Lewiston’s Marble Orchard Ghost Walk has returned with nightly tours of Lewiston through Thursday. The walks feature spooky stories and tales of village residents and events from yesteryear.
“It’s a great way to mark the fall season,” said Lewiston Council of the Arts president Maria Fortuna Dean, the organization that organizes the walks every year.
Along with the “Sailors, Soldiers and Saloons” theme returning to some destinations, this year’s tour will also feature the story of Nina Starkweather, an eccentric Lewiston resident who lived in the old Starkweather Mansion that stood from 1834 to 1964. She was engaged to marry Mike Mcllanny, but her mother and aunt forbade her from marrying him, and she supposedly resented them for it for the rest of her life.
Like the past two years of the reworked tours, there will be music and sound effects played depending on the theme of the story told, ranging from choirs, opera arias, and sea shanties.
“People like it because it’s so different than other ghost walks,” Dean said, with the participants doing lots of rehearsals to make it work.
Tours start at 7 p.m. each night at the Hennepin Park Gazebo at 4th and Center streets, with each tour lasting about an hour and 15 minutes. Tours for each night are capped at 70 guests.
The first three nights of performances are already sold out, with the remaining two tours on Wednesday and Thursday already 50% sold out. Tickets start at $10 for children under 10 and $20 for general admission and are only available through the LCA website.