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Writing as a Passion
Duane Kennedy Nelson studied engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He studied business administration, advertising, and marketing at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has a passion for sailing, seamanship, and scuba diving learned in the North Atlantic. Duane resides aboard his yacht, Skybird somewhere between the Virginia Chesapeake Bay and the Lesser Antilles. He authored Miracle on Cary Street: Restoring Virginia's Grandest Movie Palace, which became an Amazon best seller. This memoir details his 25-year management of the Byrd Theatre in Richmond, VA until 2007.
Welcome to Duane Kennedy Nelson Publishing
The history of “Virginia’s Grand Motion Picture Palace,”
the Byrd Theatre belongs to every movie goer who has
graced her gilt doors and sat on the edge of a springy
seat awaiting the rise of the mighty Wurlitzer. Seeing a
show at the Byrd is now cemented in the Richmond
experience, a beloved piece of the city’s authentic soul.
It’s a tradition that nearly didn’t survive.
Miracle on Cary Street: Restoring Virginia’s Grandest
Movie Palace is Duane Kennedy Nelson’s behind the
scenes account of restoring the Byrd in the 1980s to her
original 1928 luster with the help of Richmond A-listers,
theatre front liners, add a host of movie aficionados.
Thanks to their hard work, vision, and sweat equity,
seeing a show at the Byrd, and paying only a few
dollars to do so, has been a treasured experience since
the Byrd reopened her doors in 1984.
Read the who and the how of saving the Byrd and walk
down memory lane through the movies and reviews of
your own Richmond experience.
