3 Points = Your Scooter with a Statue = Arthur Ashe Statue prominantly displayed with all the Confederate soldiers on Monument Ave in Richmond, VA
+ 2pts if you are in the photo with your scooter
+ 3pts if you are RIDING your scooter past the thing
+ 3pts for using a PROP - It's a tennis racket.
+ 2pts for posing like the statue (judges approved!)
13 point new total
So now that I'm over my heat exhaustion from yesterday's ride....I'll give it another shot. I didn't think this photo was nearly as fun as the one yesterday which was why I didn't post it. But I dare anyone to claim this prop is not related to the statue. And if I could have stood up while riding the scooter with books in my other hand, I'd go for the posing points, but then you guys would have said I needed kids around the scooter.
As for a little history:
One of America's most beautiful boulevards, tree-lined Monument Avenue is the only street in the United States that is a National Historic Landmark. It runs through the heart of Richmond's historic Fan District and was originally built as an extension of Franklin Street (already an established neighborhood) toward the Lee Monument. The avenue eventually became a sought after neighborhood and continued west over many years following the placement of new monuments along the street. The type and style of architecture seen in the homes, churches and apartment buildings that line the avenue range from English Tudor, Colonial, Georgian, Spanish, Jacobean, Beaux Arts to Italianate. The avenue stretches into Henrico County and ends at Horsepen Road running five miles in length. Monument Avenue has a wide, two-lane street on both sides of the generous median, going east and west.
Here is a link that shows all the other monuments on this street:
http://www.monumenthouse.com/richmond/monument/
There was much controversy about the placement of the Arthur Ashe monument on the same street as all the Confederate War heros. Some Richmond residents voiced their belief that Ashe was too good to be commemorated on the same street with men who supported the institution of slavery, while others thought that the statue was "disgraceful and defiled the memory of the mounted, weapon-bearing, medal-massed soldiers" positioned along the avenue. Other residents accepted the site as a fitting location for Ashe's immortalization, viewing this placement as a "symbol of racial healing."