GreyStone Employee Lights Up Holidays

It helps to know a little about electricity when you want to set up thousands of Christmas lights.

employee and member Dawn Lovingood’s house and yard is a favorite stop for locals seeking spectacular Christmas lights each year. Located at 503 Friendship Church Road in Douglasville, the display features about 15,000 lights, 51 plastic figures, 20 air-blown figures, 37 wooden cut outs, seven strobes and a 700-pound smoking gingerbread house, not to mention various other animatronics and figures.

Lovingood’s husband, Tommy, assists with the set up and creates the wooden cut outs by hand, along with painting them. It takes the couple six full weekends of 10- or 12-hour days to set up. The last two weeks before Thanksgiving, they work on the display for several hours almost every night.

Lovingood has been creating the elaborate light show for 15 years. It all started when she lived in a subdivision and a friendly competition began with a neighbor over who could have the bigger light show. She would purchase more decorations each year after the holidays to add to the display.

This year’s light show went up on Thanksgiving and will come down on New Year’s Day. It takes the Lovingoods two to three weeks to take everything down.

Lovingood said families who stop by to see the display, “absolutely love it. We’ve had people take pictures of their kids for their Christmas cards.” Visitors also try to make donations to assist with the power bill.

GreyStone Power serves more than 103,500 members in portions of eight counties, including Paulding, Douglas, Fulton, Cobb, Carroll, Bartow, Fayette and Coweta counties. Learn more at www.greystonepower.com.