If you decorate your home with holiday lights, you know the work is best described as a labor of love. Thatâs how the third-generation Messick brothers describe their work for the familyâs Messickâs Farm Equipment animated tractor choir program each year.
Lucas, Neil and Kevin Messick use upwards of 40,000 lights (some 10,000 replaced every season) attached to excavators, tractors and mowers that are synchronized to holiday music.
Christmas Spirit Photo by Art Petrosemolo The giving spirit of the holiday season remains bright, even during a pandemic, at Messick s Equipment in Elizabethtown, Pa., where a music-synchronized light show has raised over $250,000 for local charities since its debut in 2012. Read more about what it takes to coordinate this event on Page A..