We will be distributing the souvenir bricks that folks requested, from the Historic Riverview Apartments, at 11 A.M., gathering at the Douglass Gym (V.O. Dobbins Community Center). We'll then go to the place where the bricks are being stored, for their distribution.
The demolition crews from D.H. Griffin have been gathering bricks, as they now clean up the site where the apartments once stood, and they were taken to a secure place to be inventoried. That process is on-going, with the help of Johnnie Mae Swaggerty and James "Moose" Henry.
Johnnie Mae heard from at least 400 people who wanted a souvenir brick, to commemorate the apartments where our ancestors helped raise a neighborhood.
Again, please spread the word.. the brick diveaway will be this Saturday, March 15th, at 11 A.M. We'll convene at the Douglass Gym (V.O. Dobbins Community Center) at that time, when we'll go to the place where the bricks are being kept.
Refreshments will be served afterwards in the gym, where the Kingsport Housing and Redevelopment Authority will furnish the lunch entree, and everyone is asked to bring a side covered dish or dessert to go along with it.
The giveaway is sponsored by the Kingsport Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the Douglass High School Alumni Association, the City of Kingsport, Kingsport Parks and Recreation, and the D.H. Griffin Demolition Company.
