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WMUR-TV’s New Hampshire Chronicle<\/em> <\/a>and the Foster’s Daily Democrat<\/em><\/a> each recently featured Trudy Higgins Brown ’80 of Durham, N.H., and her Christmas-themed gingerbread houses, deemed a “local legend” by the Daily Democrat.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nineteen years ago, after seeing a friend’s gingerbread house, Brown created her own, covered it with candy and was done. “Then,” she says, “I got bored and started going a little crazy.”<\/p>\n

She now spends several weeks each year’s creation, including lots of research. The year’s theme has Santa and friends taking over a Portsmouth tugboat, so Brown photographed the tugboats, then created graph patterns for each part of the boat. “Here I can really play with the math,” says Brown, a Bates math major and former math teacher.<\/p>\n

Then she adds her signature details, decorations and characters. This year, that included “Bumble,” from Rudolph<\/em>, famously putting the star on a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

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One year’s theme featured a Monty Python’s Holy Grail<\/em>-style castle. Another year, one of her sons suggested a rock concert, so Brown featured the band Tool, a group that employs fanciful, detailed artwork on their CD covers.<\/p>\n

“She a little obsessive about it,” says son Camden Brown, “but you have to be to have it come out well.”<\/p>\n

View stories from the Foster’s Daily Democrat<\/em><\/a>, Dec. 16, 2010, and from WMUR-TV’s New Hampshire Chronicle<\/em>, Dec. 16, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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