New York Botanical Gardens Holiday Train Show
As we are currently approaching the holiday season, I felt that it was appropriate to write about another iconic holiday event in New York State! Today, I am going to be talking about the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Gardens. This is an event that first started in 1992 and has since become one of the most famous events of the holiday season. In this post, I will be discussing its history and its many features in hopes that it will encourage all of you reading to want to go. Its history dates back to 1991, one year before it actually started, when a man named Paul Busse founded a company called Applied Imagination. This company was described as an artistic convergence of his work with landscaping, garden railroads, and his creative use of plant material to create “botanical architecture.” In 1992, he brought his landscapes of trains and plant-based structures to the first Holiday Train Show, and they have been one of the main features of it ever since. The company is now...