A couple years ago, at the height of COVID restrictions, the annual Christmas Tree Extravaganza sponsored by the Barrow-Civic Theatre moved the trees out into Fountain Park. This out-of-necessity move may have kicked off a new holiday tradition.
Though the Barrow fundraiser moved back indoors, the City of Franklin and the Franklin Fine Arts Council along with area businesses and organizations decided to put trees up in the park in 2021 and again this year. Earlier this week, volunteers set up over a dozen trees in Fountain Park and throughout the week, other volunteers showed up to decorate them. And so one by one a Christmas Walk in the Park has started to glow.
On Wednesday night a group of parents whose lives are woven together through the common thread of losing a son or daughter to childhood cancer decorated their tree not too far from the Egbert Memorial Fountain.
VenanGO GOLD is a childhood cancer awareness group that wanted to remember those loved ones they've lost and honor the families currently battling cancer themselves. The group also decorated a tree inside the Barrow-Civic Theatre as part of the Christmas Tree Extravaganza.
Both Christmas tree displays will remain through the majority of the holiday season. The Barrow-Civic allows visitors to vote on their favorite inside tree and will name a winner December 22. A Christmas Walk in the Park should be completely finished and ready for winter wonderland wanderers by the weekend.
Though the Barrow fundraiser moved back indoors, the City of Franklin and the Franklin Fine Arts Council along with area businesses and organizations decided to put trees up in the park in 2021 and again this year. Earlier this week, volunteers set up over a dozen trees in Fountain Park and throughout the week, other volunteers showed up to decorate them. And so one by one a Christmas Walk in the Park has started to glow.
On Wednesday night a group of parents whose lives are woven together through the common thread of losing a son or daughter to childhood cancer decorated their tree not too far from the Egbert Memorial Fountain.
VenanGO GOLD is a childhood cancer awareness group that wanted to remember those loved ones they've lost and honor the families currently battling cancer themselves. The group also decorated a tree inside the Barrow-Civic Theatre as part of the Christmas Tree Extravaganza.
Both Christmas tree displays will remain through the majority of the holiday season. The Barrow-Civic allows visitors to vote on their favorite inside tree and will name a winner December 22. A Christmas Walk in the Park should be completely finished and ready for winter wonderland wanderers by the weekend.
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