I don’t think this has anything to do with this morning’s Dirt Woman sightings on Grace Street, but I did come upon this spectacle on 100 block of S. Pine:
Santa/Pumpkin(?) Collision on Pine Street
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Rock Battle Was In Police Court, 1903
From the Times-Dispatch edition of November 21, 1903:
Rock Battle Was In Police Court
Alfred King’s Case Continued.
Pat Griffin’s Hearing Goes Over.Justice John had a big bunch of young Americans before him yesterday morning. The youngsters were up for engaging in a rock battle on Gamble’s Hill against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth, especially that in the neighborhood of Gamble’s Hill forninst Oregon Hill. The line of battle extended across Second Street at its foot, and rocks fairly filled the air, the people said.
In the battle a little fellow, names Holmes Hix, of No. 210 Third Street, was hit on the head and badly hurt. Everything pointed to A.G. King as the one who threw the stone that hit Hix.
Because the injured boy was unable to appear the case was continued to the 28th. Eleven other boys were each fined $2.50 for throwing rocks and being disorderly.King is also charged with being a deserter from the navy. This charge was also continued to the 28th.
Historic postcard of Gambles Hill Park (from VCU collection):
Project 4063 Blackfinn Mixer Benefits WBCH
According to the blog, Project 4063, which is a VCU Mass Communications class and professor, is hosting a ‘benefit mixer’ at Blackfinn restaurant on the Canal Walk this coming Wednesday. Like a lot of Project 4063’s activities, it will benefit the William Byrd Community House.
Do you like Dancing? Drinking? Networking? Donating? FUN?……if so, this is the place for you!
locationt: Richmond’s Blackfinn 1001 Haxall Point, Suit 100.
Richmond va 23219
Date: Wednesday November 18th
Time: 5-7 p.mPlease Donate(non parishable food item or $) admission is free with a can!
This is the time of year to give back so….
Come on out and meet and greet your community!All proceeds go to the WBCH.
Thank You!!! See you there!
Sidewalk Scanner
BHM’s Renegade Market Today
Late notice I know, but here is part of the announcement:
Shop at the Byrd House Market’s Renegade Market, every Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. Corner of S. Linden St. and Idlewood Ave (same as BHM) where vendors sell autumn and winter vegetables, meat, chicken, pork, eggs, preserves, baked goods, and holiday greens.
For more information on vendors, go to www.byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com
The ‘renegade market’ is sort of whatever markets take place outside of the regular Byrd House Market calendar season.
Republicans’ Final Meeting, 1900
From The Times, November 4, 1900,
The Republicans will hold their final meeting in this city on Oregon Hill tomorrow night. General Edgar Allen and Mr. Hugh Gordon Miller will be the speakers.
Hey, Charles, could this meeting have been at the City Auditorium?
Veggie Potluck/Documentary This Thursday
From announcement:
Last Chance this year for dinner and a documentary night!
Veggie Dinner and a documentary will start again in late winter, early spring of 2010.
Bring your veggies to share (6pm) and come see short segments of Ken Burns “The National Parks” (7pm) Thurs. Nov 5, 2009.
Bring photos and experiences of your trips to National Parks to display!
If you have your own videos/cds/dvds of your trips to National Parks and know how to show them, bring them!
Please let us know if you’re coming to the William Byrd Community House at 224 South Cherry Street by RSVP carolion1@yahoo.com or 783-6316 to John or Caroline
Don’t forget your plates and utensils!
Jack ‘O’ Lanterns
Also, don’t forget about the parade tonight!
‘Dog Rowe’ 1900
From the October 28, 1900 copy of the Richmond Times Dispatch :
Mr. Charles E. Barfoot had David Rowe arrested for stealing his orange-and-white hound pup.
The Great Dispenser knows much of human nature, and dreads a dog case.
The parties live on Oregon Hill, and Mr. Rowe declared he hadn’t been there long, and never had any trouble in his life until he went there. Since he lived on Oregon Hill he had slept on trouble, and had trouble for breakfast, lunch, and supper- trouble at every turn- and now he was accused of stealing his own dog.ANIMATED SECTION
Mr. Rowe declared if anybody’s life was too stale and too slow, all he had to do was move to Oregon Hill, where animation lays around in chunks.
The Great Lawgiver declared before he opened up the case that there was no telling what a man wouldn’t do for a dog- especialy if it was in hunting season.
He enquired first about the license- always the license first. There was no license on the dog. The warrant had not been paid for, because Mr. Barfoot did not have the ready cash.
“Then in the name of General Jackson and the James river, how did you buy a dog with no money,” bawled the Great Dispenser.
Mr. Barfoot modestly declared that he had borrowed the money from a friend to buy the dog.
Mr. Rowe swore the dog was his, and that he was not orange and white at all, but a white hound, with black spots and tan ears, that he had bought from a nigger for a pistol, and that he took the dog from Mr. Barfoot’s yard, in the presence of his wife, when he had a door over the dog, and sawed wood piled over the door to keep him from getting out.
The Great Lawgiver declared that unless Mr. Barfoot could disprove Rowe’s statements, he was out 75 cents and a dog, and the nigger in a pistol and the money, and that a warrant in detinue was the proper caper in the case.
Editor’s note: I left the term “n-word” in this account as that what was printed in the record and what was commonly used in that time period. Certainly, I recognize that today that term is considered a racist epithet and I do not mean any offense with this historical post.
Halloween parade flyer
