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Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces

BRC worksession April 28 — Mayor Signer and Vice-Mayor Bellamy are briefed by City Manager Maurice Jones. April 28th the Charlottesville City Council met in work session to hammer out details of a resolution to be considered May 2 at their regular session setting up a commission.
The resolution is available on the City’s website.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that City Council does hereby authorize the creation of an ad hoc blue ribbon commission on race, memorials and public spaces and tasks the commission with the mission to provide Council with options for telling the full story of Charlottesville’s history of race and for changing the City’s narrative through our public spaces;

square peg round hole

stuck bus — GPS doesn’t tell you everything. This bus, headed south on 4th Street SE encountered a low bridge. Rather than back into traffic on Water Street, the driver attempted to turn around, No va.

historic understatement

little historic marker — sign set in the sidewalk, east edge of Park Street adjacent to the Albemarle County Courthouse

Violet Crown

New screens! So pleased there is again a theater that doesn't require travel to the wasteland of Route 29. — New screens! So pleased there is again a theater that doesn’t require travel to the wasteland of Route 29.

The Violet Crown Cinema is open, 200 West Main Street, Charlottesville VA. In one year they built something beautiful, well made. — The Violet Crown Cinema is open, 200 West Main Street, Charlottesville VA. In one year they built something beautiful, well made. Bye bye Stonefield.

Tour de Trump

West on Main — As much as the electorate likes to make fun of Mr. Trump, hey, he is the candidate who brought bicycle racing to Charlottesville.

1989 style — The year, 1989. We were taking pictures with film and United Press International (UPI) covered the story.…

Terrace Theater

Terrace theater — 1989? Domestic vehicles in evidence.

panthera leo

chained lion, pedestrian mall — Before political correctness came to town. 1989.

Francis and Nancy

Francis Fife Nancy O'Brien — Mayors O’Brien and Fife, in Riverview Park, walking, bird watching.

Riverview Park

dogs walking their people — A dog will walk. No one complaining presently about the weather being hot and dry. This is a portion of the trail that circles Charlottesville.

The Cloud of Unknowing

these band members gave the band name as "The Cloud of Unknowing" — The Cloud of Unknowing counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection (faculty of the human mind), but through intense contemplation, motivated by love, and stripped of all thought. This is brought about by putting all thoughts and desires under a “cloud of forgetting”, and thereby piercing God’s cloud of unknowing with a “dart of longing love” from the heart. This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but involves spiritual union with God through the heart:–Wikipedia