Marble Falls Walkway of Lights fate coming into focus
Connie Swinney/The Highlander
Marble Falls/Lake LBJ Chamber Executive Director Jarrod Metzgar (left) and electrician Terry Evans worked on planning the installation of Walkway of Lights Oct. 18 in Lakeside Park.
By Connie Swinney
Staff Writer
In 26 years, volunteer and electrician Terry Evans has seen several versions of Walkway of Lights in Lakeside Park on Lake Marble Falls.
“It's changed quite a bit,” said Evans, who has witnessed everything from lighted sculptures washed away in a flood to the display's transition from incandescent to LED lighting.
He has assisted the Marble Falls/Lake LBJ Chamber of Commerce with everything from a venue that boasted a dense cluster of a million lights on hundreds of sculptures on the shoreline to what will now be a more evenly-distributed scattering of sculptures alongside 2,000 feet of concrete sidewalk.
Instead, the route's new feature coincides with the newly-installed city park sidewalk . . . .
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