“Last Halloween night during my typical walk through the streets of Downtown Richmond, I found a very curious congregation of demons and nurses at 14th and Canal Street,” says Vera. “These costumed people were there because a haunted cruise through the canal was about to start. I was not surprised; after all, what better place to have fun on Halloween than the Canal Walk?”
After that night, Vera continued to visit the Canal Walk as often as his school schedule allowed, as he discovered that there was more to the Canal Walk than just a haunted cruise.
“There is not a better place to find that characteristic blend of past and modernity of Richmond than the Canal Walk, where luxury apartment buildings, restaurants, and bars live together with the memories of merchants trading goods and confederation partisans trying to escape from the city,” Vera says. “I really enjoy walking that mile and watching people run, taking their pets for a little trip, [and] couples that find the place romantic, and I especially like to stop for a while and read a book, because even though the place is transited [it] is never noisy.”
“The Canal Walk is a fun way to access several of the places along its line,” Vera says. “At night [it] is even better. You can see buildings illuminated with green and red lights and go nuts taking pictures in the short tunnels that resemble some sort of medieval castle."
The Greater Richmond Grid, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2009
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