And when her husband wondered where they would store all this stuff she was building, she told him she’d find a place, then went back to building. When it bugged her that her ordinary ranch home made for a mundane moors, she wrapped the front of the house in a gray plastic scrim. He was a splurge he cost a couple of hundred dollars.īut most of everything else on her lawn, Gonzalez either had or made: The bars fitted over her windows, the ivy that slinks through those bars, the bubbling cauldron, the crumbling tomb stones. He emerges now snarling from a makeshift crypt on the 300 block of Edinburgh Drive in Lockport, a monster-size animatronic lycanthrope. He became the Wolf Man of the 1941 Universal classic. Over the arch, she carved “Talbot,” for Larry Talbot, the American who returned to his ancestral Wales only to be bitten by a wolf. Using polystyrene foam, she built a mausoleum. The very next day, to stave off the sadness, to keep busy, she went into her garage and began building, and building, and building. She spent most of the spring and all of summer preparing her Halloween display. Even better, she wants you to park and get out and stand in front of her yard and simply notice. She wants you to slow your car and take a longer look. Nanci Gonzalez wants you to drive by her house, gawk, gasp and gag.
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