From the Valentine Richmond History Center: May 12 Hollywood Cemetery Specialty Walking Tour* (2-4pm) An extension of the daily “Highlights” tour, this version covers in more detail the cemetery’s unique history, landscape design, architecture, symbols and residents. Meet at the cemetery entrance at Cherry and Albemarle streets.
Several neighbors took time yesterday to do some badly needed volunteer yard work on Pleasants Park. Why is it called Pleasants Park? From the Richmond Friends website (click here for link): Robert Pleasants, who was born at Curles in Henrico County, Virginia in 1723 and died in 1801, was one Virginia’s most noted Quaker abolitionists. [...]
Neighbor Charles Pool sent this email to members of City Council yesterday. (Ed. note: He received permission to send them an attachment of the “Tiller” magazine article, but I have not received permission to post that here. If I do receive it or a public website link to it, I will be sure to post [...]
Richmond Times Dispatch columnist Michael Paul Williams has a profile of the William Byrd Community House in advance of its Byrd House Bash fundraiser on Saturday. More than a century after nurses and social workers introduced the resettlement concept to Richmond, William Byrd provides essential resources to Richmond’s most vulnerable families. That’s an achievement worth [...]
This past week has seen a lot of local anxiety due to the bombing of the Boston Marathon on Monday, especially since the Monument 10K in Richmond was held just before it. WTVR’s reporter Mark Holmberg recently did a piece on the history of local bombings. One that he did not include was the 1903 [...]
From a neighbor: There is an interesting photo in the Times Dispatch today of the Grace Arents public baths on the 500 block of Belvidere. Click here for photo. Caption: In May 1952, the Richmond City Council ended a longtime city service: the Grace Arents public baths, in the 500 block of South Belvidere Street. [...]
Richmond Magazine writer extraordinaire Harry Kollatz supplies a column on the Climax Beverages sign that used to be on Belle Island. Beginning in the early 1930s, drivers on the Lee Bridge spied the sign — not so different from the Sauer’s sign on Broad Street — that read “Richmond Va. Home of Climax Beverages.” It [...]
The movie ‘Lincoln’ continues to spark conversation. While many Oregon Hill residents were delighted to see their neighbor Silver Persinger portray a statesman in the Congressional scenes of the movie ‘Lincoln’ (including clips seen during the televised Academy Awards), some were were surprised to see the neighborhood itself featured in the ‘Deleted Scenes’ portion of [...]
While the City is supposedly working on its tourism plan, the Valentine Richmond History Center is refining and announcing theirs. Here are a few of the Oregon Hill/Hollywood Cemetery ones: April 1 Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery Walking Tour (10-11:30am) Monday – Saturday, April 1-October 31 Learn about the cemetery’s history, artwork, symbolism and famous residents, [...]
Fighting them off forever, and believe me, I have no desire to keep rehashing this controversy. It’s unfortunate that a few VCU boosters and sports fans continue to put their school in such a bad light. From VCUramnation.com : VRam said: ↑ Whatever happened to those abandoned barns that were falling down? Did they relocate [...]
