New York City Women's History Walk Goes Mobile

Online, July 13, 2011 (Newswire.com) - For Info Contact: Charlotte Cooper P: 212-244-1744 E: [email protected]

New York City Women's History Walk Goes Mobile

(NEW YORK)--Women's eNews and Stray Boots are launching on Sunday July 24 a new partnership for fun-seeking tourists in New York City: A cell-phone-based, scavenger-hunt style interactive tour based on the women's history walk of Lower Manhattan.

Women's eNews and Stray Boots, both members New York City's tourist board NYC GO, will blow the lid off the idea that New York was built with the power and ideas of men alone.

The history walking tour, called Opening the Way, takes walkers from sites commemorating such the historic figures Susan B Anthony and Sojourner Truth to the female first responders to the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Opening the Way was launched by Women's eNews first as a guided tour in October in partnership with the New-York Historical Society. The tour has since become accessible online as a downloadable audio tour or a dial in cell phone tour with contemporaries such as Gloria Steinem and Kathleen Turner giving voice to female heroes of past eras.

Women's eNews are partnering with Stray Boots, who put on interactive tours in other areas of the city, to create a fun and accessible twist to the women's history tour.

The July 24 interactive tour leads participants on a loop past the ornate architecture and hidden visual treats of old New York, from City Hall to Wall Street, and provides a rich narrative of the lives of women who changed the city, the nation and the world.

The launch event includes prizes donated by the Feminist Press, the Women's Museum, the Body Shop, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and Ms. Magazine.

Tickets for the launch event cost $50 per group, groups of up to 4 allowed and can be bought online at the Women's eNews website or over the phone 212-244-1744.

Tickets will be $20 per download via the Stray Boots website after the launch.

About Stray Boots Interactive Tours:

Stray Boots LLC offers fun, interactive text-message based scavenger hunt-style tours for locals and visitors to explore New York City, Las Vegas, Boston and Philadelphia - with future tours planned for San Francisco, Los Angeles and London later this year. Launched in New York City in 2008, "NY: The Game" was recently awarded a 2011 Certificate of Excellence by TripAdvisor.

To learn more about Stray Boots and other city offerings, visit www.strayboots.com

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