The Matthew Jordan Brown Foundation

The world renown Richmond Shakespeare Festival troupe breezed in to the Blue Ridge Mountains to perform Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing" at our inaugural Shakespeare Festival.

Using the minimalist approach with properties, and dressed like an episode from M*A*S*H, these veteran performers delighted a large crowd with a masterful performance. Even the uninitiated in Shakespeare were rolling in the aisles!

The Richmond Shakespeare players get the audience involved in their performance.

Curtian call, sans curtain.

Bobby Lilly, a master magician and balloon artist, who is also an attorney from Narrows, Virginia, delighted the crowds all day long...

William Shakespeare (William E. Williams, III) and Lady Shakespeare (Janet Brown) brightened up the Festival in period costume.

The Forest Dance Academy Dancers graced the stage of the newly-completed Pavilion.

Dr. Don Garlock, Sr. enchanted the crowd with a very special perspective and reading of Edgar Alan Poe's "The Raven," one of Matthew's favorites.

Matthew's mom, Janet Brown, greets visitors
to the International Walk of Poems at the
MJB Center for the Performing Arts.

Sheriff Mike Brown, with some help from Ashley Bryan, makes a few remarks at the ribbon cutting of the International Walk of Poems.

Watch out! The Sheriff's got scissors,
and he's prepared to use them...

Left to Right: Sheriff Mike Brown, Bill McLaren, and Janet Brown do the honors, officially opening the International Walk of Poems to a waiting crowd of hundreds.

The High Sheriff and Lady Brown have worked
and waited a long time for this moment.

LEFT: The view from above
the International Walk of Poems.

Another view.

Craftsmen in costume line the grounds at the MJB Center during the Shakespeare Festival!

Spinning yarn is not a lost art at the MJB Center!

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