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The Bellarion

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Harford Resident Masters a Light Display

There’s a reason that Hackberry Court is always bustling with cars during the holiday season. Harford County residents are eager to see the Master’s family masterpiece on display.

For 10 years, Chuck Masters has been creating a beautiful Christmas light display for the residents of his neighborhood and any other visitors that stop by. In 2006, he purchased a FM radio transmitter so he could sync a small selection of popular Christmas tunes to his light show. Visitors can tune into 107.7 to see what the music would look like with the lights.

The Hackberry resident of 24 years explains that it takes him 3 hours to sync one minute of a song to his light display. Currently, there are approximately 30,000 lights that Masters has to program.

“I want to expand my audio selection,” says Masters. “But as you can imagine, it takes quite some time.”

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Julie Stuck, a sophomore at Bel Air High School, lives directly across from the Masters household. “It really puts me in the Christmas spirit when I see the light show. It’s nice because I can just look outside my window.”

Masters says that the amount of visitors has been an average of five or six cars a night, but more has been coming since news has begun to spread of the Christmas show.

“I get so excited when I see more than our regular number of cars. It shows me that I’m doing a good job with something I love putting my time into,” says Masters.

$6,000 have been put into the equipment to run the show, not to mention the price of the lights themselves. Masters begins putting up the lights the weekend after Halloween and takes all of them down on New Year’s Day. It takes it about 2 days to take them down and several weeks to put them all away.

Masters expressed his grief about taking the lights down, “The whole family is a bit bummed when we have to take [the lights] down. However I’m always thinking of things I can add or change to keep people coming.”

The show is set on a timer from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. On weekends, the show runs until 12 p.m. The Christmas Eve and Christmas night shows run until at least 1 a.m. There’s still time to catch it, so don’t forget to support The Masters Family Christmas.