The Shockoe Examiner Blogging the History of Richmond, Virginia: July 2012

Monday, July 23, 2012

35th Annual Show and Sale, Nov. 9th and 10th, 2012 - Millions of Postcards!


The 35th Annual Show and Sale sponsored by the Old Dominion Postcard Club will take place Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Clarion Hotel, Richmond Central at 3207 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia - contact Mike Uzel at 804-526-2628 or at uzelsells@comcast.net for more details.

Come and look and acquire any imaginable postcard you can think of. The 35th Annual Show and Sale sponsored by the Old Dominion Postcard Club will take place Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Clarion Hotel, Richmond Central at 3207 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia - contact Mike Uzel at 804-526-2628 or at uzelsells@comcast.net for more details.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Good night and good luck.

The Shockoe Examiner is going dormant for a while... not sure if we'll be back. Hard to keep the energy up for this kind of thing - been around for just over three years. There are some good links on the side and lots of great content in the posts. We'll keep the site up - just won't be posting - unless we get inspired again.

- Ray B.

Contributors:

Ray Bonis:

Ray worked at VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library from 1989 until 2021. He is the co-author of Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and Greetings from Richmond (2009) - an architectural history of the city.

Selden Richardson:

Architectural historian and author of Built By Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia (2006), The Tri-State Gang in Richmond: Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression. (2012), and Richmond Murder & Mayhem (2023)

On History:

"The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow."
-- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) from his "Autobiography of an Historian," An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).

Key Dates in Richmond History
(more to follow)

1737 – William Mayo laid out the original street plan for the town of Richmond on land provided by William Byrd II.

1742 – Chartered as a town

1780 – Virginia’s state capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.

1782 – Incorporated as a city.

1788 - Virginia State Capitol building completed.

1860-1865 – Serves as capital of the Confederate States of America.

1910 - Manchester, the city located just south of the James, is consolidated with Richmond.

1949 - Oliver Hill (1907-2007) elected to City Council, first African American since Reconstruction.

1968 - Virginia Commonwealth University created by the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond Professional Institute.

1977 - Henry Marsh elected as first African American mayor of Richmond.

2009 – Shockoe Examiner founded.