Christmas

Please come join us in celebrating the holiday season with Roberta (Bert) Morris's A Small Town Christmas. 

    When you visit A Small Town Christmas you will get lost in Bert's 600 sq ft miniature village. It features a very lovingly and precisely arranged miniature Christmas village. The miniature village is home to everything from the wilderness to mansion row. Everyone in the family will find a small part of the village they love so much they just have to take a picture with it.

    

    Even if you came and visited Bert and the library last year, don't skip out this year. Every year Bert is adding more pieces to her already enormous collection! She starts planning for the next year even before her village closes for the year. This truly is a labor of love for Bert.

    The main village is in the libraries meeting room at kid-level to allow even our smallest visitor to ooh and aah over the smallest details such as working lights, moving parts, and even street signs. While parents will need to supervise their small children in the main village, in the main library there are dedicated tables for a build-your-own village area where everyone is encouraged to create their own village. 

The Ogden Rose Public Library is located at 103 W. Main Street in Ogden a quick 20-minute drive east of Champaign on I-74.

Fun Facts

• Bert has been setting her Christmas village up since 1990. It has been in businesses, the Lincoln Square Mall, and Now The Ogden Rose Public Library. 
• The display takes 4-5 weeks to set up with Bert working 10 hours, 6-7 days a week. She will have the occasional helper for a few hours, but Bert does almost all of the work!
• The village includes over 500 houses, garages, churches, shops, and larger pieces. It also includes thousands of trees, thousands of animals and people, and thousands of small details such as mailboxes, light posts, fire hydrants, and even trash cans. 
• On opening day in 2023 A Small Town Christmas had 152 people visit it!
• The village has had visitors from all over the United States!