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BELLEVUE PORCHELL A • GARDENFEST OF LIGHTS VOLUME 26 No 11 NOVEMBER 2020
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4 Music in the Time of the Coronavirus:
COVID-19 STORIES
Bellevue Porchella with Brooke Ullman
Brooke Ullman was the progenitor of Bellevue Porchella. She tells me how the
event was conceived, what inspired it. And it’s destined to become an annual
event for the Northside neighborhood she calls home.
10 COVER STORY Night Noises
“Everything can change just like that.” But there is no snap of fingers. This
is the preamble to a story Jane’s told a hundred times in person or on social
media. The beginning of the story is always jarring, but it’s the end that leaves
people speechless.
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with this illness, the bigger takeaway is how important it is for those struggling
with depression to feel they can open up about their mental state and not be
stigmatized for it.
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Music in the Time of the Coronavirus
Bellevue Porchella with Brooke Ullman
by C H AR L E S MC G U I G A N
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HERE WAS A DAY stop and listen to on many balmy
unlike any other day of summer nights as we made our way
this peculiar year in a down MacArthur Avenue from the
neighborhood unlike block-long commercial strip back
any other neighbor- to our home on Greycourt Avenue.
hood anywhere, a day No matter how often we heard it on
when things began those lightning bug rich nights, it al-
making sense again, when for a brief ways caught us by surprise, and we
five hours there was a welcome return felt inexpressible gratitude for where
to life as it once was before the twin vi- we were fortunate enough to live. So
ruses infected the heart and the soul of we would ascend the curb, move up
our country. to the sidewalk and nestle against the
picket fence and peer through a lat-
And on that mid-October day, it was tice of boxwood at men and women
as if Nature herself bestowed on us a sitting on folding chairs with their
silken blue sky, and temperatures that instruments poised. And the music
hovered at a constant between warm would begin.
and cool, and leaves that had just be-
gun to show their fall colors. “When this all started happening this
year, people going into quarantine,
The cicadas had quieted, and from there was an evening around April
virtually every street corner in Belle- or May and The Bellevue Bon Temps
vue you could hear music playing were out there on their fiddles play-
throughout the afternoon and into ing on their side porch,” Brooke re-
the twilight—live music of every gen- members. “I actually recorded it and
re. Hundreds walked the streets, some did a little video of it and posted it
for the first time in seven months. and I tagged the Bellevue Civic Asso-
They would gather in small clusters— ciation on Facebook and said, ‘This is
socially distanced and face mask- so great.’ I love this about my neigh-
clad—standing on the sidewalks and borhood that we have these pockets
along the gutters, spilling into the of talent.”
streets, with eyes smiling and ears
cocked toward porches where musi- So the seed was planted, and a few
cians played and sang. It was called months later, on a stifling midsummer
Bellevue Porchella, an event that may afternoon, the seed cracked open and
be played out quarterly, or, at the very a pale green shoot shot forth.
least. once a year. In July, Brooke watched from her
“I had some adults that said that this front yard as a family with three kids
was like trick or treating for them,” strolled along the sidewalk across the
Brooke Ullman tells me. “I had other street. They briefly stopped in front of
adults who said that they needed the home of Haze and Dacey, two local
something like this, that they hadn’t musicians who were playing on their
been out since March and that it was front stoop.
just wonderful to see folks that they As Haze played on his upright bass,
hadn’t seen since the spring.” Dacey improvised a song for the kids.
We’re sitting near a fire pit on the pa- When the family moved on, Brooke
tio in the backyard of the arts-and- crossed the street and told her neigh-
crafts style cottage Brooke shares with bors how much she enjoyed listening
her husband, two children, and their to them play. And then she said this:
pets. Their son rockets by on a fly- “Wouldn’t it be cool if we had an out-
ing saucer swing that’s tethered to the door walk-around little music thing.”
thick and lofty bough a giant willow They both nodded. “Yeah, it’d be great,”
oak. He carves figure eights on the air said Dacey. “Will you do it? Will you
above us. organize it?”
Brooke Ullman was the progenitor “That is where the germ originated,”
of Bellevue Porchella. She tells me Brooke tells me now.
how the event was conceived, what Top: Brooke Ullman, the progenitor of Bellevue Porchella.
inspired it. Turns out it was some- But it was out of the question for
thing my son Charles and I would Brooke to put this together, juggling Bottom: Indira & Guppy Jo drew a large crowd on Greycourt Avenue.
