tagged with: book
June 15, 2008
Loretta Watson’s There Is Hope
Following up on her 2007 novel My Mamma, My Teacha, Loretta Watson has reprinted There Is Hope, her 1996 book of poetry. For every copy sold, one dollar goes toward the Shirley Coleman – Loretta Watson Creighton Court Scholarship Fund and will help a child from Creighton Court pay for a portion of his/her college expenses.
April 28, 2008
Historic Photos of Richmond
There are more than a few great books covering specific facets of Richmond’s history. The recent Historic Photos of Richmond “captures this city’s journey through still photography selected from the finest archives” with a well-selected set of photos from the 1860s to the 1960s.
March 23, 2008
short Quince?
This map from 1888, scanned from Chesson’s Richmond After the War 1865-1890, shows some alternate names for the alphabet streets north of Leigh: M, N, O, P, and Q Streets are also labeled as Mason, Nelson, Otis, Pendleton, and Quince Streets, respectively.
January 20, 2008
tales from Haunted Richmond
Pamela Kinney has posted an excerpt from the chapter Train Under the Hill from her recent book of ghost tales Haunted Richmond.
October 16, 2007
Cradle of America book signing and discussion
This Thursday at 11AM, St. John’s Church will host the Richmond History Center’s Inaugural Liberty Lecture Series, a free discussion and book signing featuring Dr. Peter Wallenstein (Virginia Tech History professor and author of Cradle of America: Four Centuries of American History). Call (804) 648-5015 for more information. [via]
March 23, 2007
Selden Richardson at the FRC
The Family Resource Center at 2405 Jefferson Avenue will be hosting a reading and signing by ACORN’s Selden Richardson of his recent book, Built by Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, VA, from 3-5PM this Sunday (3/25).
March 10, 2007
reading and signing at the FRC
The March issue of Key Awareness (3.1MB PDF) has a review of last month’s book signing and reading by Loretta Watson at the FRC.
February 22, 2007
book reading and signing this weekend
Loretta Watson will be reading from and signing copies of My Mama, My Teacher this Sunday at the Family Resource Center (2405 Jefferson Ave) from 3-5PM. (event flyer, .PDF)
December 17, 2006
Built by Blacks
A.C.O.R.N. has just released Built by Blacks, a new book about Richmond’s Black architecture and neighborhoods.
February 16, 2006
a history of Richmond’s trolleys
I recently picked up Carlton McKenney’s Rails in Richmond (Interurban Press, 1986). Having always been fascinated that there used to be trolley lines all over the city, I couldn’t pass up this history of Richmond’s horse-drawn and electric trolleys.
February 5, 2006
Mary Wingfield Scott’s Old Richmond Neighborhoods
I picked up Paul Clemens’ Made in Detroit and Mary Wingfield Scott’s Houses of Old Richmond at the library on 25th street yesterday. I’d heard an interview with Clemens on NPR a while back and his story of growing up in Detroit during the demographic and economic changes of the 1970s and 1980s is interesting. Scott’s book is beautiful, but not as beautiful and weird as her Old Richmond Neighborhoods.
October 30, 2005
student essays honored
Student essays from a summer workshop at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and VCU have been compiled in a book, Two Sides of a One Track Mind.
