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In The Kitchen with Kevin Jean Gold Remembers Illustrator Randolph Caldecott

Interview with Betsee Parker on the new Middleburg Museum

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t’s been said that one officer on a horse equals a dozen policemen on foot.

From their vantage point 12 feet above ground they can spot thieves robbing parked cars. Sgt. Denis Ayres would stand next to a bus and peek through the windows. He once chased a suspected carjacker up the Capitol steps on his former racehorse, Timely Reward. Also from Middleburg, Timely Reward placed in several stakes races and finished tenth in the 1951 Kentucky Derby.

As 25 million visitors roam the National Mall each year, many are seeking directions and frequently turn to the mounted officers.

“A horse is a magnet, Ayres said “It draws everybody’s attention. It’s like a Good Humor ice cream man riding in an armored car.”

A string of 20 horses is now stabled in an out-of-date temporary facility on the National Mall just southwest of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, between the Korean and

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rivate Mariea Sabate of The United States Park Police Horse Mounted Unit combs the countryside searching for suitable horses to join the force in Washington. She’s frequently found exceptional candidates from the Middleburg area.

One of her favorites was a former racehorse donated by Middleburg’s Zohar and Lisa Ben-Dov, Pacific Blackout. “He was a prince with the heart of a lion,” she said. The dark bay was bred and foaled in Florida April 8, 1997 and his racing career included 12 starts. He won twice, was second twice and had one third-place finish, with total earnings of $29,680 before he was injured.

Neil Morris trains at Kinross for Zohar and Lisa Ben-Dov, and has won the Virginia Steeplechase Association Leading Trainer of the Year 11 times. He recalled that when Pacific Blackout was injured, he was first rehabilitated and turned out before being given to the Park Police program.

“He was very nice,” Morris said, noting that Private Sabate “understands the product, she’s the best filter I’ve met and she knows what will be suitable.”

Sabate, 51, joined the mounted patrol in 1991 and rode another Ben-Dov horse, Rebel Command, on the C & O Canal until 1997.

They were then selected to move to the Training Barn at Edgewater Stables in Rock Creek Park and thus, she became the first female officer at the barn and its first female instructor.

“I’ve been training horses and officers ever since, “ she said.

Sabate grew up in the Washington area, riding at the public stables in Rock Creek Park and said “I’d ride anything. “ She knew horses would be her life. As a spectator at the Washington International Horse Show, she watched Park Police Sgt. Denis Ayres compete in the North American Police Competition, and he became her mentor. Ayres, now 82 and retired, continues to ride on weekends with Sabate along the 19 miles of trails in Rock Creek Park.

The Park Police mounted unit was established in 1934 and is one of the country’s oldest police equestrian units. It also includes the K-9, SWAT, Marine, aviation and motorcycle divisions.

Sabate has turned down any promotion in order to remain with the mounted unit. Her meticulously schooled equines and their riders have donned riot gear to control Occupy Wall Street protesters in Mac Pherson Square and rowdy crowds at the World Bank meetings. She also patrolled the perimeter of the White House 12 hours a day for months after September 11, 2001.

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Whitener had been feeding appreciative area residents for many years, first as owner of the Rail Stop restaurant in The Plains from 1982-99, then at the Fauquier Livestock Exchange until the fall of 2011. On Oct. 24 that year, a catastrophic fire destroyed most of the facility, though Whitener’s small space mainly suffered minor water damage.

He actually was serving coffee and donuts three days later, and stayed open for another three months. He then was told the exchange was going to rebuild, without a restaurant unless he wanted to finance it himself.

“That wasn’t going to work,” Whitener said recently. And so he took his culinary skills over to a small Leesburg eatery, supplementing his part-time income with various construction jobs.

Meanwhile, this past October, Old Salem owners Jimmy and Donna Campbell decided to move their restaurant from the main street of Marshall to a more affordable space in a strip mall near the Marshall Food Lion.

Jimmy Campbell was shopping for lumber to build a new bar in his new location one day when he saw Whitener working in the shop at nearby Heritage Hardwood. They’d known each other for years, and Campbell said he told Whitener “You need to be in my breakfast area, not a wood shop. The next day, Kevin came in and said he was interested.

“The whole month before we opened, he helped me set up the kitchen. He made sure I got things in place and then he told me he wanted seven days a week serving breakfast. I gave him the run of the kitchen, and it’s been a great plus to have him. It seems like he’s very happy.”

Campbell had actually approached Whitener not long after the fire to see if he might come over to Old Salem back then. “But I didn’t want to commit just in case the old one was go-ing to be rebuilt,” he said. “They kept telling me it might happen, but it never did.”

Whitener’s old place at the exchange consisted of a small kitchen and a horseshoe coun-ter that would seat 25 on stools all around. On many days, the breakfast crowd formed a line out the door. Whitener did a brisk lunch business as well, with reasonable prices, paper napkins and hold the fancy linen.

Now at the Old Salem, it’s more of the same.

This time there are tables and chairs as well as

stools at the bar—room for 54 in all—big-screen TVs and an ever expanding menu that has also drawn big crowds for all three meals served during the day. Whitener’s breakfasts are so popular, on the weekends, the parking lot is jammed.

The son of an Army mess sergeant, Whitener learned how too cook helping his father run a drug store lunch counter in Washington back in the 1970s. At the Rail Stop he typically worked 120-hour weeks until he sold the business to actor Robert Duvall. At the livestock exchange, he also started a catering business, and he still does that on the side.

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doors open at 6:30 a.m. He works until 11:30 a.m. and is usually in bed by 7 to 8 at night.

“If I take a day off, I really don’t do much anyway,” he said. “This is what I really like to do.

It’s not a job to me.”

Whitener also has a legion of admirers. If he’s not too slammed in the kitchen, he often comes out to meet and greet old friends and long-time customers now thrilled to see him back scrambling their eggs and frying their bacon.

“He’s everything I thought he’d be,” Jimmy Campbell said. “He’s a hard worker and he’s straight up. He tells you what he likes and what he needs, and if he’s got an issue, he’ll tell you that, too. I appreciate it. When we first started, he said ‘I don’t want any door on the kitchen, I want to see everyone.’ People come in now and the first thing they say is ‘where’s Kevin?’”

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hen Betsee Parker first moved to the Middleburg area 20 years ago, she was surprised to learn that the historic town did not have a community museum to call its very own. That is about to change, in a very big way, thanks in large part to Parker.

Some time this spring, most likely in May, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a Middleburg Museum that will be located on East Washington Street at the stately home most re-cently owned by Howard and Nancy Allen, the founders of the Fun Shop. On that day, Parker will hand over the keys to that house to a foundation that will oversee the museum. She purchased the Allen’s home with the express purpose of donating it to the community.

“I had thought for years that Middleburg was not being adequately served as far as its important local history and its larger place in Virginia history,” Parker recently told Middleburg Life, in her first interview since making her generous gift. “You’ve got Middleburg, Aldie and Upperville, and so much history.

Horses and fox hunting have already been wellrepresented in other local museums. But I really thought that Middleburg needed more than that.”

Parker’s philanthropy in supporting a wide variety of local restoration projects and so many other good causes has been well-documented in recent years. She’s also served on a number of boards, including the National Sporting Library and Museum and the Museum of Hounds and Hunting in Leesburg, but in the case of the Middleburg Museum, she said she prefers to serve only as a consultant and that “I really would like

to see the community take ownership of it.”

The community had previously started that process. A Middleburg Museum Foundation has already been in existence, and recently held an organizational meeting in mid-January to add new board members and divvy up committee assignments, including an all-important fundraising arm. The foundation board will be co-chaired by Mark Krogness, a co-owner of Middleburg’s Byrne Gallery, and Eura Lewis, a former member of the Town Council who has been a long-time advocate for a local museum.

“We are so grateful to Dr. Parker,” Lewis said. “I call her our guardian angel. We’re going to do our best so that generations and generations will have a museum worth coming to.”

“There’s a lot of organization going on right now,” said Middleburg Mayor Betsy Allen, whose parents owned the home that was listed for sale at $1.375 Photo by Sophie Scheps million and includes four bedThe former home of Nancy and Howard Allen will now be the new Museum rooms and seven fireplaces. “I’m sure there that lectures and programs will be on the agenda.” street, not far from the mid- Mosby’s Rangers and frequently wreaked havoc Indeed, the museum is on Union forces in Northern Virginia and town traffic light. also expected to include old “It’s the gateway to Middle- the Shenandoah Valley. Mosby was a frequent photographs, artwork, papers burg,” she said. “I felt you dinner guest at the home, and under duress, and other artifacts, as well as a would have a lot of tourists occasionally hid in Chancellor’s attic to avoid gift shop. There will be an oral and visitors walking down detection of Union patrols. history component featuring Photo by Janet Hitchen “I wanted it to be a historic house with the street. This house had recorded interviews with many Betsee Parker purchased the a lot of possibilities and I plenty of wall space and floor space,” Parker long-time Middleburg residents, property and will donate it to thought people would really said. “There’s also a lovely garden and an old including a significant focus the foundation red barn out in back. I just thought everything enjoy it.” on the area’s African-American The house, believed to came together with this property. The moment community. have been built in the early I walked in the door, I could see it was the right Parker said she had been searching in 1800s, also has plenty of history in its own right. place. recent years for just the proper place to house During the Civil War, it was owned by then “My gift is just the start of it,” she added. the museum. She looked at several intriguing Middleburg Mayor Lorman Chancellor. He was “Now it should be owned by the citizens of properties, many on back streets but none of a friend of John Singleton Mosby, the Confed- Middleburg. It’s not something that belongs to them in such a prime location on the main erate officer who led what became known as me.” n

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or most people, 1969 is remembered as the year Apollo 11 landed on the moon, anti-Vietnam war protests and the famous concert at Woodstock, New York.

