The United States Animal Rights Movement Begins in Greenwich Village
The Epic Walking Tours Greenwich Village Historic Walking Tour includes a stop at Washington Square Park and the surrounding Village neighborhood, where Henry Bergh launched the animal rights movement in the United States. The content in this article was retrieved from New York newspapers, interviews, and speeches from 1860-1872. “To plant, or revive, the principle […]
The History of Greenwich Village’s Cafe Wha?
The Epic Walking Tours Greenwich Village Variety Walking Tour includes stops at Cafe Wha? and the Bitter End, and the former locations of the Gaslight Cafe and the Village Gate. The historical content in this article was retrieved from New York newspaper articles, interviews, and recordings of live performances from 1958-1996. In the 1960s, an […]
An Interview With Cafe Wha Musical Operations Director Hap Pardo
Epic Walking Tours Greenwich Village Variety Tour stops at Cafe Wha?. This article contains excerpts from a February 21, 2024, interview with Cafe Wha? Director of Musical Operations Hap Pardo. Epic Walking Tour’s Greenwich Village Variety Tour visits Cafe Wha?. If you were giving people a tour of CafeWha?, what would you want them to […]
Edith Wharton and the Gilded Age in New York City
The Epic Walking Tours Village Variety Walking Tour includes stops at the former Gilded Age homes of Edith Wharton and Cornelius and Eleanor Vanderbilt in Greenwich Village. Wharton’s most famous novel, The Age of Innocence, was published in 1921 by D. Appleton & Co. on 1 Bond St. in the Village. The exteriors of these […]