“That Dude” selling African masks in front of Carytown 7-11 interviewed by Toronto newspaper
The Toronto Star newspaper featured Richmond in a recent edition, citing that our fair city is on the way to Florida. While in town, the paper spoke to the man who sells African masks in front of the Carytown 7-11. Phillip Henley has set up a couple card tables in the corner of a 7-Eleven parking […]
The Toronto Star newspaper featured Richmond in a recent edition, citing that our fair city is on the way to Florida. While in town, the paper spoke to the man who sells African masks in front of the Carytown 7-11.
Phillip Henley has set up a couple card tables in the corner of a 7-Eleven parking lot and is selling wooden masks from Burkina Faso, Cameroon and other African countries, as well as “Nubian heritage peppermint soap” and green tea incense.
“Richmond is changing from a Deep South city and getting more modern,” he explains…
Henley says the city’s cops have cracked down on crime and panhandlers, although I was hassled for money by a guy in his best Jerry Garcia tie-dye who wanted money for having his picture taken.
The paper also made it up the road to the Museum District
Cars occasionally slow to a stop if they even suspect a pedestrian might be getting ready to cross the street, and Monument Ave. still features towering tributes to southern heroes Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart.
There also, however, is a nearby monument to local tennis legend Arthur Ashe, one of the most successful black-American athletes of the 20th century.
It’s always interesting to hear what outsiders think of Richmond. If you spot the guy in the tie-dye begging for money, let us know.
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