点评:After looking at photos on the official website, it seemed much different than what it actually is. My perception (from website photos) was that it was a created little "nutcracker village". I thought it was a park like area created for the holidays where it was all inclusive of nutcracker statues, Christmas lights, shops, music, entertainment. In essence, a self contained created village. That is not what this is. There is a short walkway with lights at the fort with 10 or so portable shops (of which were all closed due to it being a Monday). Separately, in an area of downtown, the nutcracker statues are spread out in a 6 to 10 block area and displayed on sidewalks. Supposedly, sponsored by the town library, you can obtain a paper map and visit each of the statues, write down a fact of each one, then after doing this for over 200 statues, you could turn in the completed map for a prize. We tried to find out more about this, but almost no one we talked to in town knew much of anything about this. It was even difficult to find the so called map to begin. At the bookstore (one of 2 or 3 businesses open) we talked to an employee who said he had "small tree ornaments" as prizes, but that was all he knew about it, and if we had not asked, how would we know he had the prizes? Despite all the disappointment and confusion, we did enjoy walking around the town and seeing the nutcracker statues.
翻译:看了官网上的照片后,感觉和实际情况大相径庭。我之前(从网站照片上看)以为这是一个精心打造的“胡桃夹子村”。我以为它是一个类似公园的区域,专为节日而建,里面有胡桃夹子雕像、圣诞彩灯、商店、音乐和各种娱乐活动。总之,就是一个自成一体的村庄。但实际情况并非如此。堡垒附近有一条灯光璀璨的短步道,旁边有大约十家流动商店(由于是星期一,所有商店都关门了)。另外,在市中心的某个区域,胡桃夹子雕像分散在六到十个街区的范围内,摆放在人行道上。据说,在镇图书馆的赞助下,你可以拿到一张纸质地图,然后参观每个雕像,并记录下每个雕像的相关信息。收集完两百多个雕像后,你可以把完成的地图交上去,赢取奖品。我们试图了解更多信息,但镇上几乎没人知道这件事。一开始就很难找到所谓的地图。在书店(当时只有两三家店开着)里,我们和一位店员聊了聊,他说他有“小圣诞树装饰品”作为奖品,但他对奖品一无所知。如果我们不问,又怎么会知道他有奖品呢?尽管经历了种种失望和困惑,我们还是挺享受在小镇里漫步和欣赏胡桃夹子雕像的。