According to this article on RVANews, we can expect some Best Friends Day events in Oregon Hill:
Friday, August 21st
11:30am at Vinyl Conflict: Scavenger Hunt
Sign-ups and the official start will take place here.
Vinly Conflict is located at 324 S. Pine Street. There is no charge to take part in the scavenger hunt.
Saturday, August 22nd
11am at Fine Food Parking Lot: Show featuring…
Magrudergrind
Fine Food is located at 700 Idlewood Avenue. This show is free!.
Walking Tour: Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery
Monday – Saturday, April through October Learn about the cemetery’s history, artwork and symbolism, as well as the famous personalities buried there, including two U.S. Presidents, writer Ellen Glasgow, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart.
Event Date/Time: 8/19/2009 10:00-11:30 am
Venue: Hollywood Cemetery
Location: Meet your guide at the rear of the stone structure on the left at the cemetery entrance at Cherry and Albemarle Streets.
Cost: $10, $5 for History Center members
Sponsor: The Valentine Richmond History Center
Phone: (804) 649-0711 x301 Email: tours@richmondhistorycenter.com
Website: www.richmondhistorycenter.com
Open to the Public: Yes
RSVP: No
I mentioned Pete’s excellent adventure earlier this week. Our brave armchair travelers have fallen a bit behind- they were supposed to finish Wednesday evening but from the looks of things, they are in Arkansas somewhere. Anyway, they are scheduled to be interviewed on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition tomorrow morning for a short segment between 8 am and 9 am. Evidently their following picked up after the Google Maps folks got them to fix the Google logo and Twittered about the project to their 1.3. million followers.
William Byrd Community House will hold its annual CARNIVAL on Thursday, August 20, 2009 from 4:00- 7:00 pm. Traditionally for WBCH program participants and their families, this year’s event is open to the public. Come and visit the information and enrollment booths for our Early Childhood Education (ages 3-5), AfterSchool (ages 5-12), and Career Readiness programs (ages 14-24), as well as our Library & Byrd House Market and Family Support & Emergency Services programs.
The annual CARNIVAL co-sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Richmond and Capital One will feature games, arts and craft activities, moon bounces, slides, food and drink.
Founded in 1923, William Byrd Community House provides a full range of prevention-oriented, community-based programs to empower the individual, strengthen the family, and enhance neighborhoods. William Byrd Community House gives the working poor access to services for their most pressing needs such as viable housing, health care, employment and education. The goal of the agency is to work with community partners to find the appropriate pathway to success for those who walk through the door looking for help.
For more information contact Jessica Turner, Development Associate at 643-2717 or jturner@wbch.org.
September 12 may be the opening date for Center Stage, but it is also the date of the Benny’s Reunion. Kozmicsdogz has the details.
Benny’s was a club on Main Street across from Monroe Park where in the 80s every band in Richmond played and is now a part of the collective unconsciousness of those old enough to remember and even those who only remember through a haze of smoke and beer.
The club is gone but Benny Waldbauer the owner and general manger is not. This September 12th at the Playing Field at 7801 W. Broad you can see some of the bands from the past at the Benny-Fit For Hospice.
The lineup so far includes: Beex, Dirty Secrets, Diversions, The Big Good Guys, the Ortotonics, and White Cross.
Also see previous post by clicking here.
Seems like everything is going virtual these days.
And in Oregon Hill, Laurel Street resident Pete Baldes and his friend in California are about to embark on a virtual roadtrip with the help of Googlemaps. He virtually leaves tomorrow evening. Feel free to hitch a ride:
Live streaming video by Ustream
Who has the tallest sunflower in the neighborhood?
One thing that I would like to post more about is Oregon Hill’s rich musical history. Thankfully, Don Harrison is doing a remarkable job of covering Virginia’s in general.
Here are just one of Oregon Hill’s claims to fame, The Rock-A-Teens:
Woo Hoo
