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Learn about the night time forest and lore while enjoying a roaring fire on a beautiful bluff in California Woods! Enjoy a cup of hot chocolate and cook a s’more. There is a short but steep luminaria-lit hike up to the bluff. This program is FREE but seating is limited and it often fills before the deadline. Pre-registration is required before 11/14 by emailing [email protected] or calling 231-8678. The California Woods Advisory Council is the sponsor of this program.

Fri., November 16, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. – California Woods Nature Preserve

Girls are energized about this journey. Scouts earn the Energize Award and Investigate Award. We also help them get started with their leaders on a project to earn the Innovate Award. This overnight features different energy experiments indoors and out. Fee: $25.00 per scout and for non-leader adults. Non-refundable, pre-payment required. Patches are not provided. Troops must bring their own food. Scout leaders should call 761-4313 or email [email protected] by 11/2 for more information and paid registrations.

November 16 -17, 6:00 p.m. Friday – 4:00 p.m. Saturday – Caldwell Nature Preserve

Don’t miss this Cincinnati holiday tradition! Enjoy more than a mile of fantastic seasonal lights all from the warmth of your car. See more than 120 moving and standing holiday-themed figures depicting everything from Santa to the 12 Days of Christmas. For more information, call 513-769-0393 or visit holidayinlights.com. Admission is $15/car and $45/buses and 15-passenger vans.

Time: Sun.-Thurs. from 6-9 pm and Fri.-Sat. from 5:30–10 pm, Location: Sharon Woods, http://www.holidayinlights.com

After your tour of Holiday in Lights, head inside Sharon Centre for some more holiday magic. Enjoy the family-friendly entertainment, share your wish list with Santa, check out the train display, do some holiday shopping at Nature’s Niche and pick up a sweet treat. Some activities available for a small fee; admission is FREE.

Time: Sun.-Thurs. from 6-9 pm and Fri.-Sat. from 5:30–10 pm, Location: Sharon Woods, http://www.holidayinlights.com

CMC Members, save the date! We’re hosting an early-access, Members-only preview of the restored Union Terminal and museum spaces on November 16, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

We invite you to experience Holiday Junction Featuring the Duke Energy Holiday Trains, our new Dinosaur Hall, Public Landing as well as the Duke Energy Children’s Museum, before they open to the general public on November 17. Be one of the first to see the results of Union Terminal’s once-in-a-lifetime restoration.

Also, for this event only, you’ll have the opportunity to buy tickets to GUITAR: The Instrument That Rocked The World at the Member rate, and get Chocolate: The Exhibition tickets for free! Member children already get in free to both of these exhibitions.

Celebrate the holidays at the Taft’s annual display of antique ornaments, toys, and decorations. Each year the Taft Museum of Art has totally new offerings of vintage Christmas treasures, thanks to generous collectors from Cincinnati and beyond. This year’s exhibition features elaborate 19th- and early 20th-century German paper nativity scenes; turn-of-the century table settings of fine china adorned with festive holly patterns; woolly sheep and small wooden toys from 19th-century Germany; an antique feather tree hung with fruit ornaments in glass; and yet more trees—trees bedecked, respectively, with fairy figures, with Japanese Santas, early wax ornaments, and angels.

Explore the evolution of the uniforms worn by the Cincinnati Reds in “Reds Threads,” the feature exhibit at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum presented by Dinsmore. The exhibit features over 120 uniform items including jerseys, jackets, pants and caps, and traces the history of Reds uniforms back to the 1869 Red Stockings’ introduction of the knicker-style uniform that became the model for baseball uniforms everywhere. Also featured in the exhibit are displays that explore unique and unusual uniform styles from throughout baseball history as well as displays that highlight the radical transformation in Major League uniform designs and styles that took place between the 1950s to the 1970s. In total, authentic, period examples of uniform elements from over 26 past and present Major League teams are on display in “Reds Threads,” making it one of the largest public uniform exhibits ever assembled.