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or 65 years, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond (BGCMR) have been dedicated to improving the welfare of children and teens in the city. In 2019, the organization broke ground on the $5 million dollar Teen Center in the former Eastlawn Shopping Center in the East End. The Center opened this summer for BGCMR’s pilot summer program and started back-to-school programs last month. It secured a $200,000 grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust to support its first year of operations. “Our current club facilities were designed to provide out-of-school-time experiences, primarily for elementary-aged boys and girls,” says Sean Miller, chief operating officer of BGCMR. “Metro Richmond’s middle, high school and young adults have long needed their own larger spaces that meet their developmental needs.”
Sean Miller, BGCMR chief operating officer, works in the new East End Teen Center.
The Teen Center will provide them with a place to spend their free time, explore careers and post-secondary education, and develop skills such as resume writing and computer coding. Amenities include internet access, an auditorium, a theater, a community cafe and a digital arts/sound studio. There are also designated sensory/ mindfulness spaces for teens in search of peace and quiet. Some club members may not otherwise have access to Wi-Fi or a chaos-free environment for schoolwork. “We feel a renewed sense of urgency, with the ongoing effects of the pandemic, persisting local racial inequities and pervasive barriers to social progress, to expand teen programming and to fill the gap in
career, college and life-readiness opportunities for young adults,” Miller says. The William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust was established in 1966. Its general aims are to address American education, socioeconomic challenges and cyclical poverty. “We share Mr. Kenan’s belief that education is a cherished gift and a fundamental component to a successful life,” says BCGMR President and CEO Todd McFarlane. “Thanks to the generosity of the trust, BGCMR will expand our teen and alumni programs this year, offering metro Richmond youth access to new opportunities for exploration, learning and life readiness.”—D. Hunter Reardon
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CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY TO BE ADDED TO BANDY FIELD CONSERVATION EASEMENT Bandy Field Nature Park in Henrico County has been protected with a conservation easement since 2014. Soon the park will receive another layer of protection to ensure it remains an undeveloped green space, as the Friends of Bandy Field Inc., the nonprofit that has maintained the conservation easement, partners with the Capital Region Land Conservancy (CRLC). “We’re a land trust with 2,500 acres under easement,” explains CRLC Executive Director Parker Angelasto. “We follow nationwide guidelines for best practices in conservation. We have strong financials and good governance.” An easement permanently protects a property from development.
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The owner of an easement is usually an entity other than the property owner and holds the property owner accountable for protecting the land. Bandy Field is currently co-owned by the city of Richmond and the Friends of Bandy Field. The Friends of Bandy Field board, CRLC board and Richmond City Council have all agreed to add CRLC to the park’s deed, with hopes it can be amended by the end of 2021. Bandy Field is home to Civil War earthworks and was once the site of an African American neighborhood. The homes were bulldozed to make space for a school in the 1950s, and the earthworks were damaged. But the school was never built, and the
property sat vacant for 30 years, during which time nearby residents began to use it as a park. In the 1980s, it received its official designation. Locating the site of the old homes and the Confederate earthworks was a challenge until one of the Friends of Bandy Park found a 1921 topographical map and presented it to Agelasto; both the homes and the earthworks were clearly labeled, and the foundations have been uncovered. “Nothing was formally mapped when we agreed to co-hold the easement,” Agelasto says. “We set out early on to make sure that when we updated it, we could be more specific. … This kind of collaboration with the community is very important.” —DHR
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will you provide RPS? Rachel Douglas: RPS will assess the need in the first few months of the school year and see where they can best use our resources, and then we have a year to spend our grant. Our program will be optional not just for teachers, but [also for] the administration, custodians, security personnel, after-school care providers. … We want to create a culture of mindfulness in all the adults who surround students.
RM: Why is mindfulness important right now? Douglas: With RPS going back to school in person for the first time in 17 months and with positive COVID cases still going up, there’s a lot of ambiguity and unknowns. Mindfulness is very grounding. You don’t know what’s coming down the pipeline, but you can just take things moment by moment and make decisions the best you can.
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and RPS has been working on this cultural shift called Massive Resilience that prepares students and teachers for times of crisis. The cultural shift really starts with the teachers, and they model positive behavior to the students. Our strategy is to create a mindful classroom, which we’ve seen work in cities like Baltimore and Seattle. Mindfulness is the bridge between a trauma-informed practice and restorative justice principles. It brings awareness to our actions and our emotions. If a student is acting out, the teacher might be able to bring awareness to why they are feeling a certain way.
