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All is bright Roper Mountain becomes a winter wonderland for the Roper Mountain Holiday Lights.
Roper Mountain Lights inspired children’s book “Oh, Those Holiday Lights!” CINDY LANDRUM | STAFF
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GWINN DAVIS / CONTRIBUTING
As Fred Baus and his grandsons, then 4 and 6 years old, crept along in a long line of cars to see the Roper Mountain Lights one December night last year, the lights suddenly were no longer visible. “Where are the lights?” a grandson asked in alarm.
And the imagination of Baus, who began writing poetry for children after his retirement as president of Greenville’s University Center, took off, inventing stories on how the Roper Mountain Lights came to be.
The result is Baus’ first children’s picture book, “Oh, Those Holiday Lights!” LIGHTS continued on PAGE 34
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