With no wish to deprecate any of these happenings, the thing I remember most about that year was that my husband, Bill Costin, and I decided to start the Middleburg Players.

We had been living in Middleburg about three years when we both sensed a gap in our lives that had previously been filled by our theatrical activities. The children were established in their various schools, and the routine of country living did not provide quite enough excitement for the leisure time we had on our hands.

At a gathering of friends and neighbors, we sent up a trial balloon by asking if anyone was interested in starting a community theater group. Surprisingly, a number of guests climbed on the bandwagon. Fred and Courtney Kohler were among the most enthusiastic volunteers.

The next day we ordered scripts and rehearsal material from Tams-Witmark in New York, the copyright agency for the musical we decided on. We opened our first charge account in the name of “The Middleburg Players” for “Bells Are Ringing.” It was a show Bill and I had produced in East Hampton in the early 1960s and it seemed appropriate for a Middleburg audience.

We badgered everyone we knew who we thought might have a shred of talent and listened intently in church for possible voices for the leads. Years later this method was still working and, one morning after a hymn, I turned to see who had the beautiful voice behind me and looked into the violet eyes of Elizabeth Taylor, who had moved to the area after marrying John Warner.

No one was safe. Cocktail parties and tailgate picnics became audition grounds and

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our children’s friends were hauled out of their recreation rooms and ball games to try out for the chorus. We held auditions and cast the show with would-be actors from the area.

People who had never even given a speech in Friday morning assembly found themselves singing “Hello, hello there” in the subway scene.

We found willing artists with Emily Sharp and Doris and Peter Weeks to design and build the sets, and costume designers materialized out of local boutiques. The art departments of Foxcroft and Hill School came up with posters and we gathered ads for the program.

At this point there wasn’t even a movie theater in town and some of the residents had never seen a live performance, except for local school plays. We rented the Middleburg Community Center for four performances. We hired Jack Rakestraw’s orchestra and produced an instant hit. I went to Fred Kohler’s real estate office the day after opening night and wrote a smashing review for the Times Mirror in Leesburg, unsigned of course, and we were on our way.

Forty-five years later, the Players are still performing. Without a permanent place to show off our talents, we have maintained our identity, a following, a sense of integrity, and a good credit standing with the Middleburg Bank.

When Bill Costin died in April of 1976, the year of the bicentennial, we opened rehearsals for the musical “1776,” and I inherited the role of director. It was a musical with a cast of 23 men and women and an almost impossible show to produce on our amateur theatrical budget.

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I turned to see who had the beautiful voice behind me and looked into the violet eyes of Elizabeth —Jean Gold

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JEAN GOLD: MIDDLEBURG’S QUEEN BEE OF THEATER

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When did your love of theater begin?

When I was ten, I went to see a play called “The Old Maid,” and that did it! I started acting in high school in Tulsa, and I was in some plays with Tony Randall. Back then, I wanted to play the queen, but I was always her hand maiden, or president of the class. In 1941, I went to New York to study with Tamara Daykarhanova from the Moscow Art Theater, and I was in a play with Gregory Peck and Diana Barrymore.

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Yes, in the 1950s and early ‘60s I was living in Eastern Long Island and became very involved in the theater there.

Well, I basically said this place needs something besides horses. So why not have a theater group? In those days, we did two or three productions a year. I would stop people in church, out on the street and ask if they’d be interested. People could never imagine getting on stage, and then they’d come out and blossom. I once heard a woman singing in church right behind me and later realized it was Liz Taylor.

I didn’t ask her to join us, but I saw her at a party not long after that and told her I almost did. She said ‘you should have called me. I could be quite bad, you know.’

This was during (World War II) and someone

I’d have to say “Our Town.” And I really enjoyed doing “It Was Mostly Fun,” written by the late Doc Saffer, about growing up in Middleburg.

Fred Spencer, Christian Meyers and I wrote the words and the music. I once started writing a musical based on “Catcher in the Rye.” I wrote to J.D. Salinger and told him what I planned and he wrote back and said “Holden wouldn’t like it.” So it never happened.n

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I often ask myself that same question. My husband, Bill Costin, and I had been recently married. We both had kids, and some of them were in school in Virginia. My family also had Virginia roots. Someone had told me that Middleburg was a nice place to live.

We both liked to ride, and we also looked at Bucks County in Pennsylvania, but we really loved this area and that was that.

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This introduction to our regular question and answer feature comes from 95-year-old Jean Gold herself. It’s the prologue to her memoir, “If You Love Me, Smile.”

“My first encounter with a celebrity was when tennis champion Big Bill Tilden stepped on my 12-year-old foot after his tennis match at the Tulsa Coliseum, and didn’t apologize. That was 83 years ago. Since that time I have acted with Gregory Peck and Diana Barrymore, interviewed John Steinbeck twice, been photographed with Adlai Stevenson while covering JFK’s inaugural celebration for Time-Life Films, previewed the film “Murder on the Orient Express” with John Wayne at a party in Hong Kong and had the door slammed in my face by Gore Vidal when I delivered some requested research to him… I managed to rent houses to actress Sylvia Sydney and author E.L. Doctorow during my brief real estate career in Sag Harbor, N.Y., in 1963. My 95 years on this planet otherwise have been spent in relative obscurity touched by many crazy and needy, joyful and jaundiced, wise and wonderful people who have formed the framework of my life in Oklahoma, Texas, New York and Virginia.

No, back then they didn’t really let women write.

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tornado — or at least the threat LCPL website and its program guide — far more of one — forced John Daum than could ever have been imagined by Middleand son, Jacob, to abandon burg residents once served by a bookmobile.

Today’s cardholders can use Hoopla, a new their first attempt at visiting all eight Loudoun County Public streaming service for movies, TV shows, music and audiobooks. There are also eBooks and free Libraries in one day.

“We were so close to completing our quest,” legal music downloads (accessing eight million lamented Daum, the Hill School fifth grade songs) via Freegal. For a modest fee, patrons teacher who two years ago set out to conquer the can publish their own paperback through entire branch system in a single circuit. “We were Rust Library’s Symington Press or request an leaving Lovettsville on our way to Purcellville inter-library loan from anywhere in the U.S. or when the call came from [his wife] Kasia that Canada. Events range from SAT preparation and urgent weather advisories were coming in for a “Doctor Who Fan Night” to author visits and Northern Loudoun County.” Parental wisdom “Time Management for Right-Brained People.” prevailed, and they headed straight home to The Plains.

When the twoman team decided to try again this past December, they first checked the weather.

Not a problem, and off they went.

“We have one of the greatest county library systems in the country and it was really cool to hit them all in one day,” John Daum said. “They are all so different and so John Daum and his son, Jacob spread out. Plus seeing all of Joan Gardiner’s Book clubs accommodate nearly every age, stage tile work at each one is amazing.“ The Daums’ route ran from Middleburg to and interest.

Long-time Branch Manager Sheila Whetzel Gum Spring, Sterling, Cascades, Ashburn, Leesburg, Lovettsville and — victory! — Purcellville. said February, 2015 marks the 25th anniversary At every stop, they explored local art, arti- of the Middleburg Library in its current location. fact and history displays and checked out books Though the smallest in the county, it attracts as and movies from the vast collection. It was many as 250 users in a day. Six staff members especially touching to see 16-year-old Jacob, (two part-time) engage with virtually everyone a sophomore at Highland School, adjust his who walks through the door.

“It’s the only county branch without auto6-foot-5 frame down to children’s shelf height to mated check-out,” Whetzel said. locate several boyhood favorites.

“It’s great to visit all the others,” John Daum “In our family,” Daum explained, “there are three parents: my wife, myself, and the said, “but your local library is like ‘Cheers,’ where library. Our kids [Jacob and sister, Julia, a Hill everybody knows your name. ‘Ahhh,’ you say, School eighth grader] grew up at the Middleburg ‘here they understand us’.” He also raved about Library doing story hour, summer reading . . . Middleburg’s new building extension, opened 18 all the programs. We would also request things months ago.

Whetzel said the new wing makes the online and notice that they were coming from other branches. We decided rather than wait a library truly multi-functional. Previously, actividay or two, it would be more fun to venture and ties and presentations involved shifting tables collect them ourselves. It became a family thing and chairs, and the disruption of quieter pursuits.

Now, a three-year old with headphones in — visiting other libraries — always in conjuncthe learning corner can cheerfully sound out her tion with a playground stop.”

Daum recalled one magical moment when ABCs without disturbing a regular who comes Julia was little. They read “Go Dog Go” before for the Wall Street Journal. A hands-on art sesheading to the community playground behind sion might be scheduled in the separate quiet the Middleburg Library. The hounds came run- study space at the same time a local committee ning through, Julia shouted “Go Dogs Go!” from gathers in the meeting room. Teens read graphic the play set, then watched in amazement as the novels in their own zone, while telecommuters stay in touch with clients and co-workers, thanks hunt rode past.

Storytime is still a library staple, and most to added computer stations.

“The only thing missing is a coffee bar,” everyone knows they can also access books, movies, and free Wi-Fi. In addition, there are John Daum said, half seriously. “I would pay a hundreds of activities and services listed on the club membership to have that!” n

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The Singing Caterer Makes Music and Delectable Dishes “I wasn’t trained in any way,” she said, “but singing has always been a part of my life.”

Over the past year, with the help of a Middleburg Academy music faculty member, Perricone also has been working on a one-woman Photo by Middleburg Photo show.

