HAMILTON — Two holiday legacies:

        Some people collect baseball cards. A lot of people like fishing and hunting.

        Harry Wilks searches for and collects sculptures — and makes them available to the public in his world-renowned Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, 1763 Hamilton-Cleves Road.

        Most people know Mr. Wilks as a Hamilton attorney and real estate investor, but he is also a man with a vision.

        His idea to turn his town into the “City of Sculptures” might help Hamilton draw tourists. It's a positive and timely idea.

        A major part of the city's new image is Mr. Wilks' sculpture park, a nonprofit entity he organized to serve the community. It also includes an amphitheater with seating for 1,000 people, hiking trails and gardens.

        With more than 40 important sculptures, the 250-acre Pyramid Hill reserve is attracting national and international attention among sculptors these days.

        Atlantic Monthly praised it as “surely the most beautiful natural setting of any art park in the country.”

        While it's growing in reputation, it's also building a local holiday tradition.

        On Thursday, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park will again start its “Holiday Lights on the Hill.” The light show will be open from 6-10 p.m. each night, including Christmas and New Year's, through Jan. 7.

        The park will feature more than 1 million lights wrapped around trees and bushes throughout the grounds. The show includes light themes and lighted lakes.

        For the light show, visitors pay $12 a carload on Monday through Thursday, and $14 a carload from Friday through Sunday.

        The park's day-to-day operations are financed through admissions.

        Information: 868-8336.The Internet site is www.pyramidhill.org.

        HAMILTON — Mary K. Tillmann and her family loved good music.

        Mrs. Tillmann wanted to share it with her city.

        By leaving money to the Hamilton Community Foundation, she has assured that the music will continue as free holiday concerts in Hamilton.

        The first Tillmann concert was held in 1983, two years after Mrs. Tillmann died. It was held with money left in a bequest to the Community Foundation to set up a fund in memory of her husband, Bert, and daughter, Diane, who died at age 35.

        This year's Tillmann Concert will be held at 8 p.m. today and 3 p.m. Sunday in Miami University Hamilton's Parrish Auditorium.

        The Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra will perform an all-Tschaikovsky program, including selections from the “Nutcracker Suite” and “Symphony No. 2.”

        Paul Stanbery conducts and directs the orchestra, which was founded in 1951. He will be joined by Hamilton native Bryan Wallick, a piano virtuoso who will perform “Concerto No. 1.”

        The Hamilton native started playing piano at age 4. In May, he graduated from the Juilliard School in New York.

        Karen P. Whalen of the foundation said people have been eagerly awaiting this year's concert.

        “We expect a packed house,” she said. “Bryan is a local person, and The Hamilton-Fairfield Orchestra is excellent.”

        And so the music continues.

       Randy McNutt's column runs on Saturday. He may be reached at 860-7118 or at The Cincinnati Enquirer, 4820 Business Center Way, Cincinnati, OH 45246.

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