Sort of a different “Throwback Thursday” history post, that looks at another community called Oregon Hill:
This may also be the Pennsylvania locale that inspired Ted Toot’s 45.
From the FaceBook event page:
Saturday, September 22 at 12 PM – 8 PM
We’re excited to bring back our outdoor pop-up beer garden at Historic Tredegar on the James. Since the last event we will be adjusting many things to make the experience better. There will be a lot more shade, seating and various other accommodations. We’ll be pouring beer on the patio at Tredegar overlooking the James River and Brown’s Island from 12-8pm on Saturday, September 22nd. Triple Crossing favorites like Falcon Smash IPA will be available alongside several other Triple Crossing beers and a brand new release just for the event. Dank Eats, Mean Bird and Spotty Dog Ice Cream Co. will be set up on site for lunch or dinner and we’ll have music all day.
Church Hill Music Co. will be playing from 6-8PM so come out and celebrate the beautiful RVA outdoors and welcome fall in style. A portion of all proceeds from the event will go to benefit the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar. This is a free event to attend and everything will be sold by the pour.
The Richmond Halloween Parade, it goes without saying, has become a real tradition for Oregon Hill.
Graciously hosted and organized by the All The Saints Theater Company, the event continues to grow and evolve.
There have been many YouTube videos and photo postings devoted to past years’ parades.
From the new FaceBook event page:
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* INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!Richmond’s 13th Annual Halloween Parade presented by ALL THE SAINTS THEATER COMPANY and friends is right around the corner! Join us on October 31st!
Guys and gals and all non binary conforming pals, join us in this all inclusive Richmond tradition!
Dress up in a costume, make your own giant puppets or flags, and/or volunteer to assist withour giant puppets, flags, props and more!
We are so excited to continue this yearly Richmond Halloween tradition! Join us as we take the streets in celebratation of our 12th year with costumes, live music, dancing, creativity, puppetry, and comraderie!
*The 13th Annual Halloween Parade is a “Funeral March for Patriarchy”!
A Celebration of the Divine Feminine! We return the number 13 to the Matriarch and dismantle patriarchy to remove flying monkeys ICE & the NRA with their King NoOne to save humanity.
We return to grandma society with Grandma Elder on her Tiger, day of the dead 2 person 15 ft “families belong together” Madonna skeleton puppets, queen Harriet, trans remembrance, Black Lives Matter, Matriarch & Mother Red with Goddess of Tree sits fighting the patriarchy of pipelines against Mother Earth.
The All the Saints Hawk (the resistance) and Black Snake (pipeline) featured at the ICA will also March with us! We look at the fierceness it takes to organize, and the gentleness it takes to be fierce together.
Wednesday Oct 31st
No later than 7pm
meet at Monroe Park!Support includes: cardboard, fabric, bike tubes, brown paper!
Tomorrow night, the VCU Institute For Contemporary Art is hosting the following event:
Artist’s Choice: Art + Science
WEDNESDAY, SEP 19
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
As Richmond strives to adapt to climate change this conversation, led by artist Jon-Phillip Sheridan, explores a number of related questions. How do we make our community healthier? How can we rectify social environmental injustice? What changes can be made to zoning to stop creating areas that are substantially hotter, have more air pollution and are food deserts?
Join Sheridan and urban farm activist Duron Chavis, bioengineer Stephen Fong, forest ecologist Chris Gough, and sustainability manager Alicia Zatcoff as they explore green urbanism and grassroots strategies to mitigate pollution and the urban heat island effect.
Audience members will receive native plant seed packets provided by Enrichmond Treelab. After the conversation, learn more about how you can get involved and enjoy free snacks and a cash bar at ICA’s Ellwood Thompson’s Cafe.
Jon-Phillip Sheridan is Assistant Professor at VCUarts Department of Photography and Film. Sheridan deconstructs photographs and found images, creating meticulous, kaleidoscopic arrangements that question materiality and the paradox of the picture plane itself.
Duron Chavis developed and organizes the McDonough Community Garden, an 8500 sq ft community garden located in a USDA denoted food desert in southside Richmond. He is the Manager of Community Engagement at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, where he coordinates initiatives around the topics of urban agriculture and food security.
Stephen Fong is Associate Professor of Chemical and Life Science Engineering at VCU. His research group works on systems biology, computational modeling, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and microbial evolution. Recently, Dr. Fong started SustainLab as an undergraduate research group focused on sustainability/quality of life topics.
