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Dallas Heritage Village is always a picture perfect kind of place, but never more so than at Candlelight. So, this year for Candlelight, our theme is Picture Perfect Candlelight. We have thousands of fabulous Candlelight photos in our photo archive, but we want to see some of your photos! So, beginning this week, we’re asking you to join in our Picture Perfect Candlelight photo contest. (/images/postimages/CL2014_BM105.gif) Post one of your favorite photos on your preferred social media forum (Facebook, Twitter or Instagram) from a past Candlelight. Do you have a great picture of Nip and Tuck? Did your family pose with some of our giant packages on the front porch of Millermore? Is there a photo of you performing with one of our many choirs? The options  ..

(/images/postimages/Gary_BW-001.jpg) After twenty years, my departure from Dallas Heritage Village has been so gradual that it is hard to say just when my last day was. But it is certainly evident that the leadership succession plan that Melissa Prycer and I worked out two years ago has already been a terrific success. Melissa hit the ground running from her first days as Interim Director, and by the time she was named President and Executive Director almost 18 months ago, she was operating at full speed. While my official last day is obscured, I can certainly remember my first day at DHV (then Old City Park) on the Monday after Thanksgiving in 1995. Before I had even poured my first cup of coffee I had plunged into the groundbreaking festivities surrounding the new Chaut ..