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Peter and Karie Faucher aren’t wasting a single day to get their display ready for Halloween, seen Sept. 18 on Lakeshore Drive in Winthrop. Karie hopes to see at least 200 visitors on Halloween. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Peter Faucher assembles a display Sept. 18 at his home on Lakeshore Drive in Winthrop. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)

For half a decade, Peter and Karie Faucher of Winthrop have created an annual Halloween display filled with repurposed materials. It’s all scrap wood, PVC pipes, random stuff and heaps of imagination.

It takes the Fauchers the entire month of September to assemble the display at their home on Lakeshore Drive. The end result will offer a Halloween display full of lights, moving parts, and even a Ferris wheel, with the only store-bought elements being the “skellies,” as Peter Faucher puts it.

Karie Faucher hopes their house will get at least 200 visitors on Halloween. They say past years’ visitors have reportedly gone out of their way on the holiday in order to see the display.

Peter and Karie Faucher start decorating for Halloween in September. Karie says visitors in past years have reportedly gone out of their way to see the display at their home on Lakeshore Drive in Winthrop. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Peter Faucher adjusts one of his “skellies” on Sept. 18 at his home on Lakeshore Drive in Winthrop. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)

Libby Kamrowski Kenny is a staff photographer at the Sun Journal who came aboard in June 2025. She’s been in journalism longer than that though, as her prematurely graying hair can attest, starting as...

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