In Search of the Groundhog on the Hidden Garden Steps

Yesterday I walked on a mission to find the groundhog we heard about on the second leg of the Crosstown Trail (Glen Park to Mountain Lake) with guide Karen Rhodes, who was kind enough to fill me in on some details I missed: Sherry Boschert, who was one of the neighbors involved in the Hidden Garden Steps (16th Ave. at Kirkham St.) tiling project, said that 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.