In this case, I’d like to rewind back to the fall of 1980. Jimmy Carter was President, the Strawberry Street Café was four years into an incredible run with the bathtub salad bar, and over at WXEX, Ken Strayhorn, Lou Charlip and I were embarking on a magical five-year run of covering sports in the city of Richmond.
The historic church was one of dozens of African-American Civil Rights movement sites throughout the country that the NPS awarded grant funds as part of their African American Civil Rights Grant Program, which preserves the history surrounding those sites. Boyd told me that he and his congregation feel blessed to receive the NPS grant.
Bill Oglesby recalls some of the highlights of that day.
Memories and photographs convey how some locals spent past Richmond winters