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ride. She’s a full-time manager, who’s
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“Summer Gentry,” Brooke explains, short bios of the music makers. We
“is good at coordinating things. She studied it for a bit, and then decided
took a look at all the performers that to let our ears guide us. We walked
had submitted to be part of this. Sum- over to MacArthur Avenue and up
mer’s old school so she put it all out toward Claremont Avenue, and there
in color Post it notes and figured it was a young mother with her daugh-
all out. We talked many times about ter clasped to her chest, and they
set lists and how long would some- waltzed in the street while a hundred
body be able to play, how many times people, socially distanced and wear-
would someone want to play. We had ing face masks, stood in small clus-
a lot of discussions about whether ters on the sidewalks listening to The
we should centralize this and have Bellevue Bon Temps.
it in one area, or should we let it be Just to the north and west on Not-
spread out. Thinking the annual Gar- toway we heard the strains of a lone
den Walk tends to be spread out and piano, somewhat muted. I’m guess-
if we really want people to be spread ing it was a baby grand, much too
out during COVID-19, let them be large to move out into the front yard,
spread out.” so the pianist, David Calkins, played
The original date was washed out by from inside his home with all the
rain. The following Saturday though, windows open so the crowd could
October 17, the rain date, was spectac- hear him perform.
ular. Brooke remembers the day well, Then, directly next door, as soon as
and how the music swept her away. David’s set ended, singer/songwriter
“I walked by that one in the 1200 Sean Balick, played an original work
block of Greycourt because the band on acoustic guitar, a piece called
needed to get set up at our house,” “Dandelion”.
she says. “And they were over there Back on Greycourt Avenue, Haze and
playing Eric Clapton’s Cocaine at full Dacey were performing Joni Mitchell’s
volume and they were awesome. They
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And just across the street, on the front
That was exactly what my son porch of Brooke and Rob Ullman’s
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off our front porch on Greycourt large crowd.
7 Days a Week, 11am-8pm Avenue that Saturday afternoon. We “I never anticipated the crowds that
Menu on Our Facebook Page consulted an orange flier that the showed up,” Brooke tells me. “Indira
promoters of Bellevue Porchella had & Guppy Joe played out in front of
delivered a few weeks earlier to eve- our house at five and six. After two
ry household in the neighborhood. or three songs one of the ladies in
The flier had a map, and a QR code the audience came up and said, ‘Can
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you tell them to turn it up?’ And I
said, ‘Yeah, after she’s done with the
song, I’ll go tell her.’ And I walked
up and I said, ‘Indira, they need it
louder.’ And she looked up and she
realized there were people all up
and down the street because they
were smart about social distancing.
She had no idea the crowd was so
large. It was wonderful.”
In the long calendar of the year,
Richmond, Virginia has three days
that stand out. Those three days in
October annually attract hundreds
of thousands to the waterfront along
SUNDAY - THURSDAY, NOON - 7PM
the James River. It started sixteen
years ago as the American Folk Life
Festival, and three years later mor-
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phed into the Richmond Folk Fes-
tival. Although they held a virtual
event this year broadcast on public
radio and television, the festival was
cancelled due to COVID-19. Here’s
what my son told me after the Belle-
vue Porchella.
“It reminded me a lot of the Folk Fes-
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tival,” Charles said. “It was a mini-folk
festival in Bellevue in our own neigh-
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some classical piano music. We even
heard some grunge and rock, so it was
really nice to hear such a variety of
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music in our own neighborhood.” OUTDOOR TASTINGS
Like most of us who attended the
event, Charles hopes there will be
more porchellas in the future. CLOSED THANKSGIVING DAY | CLOSES 6PM CHRISTMAS EVE
Though it may not happen every quar-
ter, Bellevue Porchella will definitely
repeat every October. Brooke and
her group are already planning what
they’ll do—and not do—in the future. WE THANK ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS FOR THEIR LOYALTY AND
Toward the end of that first Bellevue
Porchella, Charles and I followed the
THEIR PATIENCE
stringy whine of blue grass over to
Fauquier. Scores of people were gath-
ered on the median strip and along the
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sidewalks on both sides of the street
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NIGHT
NOISES
“EVERYTHING CAN CHANGE JUST LIKE THAT.”
