His name is Franklin and he needs a 20-foot scarf.

There’s an 18-foot snowman in upstate New York in need of a really long scarf. For three years running, the McCormick family has been building a massive snowman named Franklin in their front yard, that has become an annual holiday magnet for the children in the tiny hamlet of Vermontville, New York in the northernmost county in the state. “We probably have 20 people a day stopping in front of the house to take pictures,” Amy McCormick told ABC News on Christmas morning. This year, though, the family took Franklin to the next level. Back when he was just a 12-foot tall sapling of a snowman, Franklin rocked a respectable, 30-gallon garbage can as a top hat, but he outgrew it. So this year, Amy’s husband Pat McCormick custom-built a classier, 5-foot wide, 3-foot tall hat out of spruce wood and chicken wire. Calling all knitters That led to another revelation: a hat as fancy as that was going to require an equally impressive scarf. “As far as the scarf goes, last year we had...