March 4, 2021
When a pandemic stops you from seeing the world, you may as well become a tourist in your own backyard.
That’s the mantra adopted by Sophie Crafts, an educator in the Cambridge Public Schools system, who is nearly done with a unique “pandemic project”: Walking every single street of the People’s Republic.
“When we went into lockdown last spring, I started going for daily walks like a lot of people as a chance to get out of the house, get some fresh air, and some exercise,” Crafts said. “But I realized I didn’t actually know my neighborhood that well.”