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Megan Morris, of New Eagle, prepares to let a car in the tent where visitors can interact with Santa Claus during the ELFburgh Christmas drive-thru event at the Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House site in Bethel Park, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. The experience, which operates on a timed ticket system, features over half a million lights, actors playing elves along the trail, and an interactive experience with Santa. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Megan Morris, of New Eagle, lets a car out of the tent where visitors can interact with Santa Claus during the ELFburgh Christmas drive-thru event at the Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House site in Bethel Park, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. The experience, which operates on a timed ticket system, features over half a million lights, actors playing elves along the trail, and an interactive experience with Santa. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shawn Redmond, of Baldwin, directs traffic during the ELFburgh Christmas drive-thru event at the Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House site in Bethel Park, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. The experience, which operates on a timed ticket system, features over half a million lights, actors playing elves along the trail, and an interactive experience with Santa. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Santa Claus, played by Daniel Henn, of Beechview, talks to a family through their rolled up windows during the ELFburgh Christmas drive-thru event at the Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House site in Bethel Park, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. The experience, which operates on a timed ticket system, features over half a million lights, actors playing elves along the trail, and an interactive experience with Santa. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Santa Claus, played by Daniel Henn, of Beechview, holds a Christmas list given to him by a child during the ELFburgh Christmas drive-thru event at the Hundred Acres Manor Haunted House site in Bethel Park, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. The experience, which operates on a timed ticket system, features over half a million lights, actors playing elves along the trail, and an interactive experience with Santa. (Alexandra Wimley\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From left, Sherry, Benjamin, 3, Kenny, and Bella, 9, of South Park, ice skate on Friday, December 4, 2020, during South Park Ice Rink\u00d5s opening day. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tessa Jones and her daughter Daisy Jones, 3, of Moon Township, look at Dixie the horse during the Moon Lights Holiday Festival on Saturday, December 5, 2020, at Moon Park in Moon Township. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Craig Cowan, of Hampton and the owner of the Barefoot Forge, talks to customers while Lauren Richards, of Penn Hills, opens a bottle with one of the Barefoot Forge\u00d5s bottle openers that was made from a railroad spike on Sunday, December 6, 2020, at the Merry Market: Pop-Up on Penn hosted by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership in partnership with Handmade Arcade along Penn Avenue Downtown. The Barefoot Forge also offers beginner blacksmithing classes where you can make a railroad spike bottle opener, metal rose, or a ring. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beth Swanson, of Fox Chapel, looks at rings at the Barefoot Forge booth on Sunday, December 6, 2020, at the Merry Market: Pop-Up on Penn hosted by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership in partnership with Handmade Arcade along Penn Avenue Downtown. Swanson said she was looking for something to get her husband for Christmas. The Barefoot Forge also offers beginner blacksmithing classes where you can make a railroad spike bottle opener, metal rose, or a ring. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)
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Hugo Cruz y Caminos performs on Sunday, December 6, 2020, at the EQT Sounds of the Season stage during Merry Market: Pop-Up on Penn hosted by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership in partnership with Handmade Arcade along Penn Avenue Downtown. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dilyn Greenholt, 3, jumps through a tunnel of lights with her father Keith Greenholt and friend Austin Thomas, 2, all of Carnegie, during the Moon Lights Holiday Festival on Saturday, December 5, 2020, at Moon Park in Moon Township. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Santa speaks to the crowd during the Moon Lights Holiday Festival on Saturday, December 5, 2020, at Moon Park in Moon Township. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Siblings Aubrey, 5, left, and Styles Davies, 3, of Moon Township, get their photo taken with Santa during the Moon Lights Holiday Festival on Saturday, December 5, 2020, at Moon Park in Moon Township. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Siblings Tallula Devers, 9, left, and Kilian Devers, 12, of Carnegie, put their letters to Santa in a mailbox during the Moon Lights Holiday Festival on Saturday, December 5, 2020, at Moon Park in Moon Township. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":19487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,15,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[41],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/SS_HolidayWeekend04.jpg?fit=2400%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19498,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions\/19498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19483"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}