But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story Jane’s retold a hundred times in person or on social
media. The beginning of the story is always jarring, but it’s the end that leaves people speechless.
Jane has it all. She knows it, too. Not one member of her family has been struck down by COVID. She and her hus-
band Marty still have work, and are able to help their ten-year old son navigate school during the pandemic. Their
other four boys are grown and making their way in the world. Marty and Jane and their offspring have health; they
have good fortune; they have love. The house she shares with her husband and youngest son is perfect for them.
They had the house painted a couple weeks earlier, and Marty screened in the side porch, and changed the deadbolt
on the door off the porch so that it could be opened from the inside without a key. Marty’s a contractor and knows
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those locks can save lives if there’s a fire for instance; you don’t have to hunt for your key, just twist the thumb turn.
is not alarmed. It could be early risers; she’s left
A R LY O NE MO R NI N G the house at this hour before. She decides to let
when her story begins, Jane starts out of a deep
their dog out in the backyard to do his busi-
sleep, eyes wide. She sits bolt upright in bed and
ness. Flash is a massive mastiff, and he follows
stares at the door, which is open just a crack, cast-
Jane down the stairs. As she approaches the side
ing a triangle of light on the floor. A noise woke
door she can hear the voices. They are loud now,
her—a metallic and hollow clatter, the sound of
and someone is out there kicking the door and
trash being tossed into an empty dumpster. But
pounding at it with balled fists. Then Flash, all
the noise is an echo of a memory now. All she
one hundred and fifty pounds of him, makes a
hears is Marty snoring and a steady rain pelt-
beeline for the door. Jane can sense the rage boil-
ing the roof. When the fog of sleep clears, Jane
ing in his gut and the rumble of his will as he
considers the pile of aluminum ladders stacked
growls and lunges toward the door and the man
alongside the house. The painters hadn’t re-
standing on the other side of fifteen panes of 1/8-
moved the ladders yet; they might have fallen.
inch thick glass.
That would explain the noise. She wonders if
someone tried to steal the ladders, so she rises “Somebody’s coming in,” Jane yells, and now
from bed and moves toward the window. She Marty is up and out of bed. He vaults down the
can see nothing along the side of the house ex- stairs and stands behind the couch facing the
cept the wet dark night, but above the sound of side door. He hears the panes of glass rattling.
the rain and her husband’s snoring, she clearly “Get out of here,” he yells. Marty flies back up-
hears voices. stairs and grabs a crossbow that has no arrow,
along with an antique sword.
Jane looks at her cellphone: it reads 4:45. She
byCHAR LE S M CG U I GAN
illustration by CATH E R I N E M CG U I GAN
10 NORTH of the JAMES magazine • November 2020Marty knows that he will use the sword in earnest
if the intruder breaks through the door. And the
sword blade is razor-sharp. Marty nicked him-
self with it years ago and still sports a scar from
the wound.
The intruder just keeps coming back with his
fists, and Marty fends them off with the sword.
Throughout it all, the intruder is talking to two
men who aren’t even there. Marty is convinced
this young man is drugged to the gills—PCP
he’s thinking—so he decides not to cause him
bodily harm.
Upstairs Jane has finally gotten through to the
police dispatcher. She barks her address into
her cell phone, and begins a screaming dialogue
with her husband.
“Get the gun,” Marty hollers.
“I’ve got the gun,” Jane roars back. “I’m coming
A pair of bare fists come crashing through the of the door is holding a gun, so he keeps his down. The police are on the way. I’ve got a gun.”
small glass panes, pulverizing them into shards distance. Gradually, he approaches the intruder Of course there is no gun, but the police are on
and slivers that shower the room and cover the and points the crossbow at his face. And then their way. Had there been a gun, Jane knows the
floor with a thin coat of jagged sleet. It seems to the man starts punching out the panes of glass young man battering his way into their home
Jane the glass is shattering in every direction, and again. There is no gun. The intruder’s hands would now be dead.
