From Robert P.Winthrop’s Cast and Wrought – The Architectural Metalwork of Richmond, Virginia: Richmond’s architectural cast iron is second only to that of New Orleans, yet it is hardly recognized. Over 130 porches and balconies, hundreds of yards of elaborate fencing, as well as scores of cast iron front buildings remain in the city today [...]
Pickup a new book! The Richmond Public Schools summer reading lists for primary, elementary, middle, and high school are online.
Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape by T.Tyler Potterfield, Oregon Hill resident and a planner with the City of Richmond Department of Community Development, was published this month by The History Press. Potterfield has written a fantastic little book that presents a facet of Richmond history in a new and cohesive fashion.
The Historic Richmond Foundation is working with Jack Zehmer and photographer Richard Cheek to produce a sequel/update to Marguerite Crumley and Zehmer’s out-of-print 1991 survey Church Hill: the St. John’s Church Historic District. The new book is slated to be published in spring 2010, and will include information about the St.John’s, Shockoe Valley, Church Hill [...]
The Valentine Richmond History Center invites one and all out for some light refreshments and an author talk as T. Tyler Potterfield hosts the first book signing for his latest work, Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape, on Tuesday, June 9, from 5-7PM.
Just in time for the holidays, a write-up of some great books about Richmond and/or specific neighborhoods or other areas. Stop by Fountain Bookstore or Black Swan and see if you can pick up a copy in person or hit the links below to order online.
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School teacher and author Loretta Watson appeared yesterday on Virginia This Morning speaking about her book of poetry There is Hope and the Shirley Coleman Creighton Court Scholarship Fund.
Church Hill Activities & Tutoring (CHAT) will soon be implementing a new reading program with the aim “to get groups of kids reading and talking about the same stories, creating a communal dialogue and, hopefully, excitement about reading stories”. They have a need for 40 copies of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
Pamela Kinney has posted an excerpt from the chapter Train Under the Hill from her recent book of ghost tales Haunted Richmond.
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]
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).
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.
