Promotional Spotlight: Indiana Gazette’s It’s A Wonderful Life Festival

Promotional Spotlight: Indiana Gazette’s It’s A Wonderful Life Festival

 

Downtown Indiana is even more festive and beautiful during the Christmas season thanks to the generosity of the Lucy Donnelly Memorial Fund. Established in 1994 to honor Lucy Donnelly, former publisher of The Indiana Gazette and longtime advocate for downtown Indiana, the monies raised by the Foundation are  used to beautify the downtown area by outlining the buildings on Philadelphia Street in white lights.

For 20 years, Indiana has celebrated the start to the holiday season with the Lucy Donnelly Holiday Parade and It’s a Wonderful Life Festival kickoff on the  Friday evening before Thanksgiving. Each year, the crowd increases in size for this holiday tradition, and the parade gets a little larger. Family-friendly activities, including roasting marshmallows, free hot chocolate, free crafts for the kids, music, free hayrides, a performance by the Indiana Junior High School Spirit Band – followed by a parade and tree lighting, round out the evening. To close the evening events, the movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” is also shown
at the local theater. The Festival brings about 5,000 people to downtown Indiana.

The celebration is appropriately named as Indiana is the birthplace of Jimmy Stewart, Hollywood’s Christmas classic film star of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and also has the honor of being the Christmas Tree Capital of the World. Mark your calendars to join the fun that begins on Friday, November 17.

For more information, contact JD Grantz.