A new walking tour of Charleston created by a George Washington High School student is getting a little publicity boost with the help of her famous aunt.
Emma Carpenter joins her aunt, actress Jennifer Garner, in a video circulating on social media that promotes the walking tour that the student spent her summer creating.
“It really does make me love something more to know it better,” Garner said as she joined her niece, who is clad in a West Virginia area code 304 T-shirt, walking along a downtown street in the video. “You just made me look at buildings that I literally never paid attention to.”
In the video, Carpenter talks about how she has had a passion for Charleston’s history and architecture for as long as she could remember.
Carpenter said she spent countless hours, reading, researching and journaling about such city landmarks as the Daniel Boone Hotel and Blossom Dairy. The video shows such city landmarks as the Woodrums Building, the Peanut Shoppe and a glimpse of “Mortar Man,” Charleston’s smallest piece of public art at 2 by 4 inches.
The student's walking tour of the city can be found here.