The celebration was chosen in 2011 and 2012 as one of the 10 dazzling holiday lighting displays in the world.
The lights also welcome visitors and residents alike to the Oldest City and help small businesses prosper.Mayor Len Weeks and former City Councilman William LennonThe two visited a city in Tennessee with an annual lights event, inspiring Weeks to go door-to-door back home to seek $2,000 pledges from businesses to participate,. Next, he requested $250,000 from the city in order to move the idea forward. The city met him halfway with $125,000, and that was the start of Nights of Lights.
"We just wanted to light up the darkest months of the year and light up downtown so that we could promote businesses," Weeks said."We wanted to give them a reason to stay open later because everything used to close at 5 p.m. Now businesses are open until 9 or 10 p.m.
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