Excerpt from Richmond.com article:
Drew Anderson, a young jazz trumpeter from Richmond, will perform with Wynton Marsalis’ Summer Jazz Academy at the Castleton Festival over the next two weekends.
Anderson, 18, joins 42 other U.S. high school jazz students who were handpicked by Jazz at Lincoln Center to participate in the new advanced training program.
A recent graduate of the Open High School, Anderson sharpened his talent at Richmond Youth Jazz Guild, which his father founded.
RVA Clean Sweep is scheduled to work on Belle Isle this Sunday:
Belle Isle is in desperate need of a cleanup, this is the time of the year when the highest number of visitors are out and unfortunately they leave a huge mess. We’ll clean the parking area and then do a loop over to the rocks and back around. It shouldn’t take more than 2 hours at the most. I’ll have trash pickers, gloves and trash bags, please bring water and good walking shoes.
Please go here to sign up to volunteer:
http://www.meetup.com/RVA-Clean-Sweep/events/224029643/
The Belle Isle parking lot on Tredegar Street was completely full yesterday evening and it’s no wonder with accolades still pouring in- outdoor sports store REI has named the James River Parks as one of the nation’s six best river parks. This comes three years after Outside Magazine readers voted Richmond as the Best River City in the country. Richmond will again be featured as a travel destination in the September issue of National Geographic Traveler. Their brief feature “Where to go Next” highlights L’Opossum and the James River Park.
One of the defining characteristics of Oregon Hill architecture is the beautiful decorative sawn scrollwork found on the wooden brackets and balustrades of the porches of the neighborhood. The woodwork provides an elegant and rhythmic pattern that is pleasing to the eye and a source of pride for the builder. Unfortunately, the neighborhood has lost much of its scrollwork in the last few decades when renovators failed to understand the importance of maintaining this distinctive design feature.
