Labyrinths Everywhere! Why Are There So Many in the Bay Area?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

If you do a lot of walking or hiking in Bay Area, there's a reasonable chance you've stumbled upon a labyrinth—a large, winding, self contained path lined with stones or bricks. Bay Curious listener, Kate, noticed there seemed to be a lot of them in the Bay Area, and wanted to know if there's any connection between them and why there are so many out here. This week, Amanda Font takes us on a journey into the labyrinth. Additional Reading: Why Are There So Many Labyrinths in the Bay Area? Reported by Amanda Font. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Amanda Font and Brendan Willard. Our Social Video Intern is Darren Tu. Additional support from Kyana Moghadam, Jen Chien, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Jenny Pritchett, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and Holly Kernan.

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0:00.0	From K-QED. Let's start today's episode outside. It's a hot summer day and I'm on a hiking trail on the
0:09.3	peninsula with reporter Amanda Font. Oh, I think I see it.
0:16.0	All right, and here we are at the lovely Eaton Park Labyrinth in San Carlos.
0:22.0	And so a Labyrinth, if you're not super familiar, is a giant circle. And inside is a path that's coiled around and around in a specific way.
0:33.5	If you walk it, you sort of go in towards the middle,
0:36.3	then back out around the edge,
0:37.6	then back in towards the middle,
0:38.8	then back out and eventually end up in the center.
0:41.0	So it's not like it winds around like a big spiral.
0:43.3	It actually sort of goes in and out. And this one is laid into the ground with bricks,
0:48.0	probably for durability sake. And we're here at this labyrinth because we got a question
0:52.3	about it from a Bay curious listener named Kate.
0:55.0	She wants to know why are there so many in the bay area?
0:58.5	Because this is one of many that are around these parts.
1:02.0	And is there a connection between them or do they just
1:05.3	spring up? Well that's what I'm gonna go discover. Yeah that's what we're answering today.
1:10.5	So should we journey into this labyrinth? Yeah, let and argued over.
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1:49.0	Reporter Amanda Font, set out to learn more about Labyrinth and uncover if there's a reason. There are so many in the Bay Area.
1:51.0	It's hard to trace the exact origin of labyrinths, but they've been popping up in art
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