that there are several voices outside, so she races search for the thumb turn of the deadbolt. That’s Jane looks at her son, huddled in his bed. She
back upstairs to her son’s room. As she reaches when Marty pulls the sword from its sheath, fights back tears, and yells into the phone. “Hur-
his bedroom door her mind wanders into one and begins hacking away at the hands that have ry, hurry, hurry. My husband’s downstairs fight-
of the darkest corners of Richmond’s recent past. entered his home. Each time Marty slashes one ing these people in the house.” The entire time
Jane thinks of the Harveys, a family of four— hand, it retreats, but then the other one enters. there is glass breaking. It never stops. And Marty
husband, wife, two young girls—brutally mur- When Marty slices into that one, it pulls back, continues to yell at the intruder. Jane tells her
dered in their home on a New Year’s Day fifteen only to be replaced by the other hand. It’s like a son, “It’s going to be okay.”
years ago during a grisly home invasion. game of whack-a-mole.
Then the police dispatcher tells her the police
“There are multiple people coming in my house Now there is blood splattered everywhere. There have arrived. Jane checks her phone. She had
right now to kill my family,” Jane thinks, then are drops of it on the shattered glass, and it pools been talking to the dispatcher for just five min-
shuts the door behind her. She calls 911 and near the threshold where the intruder stands. In utes, but it seemed like an eternity.
frantically searches for a skeleton key that will this predawn light it does not look red; it is dark
lock the door in this old house, but she cannot blue, almost black. “Everything’s going to be okay,” Jane says to
find it. She comforts her son, all the while calling her son.
And the intruder keeps screaming. “I’m comin’
911, but the call doesn’t go through. Jane thinks in. I am coming in!” “Where are you?” the dispatcher says. “Don’t
she hears people coming up the stairs. She leans come out. Where’s your husband?”
against the door pushing all her weight into it, “I got a gun, get the f**k out of here,” Marty yells.
He’s looking right into the intruder’s face and can Downstairs on the screened-in porch, the in-
hoping this will deter anyone from breaking truder backs away from the side door as soon as
into her son’s room. She will later learn the noise see his entire body. Marty sizes him up. He can’t
be much more than twenty years old, and has a he sees the flash of blue lights. He faces the street
in the hall and on the stairwell were made by and bends over the retro metal patio glider that
Marty who has the build and look of a Russian stocky build. At about six feet tall, he’s a couple
inches shorter than Marty. The intruder wears backs up to one of the screened-in panels of the
kick-boxer. side porch. His hands grip the backrest and his
no shirt despite the cold rain coming down, and
Marty has no idea if the man on the other side bears a number of tattoos on his arms and chest. eyes widen, almost in fascination, as he watches
November 2020 • NORTH of the JAMES magazine 11the intriguing pulse of blue light. “Maybe he really would have just will not accept anything except for
Marty runs through the house and come in and sat on the couch,” Mar- jail time for him.”
as he opens the front door, the po- ty suggests. “Maybe he just needed Jane and Marty look at one anoth-
lice, with weapons drawn, train to be inside in his drug stupor.” er, and Jane raises her hand.
their guns on him. Every night after that, Jane lies Jane realizes they are trying to
awake in her bed, while Marty “Before we go that far tell me one
Instinctively, Marty raises his humanize this man who terror- thing,” she says. “What does he say
sleeps. Every creak, every footfall ized them. It’s not that they were
hands. “It’s not me,” he says. “He’s startles her and she calls out to her about it? Has he shown any remorse?
on my side porch.” softening, but they were trying to What does he say happened?”
husband, “Did you hear that? Wake understand.
“Where? Where? Where?” the cops up. Go downstairs and check.” “Okay, hold on,” says the prosecu-
say in unison. And Marty rolls out of bed, checks “I still want them to throw the tor. “He actually has written y’all a
things out downstairs, and returns. book at him next week in court,” letter. He would like to speak with
Marty walks slowly to the side of Jane tells her husband. Yet as a
the house. “Right there,” he says, Jane simply doesn’t sleep at night. you in person, would like to apolo-
mother she also understands the gize to you in person, if it’s possible.
pointing at the intruder who is In the past when she woke late at young man could have been one
still transfixed by the flickering night, she would sometimes go He wants to pay you restitution.
of her own boys. “One of our five Would you be willing to let him
blue lights. downstairs, get a glass of water, or boys could get in trouble someday,”
let the dog out. Now she is terrified speak with you?”
