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Byrd House Market invites you to become a locavore
Do you know what a locavore is? No, it is not someone who eats trains. A locavore is someone who helps cut down on greenhouse gases by buying food that is local and not trucked in from far away. Do your part by shopping at the Byrd House Market.
Friday Aug.1 Bike Ride @ Monroe Park
Ellwood Thompsons and RVA Magazine are hosting a bike ride starting in Monroe Park at 8PM on Friday, August 1st to benefit Books on Wheels and to promote bicycle riding in Richmond.
Hollywood Cemetery walking tour on Sunday
Learn about the history, artwork and symbolism of Hollywood Cemetery, as well as the famous personalities buried there, including two U.S. Presidents, writer Ellen Glasgow, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Civil War Generals George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart, and thousands of Confederate and Union soldiers in a special 2-hour walking tour on Sunday, July 13, from 2-4PM. Meet your guide at the cemetery entrance at Cherry & Albemarle Sts. [via]
Border Crossing Puppet Show
June 17 @ 7 p.m.
William Byrd Community House
224 South Cherry St.
Richmond, VA 23220
In April, two Virginia activists walked three days south crossing the Arizona desert into Mexico. They walked in solidarity with the countless number of people who traverse the dangerous terrain in search of better lives in the U.S., to protest unjust anti-immigrant policies in Virginia and the millions of dollars annually spent on border militarization.
Jeff Winder and Sue Frankel-Streit of The People United! will report back on their experience with a puppet show. They will also promote the Fifth Annual Gathering of The People United \”Taking Root: Building Community, Sustaining Resistance\” to be held the weekend of June 27 in the mountains of central VA. All are welcome to come. This is a kid-friendly event.
Picture Show in Pleasants Park
Just one of the things that makes OH a great place to live. The Water Horse was the feature this past Friday night.
Byrd House Market, rain or shine
A message from the folks at the Byrd House Market: “Yikes, it looks like rain and thunderstorms on Tuesday. We will be here, rain or shine…if it is raining too hard, we will set up in our big blue gym on Linden Street.”
Central Montessori fundraiser @ Mamma Zu’s
Mamma Zu’s owner Ed Vasaio will host a $100-per-plate fundraiser at the restaurant on June 1 for Central Montessori School in Church Hill. [via]
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this week in Oregon Hill
Byrd House Market; Story Time In the Library; History Hounds Explore Oregon Hill; Highlights Of Hollywood Cemetery Sunday walking tour; MORE…
musical history of Richmond’s Mosque…
Check out this link on Scotty Moore, Elvis’ guitar players website. Great shots. Please notice the New Years Day, 1959 picture of Monroe Park in the background as the Pilgrimage of Prayer marched to the Capitol.
Tip of the hat to Todd Woodson at Candyland Music.

