Wyoming
Twenty-eight years ago, the Wyoming Area Betterment Corporation (WABC) decided to put together a Christmas City Celebration to go along with the light display on the first Sunday of December.
In one of their meetings, the corporation figured they should do something with the Christmas lights that had been strung up along downtown since 1937, using the holiday classic âNational Lampoonâs Christmas Vacationâ as their inspiration by creating an event with all the holiday fixings: plenty of lights, a big tree, carolers, etc.
To say the newly formed group didnât expect it would be an annual destination for people would be a bit of an understatement. The project, the first the WABC decided to take on, was not meant to be taken all that seriously.