Jane remains on the phone with she says. “Might have gotten into
of leaving the second floor. Now trouble. Who knows? None of us “Yes,” Jane says. “Let’s go.”
the dispatcher, who tells her it’s
when she can’t sleep, she paces are angels. Everyone has their thing
safe to come downstairs. “Hell no,” The three walk out of the court-
around the bedroom, moving from and if they haven’t done some-
says Jane. “I’m not coming down room and into a large foyer. The
window to window to see what thing, they know somebody or are
until I know that there’s nobody in young man and his mother look
is going on outside. At night, the related to somebody that’s done
my house.” both terrified and mortified.
downstairs terrifies her. something stupid. Or they’re lying.
It takes the police a good hour The mother snuffles between deep
Sometimes at night she will look at Or didn’t get caught.”
and half to process the intrud- sobs, and the young man’s cheeks
the face of her son, at the smooth-
er. An ambulance arrives at one are streaked with tears and his eyes
ness of his features. She sees that his
point and paramedics wrap the are moist.
body is still and his breathing even.
intruder’s hands in bandages. The Without saying a word, Marty
And then she thinks what he must
police move the intruder from the saunters over to the young man
have endured that night, and it calls
squad car to the ambulance and and shakes his hand.
to mind her own fears of a child.
back again. They are having trou- Eight days after the intruder
She remembers the nightmare, “I’m so sorry,” this young man
ble learning the young man’s true smashed their windows and their
waking up and realizing someone says. ”I’m so sorry for what I did
identity. Jane just wants them gone. sense of safety, Jane and Marty, at
had broken into their home. But to your family.”
She doesn’t want to have to look at nine on a Monday morning, find
for Jane, as a child, it was just a fear.
the young man, doesn’t want him themselves in a courtroom. They And then Jane does something she
For her son now, it is a reality.
or the cops in front of her house survey the others there, but don’t hasn’t done with her own grown
any longer. Time for them to go. Every day, Jane and Marty talk recognize the intruder. children since the COVID crisis
When Jane is certain the house about that night of terror. It’s their started. She hugs the mother, wraps
way of getting through it. They also Then a young man with a very dis-
is clear, she goes to the bathroom her arms around her. Jane rubs
talk with their son. And here’s what tinctive hair style walks in. Just be-
and retches into the commode. the woman’s back and can feel her
Jane says: “This guy that broke into side him is a woman who looks to
Her life, she knows, will never be trembling. Jane tries to soothe, rub-
our house, we’re pretty sure was be about Jane’s age. Their eyes don’t
the same. bing her back even harder.
completely out of it on drugs. That’s meet. Jane nudges her husband.
Later in the day, Jane and Marty “That’s him,” she says. “That must “It’s okay,” Jane whispers in her ear.
somebody’s child, that’s some-
sweep up the glass, and wipe be his mother. I hope they throw “It’s gonna be okay.”
body’s kid. He’s also somebody’s
down the floors and molding and the book at him.” Marty nods. “I am so sorry,” this other mother
grandchild, somebody’s brother,
walls with bleach and water, wip- says.
somebody’s uncle. Maybe, some- Jane continues to watch as the
ing away the blood, which had be-
body’s dad.” woman touches her son’s shoul- The prosecutor later tells Marty
gun to congeal. They also sponge
Between themselves, Marty and der, and something wells up in and Jane that the young man re-
away the pair of bloody hand
Jane remember what they had her, some new understanding. She ceived a ninety-day suspended
prints the intruder left on the
done as young people. “When I was looks over to her husband, and can jail sentence. As the couple wait
backrest of the glider on the side
his age and in high school I didn’t see that he is watching the woman, for the elevator, the mother and
porch. The water in the bucket is
do a ton of drugs, but I’ve experi- too. “I feel really bad now,” Marty her son approach them. The
tomato red. And then Marty and
mented,” Jane says. “They told us it says. “Oh my God, I feel really bad.” young man hands them an enve-
Jane buy a gun and ammunition.
was acid he was on, it was not some The prosecuting attorney ap- lope containing seven hundred
hard drug, it was hallucinogenic, proaches Jane and her husband, dollars, and he can see a question
which normally most of us would and says, “This is what we’re going on Jane’s face.
watch the trees breathe, or watch a to do to make sure he gets prose- “I want you to have this money to
coffee cup breathe.” She considers cuted to the fullest extent of the law. pay for any damages,” he says.
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