RM: How has the pandemic changed your programming? Douglas: Even before COVID, our mindfulness program has focused on the helpers — teachers, health care providers and parents — and it just so happened those were three groups heavily impacted by COVID. Anxiety and depression in teachers are at a record high worldwide. We have a sense of urgency to meet their needs and make our programs more available.
RM: What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation?
Douglas: Mindfulness is anchoring yourself to
the present moment with kindness and without judgment. Meditation is the formal practice of that, either in silence or with a guide. There are two overarching themes: wisdom and compassion. Wisdom is understanding how we’re all connected and seeing what is ours to do in the world. Compassion is seeing the suffering in others and yourself and wanting to alleviate that suffering.
RM: What are some other benefits of mindfulness? Douglas: Mindfulness helps us live a life that’s more meaningful, makes us more awake and prepares us for challenges that are coming our way with resilience. It grows our brain, affects our parasympathetic nervous system and improves our executive functioning. There is so much new science around mindfulness right now, and there’s a really renewed interest to learn the practice. I think 10 minutes of mindfulness a day will become a regular part of our hygiene, just as important as brushing our teeth. —Laura Anders Lee
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their way. For now, it’s mostly about networking and answering questions. “We’re kind of taking it one day at a time,” Morehouse says. Expect the laws governing recreational marijuana to continue to evolve. The General Assembly’s Joint Commission on Cannabis Oversight held its first meeting in August, and legislators are discussing ways to move up the date when recreational marijuana may be sold.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA Amy Whitehurst battled depression for years, getting treated with antidepressants for two decades, but she says it was marijuana that provided relief. She has a card for medical cannabis, and now she’s growing her own. She says there’s a perception of marijuana users as lazy stoners, but the reality is “quite the opposite.” She notes that
you can microdose with cannabis medicpeople,” she says. She worked for a time with a Richinally to gain benefit without getting high mond cultivation shop and noticed that and says she had to figure out the effects of various strains, what worked for her most of the people who were grow-yourand what didn’t. Whitehurst says she had own enthusiasts were men. “I wanted to encourage women that they can grow spent too much time dealing with lethalso,” she says. argy stemming from depression, so she wanted something to make her “feel stimRecreational users of marijuana have ulated and happier.” long been used to a grow-your-own ethos, Using the sativa strain of cannabis but people who use cannabis products for helps with her depression and also helps medicinal purposes in areas where that’s her get energized and motivated. “It’s not legal tend to stick with commercially projust where you lay on the couch and go duced products, out of concern for stanto sleep,” she says. dardized dosing, according to Dr. Steven The Glen Allen resident says she’s Fiore, an orthopedic surgeon who is regalways been a gardener, but there’s been istered with Virginia to treat patients with a bit of a learning curve in culcannabis products. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. “I don’t see a lot of elderly tivating cannabis indoors. She’s Steven Fiore of CannabisMD TeleMed is registered with people starting to grow their passionate about pot and is Virginia to treat patients with encouraging other women to cannabis products. Here, he own marijuana for medicinal take up cannabis cultivation. “It speaks with his receptionist use,” he says. with the same set-up he uses Fiore and his son, Scott, has so much potential to help to consult with patients.