(Above) Tutti Perricone sets an elegant party “It’s going to table. (Left) Tutti Perricone caterer of all be about the history of the area history of Middleburg. Her husband, Vince and the UnderPerricone, has owned Middleburg Printers for ground Railnearly 30 years and also helps her in the road,” she said. catering business. Her brother, Wade Smith, “At some point we would like to put on this show and raise owns Middleburg Estate Management. Other siblings still live in the village, Winchester, and money to support the Middleburg Museum.”

Now that a location on Washington Street Haymarket.

With her continued Back Street culinary in town has been donated to the Museum Foundation, Perricone hopes the show will be prowess, Tutti Perricone can still claim her title as “The Singing Caterer.” ready at some point this spring.

“I’m keeping very busy,” she said. “This “We aren’t in a rush,” she said. “Our focus has shifted. We are enjoying working on this area loves farm-to-table cooking, and that’s project and now that a space for the museum what I do.”

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These days, she operates her Back Street Catering business, serving many of the same delicious café dishes customers always loved.

She also continues to sing and perform in productions and other functions as she always did in the restaurant on Valentines Day. With no formal training in either discipline, Perricone has attained remarkable success. After graduating from Loudoun County High School, she started working in restaurants, wonderful training for her future ventures.

“My parents didn’t push me to go to college and they weren’t college-educated, but they were very hard workers,” she said. “They told me if you are passionate about something then you should go for it. They helped me open Backstreet in 1986 when I was 27.”.

In a struggling economy and with expenses that weren’t getting any cheaper, Perricone knew it was probably the right time for the café to close its doors three years ago.

“It was time. I was ready to move on,” she said. With more time and renewed energy, Perricone was able to ramp up her Back Street Catering business.

“Catering has always been my main passion,” she said. “It’s where I can be the most creative.”

Perricone runs her business out of Middleburg Academy’s kitchen, an arrangement that has proven to be mutually beneficial. She also handles the school’s lunch program with three other assistants. It’s been a wonderful advantage for Perricone, and the school doesn’t have to worry about staffing the kitchen.

In addition to serving school lunches, Perricone caters weddings, private events, and many functions for local hunts.

“I’m really lucky that I have a lot of repeat clients,” she said. “I’m often booked every year on the same dates for the same functions.” Later this year, for example, Perricone will cater both the annual spring fundraisers for Middleburg Academy and the Middleburg Humane Foundation, among many other satisfied customers.

Perricone’s “simple, well-prepared cuisine” is always made with the freshest local ingredients. Cooking anything from her signature beef tenderloin to recreating meals based off family recipes clients give her, Perricone said she will try anything in the kitchen, with the exception of baked goods.

“When my mother was alive and I first started my business she would make all my wedding cakes,” she said. “She was fantastic at it.”

In her spare time, Perricone’s passion for singing has led to her to perform in many local theater productions for the Middleburg Players, as well as for Tom Sweitzer, the founder and director of A Place To Be.

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iddleburg Academy’s new STEAM initiative, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, is another approach to continue creating an environment in which students are given a holistic, creative education.

“What’s motivating us right now is what we are seeing happen in higher education,” said Head of School Colley Bell. “In essence, this is all about teaching our students how to learn. How to collaborate.”

For the small independent high school of 130 students, that entails increasing course offerings, creating new extra curricular activities and working with the rapid changes in how children of the 21st century learn. Laptops, iPhones and YouTube videos are all included in classroom study to encourage students to solve problems.

Bell said he believes without so many relatively new technologies, students are prevented from accessing most of the world’s vital information. With an estimated 80 percent of future careers requiring some part of STEAM, learning these skills is essential.

“When you talk about college preparatory now, its much more than just reading, writing, and arithmetic,” Bell said. “It’s binding all these new forces together. How schools are managing this is a real art. We’re small enough and nimble enough to adapt to these new tools.”

An over-arching theme of STEAM programs is creating collaboration, not only between students but also between students and faculty. The students themselves often ask for new elective offerings.

“As they go through a course and our discussions they begin to realize that they are interested in a specific topic and want to know how far they can take it,” said Bill Crum, chairman of the science department.

Assistant Head of School Jan Healy described the academic atmosphere as stimulating, with students eager for more. As soon as new classes are offered, more ideas come into her office.

“We want dynamic, excited learners,” she said.

With self-directed study times and classrooms and libraries open for students after school and on weekends, Middleburg Academy has created the feeling of a college campus to prepare its students for that transition.

How the classes are actually taught also encourages students to push themselves. In math, students solve problems collaboratively

in class, preventing them from feeling isolated if they are struggling with a topic.

“I asked a class once should I continue talking about this topic or would you rather get started on problems and then get stuck,” said Deriba Olana, chair of the math department. “They said they would rather work and get stuck. That’s a huge shift from the method where you sit back and let the teacher talk and you may or may not understand it and then go home and tell your parents you hate math.”

The science department is working to create new classes that introduce the most current research topics. A digital forensics class looks at how data bases work, how they can be hacked and how to trace back clues to find hackers. A neuroscience class is very popular among students and it’s more than just brain dissections of frogs.

“The course is not only introducing the students to the anatomy of the central nervous systems and of the brain but also to give them insight into what’s currently going on in the world,” Crum said. “This sort of research is what’s getting a lot of grants.”

Middleburg Academy is working with Project Lead the Way, a non-profit organization that develops STEAM curricula, including more engineering classes. A new course sequence starting with Fundamentals of Engineering will begin this next fall. In addition, a new computer science class will also be offered and will be mandatory for all incoming ninth graders.

Adding art to the matrix of science, engineering and math also has generated a creative outlet for students interested in engineering and architectural design. For example, students work in math and science classes to understand the concept of scaffolding. Then they learn how to create these renderings in art.

A new Museum Studies course delves into the artwork, but also explains how it’s transported, paid for and physically hung in an exhibition. While students might be enrolled in one course, that doesn’t prevent them for observing another.

“I don’t keep all my classes separate,” said Wayne Paige, chairman of the art department.

“Sometimes we have students from different classes together. I want to keep everything connected instead of putting each skill in separate boxes.”

Bell said he hopes to continue building an educational environment in which there is no learning in isolation.

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technology, engineering and mathematics.

It becomes “STEAM” with the addition of an arts curriculum, and the healthy body component includes a wide variety of athletic teams and its popular riding program.

Last year, Foxcroft’s future was enhanced by a transformative $40 million gift from late alumna Ruth T. Bedford, more than doubling the school’s endowment.

There also is an ongoing $75 million fundraising campaign.

McGehee and Foxcroft’s board are formulating five- and ten-year plans on how to best utilize its burgeoning resources, and by no Catherine McGehee is the 10th head of the Foxcroft School means will all Bedford’s gift be used primarily on McGehee, whose two college and gradubrick-and-mortar projects. ate-student daughters attended St. Catherine’s, “Over time it will help support the physi- indicated that applications to Foxcroft were cal plant, people and programs through our increasing even before the $40 million gift. annual operating budget,” she said. “We want Pushing the student body up to 180-200 stuto invest and make certain Foxcroft is around dents also is a long-term goal. another 100 years. The gift offers the oppor“Our open houses have been full,” she said. tunity to transform our learning space, and “We take great pride in what’s happening here. allows us to enhance our financial aid so more Between demographics, the economy, our 100young women can have access to this kind of year celebration and a new head of school, it’s education.” definitely an exciting time to be at Foxcroft.” n

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he small white plaque hangs in a highly visible location in the office of Catherine McGehee, Foxcroft’s highly enthusiastic new head of school. It reads “Here’s to Good Women, May We Know Them, May We Become Them, May We Raise Them.”

A gift from her predecessor, Mary Louise Leipheimer, it serves as a reminder to McGehee of her widely-respected mentor and one of the missions of the 100-year-old, all-girls boarding school just three miles down the road from Middleburg.

McGehee said she’s now “having the time of my life,” and Leipheimer played a significant role in her hiring last year. They first met ten years ago, when McGehee was teaching at St. Catherine’s School in Richmond and Leipheimer was on an accreditation team assigned to assess the school.

“There was great chemistry,” McGehee said. “She had a magnetic personality and we’d see each other at various meetings over the years. At one point, she looked at me and said ‘I’m retiring in 2014.’ I think she was always looking for emerging leadership, and I knew I could always call her up and ask ‘what advice do you have for me?’”

McGehee, a Virginia native, had been director of St. Catherine’s upper school the last 10 of her 19-year tenure there. She was aware of some upcoming head-of-school openings around the country, “but I had no intention of leaving St. Catherine’s just to go somewhere,”

she said.

“I knew if I left it would have to be for the right school and I would find it and it would find me. I was familiar with Foxcroft. The first time I put my foot on the grounds, I knew this was where I wanted to be.”

Her husband, Read, was extremely supportive, even if it meant he would not totally make the full-time move from Richmond. An ophthalmologist, he has a thriving medical practice but has juggled his schedule to spend three or four days a week with his wife in their home on the 500-acre Foxcroft campus.

McGehee believes that’s also an important lesson the 157 students can learn.

“I love that they can see my husband supporting my career,” she said. “It can help them develop into their best selves. And he’s all in. He loves Foxcroft.”

McGehee comes from a family that has been all in on education and service. Her father, Jim, was a professor at Richmond’s Union Theological Seminary and her mother, Elizabeth, has a Masters degree earned while she was still raising her family.

“My father and mother both had high expectations for us,” McGehee said. “I learned the love of scholarship, writing and public speaking from my father. From my mother, I learned the importance of a lifetime pursuit of education. She was a great role model. I grew up in a family dedicated to education and service.”

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All told, there are five bedrooms, including a sumptuous master retreat that provides a fitting “welcome home” after a long day of work and play.

