Drive-Through Magical Night 2020

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Drive-Through Magical Night 2020

Magical Night will be on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in Uptown Mount Vernon, Iowa.

Due to increased concerns about COVID-19, the event has been changed to a Drive-Through only event.  Drivers are asked to enter the route from the East (entering 1st Street from Lisbon Road or Old Highway 30).

There will be no parking on 1st Street from B Avenue all the way to Cornell’s Commons Circle. Cross streets along the route will be closed to cross traffic except for Highway 1 and Fifth Avenue.

For safety, there will be no indoor events this year, but some restaurants and bars will be open.  Although some of Mount Vernon businesses won’t be open Magical Night, all stores are still active and maintaining Holiday Hours throughout the December shopping season. 

A brochure created by the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group (CDG) that outlines how to contact our stores and businesses this holiday season is available here.

The streets will be lined with luminaries as in previous years, as well as window decorations and the community’s growing list of animatronics set up in the storefront windows of individual business. Merchants will decorate their windows for the event, and along the way there will be several “tableaux vivants,” or living pictures with live performers, who will recreate scenes such as the live nativity, Whoville and the Grinch, the Nutcracker and other holiday favorites.

Children are encouraged to write a letter to Santa and deliver it to Santa and Mrs. Claus direct from the window of the family car into a special mailbox created especially for the event. The live cookie decorating workshop that has long been a fixture at the First Street Community Center will change to a take-and-make stop with representatives from the Mount Vernon Parks & Rec department handing out kits on the street for families to take home and make the same cookies in their own kitchens.

“Magical Night is one of our most anticipated events of any year,” said Joe Jennison, Director of the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group (CDG). “With lights and live animals and Santa Claus himself, there is something for everyone. This year has been a challenge for all of us who plan small-town events. And this committee has worked hard to retain most of what we love about Magical Night to share with the rest of the community. Please drive through from the safety of your own car this year and allow us to share Magical Night with you and your family.”

About the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group
 
The Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development Group exists to improve the social and economic well-being of Mount Vernon and Lisbon by capitalizing on their unique identity, assets and character. Mount Vernon was selected as a Main Street community in 2008, and practices economic development within the context of historic preservation.
 
Mount Vernon was named one of America’s “10 Coolest Small Towns” by Budget Travel magazine in October of 2009. More information is available at visitmvl.com
 
About Main Street
 
The Main Street Approach is a copyrighted process of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  The Program has been used in Iowa since 1986 with a total of 56 communities having participated.  Mount Vernon was selected as a Main Street community on March 4, 2008 by the State of Iowa, after submitting a comprehensive application and presenting to a select board of reviewers.


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Date

Dec 02 2020
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Time

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Uptown Mount Vernon, Iowa
1st Street and Iowa 1

Organizer

Joe Jennison
Phone
(319) 210-9935
Email
[email protected]