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Downtown Nashua Evening Lantern Tours to begin Saturday

By Staff | Oct 1, 2016

NASHUA – Back by popular demand, the Downtown Nashua Evening Lantern Walking Tours begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, for the second year running.

Alan Manoian, Nashua’s former downtown development director and local historian, has been conducting Downtown Nashua Historic Walking Tours for 20 years. Manoian launched the Nashua Evening Lantern Walking Tours last fall, resuming this season with two tour dates on Oct. 1 and Oct. 8 from 6:30-8 p.m.

"I have researched and collected an incredible body of, shall we say, stories from the darker side and mysterious side of downtown Nashua’s history," he said, speaking in 2015.

The basis for Manoian’s tour comes from decades of research and collection. Tales from last year’s walking tour include the relocation of a Spring Street graveyard for the construction of a former school building, and how three young men burned to death in the jail cells at Nashua City Hall in 1857.

Great American Downtown also noted in a recent teaser that Manoian’s tour will tell the story of Nashua’s connection to the "infamous white 1959 Cadillac ‘Death Car.’?"

The form of the lantern tour follows the lead of cities such as New Orleans, Williamsburg, Va.; Nashville, Tenn.; Boston; and even Melbourne Australia, Manoian said.

Participants meet at the Nashua Main Street Bridge. Group sizes are limited to about 40 people per walk, and there is a suggested donation of $10 per person.

Registration is required, and anyone interested in joining a walk can email Manoian at aboutplace
partners@gmail.com or send him a private message on his Facebook page at "Alan S. Manoian."

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