Note from Audra: So funny…I’ve known Lisa a long time but never knew that she lived in the house where Santa crashes! I’ve known Susie Neel even longer and am not surprised that she started a lively and fun Halloween tradition. Vernon North is one of many awesome neighborhoods in our community! Please read this great article from The Dunwoody Reporter:
Lisa Victory jokes she felt like Goldilocks when she was looking for a house.
Victory, who grew up in Buckhead and graduated from the University of Georgia, tried homes in west Cobb and inside the Perimeter before settling with her husband in a “forever home” on Vernon North Drive in 2000. She said it offered a perfect fit of community, quality schools and family involvement.
Now she and her husband are known throughout the neighborhood for something quite different: their holiday display. Victory says she lives in “the Santa roof house.”
“My husband stages the back side of our roof with a scene that looks like Santa slammed into the roof,” Victory said, “complete with runway lights, a crashed Santa, Rudolph looking for said Santa and presents strewn all over the place.”
Victory said friends tell her the Santa decoration has become a Dunwoody tradition. And her neighborhood has added a few other local traditions. If the Victorys are recognized for their Christmas display, their neighbors, the Neels, have embraced Halloween. Continue Reading at The Dunwoody Reporter.
