You might just as easily paint a portrait through a prism than put a finger on what exactly it means to be a true Richmonder, whether you adopted this place as your own or cropped up from generations of natives. Of course, that hasn’t stopped us from trying. Here, we present a handful of our friends and neighbors who in some way embody our history and traditions, as well as our relentless pursuit of a future that seems always to be just around the river’s bend.