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Magical Night to be “Drive Through” Event
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
5 – 7pm
The outside of the First Street Community Center will be lighted with holiday decorations. On the east side, of the front side walk, Matt Siders will be handing out a bag with cookies and cookie decorations. Also included in the bag will be a list of Mount Vernon shops and their shop hours during December. On the west side, in front of the large red sun, actors from the Mount Vernon/Lisbon Community Theatre will be singing and having fun with characters from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”.
Dance Arts Iowa will be performing scenes from the Nutcracker live in the front window of the Palisades Café.
The event will not include indoor activities this year due to safety concerns, and parking will not be allowed along the 1st Street route.
The First Street Community Center parking lot will be closed to the public. There will be no public traffic in First Street Community Center and shops will not be open.
New Store Open – Kindred Spirits Gift Shop
Handmade Gifts and Antiques
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 11-5, Sunday: Noon – 3
319-560-6352
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We invite you to this gift shop where you will find four small businesses uniting to bring a unique shopping experience!
- Fairy Under A Full Moon offers handmade fairies and fairy accessories.
- Wolfe’s Antiques offers quality furniture and restored lighting.
- Mette’s Creative Corner offers handmade doll clothes for 18” dolls, rag dolls and pet accessories.
- Plant Me A Garden offers handmade soaps, soap accessories and collectibles.
Kindred Spirits is one of the Old School Shops in the Mount Vernon First Street Community Center. Park once and shop at 10 shops!
Magical Night at First Street Community Center
The 28th annual Magical Night event will take place Thursday, Nov. 29, from 5 to 8 p.m. at several locations throughout Uptown Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Magical Night in Mount Vernon, Iowa is a celebration of holiday magic that begins on the lawn of the First Street Community Center, at 5 pm, Santa himself will be throwing the switch unveiling Mount Vernon’s holiday lights on the Fist Street Community Center’s historic one-of-a-kind building.
For the first time in the history of Magical Night, volunteers and City representatives have decided to close 1st Street to traffic to create a Holiday-inspired Ped Mall for the entire festival from 5 to 8 p.m
– From VisitMVL.com
There are dozens of special events throughout the area during this evening, you can check out the full list of activities here.
Activities We Are Hosting
@ 5pm – Help Santa light up the First Street Community Center
@ 6:30 & 7:15 pm at the First Street Community Center (221 1st St. NE): “Holiday Tidings” from Dance Arts Iowa @ Uptown Theatre
From 5pm – 8pm
- Business Open House, visit local businesses, enjoy live music, snacks and begin your holiday shopping.
- Get your magic reindeer food and visit with live reindeer on the lawn of the First Street Community Center sponsored by Hills Bank.
- Cookie Decorating, sponsored by Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation, inside the Library at the First Street Community Center.
- Arts Fest, “Dance on a Starry Night” presented by Mount Vernon elementary and high school art students inside the First Street Community Center gym.
- Jackee Austerman Photography – Stop over for some fun Christmas photos! Images are free and will be available on their Facebook page after the event! She is also offering $5 light-up necklaces for you to wear as you stroll through town on Magical Night! You are sure to be feeling FESTIVE!! 🙂
Click on Jackee Austerman’s cool video short below: (shared with Jackee’s permission)