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Segway tour, cemetery tour both on Saturday
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.
African American Cemeteries from the Gilded Age
Veronica Davis, author of Here I Lay My Burdens Down, A History of the Black Cemeteries of Richmond, Virginia, leads a tour of Woodland, Evergreen, Colored Paupers and Mt. Olivet Cemeteries, as well as a stop at the Maggie L. Walker Historic Site. Includes some walking; please wear comfortable shoes. Meet your guide at the History Center. $23 ($20 History Center members and children 6-18 years old; children under 6 free. Includes admission to the History Center day of tour). Reservations are required: (804) 649-0711 ext. 301.
Church Hill Segway Tour
Roll past 19th century architecture and modern revitalization efforts in Richmond’s oldest intact neighborhood. Developed by Major William Mayo, Church Hill is home to St. John’s Church, where Patrick Henry made his famous speech, and the city’s largest number of antebellum structures.
Reservations are required. Call Segway of Richmond (804) 343-1850.
da mn those segways…they are surely a sign of the apocolypse!
First convicted sex offenders, and now this skulduggery??
Something clearly needs to be done about all of this, as I am clearly not safe in my own neighborhood. Please CHPN… will it ever end??
Why is life so tough?
i hope the cemetery tour will stop and examine the vandalized and looted mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery with the coffins pulled out in full view and the bones and skulls now taken off to some frat house at VCU.
This is a serious disgrace for the city of Richmond and should never have happened. When a society can’t even protect the bodies of their dead, well…… what does that say about us?
Are you kidding? They have taken care of that problem already. But that’s pretty sick of you to want to go “examine” it. perv.
“They have taken care of that problem already?” Really?
If so, I am glad. And by the way, eva, I wasn’t advocating examining the mausoleum as “perv” behavior. If you had put your tiny mind in gear you would see I was trying to make a point about what a disgrace this was to the city.
It is called “reading comprehension.” Check into it before you leave junior high school, eva – you can learn a lot.