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as kidney or heart disease and Realtor Eric Morehouse the bloodstream, is generally recrecently started a bleeding. business, the Key RVA, ommended. Fiore generally recomThere is poor evidence for that helps people get mends that older patients first try set up to grow marijuana treatment in dementia, CBD products, cannabis derivatives marijuana at home. according to Weissberger. Evithat don’t produce the “high” assodence is mixed in its use in treating anxiciated with THC products. If that doesn’t ety or depression, and there are no studies work, they can go to a THC product. If they showing it helps with cognition. Studies use an edible, they may be told to cut it up of cannabis use in treating sleep and and try an eighth at first, then progress upward until they begin to receive relief. insomnia disorders have been small, with mixed results and methodological drawStarting with a too-potent dosage may lead backs, he says. to side effects such as dizziness, fatigue Medical cannabis is new, and not regand sleepiness. Cardiovascular conditions ularly recommended, says Weissberger. Its also are a concern because cannabis produse hasn’t made its way into the education ucts can increase your heart rate. “If you start elderly patients slow and system, and the knowledge base is limited. “We generally try many different intervenlet them increase the dose until they feel tions first,” Weissberger says. the effect, they won’t go too high,” Fiore Medicinal cannabis use is started says. slowly and methodically. In the elderly, a Medicinal cannabis is generally not covsublingual application, a tincture placed ered by health insurance. The state assessunder the tongue absorbed directly into es a $50 fee for a card that’s good for a year
and says you’re authorized to use marijuana medically, purchased from a state-approved dispensary. An appointment with the doctor is about $100. Medicinal marijuana costs about $50 to $100 a month. The initial impact of the easing of restrictions on recreational use of marijuana coincided with an increase in the medicinal marijuana business, according to Fiore. He says that legal recreational use may eventually impact the medical marijuana business as dispensaries open, and that some patients who are middle-aged and younger may opt for recreational cannabis instead. The biggest difference between a medicinal product and homegrown cannabis is standardization. Fiore notes that producers of the medical product get the THC and CBD content standardized down to the milligram. “That’s the beauty of it,” he says. “You know what you’re getting.” R
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Valentine, K.V. Hoffman also wrote in support of Massive Resistance. In 2009, the RTD issued an apology for its support of Massive Resistance. Decades later, Williams didn’t get the pushback from editors he expected: “They were astute enough to recognize, OK, this was a Black dude with a column. To try to make him sound like a white dude with a column wouldn’t be to anyone’s benefit.”
Twice a week, Williams speaks his truth through columns in the RTD. Interviews with nearly a dozen current and former RTD reporters and editors reveal similar insights about Williams. That he’s a nice, humble guy. That he would do anything for you. That he’s an avid listener who won’t look at his phone when you meet him for coffee. That he has a booming laugh that fills the newsroom, and that he has a tendency to shout expletives at his computer when he’s trying to make deadline. That he gives interns and new hires his own personal tour of Richmond to explain how we got here. When News Editor K. “Katy” Burnell Evans was pregnant with twins, he would get on her case about Williams in a photo from for their job. It was then that Williams her diet, sometimes bringing her lunch and goadthe mid-1990s that approached the paper’s leadership and ing her to eat better by sending her photos of accompanied his column. asked for a column, arguing that they covhis breakfast smoothies. Since education ered a majority-Black city but didn’t have any commenreporter Kenya Hunter’s mother died, Williams has stepped tators of color. up, often texting her just to check in. “It was a far easier sell than I would have ever imag“He’s kind, he’s generous with his time, he’s insightful, ined,” he says. “I knew I could do the job and thought I he’s humble,” says Paige Mudd, the RTD’s executive editor deserved a shot at it. But if they didn’t let me do it, then and vice president of news. “He’s an unbelievably gifted writer. He challenges people and their ideas about why they needed to find somebody who could and would. And things are the way they are, and he’s a force of nature.” they bit.” The RTD is also where Williams met his wife, Robin Becoming either paper’s first Black columnist was no Farmer. In 1988, Farmer was working for Connecticut’s small feat. The News Leader had been where James J. Hartford Courant when the RTD attempted to recruit Kilpatrick became one of the nation’s leading proponents of segregation as its editorial page editor, devising “states’ rights” and other rationales to advocate for Massive Resistance. The RTD also supported Massive Resistance in editorials penned by Alan S. Donnahoe, who would later become president of Richmond Newspapers Inc., the owner of both papers. — Paige Mudd, Richmond Times-Dispatch executive editor and vice president of news Under the pseudonym Ross
“He’s an unbelievably gifted writer. He challenges people and their ideas about why things are the way they are, and he’s a force of nature.”
