Light Up Middletown – 2006
Contact: Florella Randall – 513-423-1877
Or Ann Mort – 513-649-4506 Rmort@cinci.rr.com
A drive-through fantasy light display
November 24 through December 31 – 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm - regardless of the weather
(Runs nightly, including holidays, from the Friday after Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve.)
The Display – Enter through Christmas Tree Lane, through the tunnel of lights and enjoy a sparkling fantasyland. Light Up Middletown includes several themed areas including an animated swan floating in the fishing lake, ice skaters, Santa, train, American flag, penguin village, deer leaping over the roadway, a lighted helicopter near the Middletown airport runway, a hot air balloon and many more—all with thousands of twinkling lights. The 2006 display has been expanded to include many new and exciting displays in additional areas of the 100-acre park. Santa and Mrs Claus every Friday and Saturday evening – photos available.
Motor coach tours welcome. (All arches over roadways accommodate motor coach size vehicles.)
Location - Smith Park, 500 Tytus Avenue, downtown Middletown, Ohio
I-75, exit 32. Follow State Route 122 to downtown Middletown. Smith Park is located on Tytus Avenue, just off Verity Parkway (SR4). The park is adjacent to Middletown’s Hook Field Airport
Admission by donation – Drop a donation in the box as you enter the park
Sponsor - Light Up Middletown is a non-profit organization raising money to support Middletown City Park improvements. All construction labor and gate attendants are volunteers.
Come, join the fun, see the lights. Enjoy fantasyland in Middletown, Ohio!
And while you’re here take in these other Middletown events:
· Thru 12/14 Reunion Exhibit, Middletown Arts Center, 130 N Verity Pkwy, (513) 424-2417
· Thru 1/7/7 Got Art! Storefronts along Central Avenue display the best of area artists’ works. Available for viewing 24/7
· Thru 12/31 Through Their Lens/ Historical photography of the Middletown area. Pickwick Building, Midd. Historical Society, 56 S Main St, (513) 424-5539
· 11/30-12/3 and 12/7-10 Little Women
Rising Phoenix Theatre Company
(513) 705-4131
· 12/1 Charity Ball, Manchester Inn, 1027 Manchester Avenue (513) 423-7796
· 12/3 Candlelight Tour of Homes, South Main Historic District, (513) 424-7000
· 12/3 Southwestern Ohio Symphonic Band Concert, Miami University Middletown, Finkelman Auditorium, 4200 E University Blvd, (513) 727-3251
· 12/5 Middletown Journal Balloon Glow.
Smith Park, (513) 422-3611
· 12/10 Blue Christmas Concert, Manchester Inn, 1027 Manchester Ave, (513) 267-4835
· 12/10 Boys of the Laugh – A Celtic Christmas, Miami University Middletown, Finkelman Auditorium, 4200 E University Blvd. (513) 727-3200