BANGOR, Pa. – A Northampton County man has turned his yard into a little section of Whoville.<\/p>\n
Market Street in Bangor is now the exclusive domain of Mr. Grinch.<\/p>\n
Mike Weil started collecting them and displaying them about 7 years ago. He has about 50 Grinches of all sizes.<\/p>\n
And while the Grinch is a threat to Christmas, Friday’s wind is a threat to the Grinches!<\/p>\n
If the Grinch, is the Mean One, then Mike Weil is the nice one.<\/p>\n
“I own everything that’s grinch at this point. It all started in high school. I played the Grinch in “Seussical the Musical”,” said Weil.<\/p>\n
The collection stands at 50 Grinches and growing. There’s a modicum of Maxes, and a few Cindy Lous, but most of the grass is covered in Grinch.<\/p>\n
“Everybody asks me why I have so many Grinches. It’s my alter-ego actually,” Weil said.<\/p>\n
Grinchin’ Ain’t Easy.<\/p>\n
“The Grinch is that character no one thought was a good person, but he has a heart that grew three times. And it’s just something I kind of bond with,” Weil explained.<\/p>\n
The Grinch is Christmas’s the biggest threat.<\/p>\n
But the biggest threat to Mike’s Grinches are the gusts of wind that blasted Bangor Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The inflatables shook and swayed like the Grinch thundering down Mount Crumpit.<\/p>\n
Mike held them steady, tying them down, like all those sacks of presents on the Grinch’s sleigh.<\/p>\n
“I love it because there’s a sense of community. The community loves it,” said Weil.<\/p>\n
The display is located at 524 Market Street in Bangor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGOR, Pa. – A Northampton County man has turned his yard into a little section of Whoville. Market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-65792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-northampton-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}