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her. As one of the few Black reporters on staff, Williams herself opposite Williams at a press conference where it was asked to speak to her. was learned that removal of the monuments wouldn’t be considered as an option. “Obviously, I did a good job of recruiting her,” Williams says. A national award-winning journalist in her own “Michael immediately jumps on that as the question,” right, Farmer left the RTD in 2009. “Malcolm and Me,” her Coleman recalls, adding that Williams kept repeatedly debut YA novel, was hot listed by BuzzFeed last year, and asking her why removal was off the table. Coleman conshe currently serves as the director of the Virginia Screenfronted him later. writers Forum. “He’s like, ‘Hey, I was doing my job, and you were doing It hasn’t always been easy being Michael Paul Wilyours, too. God dang it, when you’ve got your CEO mask liams. As you might expect, being a Black man weighing on, you’re tough to crack.’ And I said, ‘You are tough to in publicly on issues of race and politics in the former get by,’ ” says Coleman, who’s now the executive director capital of the Confederacy can be dangerous. of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Bonnie Winston, managing editor of the Richmond Omari Al-Qadaffi, a community activist for food justice and housing equity, admires the bold stances that Free Press and Williams’ former editor at the RTD, recalls Williams has championed over the years. him receiving death threats on his work voicemail while he was on his honeymoon in 1999. “He’s been writing lots of powerful pieces about other Put off by the cost of a wedding, Williams and Farmer issues that have even more impact on the day-to-day lives had decided to get married by a justice of the of Richmonders than the Confederate monWilliams with thenpeace without telling their families, followed by uments,” says Al-Qadaffi, who was heavily reporter Pamela Stallsmith a honeymoon in Paris. It was while he was in involved in last year’s protests. “That’s what in the RTD newsroom in the 1990s. Stallsmith later France that Williams received two death threats the Pulitzer people want to recognize him became the editor of the via voicemail. The threats couldn’t be traced. for. The brother’s been doing work, impactRTD Opinions page. “It was a horrible racial epithet, death threat, and I took it very seriously. So did Mike,” says Winston, who was hired as the RTD’s first Black full-time staff reporter in 1979. “It was very scary, and I think that was one of the first or early death threats that he had gotten.” Williams still receives angry messages but says there are fewer threats of bodily harm than there used to be. “It’s the invariable result if you’re writing about things that matter and writing about tough topics,” he says. “And I wrote a lot about race. ... It’s not always been great; I’ll put it that way. Some people crossed the line.” Richmond General District Judge David Hicks, a former city prosecutor who served as a top aide in the administration of former Mayor Dwight C. Jones, attests to Williams’ fearlessness. “Make no mistakes, man. He caught a lot of heat,” Hicks says. “You will find a consistent course of folks calling him race baiting and every damn thing else.” Hicks says that Williams has never hesitated to hold public officials’ feet to the fire to ensure they were doing the right thing: “I don’t know anyone that Michael has not spoken truth about, or at least his perspective.” Williams also hasn’t shied away from challenging people who consider him a friend. In June 2017, the administration of Mayor Levar Stoney announced it was forming a commission to study what to do with the city’s Confederate monuments. Christy Coleman, then the CEO of Richmond’s American Civil War Museum, found
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ful work, for a long time now.” sin, because of Massive Resistance and all that,” he says. Williams has also played a role in reshaping the RTD’s “I’d long figured if anybody was going to do it, it was going newsroom to be more reflective of the communities it to be Mike, and if anybody deserved it, it was Mike.” covers. As with most daily papers, the RTD is vital to the Still, over the years, Williams has encountered internal local media ecosystem, as stories it reports are often opposition, including columns that were killed by editors. reworked and re-reported by other media outlets. In addi“That’s an awful feeling for any opinion writer,” Williams tion to being the city’s paper of record, it frames the news says. “Black people and white people see the world in many events of the day. And like most newsrooms, the RTD has different ways, and that can be hard to process and hard a track record of being predominantly white. for our readers to swallow. There were moments when there In early 1995, of the 199 editors and reporters on the were issues, [but] right now I feel very supported, and I feel RTD’s staff, 17 were Black. Though rounds of layoffs over encouraged to be my most authentic self.” Like anyone else, Williams still has to deal with life’s the years have reduced the newsroom staff to 62, 14 of setbacks. In 2015, his house caught fire after it was struck those are people of color; a number of recent hires have by lightning. No one was hurt, but reconstruction took been people of color under the age of 35. about a year. Williams declines to discuss it. “Michael Paul is someone who really set the foundation for that to happen,” says COVID and communities “They lost quite a bit. It was a disaster,” says Lionel Shaw, reporter Sabrina Moreno, who is Latina and started writWilliams’ half-brother. “It was a strain. I could see it on his ing for the paper in January 2020. “He arrived in this face. He didn’t ask for help.” newsroom in a time when there were even less Black reporters in the industry than there are now, and he A MONUMENTAL CHANGE paved such a pathway and a road for people like me who Growing up, Williams stayed away from Monument Avenue, and he viewed the Confederate monuments as came after to feel like they could make it. There are so immovable. many times where I’ve asked him, ‘How did you stay?’ ” “They just were. They just existed,” he Hunter, who is Black and was hired in Michael Paul Williams at his explains. “The president’s going to be white April 2020, agrees, noting that enslaved people desk in the Richmond Timeswere once literally sold in the pages of the and male, and you’re going to have Monument Dispatch newsroom in 2005 newspaper. Avenue.” “We’ve had a lot of conConditions started to change in the early 1990s, versations about what was when an effort to erect a our role in perpetuating mo nu me n t to A f r ica n Massive Resistance and American humanitarian other types of segregation, and tennis great Arthur and [if] can we even make up for it,” Hunter says. “For him Ashe gained steam. Though to be able to [win the Pulitsome argued that the monzer] in Richmond at the Richument should be located near Byrd Park’s tennis mond Times-Dispatch, the paper that endorsed Massive courts, Williams wrote that Resistance and did profit off it should be placed on Monof slavery, that’s amazing.” ument Avenue. “This was not unaniFrank Green, a longtime mous in the Black commureporter at the RTD, says the newsroom once believed nity. There were people who that the paper’s past would felt like Arthur Ashe was too good for Monument haunt it forever. “Back in the ’80s and ’90s, Avenue, and he’d be the only we used to talk about how true winner on the street,” the Times-Dispatch was Williams says. “He did end never going to win a Pulitup on Monument Avenue, and there are people who zer because of its original
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“Change happens incrementally but all at once. The monuments came down in blinding speed in a way I never could have predicted, but in hindsight we were chipping away.” —Michael Paul Williams argue that what happened last summer would not have happened and could not have happened had Arthur Ashe not gone up first, because it kind of chipped away at the narrative that Monument Avenue could not be transformed.” After Dylann Roof massacred nine members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015 — and photos circulated of Roof posing with Confederate iconography — discussion began taking place on how to make Monument Avenue a more representative street, including adding context to the Confederate monuments. The massacre inspired Williams to begin advocating for the removal of the monuments. “I always knew the connection, but that drove home the violent impulse of that connection,” Williams says. “This isn’t a difference over history. This is an ideology that still lives with us today and kills with us today, and we can’t endorse this. Richmond is no better than Dylann Roof, as far as I’m concerned, if it lionizes these folks and these monuments and this ideology.” He wrote columns calling for the removal of Richmond’s monuments. They didn’t seem to move the needle: “Crickets were chirping. There wasn’t much of a reaction at all," he says. Though the Stoney administration formed a commission to study what to do with the monuments, it announced that their removal would not be considered as an option (at the time, state law did not allow it). That began to change after Heather Heyer was killed in a domestic terrorist attack against counterprotesters at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. In April 2020, after Democrats had taken over the General Assembly, Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill into law giving localities permission to remove their monuments. Critical mass only came with the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. During Richmond’s most eventful year since 1865, Williams put fingers to keyboard, taking in the scope of history with his incisive commentary about the
monuments and what their removal meant to the city. “Change happens incrementally but all at once. The monuments came down in blinding speed in a way I never could have predicted, but in hindsight we were chipping away,” Williams says, noting that the monuments had been tagged in recent years with graffiti. “You didn’t see [graffiti on the monuments] coming up when I was a kid. They were untouchable. It’s like you punched Superman and saw a trickle of blood. I think the graffiti might have been the people talking.”
A GOOD DAY FOR RICHMOND On Friday, June 11, Williams was at home working on one of his columns when the phone rang. It was Mike Szvetitz, his managing editor. “I thought, ‘This can’t be good,’ ” says Williams, admitting that his mind turned to the downsizings that have taken place at the RTD in recent years. Szvetitz told him he’d won a Pulitzer. Williams didn’t believe the news at first. “I’m like, ‘Get the bleep out of here.’ My immediate reaction was irritation, like, ‘Stop messing with me, I’m on deadline.’ ” After processing the news, he burst into tears, then told Farmer. She screamed. RTD staffers convened in the newsroom to celebrate with Champagne. As the newsroom team had taken to working remotely in the pandemic, it was the first time many of them had seen each other in about a year. That evening, the staff continued its celebration at Penny Lane Pub down the street. On Wednesday, Sept. 8, Williams witnessed the coda to his Pulitzer-winning columns when Lee’s statue was taken off its pedestal on Monument Avenue. Standing on the street, looking at the dispersing crowd that had gathered to witness the removal, Williams says, “Every step we can take away from the embrace of this history, of this celebration of this legacy of oppression and subjugation and falsehood is a good day." R
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Man Ray: The Paris Years pgs 4–5 Travel back to 1920s–’30s Paris to meet cultural luminaries of the day, as photographed by Man Ray.
