The Food is Slammin’ and the Music is Jammin’ at the Byrd House Tomorrow

Byrd House Market – corner of Linden and Idlewood

This time of year, the produce is heaving at the market so don’t miss out on all Virginia farmers have to offer you and your family. Don’t feel like cooking? Enjoy prepared food to go or sit in the shade of our cafe tables. Listen to the Byrd House Open Jammers play acoustic bliss from guitar to autoharp, to violin and this week – Irish bagpipe!!! To find out what our vendors are bringing this week, go to www.byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com

Activities:
Storyteller in the garden 4 to 5 p.m.
Facepainting 5 to 7 p.m.
Open Jam Music 5 to 7 p.m.

Bad Boys of 1900

Times Dispatch, August 24, 1900:

Fathers Place Sons in Jail

G.T. Vaughan and Thomas E. Farmer, two white men who live on Oregon Hill, marched their two sons, Thomas Vaughan and Walter Lee Farmer, into the Second Police Station between 9 and 10 o ‘clock last night and swore out warrants against the lads, charging them with being incorrigible and beyond the control of their parents.
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From what can be learned regarding these boys, they are simply bad. Tommy and Walter live on Oregon Hill, and are members of the famous organization known as the “Oregon Hill Cats”, a juvenile fraternity that enjoys the old custom of throwing stones at everything and everybody, and of committing mischievous and nasty little acts which tend to make burdensome the lives of those persons who are thrown into contact with them.

Learn To Recycle

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Memo to 200 block S. Laurel residents and property owners, this is NOT the proper way to recycle. For one thing, recycling and trash pickup is on Wednesday morning, not Saturday when the above picture was taken. Also, though it may be hard to make out in the pcture, about half of the stuff is recyclable, while half is trash and food waste. Maybe VCU needs to offer a class on living in the city, but certainly landlords should know better also.

For example, the owner of 231 S. Laurel Street, according to City property info, is
INVESTMENTS ETC INC
ASSESSMENT MAILING ADDRESS: 1 S BOULEVARD
ASSESSMENT MAILING CITY: RICHMOND
ASSESSMENT MAILING STATE: VA
ASSESSMENT MAILING ZIP CODE: 23220