“It’s A Call And An Invitation”; How The Tower Got Built; The No Comment Quote That Says A Lot; A Double Salute; Green Walks.

RVA 5x5 - Easy Like Sunday Evening, April 30, 2023

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You can find the 5 main stories from Friday’s edition here, and today features the “ALT 5” stories for a nice, leisurely, “Easy Like Sunday Morning” read. Enjoy!

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In today’s edition of cool stuff around RVA, we have stories on:

• Why taking a stroll through a park or green space is even better for us than we thought, and we have some amazing opportunities to do more.

• A quote of the week that was not actually a “quote” at all, but simply reporting about what someone said while not commenting. Got it?

• The story how the enormous WTVR tower was built and how it took three years of enduring good ol’ Richmond NIMBY-ism to get approval…

• The story behind the trailblazing soldiers honored in the renaming of a huge Army base outside Petersburg and how it was historical on three different levels.

• One of the coolest and most unique exhibits to hit Richmond in a long time at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden that includes sculpture, light, poetry, self-discovery, and multi-sensory experiences.
  

THE ALT 5

ALT #1 — OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Green Walks
Adding more green spaces throughout the city is an important goal of the Mayor, City Council, as well as most of us who enjoy our parks, James River trails, and getting fresh air. And we all need more of it. There is nothing like a good walk, and it is always better if it is done more among nature than among busy, noisy streets.

As Laura Anders Lee writes at Richmond Magazine, “Taking a stroll through the park is even better for us than we thought, according to a study that found walking in a quiet, green setting has physiological and psychological advantages over walking in noisy, gray spaces.”

A study entitled “The Impact of Urban Walking on Psychophysiological Well-being,” was published last fall as a collaborative effort between VCU, UVA, Virginia Tech, and the Science Museum of Virginia that did the study right here in River City. It found that study participants felt better after a green walk than a loud one.