Jesse Reimer, a local businessman, unabashed adventurer, innovative artist, purveyor of peace, and Woodstock’s legendary Santa Claus, died Thursday, June 20. A figurative and literal man of many hats: as owner of J & J Tree specialists (known to some as The Arbor Barber) his business savvy and fairness were unparalleled; as a found-object metal sculptor and woodworker his innovations were always transcendental; as an adventurer he never sat upon his laurels and endeavored to truly live every day; as a man he loved all humankind and wished for peace for all; and as Woodstock’s Santa Claus he brought smiles to the young and old alike with his antics and ingenuity. His passing causes a vacuum in every heart he’s touched; whether the heart’s owner knows it or not, because from his first breath to his last he affected everyone around him positively.