Thematic trail guides

the Southeast Tennessee Tourism Association publishes a number of interesting thematic trail guides spanning their region, on Music, Farms, Art, Native Americans, Religion, and the Civil War.

The "new" (over the past 20 years) development in cultural tourism is the focus on narrative themes that make connections between places and telling the whole story, rather than a focus strictly on specific places which generally tell but a portion of the overall.

DC's neighborhood heritage trails are cool, but they are place-specific and generally aren't making the kind the broader links and connections that the urban sociologist inside me would like to see.

DC also has trails, such as the African American Heritage Trail, that are more thematic.