Walking tours can reveal hidden mysteries and secrets. So does finding a staggering motherlode of information in 8,000 family letters she found all written in the early 1900s. More mysteries and secrets to share.
Nancy Botkin leads tours for WALK SAN FRANCISCO sometimes up lesser known paths sometimes up lesser trod paths. But, either way, you can pretty much count on being surprised at what you find. You might think a dead end, as they used to call streets or alleys that do not lead anywhere further, is something to avoid. Not with Nancy. Look up, look down, look around, pay attention to small details. Some of her tours focus on themes. She will tell you what some of them are. How many of them have you ever seen? One made me laugh out loud.
There are serious and frightening issues with walking in San Francisco; serious dangers to be avoided and Nancy researches the safest streets well aware as she is of the need for pedestrian safety. Walk SF also leads us down the path of some important ballot issues.
To see Nancy talk about all this is a teaching on closed doors and unclimbed stairways of all kinds. The letters she found shed a light on family history, family devotion, long-held family secrets and social history of the time. Priceless! Her own love letter, well, you couldn’t ask for better.