Merry Bright Nights brings sights, sounds of holiday to Mill Creek Park

Merry Bright Nights brings sights, sounds of holiday to Mill Creek Park

By ROBERT GUTTERSOHN

rguttersohn@vindy.com

Youngstown

Children walked throughout the Davis Center on Sunday in the Fellows Riverside Gardens in search of oddly placed items hidden throughout the building’s two stories and its garden.

There were the two flamingoes in the whimsical Funky Forest, and the top hat set atop of a Christmas tree.

But the scavenger hunt was only part of the Merry Bright Nights, a winter wonderland of lights and ornaments in Mill Creek Park on the city’s West Side.

The event is part of the 2011 Winter Celebration, which runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Dec. 31. The celebration is closed only on Mondays through the month with the exception of Dec. 26.

Merry Bright Nights runs once more next Sunday allowing families to enjoy cookies, cocoa and The Reds Tuba Quartet.

As the Youngstown State University quartet played, their instruments sent out a baritone of 33 different Christmas tunes throughout the lower level lobby.

Listening to them play was Jan Billock and her children, 4-year-old Hayden and 5-year-old Dylan. The family came to the Fellows Riverside Gardens once before during Halloween.

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