The man who enlivened Grants Pass with the "Bears of Summer" isn't about to slip into the winter doldrums. Instead Brady Adams, President of Evergreen Federal Bank, and the brains behind the popular BearFest has engineered a grand plan to make Grants Pass simply irresistible this holiday season.
Starting the second week of November and running through the first of the new year, the downtown area will sparkle with the fiberoptic dazzle of 18 gigantic Magical Musical Christmas Murals. The murals weigh 400 pounds each and include sound systems which play the old-fashioned Christmas music. The murals are 12 inches thick, ten feet tall, five feet wide, and wired with miles of fiber optic cable and thousands of points of lights.

And what lights! They flow and blink so that snow falls and accumulates, bells ring back and forth, gifts collect under the tree, and aurora borealis shimmers in the night sky. Each mural takes 20 to 30 seconds to tell its "story". They were manufactured by Fiberoptic Lighting, Inc., of Grants Pass.

"It isn't enough for public art to be simply good," says Adams, "It has to make people say, Wow!"