I'm afraid I won't be much help here. Our family tradition is to spend Christmas with the family back on the farm in Northen Maine. I could no more change that than I could bring about world peace singlehandedly.

However, there is something that the Chocolate Church Arts Center does for the local area that you might consider. Every year they host a Christmas carol sing for the towns around. They bring in the Bath Municipal Band and set them up on stage. They print up a few hundred programs with the words on them. They have a Santa Claus to sing with the children. And it's all free.

If you have a possible local venue you might take the initiative to set up something like this to instill Christmas Spirit in the people in your town. You wouldn't need to have an organization as big as the Bath Municipal Band but any musical accompaniment would be good enough. If you did it in a church they are bound to have a piano or organ. Spread around a few pine boughs and pretty ornaments, set up a tree in the corner and go to town!