According to farmer Valerie Crawford there are many traditions at the Dixie Santa Night that you don't dare break. If you do, you'll be breaking the hearts of kids who know exactly how the night unfolds.
According to dairy farmer Valerie Crawford, there are many traditions at the Dixie Santa Night that you don't dare break — if you do, you'll be breaking the hearts of a dozen country kids who know exactly how the night is supposed to unfold.
"I come from a family of five boys and we had 95 acres and milked 45 cows by hand," Mr Crawford said.Daryl Crawford with calves on his and Val's Dixie farm. But the chronology is less important than the uninterrupted promise of a simple, joyful tradition each year, a night that helps to keep a small community glued together, no matter what they have been through that week, that month, or that year."It's always a happy time of the year," Mr Crawford says.it this year, it's going to be another happy time, because we just have to have it," Ms Crawford adds.
Like many Christmas functions, some of the real collectiveness and excitement happens in the preparations of the Dixie Hall. Daryl Crawford is in his 80s and went to school next to the Dixie Hall. The school is long-gone but the hall remains, and is cared for and cherished by the people of Dixie."The people of Dixie go there and you can't get them home. It's the heart of Dixie."When we were younger there'd be kitchen teas. And dances around the district every week, there'd be sly grog in the car park.
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