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Mahaska County

Painting with Lights in Oskaloosa (2025)
Bybrian.abeling November 30, 2021November 7, 2025

When the sun goes down, the town square in Oskaloosa, Iowa turns into one of the best holiday lights displays in the state. For 2025, the lighting ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 at 5pm. Downtown lights will then run every evening approx 5pm and 11pm thru early January. It was proposed and…

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Worth County

80,000 Christmas lights on one single tree in Hanlontown, Iowa.
Bybrian.abeling November 30, 2021April 9, 2022

Every town in Iowa boasts about how many thousands of lights they have during the holidays – but Hanlontown, Iowa has perhaps the biggest collection of lights on one single tree. It’s referred to as the POET tree by many, as it was started, built, and is maintained by the employees of the POET Bioprocessing plant…

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