Alice Russell Hotchkiss
departed in her 23rd year.

May 15, 1880
June 15, 1903

I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I'd like to leave an after glow
of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.

Editorial comment:

As I walked up the hill and stood in front of Alice's Statue, I thought and  felt the statue was alive. I touched her left cheek with the back of my left hand. There are no words in English to adequately describe my feeling. The statue is pitted and eroded after 103 years standing in the weather, yet the photographs show her face, neck and upper chest a flesh color; in the camera she looks alive, to me she feels alive.

Since the creation of Richmond Then and Now website, your photographer / writer and eight credible and accomplished associates experienced over 50 separate and profound paranormal experiences also manifest at St. John's Church Cemetery and Hollywood Cemetery. The most profound for your writer happened 30 feet from the spot where stood Patrick Henry in 1775 and uttered, "as for me, give me liberty or give me death, " the beginning of the Revolutionary War.