BY JENNY CALLISON
Enquirer Contributor
HAMILTON -- Add equal parts whimsy and imagination, and plug it in. That's the recipe for "Holiday Lights on the Hill," a panorama of twinkling trees and animated characters. The illuminated landscape is part of Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, where a hilly terrain and reflecting pools add drama to the light displays.
"We are Butler County's only drive-through light show, and the largest one in the Tristate," said Judy Jarvis, programs coordinator for the park.
The park contains 31 pieces of outdoor monumental sculpture nestled amid meadows, woods, hiking trails and small lakes. It is open daily from April through mid-November. As winter approaches, the park limits its daytime hours to weekends only, but turns on the lights each night.
The sculptures along the Holiday Lights loop are illuminated and can be seen from the car. One, titled "Age of Stone" by John Isherwood, was installed last summer. The shapes and placement of its massive stones is suggestive of Stonehenge.
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum is the brainchild of Harry T. Wilks, a retired Hamilton attorney who purchased 45 acres along Ohio 128 11 years ago and planned to build his home there. He eventually accumulated 265 acres and decided to create an outdoor museum. Mr. Wilks gave all the land except his home site to a non-profit foundation, which manages the park.
This is the second year that a portion of the park has been transformed into a winter light show.
