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Ben Fiore-Walker, the town crier of Alexandria, Va., who writes his own rhyming cry in quatrains for local events. Town crying is an old practice, dating back in Alexandria to the 1700s. In past centuries, the crier would read out news or announcements to villagers, many of them illiterate. Fiore-Walker, a director of a nonprofit who has held the volunteer ceremonial position for 13 years, is only the city's second Black town crier. The first, in 1816, was Peter Logan, who purchased his own freedom from slavery. (Axios)