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Perspective: How the tradition of North Bay's Wheary Lights survives in different forms in 2020


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“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things, not the great occasions, give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
Bob Hope, comedian
Few seasons of the year evoke more memories than Christmastime.
Driving north on Main Street past the Racine Zoo after dark last week, I was brought back in time when I spied a fond, familiar childhood sight of yore, being newly returned to Racine after more than three decades away — the animated “Wheary Lights” waterfall, with its cascading motion lights reflecting on the zoo’s frozen lagoon.
Growing up in Racine, few things in the Belle City between 1962 and 1981 said the Christmas season had arrived more universally than George Wheary Jr.’s annual 200,000-light Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor-esque “more power” nighttime Christmas lighting spectacular outside his Village of North Bay home, local police on Vincennes Circle and Main Street directing ....

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