The Legacy of Love: Helping Hendo Heal October 12 2024, 0 Comments

Two weeks ago today, my neighbors and I -- along with neighborhoods all over Western North Carolina -- began the slow process of recovering and rebuilding from the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Without power, cell service, WiFi or potable water, we found creative ways to help each other. We cooked together, helped each other clean and salvage from significant damage, shared resources, stood in line for water and gasoline, and got creative about how we would begin to rebuild.

As I worked to pull massive trees that had crashed through the roof, deck and walls, of a property I had spent the last two years upgrading and remodeling, I felt grateful for the insurance coverage that would help with the massive repairs ahead. Then I began hearing about other individuals and businesses that weren't so fortunate. People who had lost everything due to mud or flood -- and have no recourse from their insurance.

That is when the idea for HendoWEen came to me. With the help of so many people -- in particular McCray Benson of The Community Foundation of Henderson County -- we created The Mud and Flood Fund.

Now we need your help.

Your donation to the Mud & Flood Fund* will help residents and small businesses in Henderson County whose homes or small businesses have suffered damage due to mud and/or flooding during Hurricane Helene. It is estimated that only 2% of residents possessed flood insurance, making recovery for those community members especially daunting.

The Mud & Flood Fund aims to aid individuals, families, and small businesses who might otherwise fall through the cracks in being able to rebuild and come back stronger than ever!

With the funds raised, the Mud & Flood Fund will assist homeowners in need through Henderson County Habitat for Humanity programs. Additionally, a portion of the funds raised will be used to boost small businesses, the backbone of the local economy, buoying access to low-interest loans or services from the Chamber of Commerce to help them rebuild and thrive once again.

Your donation to the Mud & Flood Fund will appear as a donation to the Community Foundation of Henderson County. After processing, you will receive an email notification for your tax records.

Please donate by clicking HERE.

You can keep up with all the HendoWEen action by joining our Facebook Group page. Click HERE to join.

We are hard at work organizing two events:

The Thriller Dance Challenge is an online event raising funds, awareness, and spirits! The Flat Rock Playhouse has created an instructional video to teach you the dance. Purchase the video for $13 (which will go to The Mud & Flood Fund), learn the dance, and film yourself. Share it on our HendoWEen Facebook page here and on social media. The first 50 people to share will get tickets to Mad Monster or Monsterpalooza events! Watch Flat Rock Playhouse bring Hendersonville together to Dance on October 30 and then join the fun!

More info to follow soon!

Our Online Auction will launch October 30 and continue rolling out through November 24. Featuring a wide range of fun stuff to bid on donated by celebrities and businesses all over the world, this is a great way for you to support The Mud & Flood Fund.

If you have something you would like to donate to our online auction, please email info@vincentprice.com. Our donations range from art to celebrity items to experience packages in fun places.

If you would like to be the first to know when this incredible auction goes live, please sign up for our mailing list here: CLICK HERE.

Why is this hosted on vincentprice.com? Because my father spent his life finding ways to help others using the power of his celebrity to make a difference. And if I have learned anything in my lifetime, it is that the only thing any of us can leave that will last is our Legacy of Love. (To read more, please click HERE.)

This is my small way of helping my community heal and come back stronger.

Thank you for helping Hendersonville and Henderson County heal!

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Help Hendersonville NC Heal from Hurricane Helene October 04 2024, 14 Comments

Victoria Price and Mad Monster team up to help Hendersonville: "For over 13 years, Mad Monster has celebrated horror and pop culture in North Carolina. Our NC community and family are second to none, so much so that we relocated our base of operations here two years ago. As we all scrambled to check on each other and coordinate how to best navigate relief effort, Victoria reached out with the plan and we are proud and honored to partner with her. Professionally and artistically, she's inspiring, having known her personally for over a decade, she's amazing. Famous Monsters' relationship with her dad goes back even further. Our families have a long distinguished history of uniting monster kids and we are committed to continuing the legacy."

Join Victoria Price for an Exclusive Online Event October 08 2016, 0 Comments

Victoria Price has followed in her father's footsteps, becoming a popular public speaker on inspirational topics such as Living Your Legacy; The Legacy of Yes; Creating a Daily Practice of Joy; The Adventure of Art Collecting; Listen, Learn, Laugh, Love: Designing for Live, and Explore Savor Celebrate!

But perhaps her most popular talk is about her father -- Vincent Price: Master of Menace, Lover of Life! Victoria has spoken all over the world about her father, but she still gets so many requests that she has decided to create an exclusive online event for fans who would love to hear and see this wonderful and heartfelt presentation. 

