Grandma Hogan's Christmas Village

My Grandma Hogan collected the Dicken's Village Christmas Village for as long as I can remember. I am guessing she had well over 100 pieces so it was a very expensive collection. She took so much pride in her village! Towards the end of her years she began to leave the village up all year long because it was becoming too much work to take it down and put it back up. When she passed away we split her village between all of the grandchildren. One of my fondest memories of this village growing up was that Gram had several crystal animals that were about an inch tall. They were Sevorski crystal and very fragile and pretty. Gram would hide these crystal animals throughout her village and then us grand kids would try to find them. This was difficult because the were nearly invisible against the fake white snow. My dad gave Greydon a Savorski crystal bear on his first Christmas, so I thought it would be fit to display it in my pieces of Gram's collection.

Gram's Dickens Village had street lights, pebble sidewalks and everything you can imaging to make it magnificent. I don't have all of those things or the patients, but you can see my part of her collection below.