Some of the 70 luminaries that Waterville Public Library staff placed Monday at the entryway to the library on Elm Street in Waterville. The display was timed for the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year.

Some of the 70 luminaries that Waterville Public Library staff placed Monday at the entryway to the library on Elm in Waterville. The display was timed with the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year.

Luminaries outside the Albert S. Hall School on Pleasant Street on Monday in Waterville. Students at the school received a take home kit to make their own luminaries courtesy of Waterville Creates!. About 270 fourth- and fifth-graders received kits.

Waterville Public Library staff place luminaries at the entryway to the library Monday on Elm Street. The First Baptist Church in Waterville is in the background. Library staff and their families made about 70 luminaries for the display that recognized the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year.

A person looks from a library window above some of the 70 luminaries that Waterville Public Library staff placed Monday at the entryway to the library off Elm Street in Waterville.