San Rafael’s Canal, meeting what is now the San Francisco Bay shoreline, has been occupied by humans for millenia, migrating from the Siberian north, by water, the “kelp highway”, occupied by the Coast Miwok “since time immemorial”, and today by more recent descendants of European, Asian and Pre-Columbian cultures. 20,000 years ago, the Ice Age, there was no bay here. The shoreline was ~20 miles west by the Farallon Islands. It is a story with hidden chapters, most of it the history of the indigenous Coast Miwok, in Marin for tens of thousands of years. We are creating it as an educational destination on two miles of the  on the San Francisco Bay Trail, a project of the California Coastal Conservancy’s Coastal Stories Program: a history of the people and their relation to the land and water, in the voices of the occupants of the land, through written and spoken evidence, through archeology and creative imagination. This is a collaboration of survivors, historians, scientists, artists, writers and the living community of today’s Canal. The story will be told on twenty interactive exhibits – to both adult and youth readers,  each step = five years, each tenth of a mile = a new chapter.