November 21, 2009
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City of Lights

Silver Dollar City is the place to travel back in time year-round. But during the holiday season, the park turns on the bright lights to celebrate, literally.

By Lindsay Haymes
City of Lights
Courtesy Silver Dollar City

There’s nothing that says Christmas like Silver Dollar City’s dazzling, bedecked streets, shops, rides and trees—of the Christmas type or otherwise. “An Old Time Christmas” runs at Silver Dollar City from November 1 through December 30. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a branch or awning not sparkling with one of the four million lights the city brings in for the holiday season. Silver Dollar City at Christmastime has almost everything you love about it during the regular season, with the exception of a few closed water rides, and the addition of some holiday-specific happenings. Here’s a sampling:

New this year, the title character in Frosty dances and sings just like the good snowman should in a show for all ages. Back again this year is the popular A Dickens’ Christmas Carol, which is an SDC original production, adapted from the famous Charles Dickens story. Fourteen actors in detailed Victorian costume tell this famous tale in Broadway-cum-Branson show style. Twice nightly, the Gifts of Christmas lights parade winds through the streets. Also, kids can visit Santa Claus in his Ozarks home, Kringle Krossing.

The 411

What: An Old Time Christmas
When: Nov. 1 through Dec. 30
Where: Silver Dollar City, 399 Indian Point Road, Branson
Cost: Adult one-day pass, $52.66; child pass, $41.92; senior pass, $50.51. Add $1 per ticket extra for online sales.
More information: To learn more, or purchase tickets online, visit silverdollarcity.com or call 800-475-9370.

Silver Dollar City is expecting three visiting craftsmen this year. Fidi Giacaman, featuring Wilderness Woods Nativities, from Jerusalem, Israel, will be at SDC November 21 through December 14. Emanuel Fontanini, a fourth-generation craftsman from the famous Italian Fontanini family known for nativity designs will be onsite November 28 and 29. Ann Dezendorf, the creative director with the Clothtique Collection, a company that specializes in original, unique Santa Claus figurines, visits Christmas Hollow at Silver Dollar City November 8 from 4 to 6 p.m.

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