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Monday, December 22, 2008

Carlsbad Caverns reprises 60-year-old lantern tour(AP)

From The Associated Press via USA Today:

The planned one-evening revival of a lantern tour into the Big Room of Carlsbad Caverns National Park proved so popular that officials added another date.

The initial Dec. 27 date for the Rock of Ages program sold out, Paula Bauer, the park's management assistant, said Wednesday. The program was limited to 60 people.

Such lantern tours ran between 1927 and 1944.

Retired park historian Bob Hoff has said the program was popular, but did not fit the National Park Service's "scientific and educational value of the cavern tours." It ended in December 1944.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-12-22-carlsbad-caverns_N.htm

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