Dickens & Crackers

Over the years, the collections change and the displays change as well, but we have had Nutcrackers for many years and a Dickens Village for about ten years. Now they are both above the 50" television in the family room, the Village on a wide shelf above the television and the crackers up across the bridge with their heads brushing the ceiling.
Santa Claus centers the crackers, flanked by Uncle Sam and Harry Truman on our right and by Mark Twain and a European immigrant on our left. Gepetto, Pinocchio, another toy maker and several guards are also present.
In the Village, Scrooge's home is to our left next to a nice Victorian Home, a town square, a Chocolate Shop, and the offices of Scrooge & Marley. Most of the figures are Victorian ladies and gentlemen and shop keepers, but several Scrooge representations are included. The young Scrooge is to the left with Christmas Past, a huge Christmas Present fills the center with Cratchit & Tim and the prize turkey, and the right includes the frightened Scrooge with Christmas Yet to Come.
By the way, the new film of CHRISTMAS CAROL in 3D is excellent. I still like George C. Scott in the 1984 version best, but this new film is well worth seeing.