Richmond

[backyardchef]

1 hour ago, MitchW said:

Don't forget Arthur Ashe!

 

 

I got to meet him one night at Gage & Tollner back when Edna was still cooking there. This was when I was about 11 or 12 and was a tournament tennis player. It was fairly early and no one else was in the restaurant. We spent a bunch of time chatting with Mr. Ashe and it remains a cherished and meaningful memory of hospitality and humanity.  

Edited October 21, 2025 by backyardchef

[MitchW]

56 minutes ago, backyardchef said:

We spent a bunch of time chatting with Mr. Ashe and it remains a cherished and meaningful memory of hospitality and humanity.  

From everything I've read and/or heard, he was a pretty great guy.

[Wilfrid]

I didn't go out of my way to see that, but there is a gigantic replica of it in the Black History Museum.

[Wilfrid]

Last Richmond. This painting at VMFA astonishes me. As the placard says, it's rare to even know who enslaved (or in the north indentured) Black individuals are in family pictures or scenes. Here we not only know who the nurse is, Leana, but she's painted with so much more love and humanity than the formulaic renderings of the children.

Also a lovely diptych by Cherokee painter Katy Walkingstick that screams Tapies at me, which is a good  thing.

[small h]

That room was really something.