Set up for this year’s display will take place from 10 a.m. to dark, Saturday and Sunday Nov. 23-24. Santa will visit from 5 to 7 p.m., Sunday (Nov. 24), at PJ Gilsinger's building.

There is no charge to drive through the display. A donation box is placed along the route to accept monies from those who wish to support the display.

For 35 years, the residents of the Tippecanoe River village have attracted visitors from near and far to view the lights, offered as "A Gift to Brighten Your Christmas."

Pulaski is located on SR 119, seven miles southwest of Winamac, along the Tippecanoe River.

The light displays are purchased and/or constructed and set up by community and area volunteers, who also gather after the new year to take them down and store them. Fund raisers are held from time-to-time to cover the costs of new displays and repairs and refurbishments.

The committee spends thousands of dollars every year on repairs and upgrades on the displays. This is all made possible through donations given at the donation box and through individual sponsors. Anyone interested in sponsoring may send a check to Pulaski Fest-A-Mill Christmas Lights at 8917 South 100 East, Star City, IN 46985.

New this year!

Volunteers worked six Sundays this summer to rework the display’s signature arch wreath light display. They put all new wiring, plug-ins and new technology vivid core bulbs on it. Also new to the light displays will be a swaying snowdrift three-piece tree, an igloo with penguins, multiple new pole mount displays, and a 100-foot drive-thru tunnel.

(Organizers report there's a “little story” about the tunnel. The one they received wasn't the one they had ordered. The one ordered featured a computer-controlled 100-plus different light designs. The one recieved doesn't do that. So, instead of not having anything until four more weeks, organizers were given the option to put up the one received for 2024. They will have the one originally ordered for 2025.)

The light committee partnered with Christmas Decor by Serviscape from Michigan City this year for some different types of “up-lighting.” There will be two different locations that will have snowfall lights in the trees. There will be tree trunk wrapping on several trees, plus colored spheres hanging in another spot and up-lighting against the quonset building at the Pulaski school.

“There will be four different locations that have up-lighting that really accent the trees,” reports committee spokesperson Stacey Allen. “They light up some of the bigger trees in Pulaski. They are all computerized and operated from an app on our phones, so we can change them to do multiple different colors or effects at any time. We also had 45 pieces upgraded to new rope lighting by Herman's Christmasland.”

Special events

• Santa and friends will visit from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 14 to hand out candy.
• (Tentative) the Winamac Community High School FFA members will hand out candy canes Dec. 6, 7 and 13.
• A Christmas auction will be held Sunday, Dec. 8, at Bill and Babe's Tavern. The Christmas Lights committee is accepting any donations for the auction. 
• Good Oil's Winamac store is participating in a “Round Up” for the Pulaski Lights.

About Pulaski Christmas Lights

The holiday light project dates back to the Pulaski County Sesquicentennial in 1989 when the Pulaski Fest-a-Mill Committee was established for the village's participation in the celebration. The committee has continued to oversee the light project.

Traditionally, the sentiment is, "The Village of Pulaski invites everyone to come and share in its labor of love, drive through the small town and return home with a warm feeling of fellowship and peace, shared by all who made 'A Gift to Brighten Your Christmas' possible."