Also on View pg 6 Behold the drama and splendor of the American landscape as seen through the lens of photographer Ansel Adams
Fine Art and Flowers pgs 8–9 Enjoy beautiful floral displays inspired by works in the galleries during Fine Arts & Flowers, which is celebrating the reopening of VMFA’s renowned Mellon Galleries.
Coming in 2022 pg 12 Cover: Self-Portrait with Camera, 1930, Man Ray (American, 1890–1976), solarized gelatin silver print. The Jewish Museum, New York, Photography Acquisitions Committee Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund, and Judith and Jack Stern Gift, 2004-16 © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2021
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ravel back to 1920s–’30s Paris to meet some of the most influential cultural luminaries of the time, as captured by American expatriate artist Man Ray. More than 100 remarkable portrait photographs include such noted sitters as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Pablo Picasso, as well as Ruby Richards and other African Americans whose lives and portraits broke color barriers. The exhibition is informed by groundbreaking research on Man Ray’s work and his compelling subjects.
Self-Portrait with Camera, 1930, Man Ray (American, 1890–1976), solarized gelatin silver print. The Jewish Museum, New York, Photography Acquisitions Committee Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund, and Judith and Jack Stern Gift, 2004-16 © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2021
Ruby Richards with Diamonds, ca. 1938, Man Ray (American, 1890– 1976), gelatin silver print. Collection of Michael and Jacky Ferro, Miami, © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2021
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Behold the drama and splendor of the American landscape as seen through the lens of photographer Ansel Adams. More than 70 photographs spanning over five decades present the breathtaking vistas, beguiling details, and inimitable style that de f i ne t h i s mo st b elove d a nd influential photographer. Considering Adams as an artist, environmentalist, and musician, the exhibition includes iconic images, rarely seen early photographs, and musical recordings that take you behind the camera.
Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944, printed 1973-1975, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 75.29.2. Photograph by Ansel Adams © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
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Sand Dunes Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, CA 1948, printed 1974, Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Andrea Gray Stillman © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
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CJ's Garage Doors
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ADT Security Services
415
Colonial Floors of VA
Aid Our Veterans
936
Comcast Xfinity
613
Aikey's Home Improvements, LLC
500
Contractor's Escrow
628
Cutco Cutlery
445
Deck Creations of Richmond, LLC
419
Empwr Solar
621
American Siding Inc. Americool Heating & Cooling Answering Services of Richmond
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Richmond Raceway Complex
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650
Araujo Rugs
709
Exterior Source
418
Ardent Pest Control
610
Fido's Fancy by Pursonal Hangups
803
Atlantic House Plans
222
Five Star Bath Solutions
Bath Fitter/Bath Saver
609
Floor Coverings International - Midlothian 421
Borsos Marketing LLC
619
Fred Astaire Dance Studio Richmond
347
Brown & Company
123
GAF
637
Capital Remodeling
318
Herman Allen Plumbing, Heating & Cooling 513
Chim Chimney Chimney Cleaning
432
Home Depot
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Instant Shine Cleaners
247
JES Foundation Repair
S&S Electrical
430
611
SAND Contracting
727
JJ King's Secret Sauce, LLC
813
Shade & Louver
527
Kitchen Doctors
118
ShelfGenie
723
Kohmar Air Duct Cleaning LLC
329
Shutter Company
330
LeafFilter North LLC
526
SlopePro, LLC
722
LeafGuard
320
Smith Strong, PLC
235
Lifetime Cookware
645
Somers Gutter Services LLC
233
Lift Mobility
630
Streamline Insurance Solutions
443
Maid Right of Richmond
528
Sunpro Solar
333
Massanutten Resort
518
Superior Sleep
227
Mid Atlantic Trailer
548
The Drying Company
237
Milligan Custom Cabinetry
311
The Haas Group LLC
303
Miracle Method Surface Refinishing
514
The Neighborhood Harvest
422
Missy's Scentsy
811*
TheTriadAer.com
427
Mr. Fix-It MUTLU INC
112 332
Thompson Creek Window Company
137
TNR Group
243
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce 706
Total Remodeling Systems
633
Natural Balance
531
Tupperware
802
Nature Hill NV
931
Uncle Dave's Kettle Corn
810
Ogburn Construction Inc.
