A Bit of Secret Christmas

It's December 26, Boxing Day in various countries (not here in the United States).  Christmas technically is over, but let's have Christmas lights and decorations for a few more days.

For years, Home for the Holidays has been an annual tradition at Binghamton, New York's Roberson Center and Science Museum.  Roberson dresses itself up with Christmas trees in every nook and cranny, but if you don't know the secret of Home for the Holidays, you miss the best part.

We didn't go until last Friday but it's never too late for beauty.

A portion of Roberson Center is located in the Alonzo Roberson mansion, completed in 1907.  You access it from the upper floors of the museum.  For Home for the Holidays, the mansion is open to the public and its decorations are breathtaking.  So if you go, be sure to look for the sign pointing towards the mansion entrance.  The decorations will be up until January 5.

Let's find the secret entrance (well, not really but you have to read the brochure) and go in.

The rooms of the mansion are all decorated for Christmas.

Alonzo Roberson made his fortune in the lumber business.  He and his wife Margaret had no children, and they made the decision to bequeath the mansion to the community as an education center.  It is also said to be haunted.

Even more trees.

You can go up the staircase and see even more.  Do you want to?

If Santa tells me you were all good this year, I might even have more for you later in the week.