Couple continues holiday tradition with big red bow

The new home of Robert and Michelle Spieler on Stratford Place in Country Club Hills is decorated with a big red bow. The long tradition of the big red Christmas bow was started by previous owners, Nell and Madison Earl Bullard decades earlier. When the house the was sold, the bow and instructions to hang the bow were left with the house. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.

When Robert and Michelle Spieler purchased their new home, the previous owners left a very in depth scrapbook with newspaper clippings about the house, below, and an Christmas ornament that bears a resemblance, above.

Gracie Spieler (5) looks out the window of her home. The house the Spieler Family purchased recently on Stratford Place in Country Club Hills is decorated with a big red bow. The long tradition of the big red Christmas bow was started by previous owners, Nell and Madison Earl Bullard decades earlier. When the house the was sold, the bow and instructions to hang the bow were left with the house. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.

When Robert and Michelle Spieler purchased their new home on Stratford Place in Country Club Hills the previous owners left the new owners a very indepth scrapbook about the house and it history. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.

When Robert and Michelle Spieler purchased their new home on Stratford Place in Country Club Hills the previous owners left the new owners a very indepth scrapbook about the house and an Christmas ornamate that bears a resemblance. Photo by Jon C. Lakey, Salisbury Post.