The rear yard continues the theme of unbridled, enthusiastic ambiance with stone patios, a glorious pool, pond, tennis court and manicured gardens. It is a sumptuous spot you may never want to leave, particularly with the vistas of the Blue Ridge close at hand.

Constructed in the late 1990s, the home has a classic feel with modern amenities.

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Prestigious inside and out, the estate celebrates world-class views and immaculate living spaces, with architecturally appealing design. Out of doors, the soaring trees, rolling hills and Blue Ridge Mountains provide a backdrop for exceptional living.

The property – Airy House – currently is on the market, listed at $4,300,000 by Peter Pejacsevich and Scott Buzzelli of Middleburg Real Estate.

From the moment you ride up the circular driveway leading to the majestic home, you are made aware of the special touches, large and small, that set this home apart.

As we tour the property, note that the the airy and light-filled formal rooms are delightful for entertaining, and the home is situated to perfectly capture the changing moods of natural sunlight, providing exceptional views from every room. Gorgeous interior lighting adds to the overall ambiance.

Beautiful hardwoods are found underneath our feet throughout the first level.

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Features include a gracious 6 bedroom manor home, pool with house, 8 barns, large machine shop, 2 ponds, 9 tenant homes and at one of the entrances, the owner’s handsome office inclusive of conference and impressive trophy room. $7,500,000

Custom Built stone/stucco three-story home with 4 bedrooms plus large master in-law suite with separate parking and entrance. Slate roof,game room,custom theatre, workout room, study, office, dog room,custom kitchen, 4 stone fireplaces, approximately 8,000 SF. Extensive horse facilities include 18 stall barn,2 stall barn, 14 paddocks, lg. ring and much more. $6,500,000

The stately 128+ Acre Middleburg Virginia Country Estate offers a genteel lifestyle and majestic views.

Handsome stone and clapboard manor home, 3 additional homes, 2 apartments, farm office, 6 barns, 45 stalls, indoor arena, all beautifully maintained and surrounded by the meticulously groomed grounds.

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Magnificent 155 Acre Atoka Road Estate with gated entry opening into the private drive lined with mature trees. The charming historic manor home, c. 1827 backs to expansive views of fields and ponds. 4 tenant homes, 3 barns, indoor and outdoor riding arenas. Gently rolling pasture land with fenced paddocks and fields. Property is in a VOF conservation easement. $3,950,000

Active Horse training center on 148+ Acres. The facilities include 11 barns with a total of 220 stalls. Each barn has access to 2 paddocks for a total of 22 paddocks. Within the premises are tack rooms, grooms quarters, office, a vet office and 3 bay machine shop. There is a 7/8’s mile race track with a 4 stall starting gate. 3 wells service the property. Convenient to Route 50 and Washington Dulles International Airport. $3,500,000

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c. 1774, Sited high on a knoll, the 16 room Manor Home and “Garden Tea House” enjoy expansive views of mountains, rolling hills and the property’s wonderful Shenandoah River frontage. Once a thoroughbred breeding farm, it offers 20+ stalls and numerous paddocks. North Hill’s rich history provides potential for Historic Preservation Tax Credits. $3,300,000

A lovely 4 bedroom, 6 bath home on over 17 acres in a great location, minutes to Middleburg & The Plains. Gourmet kitchen with 60'' Vulcan Range, pizza oven, Star grill, beautiful cherry floors, high ceilings, flowing floor plan, attached 3 car garage and much more. Orange County Hunt territory. $2,500,000

Overlooking a serene pond, this magnificent European style manor home is on 115 acres surrounded by thousands of protected acres and the Bull Run Mountains.

Custom built in 2001 using Olde World craftsmanship and materials this stunning home offers five bedrooms, 6 baths, 10’ ceilings, wide plank flooring, pool and geo thermal heating and cooling. $2,395,000

Private 65 Acre Estate near historic Middleburg. 3 porches add to the charm of this restored Farm House, c.1830 w/ pool and shared pond. Other features include 4 stall barn w/ guest suite, 4 bay open equipment barn and 2 bay garage.

Beautiful land w/ views, creek, meadows and board fenced pastures w/ spring fed waterers. VOF and PEC Easements do allow for two additional dwellings. $2,395,000

18+ acres of mostly open and rolling land with the home sited perfectly with vast views from both front and back overlooking the pond, gardens and front fields. Cathedral ceilings, Master on the main floor, huge library/living room, private guest rooms, apartment on lower level w/own kitchen/entrance, sprawling deck w/awning. Perfect location ~ OCH territory ~ VOF conservation easement. $2,095,000

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2 add’l DUR’s and is in land use. $1,900,000

Located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the farm is beautifully sited so that the views are enjoyed from many of the spacious rooms and porches. Wonderful finishes, vaulted ceilings, stone fireplace, reclaimed flooring, first floor owner’s suite, finished lower level incl. second kitchen, pool. Fenced paddocks, 3 stall barn and, wonderful views! $1,650,000

Stunning restoration and addition of c.1860’s Virginia Manor Home, yielding approximately 8,000 sq. ft. of beautiful living space. Reclaimed heart pine flooring throughout the main and upper level of home, grand kitchen, 5 bedrooms. Numerous outbuildings including a spacious tasting room/party room.

Currently the 7 acres of vines are leased to another vineyard.

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A stunning 4 Bedroom, 3 Bath stucco home on 13.77 acres in prime location on a quiet lane only minutes to Middleburg.

Exceptional quality and attention to detail throughout this lovely home. Mostly open with fencing, 3 stall barn, detached 1 car garage and more. Burrland Lane, Orange County Hunt Territory. $1,480,000

53+ acres of beautiful, open and gently rolling land with expansive views of the countryside and distant mountains. Located in the coveted Orange County Hunt Territory of Fauquier County, this land provides exceptional ride-out potential. A home-site has been studied including engineers report verifying a site for a 5 Bedroom septic, well and potential pond site. Open space easement, land cannot be divided. $1,400,000

Beautiful 4 bedroom, 5 bath home on over 50 acres with incredible views in all directions. Perfect for horse enthusiasts or great for enjoying country living. Elegant living spaces perfect for parties. Fencing, convertible barn, water features, lush gardens, covered porches and decks for outdoor entertaining and much more. ODH Territory. $1,345,000

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Kettle Run stream runs through, great opportunity for tax credits. $1,159,410

18 acres in the heart of OCH Territory with a lovely 5.5 Bedroom Italianate Style home in a beautiful setting. Formal and informal spaces, high ceilings, wonderful kitchen, expansive rec room, full basement, private pool, extensive landscaping and more. Property is in a VOF Open-Space easement. $1,199,000

BLUEMONT LAND - 2 parcels in Piedmont Hunt Territory ~ Mostly open, rolling and fully fenced land and accessed from 3 roads. 1 home of clapboard enhance this beautiful property.

71+acres: $995,000

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RECTORTOWN: 107.76 acres Spectacular views from this highly desirable estate location within the Orange County Hunt Territory. Board fenced with frontage on Atoka Road and Rectortown Road. Stocked, approx. 4 acre, pond w/island, spring fed from tributary of Goose Creek. Open Space Easement allows for building of main dwelling, garage or barn with apt. and appropriate farm structures. Zoned RA. $1,250,000

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Markham - 76+/- ACRES 3 Bedroom, 1 Full Bath, 1 Half Bath home could be main house or Guest House. Fencing, Privacy and more. Great Mountain Views, Pond. Please, No drive throughs. $699,000

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POTTS MILL - on 137+ acres with frontage on Little River, Open Space Easement, rolling fields with mature hardwood forest, Orange County Hunt Territory, great ride out, very private, within 5 miles of the village of Middleburg, views in all directions. $18,500/Acre

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ally and Steve McVeigh of Wetherburn Farm in Middleburg have bred more than 20 foals over the last 30 years. An equine passion began with Sally, who’s been around horses her whole life, and as a newly-married couple, they decided to breed her favorite mare.

“I kept her at a barn in Warrenton,” Sally said. “They had a stallion and mares and foals and I learned everything then. There’s just something about watching your very own horse that you bred go into the ring. It’s different then just watching a horse you bought.”

These days, it’s very different watching one of those babies grow up, because a cloned yearling has been added to their stable. He’s been named Stay Tuned, so stay tuned to learn how it all came about.

Over the years, the McVeighs young horses have become sidesaddle mounts, show hunters or gone into other disciplines but Sally wanted to breed a jumper. They enlisted the help of Middleburg’s Joe Fargis, a legendary rider and 1972 gold medal winner at the Los Angeles Olympics, to find a suitable mare and stallion.

Sally purchased Carella, an Oldenburg mare that Fargis was showing successfully in the jumper ring, and would use her as the dam. A surrogate mare would carry the foal. The stallion was more of an unusual choice.

“Joe Fargis brought home a brochure about Gemini from the Hampton Horse Show and I was very interested,” Sally said. Gemini, a 2008 stallion, is the full clone of famed world champion show jumping thoroughbred Gem Twist.

Winner of the American Grand Prix Association Horse of the Year title three times, Gem Twist also was an Olympic and Pan American Games medalist, among its many accolades.

There was only one problem: Gem Twist was a gelding and could not produce offspring.

In 2006, Gem Twist’s owners, international equestrians Frank and Mary Chapot of New Jersey, were contacted by Cryzootech, a French equine cloning company looking to find a suitable horse to begin a cloning project. Gem Twist was exactly what founder Eric Palmer had in mind.

Two years later in 2008, Gemini was born.

A full clone of Gem Twist, he was born chestnut and has since turned grey. While he’s been broken to ride, Gemini does not compete.

He was created to stand at stud and pass on the genes of Gem Twist, something that was unimaginable to his owners prior to working with Cryzootech. He sired his first offspring in 2012.

