Spiegel Grove lights up

FREMONT — See Spiegel Grove, an arboretum and the estate of President Rutherford and First Lady Lucy Hayes, light up for the holiday season during Lights of Spiegel Grove Dec. 13. Lights of Spiegel Grove is from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and the grounds will be lighted at 6:15 p.m. Enjoy refreshments, carolers, visits with Kris Kringle (the Victorian name for Santa) and more. There will also be an open house of the first floor of the Hayes Home, which will be lightly decorated in a historically accurate manner. Visitors can walk through and see the house and ask staff questions. During the event, participants also can take a short, lighted walk of the grounds. Admission to this event, including the Hayes Home open house, is free. This event is part of A Presidential Christmas, a series of holiday events at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. A Presidential Christmas is sponsored by GEM, Inc. Partial funding for A Presidential Christmas is by Wright Leather Works. Hayes Presidential is America's first presidential library and the forerunner of the federal presidential library system. It is partially funded by the state of Ohio and affiliated with the Ohio History Connection. Hayes Presidential is located at Spiegel Grove at the corner of Hayes and Buckland avenues. For information, call 419-332-2081, or visit rbhayes.org. Like Hayes Presidential on Facebook and follow on Twitter and Instagram at @rbhayespres.