The Mountain Community’s cherished festivals may have been cancelled this year to prevent spread of the coronavirus, but the Ridge Route Communities Museum invites you to help light up the darkness.

Pull out all those holiday lights and decorations. See your invitation to help bring joy to the holidays on page 11. Happy Thanksgiving!

By Bonnie Kane, Ridge Route Communities Museum

Join us to “Light Up The Darkness” this year.Help create a cheerful entryway into town, with lighted trees, deer, a snowman or two and lots of lights. We invite you to help fill the Ridge Route Communities Museum’s yard with holiday fun.
 
We want to light our huge incense cedar tree and to decorate and light the old Lebec Hotel lamp posts.

The more lights the merrier. Our wish list to borrow:
•Lights, lights and more lights;
•Lighted yard decor (deer, snowmen, Christmas trees, candy canes and other fun);
•An antique vehicle we can decorate and park at our vintage gas station.

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At the last Fantasy of LIghts Parade, the Mountain Memories’ sled bedazzled with bright lights, carrying Wade Jones and Cat Whitelock. This year, you can help the Ridge Route Museum light up the entryway to our town. Help create a yard of joyful magic.

The museum—at the gateway to the mountain—is a hub of Christmas spirit. Left: the 2018 Yuletide Tea. Above: English Carolers in 2016. This covid year, they wish to gift the town with a gateway of light and merriment.

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This is part of the November 27, 2020 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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