February 2012
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WE'RE BAAAAAAAAAAAACK
November 2011
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October 2011
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Olfactory Factory: Global Smell Map →
Click through and find Richmond!
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SoundSeeker NYC Sound Map →
Catherine sent this to me, made me think of Jaimie’s Richmond Smell Map. SO COOL!
September 2011
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“The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection...”
– Robert Smithson
August 2011
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July 2011
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this is weird. some reenactment thing in the cemetery?
http://www.acwhrs.com/Leggetpage.html
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Hollywood Cemetery: Conservator/Technician(s)...
A paid position is possible. Hollywood Cemetery is undergoing extensive restoration and preservation. The project involves exhuming, cleaning, repairing, and resetting more than 2,000 grave stones an monuments and the pruning and landscape grooming of grave plots. A weeks training will be provided. Candidates that possess the appropriate credentials will be offered a paid position and be...
June 2011
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VCU Tompkins-McCaw Library Special Collections'... →
Various Exhibitions from the Library of Virginia →
“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” —William Faulkner
Once history happens, it is gone forever. No two witnesses remember or tell exactly the same story about what happened. What is left are the memories of the event, told and retold through generations, with each teller relating what he or she thinks important. This “historical memory” results from collective...
katiepalmer:
ol’ virginia
For the first two...
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Museum of Me (Cameron Robinson)
I was skeptical to allow Intel access to all of my facebook info, but it was indeed breathtaking. Check out the link in the post below and watch your own trivial facebook life become a beautiful exhibition! Here are some frantic screenshots that “capture the essence”.
Hey look that’s Elise!
The intel robot arms at the end were a bit creepy, I mean, I thought we...
The cemetery was opened in 1849 and designed in a rural garden style. Its name is derived from the many Holly trees that are scattered all over the property. Though there are many beautiful sculptures and tributes that have been built to commemorate the lives of those lying in Hollywood cemetery, one of the ones that stick out the most is the 90 foot high pyramid made of granite.
The pyramid was...
Hollywood Cemetery Virtual Tour →
“The Hollywood Memorial Association was formed on May 3, 1866 by the women of Richmond. In 1869 the Association erected this 90-foot pyramid to mark the soldier’s graves. The Association also removed bodies of Confederates from many of the battlefields around Richmond and reinterred them in Hollywood Cemetery.” “The first memorial in Richmond, Virginia to the Confederate...
Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies →
“Education is the Key to Their Survival”
May 2011
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Belle Isle Civil War Prison →
Pictures from the Richmond Go, Fish! Project →
So don't forget we need to visit:
RVA Ghost Tours
The Valentine Richmond History Center
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, Virginia - There are a series of connected tunnels between state government buildings in the city of Richmond. Certain passageways are locked off but a good portion of the tunnels are accessible from different buildings. The purpose of the tunnels is not generally known; the two most common explanations are that they were built to allow people to move between buildings in inclement...
Abandoned School in RVA →
The Egyptian Building →