“A Puppet Barn for ALL THE SAINTS!!”

If you like the annual All The Saints Halloween Parade that rolls through our neighborhood then you might want to consider a donation to help All The Saints build a puppet barn.

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From the gofundme.com page:

“Dearest friends and supporters of All the Saints Theater Company,

Although we are losing the present location of the Puppet Library, the show must go on! The puppet lending and puppet organizing and collaborating, parade making, spaghetti dinner hosting, and Lily performances will continue until the end of time..because it is just what we do.

But the way we do it needs to change in order to sustain Richmond’s raising cost of living and real estate. Sooo we have mastered a plan!

Our plan? To raise $$$ for a Puppet Barn in Lily’s backyard in Southside Forest Hill where the community can continue to have access to the puppets and workshops that she offers without the stress of month to month rent and the reality behind a gentrified Richmond.

Our goal is $7, 000 to…

-raise a barn big enough, dry enough, and warm enough that Lily can continue her work in a peaceful and productive way!

Please help us in the crucial time of transition to create a space that can always be the bastion of radical puppet theater in RVA!

Donations of $100 + can have an option of taking home your own puppet from the library current collection.

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Oregon Hill On The Tourist Map

Tourist maps are always fun for their distortions as well as their inclusions and exclusions.

The photo below is an excerpt from “The Character of Richmond”, circa 1990, made by Atlantic Graphics. It seems more oriented towards Fan businesses and notably left out all of the Southside. I got it from former Oregon Hill neighbor Greg Wells, who has a booth or two at Mixie’s in Mechanicsville. He has more copies of this map for sale, along with a lot of other cool memorabilia, Richmond and otherwise.

I have seen more recent ones around town that leave Oregon Hill out, showing just the Virginia War Memorial right next to Hollywood Cemetery.

Anyway, this post also gives a little foreshadowing to an announcement coming this Thursday.

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