A tour bus caught on fire just after 4PM today in Hollywood Cemetery.
Bus fire in Hollywood Cemetery
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Byrd House Market to host Virginia’s Secretary of Agriculture This Tuesday
From announcement:
William Byrd Community House/Byrd House Market is pleased to host Todd Haymore, Virginia’s Secretary of Agriculture & Forestry
“….Haymore is responsible for two of the state’s most well known agencies, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) and the Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF). He is also responsible for the Virginia Agricultural Council.” Time and other logistical details will be posted at byrdhousemarket.blogspot.comAside from our full contingent of market vendors, BHM welcomes The Clockworks, a new family collective that will be selling art/crafts and providing art activities for children visiting the market. Krissy Dorwin will Paint Faces and the SPCA will be bringing their annual Fur Ball info to fur-ball-fans who shop the market.
Green Taxi – Veggie Oil Fuel smells like fries are cookin’… yummmm
3rd Tuesday Acoustic Jam, 5:00 – 7 p.m.
The first one this year will be on June 15th. Music Players are invited to a 3rd Tuesday Acoustic Jam at the Byrd House Market, 5:00 – 7 p.m. Come early and bring your totebags to shop at the Byrd House Market. Come anytime to play, even (especially!) after work. The genre is determined by the players, so don’t be shy about choosing a song to sing, a rock to roll or a groove to play. It’s all wide open! Folk, Ol’ time, Bluegrass, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Rock, Celtic, Children’s Songs, anything you can play on an acoustic instrument!Byrd House Market is located in historic Oregon Hill neighborhood, behind William Byrd Community House on the corner of South Linden and Idlewood.
That’s at the Belvidere Exit from the downtown expressway I-195. You can’t miss it. For more directions and a market update, visit http://byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com or call 804-643-2717.
Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church presents BBQ & Bluegrass!
From announcement:
Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church presents BBQ & Bluegrass!
Sunday, June 20
11:15 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
8 N Laurel Street
Richmond VA 23220BBQ, Bluegrass and Belly-laughin? FUN!
Moon bounce
Father?s Day Craft Activity for ChildrenCan?t stay for event? Take some BBQ to go!
Request tickets @ bbqbluegrass@hotmail.com
$10 per plate/maximum $30 per family
All proceeds benefit July Belize mission trip!
Fourth Precinct CAPS Meeting Notice
From announcement:
Fourth Precinct
The Community Assisted Public Safety (CAPS) meeting will be held:
Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Linwood Holton Elementary School
1600 W Laburnum Avenue
We look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you
Jacki Page
Sr. Customer Services Representative
804-646-4150
Flying Brick Shows Burial Ground Documentary Saturday
This coming Saturday night, the Flying Brick is inviting folks over at 8 pm for a free showing of the documentary video, “Meet Me In The Bottom”, which is about the controversy with Virginia Commonwealth University over slave history and the burial ground in Shockoe Bottom. Of course, Oregon Hill has had past controversy in the same vein.
Here’s a short blurb about the documentary:
The Burial Ground for Negroes (ca. 1750-1816) is located north of Broad Street, between 15th and 16th Streets. It is the oldest municipal cemetery for enslaved and free Blacks known to exist in the Richmond area. An 1810 map shows the Negro Burial Ground near Broad Street and Shockoe Creek. Today the Burial Ground for Negroes sits adjacent to a parking lot owned by Virginia Commonwealth University. In fact, there are questions as to whether the Burial Ground lies beneath the parking lot. Activist and other groups have protested what is seen by many as a desecration of sacred ground. This documentary tells the story of the community’s efforts to reclaim the Burial Ground as the final resting place of their ancestors.
Barry Canter
Long-time resident, much loved husband, stepfather, and father, Barry Canter, passed away Saturday afternoon, June 5th. He was a true renaissance man, scientist, artist, humanist. He will be celebrated this Saturday, June 12th at on Open House-Musical Jam at his wife’s home noon-til.
At Belle Island
Photo courtesy of Silver Persinger.
The T-Shirt Says It All….
Cannon Fire In Hollywood Cemetery For Jefferson Davis
A memorial service for Jefferson Davis is scheduled in Hollywood Cemetery for this Saturday at 10:00 a.m. A cannon salute will be part of the ceremony.
Missing Husband, 1902
From The Times, June 3, 1902:
Mr. Murray Browden, of Oregon Hill
Has Left His Wife, and Probably City.
Mrs. Murray Browden, residing on Oregon Hill, is very anxious about her husband, he havlng left home last Saturday and not returned.
She has notlfied the police of the disappearance of her husband.
Mr. Browden was last employed at the Richmond’ Locomotive Works. For
some time, it seems, he has been unable to obtain any work, and this it is thought
is the cause of his leaving the city without notice to his wife