The Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival will light Downtown's parks and streets for the 13th season during its switch-flipping ceremony, the Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival Kick-Off Extravaganza, on Thursday, Nov. 17 at Pere Marquette Park.
As part of the festival again this year, an ornament has been created to toast the festive Christmas, Hanukkah and holiday seasons and highlight another iconic building in Downtown Milwaukee.
This year, the Milwaukee Gas Light Building was sculpted by artist Andrew Schumann and cast in pewter. The ornament looks great, and makes a great gift.
Our own Molly Snyder did a unique profile of the Gas Light Building this year. Read it here. And, if you're looking to buy past editions in the Milwaukee Holiday Lights ornament series just click here. Ten others are available.
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.