Sally decided Gemini was exactly the horse she wanted to sire her foal out of Carella. With the help of Dr. Kevin Dippert of Equine Reproduction Concepts, LLC in Amissville, a successful breeding between Carella and Gemini resulted and a surrogate mare was impregnated with the embryo.

A year ago a chestnut colt—“Stay Tuned” and known as “Joe” around the barn—was born, now a yearling already showing some of the talent his parents had.

Sally describes Joe as very sweet and calm but one of the most independent foals she’s ever bred. During his first several months, every day it became an ordeal to catch him and bring him into the barn.

“He’s the smartest one we’ve ever raised,” she said. “When we would try to catch him he learned every trick. If you caught him one way he would never fall for that way again.”

And while he had a good relationship with his surrogate mother, he could be a bad boy with her, as well. “She would nicker to him to come and he would pay no attention to her,” Sally said.

For now Joe will continue to enjoy babyhood and will start his training in the fall of his second year. After a break throughout the winter, he will be started again in the spring of his third year.

“We have an excellent farm manager who will start them and then a trainer will come to the house to break them,” Sally said. “I try to keep them at home because this is the part I really love.”

With such an amazing lineage, there are great expectations for Joe. And for the McVeighs, it’s all about enjoying him while he’s young and watching him progress.

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Stone manor house in spectacular setting • 86.81 acres • Highly protected area in prime Piedmont Hunt • Gourmet kitchen • Wonderful detail throughout • 5 BR • 5 BA • 3 half BA • 3 fireplaces, classic pine paneled library • Tenant house • Stable • Riding ring • Heated saltwater pool • Pergola • Full house generator

Family compound includes 8,800 sf main house built in 1789 • 3 BR guest house • 2 BR carriage house • Repurposed airplane hanger now a complete home gym • Exquisite $4M renovation completed in 2005 includes exposed beams, solid mahogany doors & windows, imported antique fireplaces & spectacular floors of re-claimed choice hardwoods • Stately limestone foyer • Stunning kitchen • Excellent Views

Solid stone home with copper roof on 70 acres • Original portions dating from the 1700’s • First floor bedroom & 3 additional suites • Original floors • 8 fireplaces • Formal living room • Gourmet kitchen • 2 ponds • Mountain views • Stone walls • Mature gardens • Pool • Primitive log cabin • Piedmont Hunt

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Delaplane, Virginia • $2,250,000

Boyce, Virginia • $1,900,000

The Plains, Virginia • $1,699,000

78-acre farm in sought after Fauquier County • One-of-a-kind pastoral hill-top setting • Dramatic private postcard valley views of Cobbler Mountains • 4 bedroom home • Pool • Poolhouse • Guest/tenant cottage and pond • Ideal for horses, cattle, hay, row crops, vineyards • Additional land available

Mountain top retreat with 60 mile panoramic views of the Shenandoah Valley • 215 acres • 1/3 pasture • Main house circa 1787 • 3 BR, 1 BA • 2 fireplaces • Random width pine floors • 2 BR, 1 BA guest cottage • Stone & frame barn circa 1787 • Remnants of formal garden • Old cemetery • Spring fed pond • Gazebo

Helen MacMahon

Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

Stone English country home in top location between Middleburg & The Plains on 13 acres • Large boxwoods & classically planted gardens • 4 BR home with new kitchen & main level master suite • Hardwood floors, built-in book cases, fireplaces & bright open family room • Bluestone terrace overlooks new pool & entertaining area • Separate guest cottage/pool house & garage • Whole-house generator

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Markham, Virginia • $895,000

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Charming stucco, log and frame home • 10 acres • 3-4 bedrooms • 3 1/2 baths • 2 fireplaces (one in the kitchen with antique brick floor) • Beautiful reclaimed pine flooring • Bright and sunny family room opens to bluestone terrace • Master bedroom opens to private balcony • 2 car garage • 4 stall barn with tack room with 2 paddocks • 2 recorded lots

c. 1820’s gracious old Virginia home • 40 acres bound by Goose Creek • Original floors and stone fireplaces • High ceilings • Huge back porch, 4+ bedrooms and in law suite • Bright and modern kitchen with family room addition for today's living • Great views, open pasture & pond

F4 bedroom • 2 1/2 baths • 3 fireplaces • 2 car garage • Main house totally renovated, new kitchen, granite counter tops • Hardwood floors on main level • New carpeting & freshly painted • 20 acres • Phenomenal European style stable with 6 stalls, tack, office & apartment • Owner is a licensed broker in Virginia • More land available

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Prime Upperville location on 11.43 acres • Piedmont Hunt Country • Surrounded by properties in easement • Contemporary home • Stucco exterior • 3 BR • 2 full & 2 1/2 BA, 2 fireplaces • Spiral staircase leads to 8 stall barn • Tack room & office • Property fenced & cross fenced

Peaceful Shenandoah Retreat • Well maintained & full of light • 3 bedrooms, 2 baths on 22+ protected acres • Lovely architectural details, exposed beams & pine floors • Beautiful stone fireplaces • Fully finished basement

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Located in a very quiet neighborhood just behind the Sporting Library. Well-kept home with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and lots of additions. New master bedroom, lovely living room with fireplace.

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CONTROL: YOU CAN’T LOSE SOMETHING YOU NEVER HAD A topic generating a lot of consternation in the real estate business these days is “control” – who is controlling the search process, the creation, compilation and dissemination of data, and biggest of all, who’s controlling the customer?

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A resident of the St. Louis area of Loudoun County, he still has fond memories of watching her games when she was on the varsity team at Westfield High in Chantilly. Erin was an 18-year-old International Studies major when she lost her life in the Virginia Tech shooting in April, 2007.

She was laid to rest at Rock Hill Cemetery in St. Louis, where Peterson is caretaker.

In May, 2008, Peterson bought his home at 22032 St. Louis Road. Loudoun Habitat for Humanity had recently acquired the adjacent property to build homes for members of the St. Louis community. After Peterson’s purchase, Habitat decided to name the project—and the street—after Erin.

Habitat for Humanity was founded in Americus, Georgia in 1976. The Loudoun chapter started in 1992 through the grassroots efforts of Leadership Loudoun. While the county boasts the nation’s highest median income, there are minimal affordable dwelling options. Loudoun Habitat aims to provide families with a long-term solution to improve their living standards.

It broke ground on Peterson Court in the spring of 2009 and last November, delivered the fifth and final home. It was the twelfth house in St. Louis for Loudoun Habitat, including their five-home Mary Jane Jackson project in 2007.

Construction Manager Bud Green said

Loudoun Habitat has a “tremendous relationship” with St. Louis,adding that “it’s a historic community and we’ve been culturally respectful.”

Executive Director James Bailey agreed.

“We’ve been sensitive to building houses that are reflective of the community,” because they are built by the community, he said.

Loudoun Habitat relies heavily on local volunteers, including an 18-person board, and donations from companies like Beckstrom Electric, Anderson Mechanical, Loudoun Valley Roofing, Kane Landscapes, and ME Flow. The homes cost about $150,000 each.

Loudoun Habitat works closely with the Loudoun County government to secure permits and HUD funding and locate families in need. Once a family has been identified, there is a rigorous application process to ensure they are serious about the partnership.

To qualify, an applicant’s income must be between 30 and 60 per cent of the maximum HUD median income for the region. An applicant must have lived or worked in Loudoun for at least one year, have steady income for at least one year, currently live in over-crowded, substandard or unaffordable housing and show evidence of financial responsibility.

Applicants also go through a formal interview and two home visits prior to a final decision. Partner families are selected based on overall need, ability to pay and willingness to participate in the building project.

Once approved, a family is required to build sweat equity in the new home. Partner families must put in no less than 300 hours, with a minimum of 100 hours towards the building of Habitat homes. The additional 200

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hours can be spent volunteering at the Loudoun Habitat ReStore, at the construction office or with another local charity.

The volunteer requirement ensures that the families receive a “hand up, not a hand out,” Bailey said. And ongoing support from Loudoun Habitat, including intensive budget counseling, prevents partner families from losing their homes. According to Bailey, since it began 22 years ago, there have been no foreclosures.

Inside the finished home on Peterson Court, Green pointed out many quality touches.

There’s bamboo flooring, tile in the kitchen and bathroom, ceiling fans in the bedrooms and a number of green features—like a condi-tioned crawl space—that make the home energy efficient.

Board President Jim Wehr said the home is “emblematic of the Habitat style of building:

safe, simple, decent, affordable and green.”

The project honors Erin’s memory by providing quality housing and the benefits of home ownership, to five worthy families.

Said Vernon Peterson of the development, “I think a lot of it in that it is in honor of (Erin).

It’s a nice place, all the places are beautiful.”

Then, pausing, he added “I miss Erin. I miss her something terrible... I’m glad they named the development after her.” n (Loudoun Habitat relies heavily on the support of the greater Loudoun community. They’re seeking individuals to volunteer their time, businesses and corporations to provide in-kind and financial sponsorships and community partners for on-site team builds. For more information, please visit www.loudounhabitat.org.

