas Town U.S.A. ® route.
Karen Duquette walked the town with some members of
the line dance group from Kings Mountain NC.
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Below: Brightly
colored Christmas lights on floating trees made amazing reflections
in the water. |
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Below: The Majority of the
houses were decorated for Christmas. But Karen Duquette only photographed
a few of the houses. |
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Below: The house shown below
got a lot of attention because the top window was full of animated elves
in their workshop. The bottom window had a REAL SANTA CLAUS walking
back and forth in front of the window, sometimes waving, and sometimes
even eating a cookie. Karen Duquette took a video but does not know
how to post it here. (Any help out there????) |
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Below: Once in awhile, something
interesting would be in someone's window. |
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Below: Most houses also had
interesting things in the yard, but since Karen Duquette was with other
people that were very fast walkers, and not photographers, she could
not stop too long to take photos. Nobody else in the group took photos. |
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Below: This was very strange
for several reasons. First of all, most neighborhoods like this do not
allow RVs in the driveway. Second of all, why was a statue pretending
to empty the tank? It did not seem very appropriate nor Christmas-like. |
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Below: A few days later, Karen
Duquette attended a line dance Christmas Party in Monroe, NC. As usual,
she was the most costumed person, this time as an elf. Of course, there
was no costume requirement nor contest. But there was a lot of fun line
dancing. (This is sure NOT Florida anymore) |
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