Chris Gough is Assistant Professor of Biology at VCU. His research focuses on how climate, disturbance, and management shape forest, wetland, and urban ecosystem interactions with the climate system through their effects on atmospheric greenhouse gases. Chris is an advocate of open science and education resources, arts-sciences inte
Alicia Zatcoff is the first Sustainability Manager for the City of Richmond. She founded and developed the city’s sustainability and energy management program, focusing on improving the economic and environmental performance of city government and making RVA more livable, competitive, and resilient.
Sounds great. But here is something very important to consider- the VCU administration is responsible along with the Monroe Park Conservancy for the destruction of over 576 inches DBH of healthy mature trees in Monroe Park (the equivalent of 165 newly planted trees). Make no mistake about it, using the private-public partnership of the Monroe Park Conservancy, VCU officials have successfully connived their way around the desires, needs, and demands of City residents after previous attempts to do so failed. The problems with the Monroe Park ‘renovations’ have been documented. It is clear that the Mayor and City officials are determined to ignore them, but it is imperative that shade trees be replaced in this oldest of city parks to mitigate air pollution, storm water runoff and to reestablish wildlife habitat.
Here is the Feb 2017 tree exhibit that was presented to the City’s Urban Design Committee as part of the “Pavilion presentation”. It shows where the two replacement trees were supposed to go as well as the location of the “allee” plantings. As fence around Monroe Park FINALLY comes down, and tree planting season approaches, City Parks Director Frelke and other officials have a duty to make sure that VCU and the Conservancy add promised replacement trees, even if they will never make up for what was taken.
From the City government:
As a result of the recent weather that the City of Richmond has experienced, beginning today and over the next two weeks (through Oct. 2), the Department of Public Works (DPW) will be picking up storm debris. Residents who would like storm debris to be picked up are asked to place it at their property line for pick-up. This service is being offered in addition to regular trash pick-up, which will continue on regular trash collection days. For questions, visit RVA311.com or call 311 or (804) 646-7000.
Message from Richmond Public Schools:
Due to building and road conditions following today’s storm, RPS will operate on a 2-hour delay September 18, 2018. We will continue to monitor conditions and provide updates as necessary. Stay safe!
In Regard To ONE VCU Master Plan Draft Open Houses, the following was recently sent to VCU officials, local media, local government, neighbors, and ‘community partners’:
Dear Dr. Weiss,
Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association representatives have met with you repeatedly, and have repeatedly respectfully requested two things:
1) A commitment that VCU will not encroach further south of West Cary Street into the Oregon Hill Historic District.
2) A commitment that VCU will limit the height of buildings on the north side of West Cary Street to 3 or four stories out of respect for the Oregon Hill Historic District across the street.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge the neighborhood has yet to receive any commitment to these two issues.
Oregon Hill residents have pointed out that since VCU has a Memorandum of Understanding with the distant country of Cuba, it is perplexing why VCU cannot engage with a Memorandum of Understanding on these two points of neighborhood concern with VCU’s adjacent neighbor, Oregon Hill.
As you are finalizing the draft of the VCU Master Plan, please consider these valid concerns of your neighbors in Oregon Hill.
Sincerely,
Scott Burger
(served as President of the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association, 2003 to 2010, and as OHNA VCU liaison)
Pine Street neighbor Cristina Domínguez Ramírez announced,
“Hurricane or not I am day #73 of 100 Days RVA Reads. Come visit me tomorrow morning at the Oregon Hill Gazebo by the Overlook at 10:15 am to talk about Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.”
Stealing from Dogtown Dish’s FaceBook feed for this ‘Throwback Thursday’ post:
Tredegar Ironworks During World War I, Richmond, VA. Date: Circa 1914-1918. “An interior photograph of the machine shop at the Tredegar ironworks shows production taking place during World War I. Though by late in the nineteenth century Tredegar had lost its position as one of the premier southern industrial enterprises, the company survived as a manufacturing entity into the 1980s.” Credit: Encyclopedia Virginia
From email announcement:
Dear Neighbors
Oregon Hill has been hit in the past by Hurricanes. Our soil is now saturated from the Summer’s record rainfall. If you live and park near a big tree or drive a ragtop or have a motorbike, you might consider taking VCU up on their offer.
VCU Parking and Transportation will provide free parking for the Richmond community in several of its Monroe Park Campus parking decks in preparation for Hurricane Florence.
Members of the community who need a sheltered parking option for their vehicles may use one of the following VCU parking locations on a first-come, first-served basis, from Thursday, Sept. 13 at 7 a.m. until Monday, Sept. 17 at 7 a.m.:
Henry Street Deck – East
201 N. Henry StreetHenry Street Deck – West
200 N. Henry StreetJefferson Street Deck
100 S. Jefferson StreetLaurel Street Deck
805 W. Grace StreetWest Cary Street Deck
1201 W. Cary StreetWest Main Street Deck
801 W. Main Street