LAND RECTORTOWN RD, MARSHAL - harming cottage in historic Rectortown. 3 bedroom/2.5 bath home works well as a weekend retreat or full-time living. Amenities include Viking range, soapstone countertops, exquisite hardwood floors, restful porches on first/ second levels, wood-burning fireplace, French doors on first/second levels. This peaceful home within 10 minutes of Middleburg, Marshall, I-66. DC <60 minutes. $595,000

JOHN S MOSBY HWY, UPPERVILLE - Outstanding opportunity to

Marcy Cantatore 540-533-7453

Walter Woodson 703-499-4961

Peter Pejacsevich 540-270-3835

own a state of the art indoor rehabilitation swimming pool, designed for horses but also well suited for dogs. Offering includes a 24 stall, 2 tack room, belmont barn, a shed row barn converted into garage space, fencing, a stone dust riding ring, a machine shed, and numerous run in sheds, and a pond. A small house near the swimming pool not included but available. $650,000

Laura Farrell 540-395-1680

MCQUAY LN, MIDDLEBURG - Very Nice Bungalow .Great starter home or rental, fresh paint & refinished H/W floors, well lit. Agent owned. Granite countertop, SS Appliances, Very private off gravel road, one Acre lot, close to school, Ceramic baths and showers. In excellent condition. $299,900

Anne McIntosh 703-509-4499

Peter Pejacsevich 540-270-3835

STONEWALL CT, MIDDLEBURG - Excellent investor opportunity or quiet, low-maintenance home for owner-occupant. Lower unit (look for 4 steps down to front door) means one-level living, with bright beautiful views onto conservation land (at Salamander Resort). Clean and freshly painted w/ brand new bedroom carpeting & tile flooring everywhere else. Snow removal, trash, lawn care, and bldg maintenance incl in condo fee. $212,000 Scott Buzzelli Kim Hurst 540-454-1399 703-932-9651

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KENNEL RD, BOYCE - Charming authentic log cabin, 5 acres in Clarke County south of rt 50. Potential for horses, huntbox, private lot, surrounded by land in easement. Beautiful wood flooring, beamed ceilings, front porch. Constructed in 1997, recent new HVAC throughout. Perfect for wknd get away or couple wanting to downsize. Within 5 minutes of village of Millwood, 50 min to Dulles airport, 20 min to Winchester. $405,000

John Mosby Hwy, UPPERVILLE, VA 2.2 Acres, FQ8477480 $320,000

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In recent years, she also became involved with the Leesburg-based 100WomenStrong, serving as a donor adviser. That organization mainly has focused on educational issues, eliminating hunger, improving health and providing shelter in the county. Several years ago, it also hitched its wagon to what is now known as the Community Foundation of Loudoun and Northern Fauquier.

“It just seemed like a natural progression for me personally” to become involved in that non-profit organization as well, Langhorne said.

In November, Langhorne was voted as the Community Foundation’s new president, succeeding Middleburg’s Brad Davis. Under its current by-laws, Davis could no longer hold that position after so many years as president, an incredibly productive tenure that helped grow what had previously been known as the Piedmont Community Foundation into a major player both in community giving and attracting new philanthropic donors.

“Watching Brad, knowing his inspirational level of commitment and seeing him run our meetings was really a gift to me,” Langhorne said. “He handled the discussions with kindness, respect and so much expertise. I know I’ve got a lot to live up to. I’m hoping I learned something about how to make sure everyone has a voice and a way to move forward together.”

Amy Owen, the executive director of the foundation, has no doubt Langhorne will do all of that, and more.

“Kirsten has been actively involved with 100WomenStrong, one of the Community Foundation’s most robust grant-making giving

circles since 2008,” Owen said. “She’s focused on broadening the Community Foundation’s leadership work in hunger and need in the region.

She believes strongly in strategic planning—a timely fit for us as the Community Foundation’s current plan lines us up for a new plan into 2015.

“She’s worked closely with the board—and Brad Davis—for the past three years. She’s a donor, a connector, and a believer--all the hoped-for characteristics of an intentional leader and volunteer. She has ties in western Loudoun. Her son (Forest) attends school at Middleburg Academy, and her business (a home-building company she owns with her husband Will) has projects nearby. She lives in Landsdowne, bringing together the Community Foundation’s goal of serving its broad footprint of Northern Fauquier and Loudoun counties.”

One of Langhorne’s major goals will be to spread the word about the importance of community foundations at her end of the county.

The foundation, which started in Middleburg, now also has an office in Leesburg and hopes to reach out to potential donors in areas like Lansdowne, Sterling and Ashburn, among other locations.

“Explaining to people what a community foundation is and what we do is not a succinct pitch,” she said. “I’m going to talk about what philanthropy can look like and why it’s so necessary…It’s our responsibility to grow the pot of charitable giving and get people involved in strategic planning.

“The idea is to spread the word out there.

We have folks in (the Middleburg area) who have been incredibly supportive of what we do. There are a lot of folks in eastern Loudoun who are ready to think long-term in their giving plans. I’d like to see a lot more of our efforts in that area. I see a lot of people in my own community who are energized to participate.”

According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the percentage of annual giving in Loudoun County, one of the richest in the country in terms of median income, is slightly lower than the national average—1.9 per cent compared to 3 per cent. And despite the county’s overall wealth, Langhorne knows there are still vital needs there and in Northern Fauquier, as well.

“Housing is expensive,” she said. “Transportation is an issue. Hunger is a rising problem, and giving is not keeping pace with that. Mental health services are struggling to keep up. We can help in all of those areas.

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By Peggy Bonsee For Middleburg Life Peggy Brown Bonsee, a long-time Middleburg resident, has written “Silver Linings: What Five Ninety-Something WomenTaught Me About Positive Aging.” This is an excerpt about Estelle Cordoza, a miner’s daughter and World War II veteran who lived to age 100, and was never afraid to try something new.

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In my profession, I have studied about resilience, strength of spirit, and positive aging and found these topics fascinating. But Estelle gave me a vibrant, in-the-flesh example of all three. These qualities played out across her long life and supported her in old age as well. I am grateful to her for showing me the possibilities for maintaining well-being over the course of a long and sometimes difficult life.

In her early years, Estelle overcame so much that could have easily broken or discouraged her but did not. Instead, she developed positive survival tools that she would continue to hone and use throughout her life.

From an early age, she identified her mother

as a mentor. A model of determination and resiliency, Ellen continued to serve as a touchstone and inspiration throughout her daughter’s life. When Estelle faced challenges, she often compared them to difficulties her mother had faced, and this perspective empowered her to prevail over her own adversity. Whether facing a health challenge, the loss of a job, or the need to leave her beloved home, she didn’t succumb to self-pity. Again and again as she related the parts of her story to me, I heard the refrain, “I can make do.”

Estelle mined the good from even the grimmest situation, and she stored those little gems carefully in her rich memory bank to withdraw and use when needed. Even when revisiting difficult times in our conversations, she acknowledged the stark realities of loss or difficulty, but didn’t linger on them. Instead, she managed to float above the pain, pulling the joy in the moments along with her.

Estelle’s sense of gratitude for all of her life— easy and difficult, happy and painful—helped her stay positive. She measured by the intangible and not the material, focusing on her family and the good hearts of people who had made a difference in her life. She also managed to keep things in perspective, a key to well-being. “It could be worse,” she often told me, when relating a difficult situation.

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How many times did she tell me, “Well that was a first,” or “Never did that before.” She possessed a flexibility that enabled her to move forward or step to the side instead of getting get stuck in tough situations. The variety of her jobs and number of her moves testify to this.

And like a good resident of Nantucket,Massachusetts, Estelle used whatever she had to accomplish her goals. She employed her creativity in problem solving as well as in her artistic endeavors.

Estelle never had a life coach. But, she developed some techniques on her own that coaches often use to help clients move forward through difficult times, take on something new, or calm themselves during distressful situations.

For instance, Estelle used self-talk to encourage, soothe, and move herself past challenges. “I can make it” and I can do it” were phrases she told

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(Her personal faith often served to lighten her load.)

And, I can’t forget to mention Estelle’s sense of fun and humor, something that spanned her lifetime and brought a level of lightness to her life.

Estelle was a person who strongly believed in the power of her own self-agency. She drew from her well of humor and redesigned herself as a widow with a life purpose of spreading joy. In my view, she achieved that purpose splendidly.

For some reason, when I think of Estelle, I picture one of those inflatable “bop bag” toys with the weighted bottom. Whenever you push one down, it pops up again—and again and again.

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The site is owned and get more information on these and all of the managed by the non-profit Turn The Mill Chapman’s Mill Park 2015 fundraisers as they Around Campaign (TTMAC), which took over develop by visiting the website at chapmansthe mill after a fire in 1998 devastated the mill.org. In addition, publicity efforts will be historic 1742 building. Its transformation will part of each event and campaign until the park begin in the spring of 2015. is complete.

Straddling the Fauquier and Prince WilAfter so many delays and changes to the liam county lines, the mill ruin and site sit at the design to conform with local ordinances and base of the Bull Run Mountain Natural Area, a meet grant requirements, TTMAC chairman favorite hiking spot for locals and tourists alike. Charlie Seiltheimer said, “ìt sure is going to be Trains whistle and rumble past the mill many exciting seeing those bulldozers arrive in the times a day as they head through the scenic spring. This is a whole new era for the mill. It mountain pass. will be a great public benefit.”

In December, the TTMAC unveiled its TTMAC anticipates that the completion master plan, designed by landscape architect of a beautiful park and more frequent visitor Barry Starke of Earth Design Associates Inc. traffic will curtail an ongoing problem with The six-acre park will feature active archeology vandalism at the mill, which continues despite sites, a winding, all-purpose trail, historic and the generous donation by Prince William archeological information, restroom facilities, County of an eight-foot fence that surrounds bus and car parking and ADA accessibility to the site. the mill.

The fire 17 years ago gutted the building, The design also calls for an amphitheater. which had been recently renovated. It destroyed The site will be landscaped using trees and heavy chestnut timbers that supported its seven shrubs in the pallette of Journey Through Hal- stories and kept the walls stable. TTMAC’s first lowed Ground’s Living Legacy Project. Chap- project on acquiring the mill was a massive stamanís Mill is part of the Journey. TTMAC’s bilization effort, which took nearly 10 years and goal is to have the mill open to the public every $1.2 million to complete, during which time the day; currently it’s open only on weekends. site was closed to the public.

