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Article: Living dolls: Canton's whimsical animated displays set Christmas magic in motion.(CULTURE CENTER)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Of all the small towns in Mississippi, perhaps none glows with the spirit of Christmas quite like Canton, where the entire downtown is covered in more than 200,000 twinkling lights that beckon visitors to capture the feeling of an old-fashioned Main Street.
Each year around Thanksgiving, the town square literally comes to life with a bevy of activities designed to delight families on a big-city scale, but with small-town charm.
Canton's annual Christmas transformation sprang to life 14 years ago, and from the beginning, its Animation Museums have been part of the magic. What began with 22 dilapidated figures salvaged from a warehouse has grown to more ...