Adam and Elizabeth Richards hand out candy during a past Halloween. Neighbors stock up on enough candy to fill the bags of more than a thousand trick-or-treaters.
PHOTO COURTESY ADAM AND ELIZABETH RICHARDS
The Milliken’ s passion for creating big things becomes pretty obvious when visiting their house on Halloween. Each year, Heidi said she centers her decorations around a particular theme. One year may be“ Stranger Things,” the next“ Beetlejuice,” or even zombies, and each year her daughter’ s friends from theater class would volunteer to act as the characters and hand out candy.
But she said her favorite theme so far has to have been the year her husband built a 30 ft. ship in their front yard to complete their pirate theme.
Even now that her daughters have both graduated, Milliken said they and their friends enthusiastically return each year.
Residents, Gary Knight and Brian Wilson go old school with their Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein’ s monster yard.
PHOTO COURTESY GARY KNIGHT AND BRIAN WILSON
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