The project has been long in its inception.

In 2008, the site was finally opened to the The bulk of the $400,000 price tag for this first public, at first only occasionally, and then reguphase of the park, which in years to come is larly on weekends. The mill structure will be planned to cross Broad Run and open up addi- maintained as a ruin. TTMAC hopes one day tional acreage on the Fauquier side of the site, to restore the mill race and activate the wheel, comes from federal, state and local grants. which can be viewed inside the structure.

However, in order to complete the 2015 With the completion of the currently phase, a matching 20 percent of the funding planned improvements, the site and the strucmust be raised. To meet that $122,000 goal, ture will become more than just a landmark TTMAC will launch a series of fundraising for speeding motorists along Interstate 66. It efforts over the course of the year. will attract history buffs, researchers, buses of These will include an Adopt-a-Stone school children as well as tourists. It has proven campaign, in which donors can adopt one of to be a particularly interesting site for painters the thousands of giant stones that created the and photographers, the image of the mill an seven-story structure, the tallest stacked stone indelible one to all visitors. n structure in North America. Also planned is For more information or to make a taxa Kickstarter-style effort with gifts for differ- deductible donation, visit www.chapmansmill. ent levels of giving. The public will be able to org or email chapmanmill@gmail.com.

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newspaper and various magazines. Inspired by these successes, he abandoned banking, moved to London, continued his artistic education at the Slade and was soon one of the most beloved illustrators of children’s books.

In 1878, he began illustrating two Christmas books per year. Each was of a nursery rhyme, or popular song, including Sing a Song of Sixpence, Hey Diddle Diddle, Three Jovial Huntsmen and The Fox Jumped over the Par-

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son’s Gate. The demand was such that, by 1884, the combined sales of 12 such titles had reached the immense number of over 860,000 copies. Caldecott had the foresight, or bravery, to negotiate a contract with his publisher to be paid by royalties, rather than by a flat fee. It is believed that he was the first author/illustrator to be paid in such a manner.

Courtesy Cindy Aclund.r Caldecott’s popularity was perhaps Hunting by Randolph Caldecott published in the magazine “Graphic” in 1884. second only to that of Kate Greenaway. In “The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artite themes included hunting and riding scenes. tine, Florida. This trip proved too taxing, and he His art usually conveyed a tone of died there, not yet 40. His grave, maintained by innocence. However, the texts that the Randolph Caldecott Society of America, is in he illustrated could expose an array the Evergreen Cemetery in St. Augustine. of vices, including hypocrisy. In “An Caldecott’s name is enshrined in America Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog” by as well.

Oliver Goldsmith, a man who displays The prestigious Caldecott Medal (given to himself as the paragon of virtue adopts the artist who had created the most distinguished a stray dog, which eventually bites the children’s picture book of the previous year) is man. Everyone expects the man to named for him. Presented by the Association of die. However, he survives and the dog, Library Service to Children, it was first awarded having ingested the poisonous bile of in 1938. The Caldecott medal evolved out of the now exposed pretentious man, is the Newberry prize (awarded to the author for the one who dies. distinguished children’s literature) first awarded Caldecott would also satirize contem- in 1922. The problem, of course, was that the porary fashion, such as in a group of author was not always the same as the illustradrawings set in Rotten Row, the riding tor. The front of the bronze medal is a Caldeswarth in Hyde Park. The women are cott scene illustrated from John Gilpin’s Ride. It sporting very large chignon coiffures, depicts Gilpin, having lost his wig, trying to stay a mark of Victorian high fashion. They astride a runaway horse. could be false, or one’s own hair (padAmong the winners are such familiar ding could increase the size), and the names as Theodor Geisel (better known as Dr. Courtesy Richard Hooper style tipped the head uncomfortably Seuss), Tasha Tudor, Chris Van Allsburg and forward. It was made fun of by the Maurice Sendak. It’s a pity that the name of Paul writer Anthony Trollope as well. In Brown, the great illustrator of many children’s Caldecott’s illustrations, the men do books on horses, is not included in the winner’s ists” by Sally Mitchell (Antique Collectors’ Club, not come off any better. circle. I think that Randolph Caldecott would 1985), he was described “as an illustrator of Hunting must have a been a strain for have liked to have seen seen him there. n immense importance, his work had a definite Caldecott, as he suffered most of his life from a quality of his own, and his horses, though natu- heart disease resulting from a childhood illness. [Richard Hooper is an antiquarian book expert rally drawn, appear to have a sense of humour.” He would take frequent trips to the Mediterra- and dealer in Middleburg. He also specializes in His scenes were almost always rural, set mostly nean and other warm climates for his health. On art objects related to dogs, horses and equestrian between the waning years of the previous cen- one trip in February, 1886, he and his wife dis- sports. In addition, he does fine woodworking.] tury and his own time. embarked in New York and, during an unusually He was an avid fox hunter and his favor- cold winter, made their way down to St. Augus-

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PETER HITCHEN, of Barnesville, MD, a Joint Master of The Potomac Hunt, 76, died January 12, of complications from injuries sustained in a fall out foxhunting on December 11.

Peter was born in New Moston, a suburb of Manchester, England, on October 23, 1938, to Marion Platt Hitchen and John Hitchen. The family persisted through the relentless German bombing of the industrial city during World War II and was forced to temporarily evacuate Manchester to live in Cheshire until the closing of the war.

He attended the Moston Primary School and went to work early in life on the three family farms located around Cheshire and instantly fell in love with farming and the outdoors. This fortuitous introduction to land stewardship and farming inadvertently introduced Peter to riding workhorses while making hay and riding to and from the hay fields. Farming and the outdoors quickly overshadowed school.

The British requirement of two years National Service in the armed forces fed his thirst for world travel and adventure and led him to join the Army in 1956. He immediately signed on for an additional three years so that he was guaranteed overseas deployment. He spent six years in the Royal Artillery and served in Malaysia during the communist insurrection and later served in Hong Kong fighting the Chinese communists. He achieved the rank of Full Bombardier and was charged with managing the Signal Corp of the Royal Artillery. One of his commanding officers, Lt. Col. H. A. Hardy, MBE, MC, RA, described Peter as: “a conscientious and intelligent young NCO. He is completely trustworthy and accepts responsibility willingly. He has the initiative and drive to get things done.” He lived his entire life in accordance with this self-imposed doctrine.

After leaving the Army in early 1962 Peter worked briefly in a candy factory to save enough money in order to achieve the lifelong dream of traveling to America. He made the passage later that year. He settled in the Washington, D.C. area and put himself through Ben Franklin School of Business, working nights at the original Clyde’s in Georgetown and culminating in earning a CPA Degree. During this time, he was introduced to the sport of foxhunting by a friend and also met his future bride, Nancy Tilton Orme of Leesburg. She encouraged his involvement with hunting to hounds at The Loudoun Hunt and the sport became his lifelong passion.

He married Nancy in 1965 and they had three children. The couple later divorced. His second marriage to Janet Goldberg Holloway also ended in divorce.

In 1971, Peter was recruited by Buster Day to work at his Francis O. Day Company, a paving and excavating company in Rockville, Maryland. He spent 35 years assisting the Day family in running the prestigious and successful paving and development business. He achieved the title of vice president and chief comptroller of the Day Companies and retired in 2007.

Peter never let anything interfere with his maturing love and passion for fox hunting and after many seasons of whipping in at the New Market/Middletown Hounds and later at The Potomac Hunt Club, he joined Irvin L. (Skip) Crawford as Joint Master of the Potomac Hunt in 1987. With Huntsman, Larry Pitts, they oversaw the development of what is arguably one of the premier packs of American foxhounds in the United States, giving good sport to their members year after year. Peter was also heavily involved in the organizing and running The Potomac Hunt Races every May, one of the most respected and popular meets among steeplechase horsemen. He was also a successful steeplechase owner whose good luck brought him many winners, most notably Daily Desire, who won him the title of Maryland Steeplechase Owner of the Year in 1991.

R. B. Billy, co-owned with Skip Crawford, won the Maryland Steeplechase Timber title several years later.

Peter had a legendary, compelling, and commanding presence which naturally attracted people of all walks of life. He was an intuitive and cunning businessman, a natural horseman, a devoted father and friend, and faced his last challenge as bravely as he had faced every other challenge in his life.

He is survived by his loving family: daughter Hilary Luttrell Hitchen Bateman, son Peter Orme Hitchen, granddaughter Madilyn Nancy, son John Bradford Hitchen, brother Stanley Hitchen and his devoted companion of 15 years, Anne Ragland Finney.

Memorial donations in Peter Hitchen’s memory may be made to The Potomac Hunt Club, 21315 Peach Tree Road, Dickerson, MD 20842.

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s most of us are aware, Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne (aka The Princess Royal) is an avid equestrian. She took many honors on the British three-day event team with her horse, Doublet, during the mid-1970s. She rode in the ’76 Olympics in Montreal and has served as president of the FEI, the international governing body of all things equestrian. And so, while visiting our lovely corner of the horse world not so long ago, it was not a surprise to many when she appeared to watch the Piedmont Fox Hounds.

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o celebrate the Esther Everhart Memorial Invitational side-saddle race this spring, race sponsors Greenhill Winery & Vineyard and Salamander Resort have planned a wine tasting event on Sunday, March 8 from 4-7 p.m. at Greenhill. In addition to the tasting, appetizers from Salamander will be served. The $20 admission will allow guests to mingle with riders, trainers and foxhunters.

Door prizes will include an overnight and trail ride at the Marriott Ranch in Hume, a Clyde’s gift certificate, braiding and clipping services and much more.

