

This 1.5-mile drive-through display features all-new lighted displays with millions of twinkling lights this year. For more information, call 1-80 or go to. Everything is animated to music you can tune in by radio. You will pass vignettes of forest animals celebrating their own little Christmas, go through a lighted tunnel where you’re showered with snow and much more. You can choose to take a 25-minute tour in an open-air tram pulled by a festively decked out tractor ($20) complete with hot chocolate, or just drive through the display in your own ride for free. The resort is completely transformed into a holiday fantasyland featuring more than 2 million lights. If you’re looking for more than a drive-through display, Big Cedar has much to offer this holiday season. Where: 190 Top of the Rock Road, Ridgedale

Free, but donations are accepted to support the display and other park needs.

The display features about a half-mile drive with about 1 million lights. This popular display stretches through Riverside Park on the banks of the Finley River. The display is $5 per vehicle and features holiday music. This dazzling display features more than 10,000 lights illuminating the interactive farm park on the city’s west side. Candy Cane Lane at Rutledge-Wilson Farm Park Tickets may be purchased at or at the gate. Tickets are $5 for adults, $2 for children. Snacks and hot beverages will be available for purchase. Features also include firecracker lights and framed installations made possible by the Iris Society of the Ozarks, Ozark Daylily Society, Ozarks Regional Lily Society, Springfield Area Herb Society and Rosalie O’Reilly Wooten with support from Heavy Metal Christmas. More than 150,000 lights adorn the plants, structures and other landscape elements at the distinctive park. See the Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden bathed in holiday lights. Gardens Aglow, Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden Head north just a bit and take in the lights and decorations adorning the storefronts along Commercial Street. Continue your downtown tour by hopping back in the car and heading to the brightly decorated Park Central Square. Gallery: 2021 Christmas lights in and around Springfield Festival of Lights at Jordan Valley Parkĭrive or stroll through Jordan Valley Park to take in all of the illuminated figures at the Festival of Lights installation. More: Your guide to 21 of the Springfield area's best home Christmas light displays Load up your favorite people and catch these dazzlers before they’re gone. While they range wildly in the number of lights used, the degree of animation and the sheer size of the display, they are all gems.
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Finally, a trauma survivor’s personal story of her hero’s journey towards post-traumatic growth is presented as a means to illustrate the post-traumatic, creative path toward healing and purpose.Neighborhoods are really blinging it this year, but if you’re looking for pro-grade holiday entertainment to drive or stroll through, here are our picks for the Ozarks’ top 10 professional light displays. The historical conceptual framework for understanding psychosocial and lingering impacts of trauma is reviewed, an alternative strengths-based perspective in the examination of trauma symptoms is proposed, and potential positive outcomes of post-traumatic growth are discussed. This article highlights the challenging process of post-trauma and post-war homecoming as it parallels Campbell’s (1949) metaphor of the hero’s journey and its stages of departure, initiation, and return. An alternative perspective of these behaviors calls for an examination of strengths present within trauma survivors, suggesting not only a reframe of their symptomology, but using the arts (visual, literary, performance, etc.) as coping strategies in managing the aftermath of traumatic circumstances and learning to manage traumatic memories with a creative lens. Many of the coping strategies utilized by individuals who are experiencing post-traumatic stress have been viewed as inherently disordered and interpersonal dysfunctional. Veterans who are trauma survivors looking to find means of recovery may be viewed as individuals embarking on a hero’s journey.
