Homewood Christmas Star
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The Homewood Christmas Star is a large, 5-pointed star edged with gold tinsel and Christmas lights that is hung over 18th Street at the top of the hill of the Homewood Central Business District, just north of Oxmoor Road, each year during the December holiday season.
The star was made by Douglass McConnell for Homewood's Christmas celebration sometime before 1951. It was then hung each each year thereafter. The city's fleet maintenance department refurbished the star in the 1990s. It was featured as the 2005 ornament in the Homewood historic Christmas ornament series. While usually hung without fanfare, on November 28, 2011, a rededication ceremony for the star was held which was attended by McConnell's son and grandson.
References
- Spencer, Thomas. (December 16, 2010). "Star over Homewood, A few of my favorite things, IV." The Birmingham News. Accessed December 17, 2010.
- Singleton, William C. III. (November 28, 2011). "Homewood Christmas star to get fanfare today." The Birmingham News .
External links
- The Star of Homewood at Birmingham, Alabama Daily Photo