If you would like to sign up to be a part of a special evening with Victoria Price, including a Virtual Q&A, please sign up below. 

And thank you SO much for your love and support of the Vincent Price Family Legacy!

Vincent Price Inspires Victoria's Daily Practice of Joy October 08 2016, 0 Comments

Since April 2016, Victoria Price has been writing a weekly blog called Daily Practice of Joy. Her inspiration for this blog came from her father, Vincent Price, who was one of the most joyful people on the planet. Inspiring joy and saying yes, encouraging young people to pursue their passions and acting as a lifelong philanthropist for the arts. 

Although Victoria writes about many topics, quite a few of her blogs and podcasts have been inspired by her father. Click on the links below to read some of the blogs and podcasts inspired by Vincent Price.

Our Father

Beach Treasures

The Art of Conversation

The Geranium Thief

To read more, please visit www.dailypracticeofjoy.com.

Let our Freak Flags Fly! June 29 2015, 1 Comment

"The comment read: 'Loved Vincent Price but factually he did not support his daughter’s ‘lifestyle’.'

All kinds of feelings flew to the surface — hurt, anger, fear, resentment, shame, even humor. Next came the desire to respond. I sat with that for a while, and then realized that the title that had come to me on Sunday IS my response."

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The Highest Compliment June 12 2015, 0 Comments

"Toward the end of the talk I give about my father, there is a slide with this quote: 'I have come to believe that the highest compliment is not remembering someone; it is missing them.'"

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A Love Letter: to all the Vincent Price Fans I have Met at Horror Conventions June 12 2015, 2 Comments

"I have just spent probably the most extraordinary week of my life on a spiritual retreat with an amazing group of my soulmates — none of whom I had ever met face to face until this past Tuesday."

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A Legacy of Yes: Lesson in Joy June 12 2015, 0 Comments

"This coming Wednesday, May 27, would have been my dad's 104th birthday."

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The Daily Practice of Joy April 03 2015, 0 Comments

I was on quite a roll there for a while last year with blogging, and then I stopped. I got so busy with work, and the busier I got, the less energy I had for anything than work. Then I ran out of steam altogether.

Now I’ve brought on someone to help me keep up with all the social media for my dad and me — and when I asked her how often I should blog, her answer was NOT once or twice a year. . .or whenever you get around to it.

That was a month ago.

To read more, please continue here. . .http://www.cookingvincent.com/blog/2015/4/3/my-daily-practice-of-joy

Victoria Price answers fan questions on the Cragg Live Show! September 15 2014, 0 Comments

Terry and Tiffany DuFoe host a lively radio show from an old abandoned Drive-In Movie theater with Wicked Kitty and Fritz the studio cats and CRAGG The Gargoyle. This week they hosted Victoria Price for a one-hour interview and got to ask lots of fan questions about her legendary father. Have a listen below!

Road Trip 2014: At Monster Mania March 08 2014, 3 Comments

Good morning!

I am here at Monster Mania in Cherry Hills, New Jersey, which is just over the bridge from Philadelphia. In fact, I can see the Philly skyline from my hotel room--not that I get much time in my hotel room. . . because this is a very busy show.

Yesterday, I arrived at 1PM and, after checking in, I began my booth set up. I am the only person in the "celebrity" room who brought lots of stuff to sell, so it took me a while to get it looking the way I wanted. I was particularly excited because we have something new just for this show--Vincent Price Gothic rings! I plan to post some good pictures of them and get them up for sale on this site very soon! But they are really amazing, and I was thrilled to see them when I picked up the Fedex box at the hotel front desk.

While everyone's "handlers" were settng up their booths, I got mine in shape and then went up to change. I got back down to the room at 4PM, and for the next six hours, the steady flow of fans never stopped. It was amazing!

The people at this show are true classic horror fans--and there are fans of all ages. . .the youngest being age four! I LOVE that! Whenever I go to shows, I never charge for photos or autographs. Everyone seems astonished and grateful for that, because all the other guests charge fees for both of those things. I spent my childhood watching my dad sign autographs and have his picture taken with anyone and everyone! He did this because he believed that--as Helen Hayes told him when he began his career on Broadway in 1935--"actors are public servants". What that meant to him was that, without their audiences and fans, actors don't have a career. And so, his job as an actor was to be there for his public. And he always was! At least ten people came up to me last night and shared their stories of my father's correspondence with them: They sent him letters or photos, and he always responded!

