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Walk leader Scott Syfert, standing at a marker along South Tryon Street, describes the role of the Catawba Indians in the region's history. Syfert led a walk about Charlotte history on May 20. Photo: Mary Newsom
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The historic Red Front Department Store is the oldest retail building in the Belmont neighborhood, a highlight of the May 6 City Walk through the neighborhood, in partnership with the Charlotte Museum of History. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Walk leader Amy Bagwell, artist and poet, in front of one of the 20 Wall Poems painted around Charlotte. The poem by Greensboro poet Fred Chappell at East Ninth and North Brevard streets was on the May 17 Uptown Wall Poems walk. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Appropriately for a walk featuring poetry, Howard Hamilton wore a T-shirt noting the importance of punctuation. Walk leader and artist Amy Bagwell told how, while installing the poem "Bus Stop" by Donald Justice at Seventh and Brevard streets, she made the painter climb back up the ladder to remove a comma the poet did not intend. Photo: Mary Newsom
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The first walk, May 1, was a Munching Tour of east Charlotte, led by historian Tom Hanchett, at far end of table, left. The group is at La Shish Kebob, with owner Izzat Freitekh, at end of table, right, waving with blue glove. Photo: Angelique Gaines.
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On a May 13 walk, leader Tobe Holmes of University City Partners, in front of a new Charlotte Area Transit System parking deck, describes changes that will make North Tryon Street a more pedestrian-friendly area when the Blue Line Extension opens March 2018. Photo: Mary Newsom
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The May 13 tour of University City startled this gaggle of goslings, who escaped into the University Place lake. Walk leader Tobe Holmes described ongoing development as well as plans for the area when the Blue Line Extension light rail opens in March 2018. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Walk leader Tom Hanchett, on a May 13 walk, describes the historic Excelsior Club behind him on Beatties Ford Road, a nightclub that opened in 1944 and hosted entertainers Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong. as well as hundreds of community events. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Walk leader John Howard takes the group past the Revolution Park neighborhood garden along a greenway beside Irwin Creek on the May 6 Walk on the West Side. Photo: John Howard
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Charlotte's Hebrew Cemetery dates to 1867. These gates were once the front gates, before the cemetery expanded and put its front gates on Statesville Avenue, walk leader Brian Yesowitch told a City Walk group on May 14. Photo: Mary Newsom
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The May 6 Munching Tour organized by residents of the Grove Park neighborhood drew a crowd. Walk leaders were local historian Tom Hanchett, center, and Mimi Davis, in yellow. Photo: Ashley Clark
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Participants look over the bakery case at the Salvadoreña restaurant during a May 6 tour organized by residents of the nearby Grove Park neighborhood. Photo: Ashley Clark
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The May 6 history walk through Plaza Midwood, led by historian Tom Hanchett and Jeff Byers, took place amid a crowd of participants in Charlotte's successful Open Streets 704 event along Central Avenue. Photo: Diane Gavarkavich
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Walk leaders and NoDa residents Eric Hoenes, left, and Kevin Gavagan. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Chris and April Davis, who came along on the May 6 walking tour of NoDa, told about having their first date at the now-demolished Fat City deli. In the distance are the new condos that replaced the funky old deli. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Statues near Seventh Street depict Thomas Spratt, left, and his friend, the Catawba Indian Chief known as King Haigler. Scott Syfert led a May 7 City Walk describing the statues and the people depicted, part of the Trail of History on one section of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Participants in the May 20 City Walk led by Scott Syfert saw this plaque in the sidewalk at Trade and Tryon streets. It commemorates the story, never fully verified, of a May 20, 1775, declaration of independence in the small hamlet named Charlotte. The declaration is known as the Meck Dec. Photo: Mary Newsom
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Sonjia Parker, with partner, Max, led the May 27 City Walk through parts of South End. Photo: Mary Newsom
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City Walk participants see new construction and the newly opened Fidelli Kitchen, left, cheek-by-jowl with the venerable Price's Chicken Coop on Camden Road. Photo: Mary Newsom
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City Walk participants hear from Bart Stetler at Queen City Bicycles on Park Avenue, one of South End's small, locally owned shops. Photo: Mary Newsom