Anti-authoritarian grafitti, Glencarlyn and Bon-Air Parks

 

Late springs walk + koan tree

Catching up. 

From a number of morning walks near bright Pond and in Glencarlyn Park in late spring.

We really like our new neighbor, Earl the Vulture, who now lives at Long Branch Nature Center. A friendly guy. Really. 

Earl

Bunch of spring flowers and the koan tree twice - with a goose and by itself

 

Julia Sues For Freedom | Ball Sellers House

A play, "Julia Sues For Freedom" was staged at the Ball-Sellers House in the Glencarlyn neighborhood of Arlington,Virginia. This play, put on by the Guillotine Theatre tells the true story of Julia Roberts' successful 1842 petition in court to insure her freedom from enslaverment, in a case that went to the Supreme Court. Julia was a resident of what is today Arlington County. 

The drama was co-sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington.

The actors were: Julia Roberts- by Lisa Hill Corley; Judge William Cranch by Sean Denniston; Attorney Robert Brent by Ricardo Frederick Evans; and Attorney Christopher Neale by Ken Jackson

Additional information is  here. 

Leaves and shadow, spring walk | Glencarlyn Park

Late afternoon walk. Spring

Spring walks: Glencarlyn Park / Bright Pond / koan tree