BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 19, 2024
A decade ago, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens realized that it could take advantage of the natural lull in its calendar and keep its workers on through the winter. It began an annual holiday light display that’s now the biggest in Maine and one of the most well-regarded in the nation. The Gardens Aglow light display recently began its 10th year, with about a mile of paths leading visitors through gardens with 750,000 LED holiday lights. If laid out end-to-end, the lights would stretch 66 miles in total. The team has begun to think less about making it bigger each year, and more about making it sustainable for the environment and the workers.