Events on December 4, 2009

-Over 5,000 luminaries light Minnetrista's gardens and boulevard
-Horse drawn carriage rides (small fee)
-Enjoy the elaborately hand-crafted decorations in Oakhurst home
-Chill out in the living room of 1968 in America exhibit and play your favorite nostalgic game

-Children's activities
* Ornament Making
* Visit the Gingerbread Man in the Children's Garden for a special Holiday Treat
* Decorate your own Cookie Bar ($2.00 per cookie)
* Basketry
* Snow fort on the Greensward

-Live musical entertainment
* Harpist, Nan Noble
* Roaming Carolers

- Performances by Minnetrista Theatre Preserves
- Holiday shopping!

-Shop the LuminArtist Market for unique hand-crafted items
- Visit the Center Shop and find Vera Bradley fashion accessories, jewelry, children's educational toys, books, pottery, and much more
-Visit the Orchard Shop for fresh cider, made-to-order gift baskets, gourmet foods, baking aids and more

-Holiday décor and musical entertainment at the E.B. & Bertha Ball Center
- Warm refreshments provided by Minnetrista Catering and Compulsion Coffee, LLC
-240SWEET Artisan Marshmallows will be roasting their tasty creations in the Orchard Shop
-Atrium Gingerbread Display from Ivy Tech Culinary School
-Get up close and personal with scorpions, spiders and other creepy crawlies in Dr. Entomo's Palace of Exotic Wonders Exhibit.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents Sanders Family Christmas in the Studio Theatre, December 4th-5th, 11th-13th, & 17th-19th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 8:00pm and the Sunday matinee on December 13th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students.

In this sequel to the ever popular New York hit Smoke on the Mountain, the Sanders family returns to Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, home of the Mount Pleasant Pickle Factory. It's Christmas Eve, 1941. Reverend Oglethorpe has invited them to the Baptist Church to sing and witness, getting the congregation into the down home holiday spirit before the boys, including one of the Sanders' own, are shipped off to World War II. More than two dozen Christmas carols, many of them vintage hymns, and hilarious yuletide stories from the more or less devote Sanders family keep the audience laughing, clapping and singing along with bluegrass Christmas favorites. Richly entertaining, this wildly infections musical brings cheer to audiences eager to see how their friends from Smoke on the Mountain have been getting along.