In May 2005, writer and radio essayist Janis Jaquith interviewed Academy Award-winning actress Sissy Spacek at CharlottesvilleGuv,!v,,us Paramount Theater. The event was the kickoff of the successful campaign to raise the funds for the construction of The Community Chalkboard and Podium: A Monument to the First Amendment. The monument was dedicated in Charlottesville in April, 2006.