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Athens-Limestone Tinsel Trail
Athens, AL · Holiday
- When
- November 19, 2026 – January 1, 2027
- Where
- Big Spring Memorial Park · Athens · AL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A holiday display of decorated Christmas trees set up in Big Spring Memorial Park and running from mid November into the new year. Businesses, organizations, families and groups each decorate a tree with lights and ornaments. Listed on the City of Athens calendar as a favorite local Christmas tradition.
The history within reach
- Bed Intruder16 mi
A local news interview after an attempted assault, auto-tuned by the Gregory Brothers into a song that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, the first meme to earn its subject royalties, which Antoine Dodson used to move his family out..
- Jesse Owens34 mi
Born the tenth child of a sharecropper in Lawrence County, a sickly boy who ran everywhere because, he said, it was the one thing you could do by yourself.
The government dammed the shoals to power nitrate plants for the First World War and finished six years after the armistice, leaving an enormous public asset with no purpose.
Rick Hall built a studio over a drugstore in a town of eight thousand and drew soul singers from everywhere to a rhythm section of white farm boys who had grown up on gospel radio.
- The Florence mound40 mi
A flat-topped earthen mound forty-three feet high on the riverbank, the largest of its kind on the Tennessee, raised in baskets long before the town around it.