Nashua’s Fancy Friday party has fun with Mayan calendar ‘apocalypse’

It’s (possibly) the end of the world as we know it. On Friday – Dec. 21 – downtown Nashua’s charitable formal social team, Fancy Friday, will host a tongue-and-cheek apocalyptic event called “The Last Fancy Friday on Earth” to benefit Positive Street Art. The nonprofit group aims to encourage, enlighten and educate the public about urban art’s potential for positive impacts on the community. “Modern lore about Mayan lore tells us that the world is clearly going to end on 12/21/12,” the event’s Facebook page states, predicting “zombies, brimstone and fire” and “floods to the hilt.” Fancy Friday events are held in downtown Nashua to raise money for local charities. Residents dress up and participate by buying $10 wristbands that get them meal and drink discounts from participating locations throughout downtown from 6-10 p.m. Other groups to benefit from Fancy Friday include Harbor Homes, the Nashua Children’s Home, the National Transplant Assistance Fund and the Humane Society for Greater Nashua. The calendar compiled by the ancient Mayan civilization, which thrived in Central America until disappearing around the year 900, leads some to declare that the Maya predicted the world would end Dec. 21. This belief is scoffed at by scientists and by descendants of the Maya.