Contents

Forward, by Alan Pell Crawford

Preface

Introduction

About the Author

Finding the Founding: Newport's Cross

You Say You Want a Revolution: British Come, Jefferson Flees

First Market: Shopping at Seventeenth Street

Mr. Hawkins’s Wild Ride

Morals and Mirth

Before Art after Hours: The First Virginia Museum

Old, Old City Hall: Robert Mills’s Domed Municipal Temple

Queen Molly: She Would Have a Food Network Show Today

The Gangs of Richmond: Hooligans and Mischief Making

The Manchester Diamond: Ben Moore’s Big Find

Dahlgren’s Raid: Yankee Cavalry Tries to Take Richmond

The Horse Thief on the Pyramid: Capping Hollywood’s Monument

The Municipal War of 1870: Richmond Had Two Mayors

The Readjuster Party: Mahone’s Effort to Integrate Politics

Shadows of the People: Photography of George and Heustis Cook

Richmond’s Moving First: The Electric Trolley

Colonel Cutshaw’s Castle: The Byrd Park Pump House

The Good Doctors: Sarah and Miles Jones

Richmond-Built Ships: The Trigg Yards

The Unconstitutional Constitution: The Legacy of 1902

Let Us Walk! : John Mitchell Jr.'s Trolley Boycott

The Jamestown Imposition: 1907’s Virginia Celebration

A Complicated Woman: Novelist Mary Johnston

The Richmond Dairy: ”Milk Bottle Baroque”

Emperor Gilpin: Jackson Ward’s Dramatic

Actor

A National Revival: Everything Has Played at This Downtown Theater

Branch Cabell and the Beast: Occultist’s Admiration for Novelist

The Place to Be: Forest Hill Amusement Park

Lady Wonder: Chesterfield's Psychic Equine

Richmond’s Greenwich Village: Artists of the 1920s and 1930s

World of Mirth: Traveling Carnival Based in Richmond

Dance Hall Days: Romantic Nights at Tantilla Garden

To the Lighthouse: Deco Diners

The Wizard of Wythe Avenue: Louis Rubin’s Weather Forecasts

WGOE: ”One Station Underground”

RAW and UAA: Taking Art to the Streets

The Cha Cha Palace: New Wave in an Old Bank

One Against the Current: Newton Ancarrow, Pioneer Conservationist

Fulton School: Gus and Lynn Garber Brought Life to Old Halls

Shipwrecked: Pleasure Island and El Toro

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Below:Colonel Cutshaw's Castle
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Richmond History Center

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Below: World of Mirth: Traveling Carnival
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Below: To the Lighthouse: Deco Diners
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Below: Shipwrecked: El Toro
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