If my father didn't charge for a photo or autograph, how on earth can I--who am merely here to represent the Price legacy! Whenever I come to these shows, I feel like my job is to channel my dad. It's a tall order (pun relating to my 6'4" father fully intended). As I am always told, no one has ever met anyone who didn't like Vincent Price. (I'm afraid the same cannot be said of me--though I generally do try to move through the world as an open-hearted and kind person.) Truly, my father was an extraordinary man, especially since he worked in a business built on ego. He loved loved loved people--loved meeting them, hearing their stories, encouraging their dreams, and being with them.

I am a sort of odd mix between my mom and dad--social to a point, but someone who has to shut the doors and be home to recharge. At the end of six hours last night of chatting with fans, hearing their stories, signing autographs and having my photo taken, I was both grateful and uplifted, but also exhausted. I have come to realize that that wasn't true of my dad at all. For him, all human interaction was his fuel for living. He thrived on the energy of other people.

Where we are completely alike is in our need to travel and see the world. This road trip has been an amazing opportunity to see the world and its inhabitants and extraordinary treasures through new eyes.

Yesterday, before coming here, I had a chance to take a whirlwind tour of the Barnes Foundation--a collection I had long been wanting to see. The most striking aspect of the collection is the way that it is hung--not chronologically in any way, but according to Mr. Barnes' view of how each piece related to another. What that means is that you can have an early Renaissance annunciation in the same room as a Matisse, along with a grouping of Native American jewelry, with a few African masks thrown in for good measure. Since this is exactly how I grew up, I immediately loved it. I didn't have time for a tour, so I asked a museum worker for an explanation of Mr. Barnes' approach. She told me that he saw a flow between the pieces and everything in the room was aimed toward helping the viewer understand that flow. From the ornate metal door latches and other architectural details that guide the eyes to what Mr. Barnes hoped we would see in that particular piece, to the chairs that relate to the subjects of the paintings (a large chair for a large lady--as though she might step right out of the frame and sit down to have a nice chat)--the hanging is clever and thought provoking.

My favorite room was probably one filled with drawings, some of which were by artists that most people have forgotten, but about whom my father often spoke--most notably William Glackens. Mr Barnes managed to create an unlikely flow between the fluid drawings Glackens did of New Yorkers and the colorful drawings by Sisley of marine scenes. It was an unexpected but delightful juxtaposition. And, of course, the great Matisse paintings and murals, the phenomenal Van Gogh of the postman, the Picassos, Native American textiles and pottery were all more than worth the price of admission. But my personal favorite may have a large painting by Honore Daumier. I most know Daumier's work through his drawings and cartoons, and so I was surprised by the fluidity and abstraction of this piece. . .and so interested to see how his drawing style translated into painting. It's always a joy to discover something new!

My father was certainly there in spirit. For all his reverence for the visual arts, his ever-present sense of humor never left him--even in the hallowed halls of a museum. And so, yesterday, as I was taking in a wonderful Frans Hals portrait of a bearded man, I turned to my left and caught a glimpse of a rather typically garish Chaim Soutine portrait of what looked--on my initial glance--to be a clown. "Oh look," I swear I heard my father say right in my ear, "the Barnes Foundation has an original Red Skelton."

Today promises to be a busy day here in New Jersey. I will be giving my talk at noon, which is always lots of fun. And my nephew, Jody, is coming down from Northern New Jersey to spend part of the day with me. Two generations of Prices--and yet we are only six months apart! My father always used to say that he was the perfect example of planned parenthood: "Get one kid through college and then have the next one!" I will also be having dinner with the always wonderful Bryan Hewitt, a fan who has come all the way from England to hear my talk and have dinner with me! What fun!

I have been posting regular entries on my Road Trip blog, which you can find by clicking on Cooking Vincent at the top of this page. Or you can just click here: The Road Trip Blog

But I just wanted to write this as a kind of "postcard" from Monster Mania. My dad always loved sending postcards to his family, friends, and fans. I am so grateful for all the Vincent Price fans who have visited this site! We are hard at work to add some of the features you have been asking for. But mostly we are just really grateful to you for keeping the Vincent Price legacy alive!

More soon, I promise!

Have a great weekend.

Victoria

It's Time for a Road Trip--Whetting Our Appetites for Joy February 28 2014, 0 Comments

Today, February 28, we are kicking off a new blog. You can find it by clicking on the Cooking with Vincent tab on the top of this page. It will take you to our new website celebrating the 50th anniversary edition of my parents' famous cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes.

This month, I will be hitting to road on the kind of adventure that I loved as a kid. You can follow my exploits on the Road Trip blog.

Or just click here and it will take you there: http://www.cookingvincent.com/blog/

Thanks for following along. It promises to be a lot of fun!