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Baby Boomer Music true story:
Christmas 2006 I was working in Death Valley National Park when there was some pressure upon employees to vie for first prize in the Christmas Decoration Contest. Making a half-hearted effort by stringing up Dollar Store decorations around the windows, I amused myself using duct tape and fishing line to achieve a red neck tackiness. I even threw in a bit of dental floss.
I was working Christmas eve when two vacationing couples, Pakistani honeymooners and the second couple from Boston, were induced to become judges. My roommate, who took no notice of the contest, was enjoying his own little Xmas party blasting Lynyrd Skynyd (while drowning out 'Silent Night' and 'Joy to the World' wafting from other lodgings) and piling Bud bottles in the recycling bin by the front door.
The judges were charmed to discover the perfect redneck Christmas in Death Valley and awarded my roommate and me first prize. They said it was the Lynyrd Skynyrd that was the perfect Christmas touch and clinched the prize.
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