Retiree Makes Wooden Snowmen for Everyone in Town: ‘It Brought the Community Together’

Mar. 15, 2025

Pauline Parker’s wooden snowmen in Wyoming.Photo:Courtesy of Pauline Parker

Courtesy of Pauline Parker

Pauline Parker started building snowmen in July — no snow needed!

Her goal was to make a personalized, nearly life-sized custom snowman for every person who lives in her town of Burlington, Wyoming (population 314).

Some are four feet tall and four feet wide. “A few of them are quite big,” she says. “If a family had eight children, I did individual snowmen and hooked them all together.”

But thankfully, she had help: A classroom of kindergartners and 20 members of the local 4-H helped her paint. The town’s graduating high school seniors painted 18 snowflakes to accompany her work.

Pauline Parker’s wooden snowmen in Wyoming.Courtesy of Pauline Parker

“It brought our community together,” she says.

In the time since the delivery (which took three days!), Parker has enjoyed the feedback she’s received from friends and neighbors.

One family used their snowmen as their holiday card. “That makes me happy that people are enjoying them,” she says. “It’s just fun.”

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“The people from our community are wonderful people. And they’re just excited,” Parker says of the project. “I just love Christmas. It should be a time of smiles and happiness and I think this has helped our community with that.”

source: people.com