Downtown Tour

    My experience as a tour leader was pretty great for the most part.  My group of students was very interested in learning about Roanoke's past and listened to everything I had to teach them.  It is very significant to have someone to teach future generations about our city's past to make them want to help serve the community.  Our town was once very lively and had many thriving businesses.  We only have one fourth of the businesses now that we had back then.  I feel like if we had more people learning about how successful our town was in the past they would want to help restore it back to the way it once was.  The most interesting thing I learned while preparing for the tour was that Clark Gable, one of the main actors from Gone with the Wind, loved to stop and eat at the City Cafe that we once had in Roanoke.  I think this Downtown Tour is a great way to teach children about our past and make them interested in learning by doing things differently than just listening to teachers in a classroom.