Festival of Lights
Did You Know
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Tanglewood Park's Festival of Lights began in 1992 with a generous grant from
the Z. Smith Reynolds Charitable Trust as well as funds raised by the
Tanglewood Park Foundation.
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The first Festival of Lights in 1992 was a 1.5 mile route with only twenty five
displays. Today the route has grown to just under 4 miles with one hundred
eighty displays, of which seventy are animated.
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The Holiday Gift Village began in 1994 with only ten exhibitors under an
enclosed tent. The Gift Village has since moved to the Red Barn and has grown
to include 120 exhibitors.
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On average 250,000 visitors attend this yearly event.
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The largest attendance for the Festival of Lights was in 2001. As we celebrated
our 10th Anniversary and honored those who sacrificed their lives on 9-11, an estimated
300,000 visitors converged on Tanglewood to lift their spirits and celebrate
the holidays.
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The Driving Golfer display was one of the original displays of the Tanglewood
Festival of Lights back in 1992 and remains today as one of the favorites of
visitors. Each year Tanglewood adds or replaces exciting displays to the Festival.
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Each year Tanglewood Festival of Lights Outreach Program benefits over 12,000
disadvantaged adults and children from the community.
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Tanglewood begins setting up displays during the month of August to be ready
for this large scale event which begins in mid November.
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There are now over approximately a million individual lights that complete Tanglewood’s
Festival of Lights.
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Tanglewood’s Festival of Lights has been selected as a Top 20 Event in the
Southeast and a Top 100 Event in North America.
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