In one week we'll see if the history gag works out.
I wrote yesterday about my TV gag (gags, actually) from this week. Well, one week from tonight I'm trying another kind of gag for my latest History Center walking tour.
And I'm hoping this one works out as well as the TV seemed to.
The tour itself will be fairly straightforward, as all of my tours all. The gag comes from both the title and the way we're rolling out the tour. It's called “Mystery Spot: Marquette”, and the gag about is that no one knows where we're going. We'll meet at the History Center next Wednesday, and we'll start walking. We'll end up in a place only I know, a place from which you can see a whole bunch of history, but everyone who goes on the walk has no idea where that'll be.
They'll just have to trust me.
The idea for the tour popped into my head last summer as I was walking around the city, and I figured it might provide a hook for a tour. I've found a bunch of interesting and/or fun and/or weird stories, so it should be a good tour. And as far as the hook? Well, I've had a lot of people share their guesses, but no one seems to have gotten it quite right yet. The people at the History Center don't even know (nor have guessed it right yet), and they're joking that they should raise money by selling guesses as to where we're going.
I'd be all for that.
One week from tonight we'll see if the gag pays off. We'll see what the crowd is like. And, if nothing else, we'll see if anyone ever correctly guesses the final destination of “Mystery Spot: Marquette”.
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