530
US JACLEAN INC.
507
Pampered Chef
433
Virginia Railing and Gates
532
POWERHOME Solar
705
Wealth Innovations LLC
323
Prince Michel Vineyard and Winery
444
Weathervane Factory
340
Refresh Cabinets, LLC
828
Wilton Construction Services, Inc.
522
Renewal by Andersen - Richmond Window 322, 733
Window Depot USA of Richmond
337
Roadshow Promotions LLC-DBA Spoon Sleep
Zone Garage of Central Va.
533
RVA Exteriors
437
544
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The Heart of the Home
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or homeowners looking to revamp their kitchens, look no further than Kitchen Doctors. Kitchen Doctors is family owned and operated, and the business specializes in kitchen remodeling and cabinet refacing. When Jim Sheehan founded Kitchen Doctors in 2008, he was already well versed in the art of kitchen remodeling. As a teenager, he had worked at his brother’s flooring and kitchen business in New York. After finishing school, Sheehan realized he enjoyed the work so much that he decided to follow in his brother’s footsteps and start his own kitchen remodeling business. What started as an operation run by just Sheehan and his wife at the time has turned into a busy business
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with seven employees including Sheehan’s 29-year-old daughter, Grace, who recently joined the team. After so many years in the business, Sheehan has streamlined his process into one that clients can trust. “The first thing we do when we go in to do an estimate is ask the customer [for input.] We want to find out from them what their dream is. Some people need very little guidance, and some people need a lot of guidance.” From the initial walk-through of the client’s kitchen space to unveiling of the final product, Sheehan is invested in each project, every step of the way. One trend that Sheehan notes is that more clients seem to want kitchen islands installed. “A lot of people really love the idea of having an island as opposed to a cut-off kitchen that has a peninsula unit,” Sheehan
says. “We are seeing a lot of islands in different or contrasting colors. The dark blues have become popular.” In addition to colorful islands and cabinetry, Sheehan also notes a shift toward more colorful tiling, some featuring more intricate designs. A handsome look is created by keeping cabinets modern and muted and then bringing in contrast with tile that has a little more movement. For clients looking to maximize their kitchen space, Sheehan suggests taking a modest approach. “I often tell customers that just because you have the space, doesn't mean you want to fill every bit of it. Some people want as much storage as possible and that’s pretty common, but we still don't want to make it look cramped in there. You [have to] have room to move.”
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No customer is an island with help from Kitchen Doctors
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Save Money and Build Equity POWERHOME Solar can help your home harvest energy from the sun
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omeowners seeking a reduction in their electric bill and their carbon footprint should consider installing residential solar panels with POWERHOME Solar. Since 2014, the team at POWERHOME Solar have been working toward building a more sustainable world. What started as a small company in North Carolina has since expanded into more than 19 states. From the company’s inception, its mission has been “change the world one employee, one customer, one panel at a time,” says Elmondo King, POWERHOME’s regional sales director, Solar panels harvest energy from the sun and convert it into usable energy for the home. When clients decide to install solar panels, they are making a decision that will have
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lasting benefits both financially and environmentally. “Your power bill is the longest recurring bill that you will have in your life,” says King. By installing solar panels, customers are making a long-term investment, not only by saving money on electricity but also by building equity into their home. “Homes with solar on [them] sell faster and sell for much more than for homes that do not,” he notes. From start to finish, King and his team at POWERHOME are dedicated to walking clients through the process. For those interested, POWERHOME offers free consultations during which the team examines a homeowner’s power bill, assesses the property and discusses costs and payment options. Once the logistics are figured out, King and his team come to the home, prepare the space,
and then installation begins. “Our job is to make sure the customer doesn't have to lift a finger. Our job is to go in and do everything from A to Z, from the engineering to the electrical. Everything is done within the home.” For homeowners interested in solar power, now is the time, King says. “My best advice to people is to go ahead and get ahead of this curve.” At this time, the federal government offers an up-to-26% tax credit toward solar energy installation costs, but by 2024 the tax credit is expected to end. To tackle climate change in a post-pandemic economy, people are looking into solar more than ever, King says. “A lot of people don't like uncertainty. When there’s a ton of uncertainty they want to do whatever they can to put things in their own hands.”
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