The Crosstown Trail from Glen Park to Mountain Lake, led by Karen Rhodes, took us last Christmas up and down quite a few (hundred) steps. The most intriguing story I heard about the beautiful tiles steps was that they had to correct errors in the spellings of the people they were honoring so often that they felt they were in the story of Ground Hog Day.
I wondered about that tile, which doesn't appear in any of my photos, so I asked Karen Rhodes, and this is what she said:
Here is the story, as I recall it from Sherry Boschert, who was one of the neighbors involved in the Hidden Garden Steps (15th Ave. at Kirkham St.) tiling project. The artists, Colette Crutcher and Aileen Barr, acknowledged the many donors to the project by firing stairway tiles with their names. However, they began learning, one by one, of misspellings. So, one by one, they would re-do them. They joked that this felt like the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day, so they fired a tile with a groundhog and placed it on one of the bottom risers.
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