LANCASTER, N.Y. (WKBW) — Western New York can count on Tony Dittmer and Lancaster's Stony Brook and Quail Run Development neighborhoods to put on a show this time of year.
More than 300 homes across eight streets combine forces. It is no winter wonderland yet, but the 17th annual Stony Brook Legendary Lights are in full swing Thanksgiving night, and runs through New Year's Day from 6-10 p.m.
Dittmer said it takes 100 hours to make his home come to life! He starts decorating around Halloween each year. "I enjoy it. You have to like doing it and I love how the neighbors enjoy it," Tony Dittmer said.
"The very high areas like the high peaks, I can't climb that high. Maybe the word is, I won't climb up that high, but I do everything else myself. Everything in the yards, trees in the yards, the nativity scene.
" It was a calm night for the first night of the lights, where 7 News caught up with Elma resident Kim Tront viewing the lights before she plans to bring her kids the next time around. "It starts the whole Christmas season. It's magical, first of all, that a whole community can be unified like this, especially for Christmas.
The fact that they always choose a great charity to help raise money for," Elma resident Kim Tront said. For Brandy Zimmerman and her daughter Arya, it is a tradition that began during the pandemic. "It was safe not getting too close to anybody, so we started coming on Thanksgiving nights.
That's what we do every Thanksgiving. We have dinner together an.
