Sunday, February 27, 2011

T.C. Williams History Club & Living Legends

Nina Tisara will be speaking about Living Legends to the History Club at T.C. Williams High School in April.  They are working on their own Parker-Gray project and are interested in learning what they may be able to do for Living Legends.
 

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Market Square Exhibit

With much appreciation to Bill Clayton for the translation, for the first time the exhibition labels describing the photos in the Market Square lobby will be in English and in Spanish.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Living Legends in City Hall

The portraits of the 12 Living Legends of 2011 will be installed in the Market Square Lobby of City Hall on Tuesday March 1 where they will be on display for a year until the 2012 Legends are chosen. This year's Legends include Mollie Abraham, Lynnwood Campbell, William Clayton, H. Stewart Dunn, Timothy S. Elliott, Jon Liss, Peter Lunt, Don Mela, Fran and Gant Redmon, Carlyle C. Connie Ring, Jack Taylor and Joseph F. Viar, Jr. Nomination forms for next year's Legends may be downloaded from the website www.AlexandriaLegends.com Hours for city hall vary but generally the lobby is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays the lobby is open if there is a public hearing scheduled. Sundays and holidays it is closed.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Family Legends

We're excited to report planning for a new facet of Living Legends--Family Legends.  Members of the Living Legends Board will meet with folks from Archaeology, Black History Museum, the Athenaeum, Alexandria City Schools and artist Sushmita Mazumdar to plan the project which will involve young people in photographing and writing stories about the Legends in their families.  The project may culminate in a one-of-a-kind handbook and/or news feature.

Joe Viar - 2011 Living Legend of Alexandria

Here's the link for the feature story on 2011 Living Legend Joe Viar:
 
Joe is the first of 12 Living Legends of Alexandria that will be profiled this year.