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BY BONNIE BRECHBILL
Franklin Co. Correspondent
GREENCASTLE (Franklin
Co.) The return of candy canes
is eagerly awaited each year by re
sidents of southern Franklin
County.
Every holiday season for eleven
years, the 80-foot silos on the His
song Farmstead have been trans
formed into red-and-white-striped
Christmas treats.
Andy Hissong, 22, has been re
sponsible for decorating the silos
since he was 17. It takes him a
week to pul the lights up, with
time out twice daily for milking
chores.
The display, which can be seen
for a mile or more across the open
fields, is popular in the communi
ty and can be seen from Route 16
which runs between Greencastle
and Mercersburg.
"We’re expected to have them
up,” Hissong said of the lights.
“People ask us when we’re going
to turn them on.”
The lights have been on the
silos since the second week in De
cember and will remain until a
week after New Year’s Day.
Each of the six candy canes has
SO lights. While hanging onto the
caged ladder attached to the out
side of the silo, Hissong tapes the
strings of lights to the sU’s fill
pipes. “I climb up and ddwn quite
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a bit,” he said. lights to a steel frame. That work fastened to the middle silo. lights are in place.
Topping the display is a star, is completed on the ground, before The biggest problem Hissong Hissong Farmstead, a dairy
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