The Penny Cemetery Fund’s big clean-up at Evergreen Cemetery was today. A rotating set of volunteers and a dedicated crew of men with chainsaws & a wood-chipper reclaimed at least a half-acre from the dense forest covering most of the 60+ acre cemetery. One of the more than 30 graves uncovered today was that of [...]
The big Evergreen Cemetery originally scheduled for this Saturday has been moved to Saturday, November 7th. Contact Deanna Lewis at deanna@pennycemeteryfund.org for more information about the clean-up or the Penny Cemetery Fund.
The Penny Cemetery Fund, an attempt to bring new sources of volunteers and funding to the reclamation of Evergreen Cemetery, is organizing a “a huge volunteer clean-up day” on Saturday, October 31st. The goal to is to clear one acre.
A summer visit to Evergreen Cemetery reinforces the scale of the effort necessary to reclaim from the forest even a portion of the burial ground.
The Valentine Richmond History Center has a few local tours this Saturday : a Segway tour of Church Hill from 12-2PM and the African American Cemeteries from the Gilded Age bus tour from 1-4PM.
A conversation with Fulton’s Carl Otto left me reeling from his idea of what could be something very cool in the East End.
Reservations are required for the Valentine Richmond History Center’s Going in Style: African American Cemeteries from the Gilded Age on Saturday, September 13th, 1-4pm, $20. Call today to reserve your spot!: (804) 649-0711 ext. 301: Veronica Davis, author of Here I Lay My Burdens Down: A History of the Black Cemeteries of Richmond, leads a [...]
A local man (*ahem*) has raised a stink (PDF) about the near-by Evergreen Cemetery after seeing a talk by ACORN‘s Selden Richardson speak on his new book, Built by Blacks, at a recent Union Hill Civic Association meeting.