On Sunday, April 12, the 49th annual Loudoun Point-to-Point will be held at Oatlands Plantation in Leesburg and the first race of the day is the Esther Everhart Memorial Invitational side-saddle race. Side-saddle racing in America was last seen in the early 1940s, and Donna Rogers, Joint Master of the Loudoun Fairfax Hunt, is thrilled to have “a return to traditional riding in Virginia” with the advent of the side-saddle race at Loudoun. The Bradley Gable family will award a perpetual silver trophy to the winner. Race sponsor Greenhill Winery & Vineyard will present the Best Turned-Out Rider & Horse award as well as ribbons to those placing first through sixth. For details: maggiejohnston@gmail. com or devon.zebrovious@gmail.com.

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indy and John Lee have announced the marriage of their daughter, Margaret Stefan Lee, to Jason Thomas Burton. The bride grew up in Middleburg and is a graduate of The Hill School and Highland School in Warrenton. The couple graduated from Loyola University in Baltimore, where the bridegroom grew up.

He is the son of Linda and Jeff Burton and employed at MRI Global Search. The ceremony took place at St. Stephen the Martyr Catholic Church with The Reverend Father Ned Brown presiding. A reception followed at the Salamander Resort & Spa. Following a honeymoon in Jumby Bay in Antigua, the couple will reside in Baltimore.

ighland School’s competitive Robotics team in Warrenton recently received a $5,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Intended to cover entry fees for regional FIRST® Robotics competitions, the grant will help Highland’s team of middle and high school students, called Team RoboHawk, to build on the success it has had over the past several seasons.

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ecky Hoecker, Lillian Potter, Mary Park Durham, Cathy McGehee and Mary Jo Jackson have granted $104,500 on behalf of The Middleburgbased Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation to assist local women in the fight against breast cancer. Recipients include Loudoun Breast Health Network, Loudoun Voluntary Caregivers, Blue Ridge Hospice, The IIIB’s Foundation, Casting for Recovery, and Novant Health’s Mobile Mammography Van. For more information contact Board Chairman James P. Atkins (703) 447-2302 or info@cherryblossombreastcancerfoundation.org.

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The Fauquier Health Foundation (FHF) has awarded a Make it Happen! grant to the Allegro Community School of the Arts in Warrenton for a unique, new program, “Can You Hear It?” The program, designed specifically for the blind, is the only program of its type in the area. The FHF also awarded a Make it Happen! grant to Toys for Tots Fauquier, which helped 1,100 needy children have a special Christmas.

In addition, The Fauquier Health Foundation has awarded a Make it Happen! grant to the Windy Hill Foundation so that they can construct a playground at their community in The Plains. “We recognized that the children of the Windy Hill community in The Plains definitely need somewhere outdoors that they can play,” stated Christy Connolly, president and CEO of Fauquier Health Foundation. There was also a grant to Remington United Methodist Church to create a community garden on a 1.5 acre property directly across the street from the church. The garden will consist of 21 plots with expansion capabilities to 50 plots.

Make it Happen! grants were created to energize the speed and creativity of smallscale, high-impact, quick-turnaround projects. The program provides funding of $2,000-10,000 for ideas of non-profit organizations that can be turned around in 90 days or less. The goal of the Make it Happen! program is to engage the community and create success stories. The Fauquier Health Foundation has a history of community philanthropy stretching back to 1954.

For more information, www.fauquierhealthfoundation.org.

Lilla Ohrstrom has created a series of winter classes at Youngblood Art Studio in The Plains and Native Barre in Middleburg.

Classes include: Drawing Your Line: Level 1. “We’ll explore our internal and external selves through drawing, “ she said. “Hand Building In Clay” is a five-week workshop of creating, glaze and firing and requires no previous experience. To book private classes or workshops contact her at 540-270-0402.

And, kudos to our neighbors Jason Murray and Sandy Gray-Murray on the opening of their new winery, Arterra Wines in Delaplane. The cutting-edge winery will feature a gallery tasting room in partnership with Hawkmoth Arts. Artist Sandy Gray-Murray left an education career and launched the art endeavor which is inspired by the wine-making process and told Middleburg Life: “We’re delighted to have this opportunity to share our passion with others and we invite all wine drinkers and art lovers alike to join in celebrating our dream becoming a reality for all to enjoy.”

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Many stores and restaurants will offer special deals throughout the weekend. Look for the red balloons outside participating stores. For additional information, contact the Pink Box Visitor

Bluewater Carering and Orvis of Leesburg will enjoy a $150 resort credit to use towards dinner in host a Fly Fishing Film Tour on Feb. 21. There will Harrimans, a relaxing spa treatment or a bottle of local brews and food, live bluegrass and some of the sparkling wine and truffles in the room. Prices start best fly fishing films of 2014 at Buchanan Hall in at $365 per room per night.

Upperville. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and cost is $20 in Airlie over in Warrenton has a Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advance, $25 at the door. weekend getaway that includes a special wine February is Black History month and on Feb. dinner with Fabbioli Cellars. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reception at 17, the Middleburg Library will host historian and 6 p.m. and five-course dinner at 7 p.m. on Feb. 14. author Bob Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor for a lecture on black troops in Visit www.airlie.com/dining/diningevents or call the Civil War. There were 209,000 black soldiers in 540-347-1300. the Union army, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll speak about their battles, The Mosby Heritage Area Association, the their casualties and experiences as POWs. Middleburg-based nonprofit historic preservation On Feb. 25 at 3 p.m., the library also host â&#x20AC;&#x153;The group, will be hosting â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Future of Eventing Science of YOUâ&#x20AC;? for students from K-5. There will be and the Preservation of Open Spaceâ&#x20AC;? on Feb. 15 at experiments to learn about skin, hair, fingernails, the Courtesy Photo 1 p.m. at the Engelhard Gymnasium at Foxcroft skeleton and the heart. On Feb. 18 from 11 a.m. to 3 School.

A panel discussion will include Robert Colours Hanging Newmarket, 1999 oil on canvas, 24 p.m., children of all ages can attend â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Celebrate Banner, president of Great Meadow Foundation, x 30 inches Private Collection Š Henry Koehler Dr. Seuss,â&#x20AC;? with crafts, games, a movie and more.

Sandy Johnson, owner of Gordonsdale Farm and will be on view at the National Sporting Library and Cross Country Schooling Course in Berryville and Come in your favorite Seuss characters, as well.

Museum through May â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of the Landscapeâ&#x20AC;? is the theme for the Heather Richards, vice president for conservation and rural programs at the Piedmont EnviCenter at 540-687-8888. ronmental Council and a dressage rider. Tickets The Middleburg Art Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s juried exhibit are $30 for MHAA members and $35 for nonâ&#x20AC;&#x153;On Main Streetâ&#x20AC;? at the Byrne Gallery will have an members and may be purchased at 540-687opening reception Feb. 7 from 2-5 p.m. Artist talks 6681 or www.mosbyheritagearea.org. are scheduled on Feb. 28 from 2-5 p.m. For more On Saturday, Feb. 21, Mosby Heritageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s information, go to www.middleburgarts.org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gray Ghost Interpretive Group (GGIG)â&#x20AC;&#x2122; will On Feb. 10, the Middleburg Community offer a program on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Occupation Winter Center will host a session on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Basics of of 1865â&#x20AC;? at Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mill Farm Bed & BreakAlzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? from 7-8 p.m. Call 687-6375 to RSVP fast in Lovettsville. Admission is $10 adults/$5

by Feb. 6. Parents looking for a date night without students. the kids (aged 5 to 12) should consider parking them Starting at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 20, Art of the at the Community Center on Feb. 13 from 6-10 p.m.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dinner and a movie, crafts and other activities. Piedmont will host its fourth annual auction and reception at the Middleburg Community Center Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $20 for the first child and $15 for each additional featuring the work of more than 20 local artists. child. RSVP by Feb. 11.

Courtesy Photo The National Sporting Library & Museum A visit to the Green Hill Winery and Vineyard View from the Blue Ridge by Antonia Walker will be part (NSLM) will host â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sporting Conversations: Lecshould provide a romantic Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day option. of the Art of the Piedmont to benefit the Middleburg tures by John H. Daniels Fellowsâ&#x20AC;? throughout Starting on Friday, Feb. 13 through Feb. 15, the Montessori School at the Community Center Friday, 2015.

This series will feature current and former vineyard will offer musical entertainment and handFellows as they share their expertise and experi- February 20 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. crafted chocolates paired with Greenhill wines. Resences studying the unique collections, resources ervations are required for groups of 10 or more at the Middleburg Horticultural Symposium on Feb. 28 at Tasting Room. Contact www.greenhillvineyards.com/ and rare books found at the NSLM. Salamander. Sponsored by the Fauquier and LouThe first lecture will feature Elizabeth Tobey on events doun Garden Club, it features a day-long program Saturday, Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. Tobey is the first recipiWith Middleburg voted among the Top 10 starting with 8:30 a.m. registration. Four speakers ent of the John H. Daniels Fellowship in 2007, and Most Romantic Destinations by Travel and Leisure are scheduled and garden vendors will be on site. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will discuss her research of Frederico Grisoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The magazine, Salamander Resort & Spa is celebrating $145 for the day and includes lunch. For more inforRules of Ridingâ&#x20AC;? (1550) and her recent publication, romance and relationships throughout February with mation, call 540-687-6940 or email Elaineburden1@ the first English translation of Grisoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. Also at special pricing and programming. aol.com. n the NSLM: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sporting Accoutrements: The Still Lifes Guests can stay in luxurious romantic accomof Henry Koehlerâ&#x20AC;? through May 31. modations with the Night of Romance package and

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