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Jellybeanville pops up again in time for Easter in Euclid!
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Jellybeanville pops up again in time for Easter in Euclid
EUCLID, Ohio - Head west on Zeman Avenue from East 260 th Street in Euclid and it won’t be hard to find the line between reality and a child’s imagination.
It’s the home of Steve Kaselak that for the next several days has been transformed as it has for the nearly a half century now into Jellybeanville.
His yard packed solid with colored eggs, blow up Easter figures, hand painted wood cutouts and anything else he can think of, no two no two years are alike.
"Every year I have to do something different because I get people that come here every single year and they take pictures all the time and I don't want them to have the same background in their pictures," said Kaselak.
Hidden among the bunnies and chicks you’ll find Kaselak’s family tree of sorts, cutouts of his sisters Nancy and Donna, his father Steve and his late mother Helen who was born on an Easter Sunday.
"Easter was always big at our house for some reason it was just a great holiday,” he said. “It's a rebirth of the earth and it's spring and everybody loves spring.”
The effort to transform this patch of lawn into an Easter wonderland isn’t easy. “Everything starts about two weeks prior to Easter and it takes about two weeks to put everything up and it takes about a half day to take down."
He stores most of the stuff in his garage but every once in awhile? “I throw everything away and buy all new stuff."
Kaselak collects donations for charity, this year the money left by visitors will benefit the Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center.
Those visiting on Easter Sunday itself will have a chance to meet the Easter Bunny himself who will be on hand from 9 a.m. until dark.
Jellybeanville pops up again in time for Easter in Euclid
EUCLID, Ohio - Head west on Zeman Avenue from East 260 th Street in Euclid and it won’t be hard to find the line between reality and a child’s imagination.
It’s the home of Steve Kaselak that for the next several days has been transformed as it has for the nearly a half century now into Jellybeanville.
His yard packed solid with colored eggs, blow up Easter figures, hand painted wood cutouts and anything else he can think of, no two no two years are alike.
"Every year I have to do something different because I get people that come here every single year and they take pictures all the time and I don't want them to have the same background in their pictures," said Kaselak.
Hidden among the bunnies and chicks you’ll find Kaselak’s family tree of sorts, cutouts of his sisters Nancy and Donna, his father Steve and his late mother Helen who was born on an Easter Sunday.
"Easter was always big at our house for some reason it was just a great holiday,” he said. “It's a rebirth of the earth and it's spring and everybody loves spring.”
The effort to transform this patch of lawn into an Easter wonderland isn’t easy. “Everything starts about two weeks prior to Easter and it takes about two weeks to put everything up and it takes about a half day to take down."
He stores most of the stuff in his garage but every once in awhile? “I throw everything away and buy all new stuff."
Kaselak collects donations for charity, this year the money left by visitors will benefit the Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center.
Those visiting on Easter Sunday itself will have a chance to meet the Easter Bunny himself who will be on hand from 9 a.m. until dark.
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