You still have nightmares about Miss Griffith and her steel-edged ruler? If so, we recommend skipping one feature at the always-dazzling Heritage Hill Historical Park Candlelight Tour. Sure, you and the kids can enjoy the 1,000 luminarias lighting the pathways, the strolling carolers and musicians, a Spanish guitarist and flamenco dance, a harpist, hot chocolate, apple cider, cookies, and visiting Santa. But if the kids want to hear the storytellers spinning holiday tales, get them a chaperone—one glimpse of that late-1890s school desk in one-room El Toro Grammar School, and you’re gonna find yourself standing in the corner, facing the wall, mumbling, “I must pay attention, I must pay attention, I must pay attention . . .
