INSIDE MEDICAID page 3 HAND TOOLS page 4 BLUE TREES page 6 SUMMER SCHOOL page 8
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WAHS Literati on the Rise
FARMERS MARKET page 11
By Lisa Martin
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YMCA TRIATHON page 21 KITE FESTIVAL page 14 SALES SURGE page 18 MICHAEL MARSHALL
VPA WINNERS page 19 UNCLE LEM page 21 BEET SOUP page 23
The Pushback of Engine 56
OLD CROZET page 25
by Michael Marshall
MORE LIGHT page 27 THE STORY OF TAPS page 28 COLD SPRING page 29 HOMECOOKING AT CHURCH page 30 THE CAN’T LINE page 31 THE COMING OF ROADS page 32 BEST WESTERN page 34 PANTING page 35 WHEN TO WORRY page 44 CALENDAR CLINIC page 38
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The tradition of a “pushback” of a new fire engine is carried on in the Charlottesville fire stations still and Crozet Volunteer Fire Department carried it out April 15 by officially rolling Engine 56, now their best pumper, into a main front bay. The term goes back to the days of horsedrawn wagons that were pushed back into their sheds to be at the ready.
CVFD covers a 135 square-mile area and assists across Albemarle County as well as into Augusta, Nelson and Greene Counties. It’s answering 800 calls a year—more than two a day on average—with an outstanding all-volunteer crew. The CVFD color guard ceremoniously processed into the open bay and once it was solemnly in place, the crowd joined the firefighters in reciting the pledge of allegiance. Chaplain
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Western Albemarle High School’s sports and science fair competitors grab their share of headlines, but in a quieter way the students who run the school’s literary publications are writing their own success stories. Though they have each existed since the school’s inception, in recent years the WAHS yearbook, newspaper, and literary magazine have all been ascendant, and according to their faculty advisors, the students are leading the charge. “The students brainstorm the theme for each year, and they choose how it will be presented,” said William Hughes, English composition teacher and yearbook advisor. “They can specialize somewhat in writing content or taking photos, but we essentially say, ‘You are responsible for these two-page spreads.’” The WAHS yearbook, The Odyssey, runs 232 pages this year and is packed with interviews, Q&A’s, short articles, and of course thousands of photographs. Though the book’s publisher provides graphic templates and
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Emergency Services Radio Tower Needs Replacing by Michael Marshall
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The Crozet Community Advisory Committee listened to a report on the need to replace an emergency services communications tower on top of Bucks Elbow Mountain at their meeting April 18, and in the end voted their support for the plan. The tower transmits two-way radios used by police and fire/rescue depart-
ments in the region as well as federal law enforcement, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, and U.S. Cellular, the lone tenant of the tower. The current 120-foot tower, stabilized by guy wires, will be replaced with a 150-foot, self-supporting lattice tower. The existing tower—no records exist of its construction—will not support new equipment and its equipment is out of date. continued on page 26
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WAHS senior Madison Stone, editor-in-chief of The Odyssey, displays this year’s cover image with the theme “We Are United.”
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We have a good income and could afford to pay the $5001,000 we owe after routine cardio visits (as well as the several thousands of dollars to meet our deductible). Though we were overwhelmed with anxiety, when we saw the staggering cost of her surgery *alone*—nearly a quarter of a million dollars—we recognized how profoundly fortunate we are, that we didn’t have to lose everything to save our little girl’s life. A three-year-old’s life shouldn’t depend on whether her parents are lucky. But for hundreds of thousands of Virginians, it does. Many of our neighbors and friends live in what’s called the insurance gap, so they don’t get insurance through their employer but they make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and can’t afford to purchase private insurance on their own. Purchasing private health insurance became especially difficult to do here in
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Joshua Farnsworth has made a name for himself on YouTube as a teacher of traditional woodworking using hand tools. So skilled are his explanations and demonstrations that he is known among the living masters of hand woodworking. And they are the faculty of his new school for the tradition, the Wood and Shop Traditional Woodworking School, which begins this month, operating out of a tidy brick workshop building at his home in Earlysville. “It’s a school of the historical methods of woodworking,” Farnsworth said. “We use
antique tools—saws, planes.” His upcoming class will teach how to make a shaker candle stand. Also in the line up are how to make a backsaw, how to build a sailor’s tool chest, how to restore wooden hand planes, how to build a pair of dovetail saw benches, joinery with hand tools, and an introduction to hand tool woodworking. “It started for me in high school,” said Farnsworth, whose brother-in-law happens to be a cabinetmaker. “He’s well known in his area—Utah. He inspired me. “I watched Roy Underhill’s The Woodwright’s shop on PBS. Now teachers from his Woodwright’s School are coming to teach here. Roy let me
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Joshua Farnsworth in his woodworking school.
film DVDs of teachers at his school. Now they’re coming here! “Millions of people have seen me explain how to make something,” said Farnsworth. “I want really good teaching—patient. “I want to try to inspire people to have quality furniture. Too much furniture ends up in the landfill these days.” His workshop has 10 benches for students. Four stand against the walls and six are set parallel in the middle of the room. Six are a Moravian style from the 18th century that can be taken apart. A woodstove adds a cozy promise of warmth. The eight teachers on the roster include Will Myers, Bill Anderson and Tom Calisto
from Underhill’s Pittsboro, North Carolina, academy; as well as Kaare Loftheim from Colonial Williamsburg; David Ray Pine, who makes fine reproductions in Mt. Crawford; Ervin and Willie Ellis, Appalachian-style experts from Castlewood, and Farnsworth himself. Classes range from one day to six days long. Tuition is $160 per day of class, plus a materials fee. Instructors provide the wood students need. Absolute novices are admitted. There are no skill prerequisites. Farnsworth supplies the hand tools from his collection. Students are welcome to bring their own.
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Central Virginia’s rolling foothills are graced with a bounty of trees, so much so that the sheer volume of all of those oaks, poplars, maples, and pines as an ever-present backdrop may lead residents to overlook them entirely. Raising awareness of the existential value of trees, as well as of the damage caused by clear-cut logging and deforestation in other regions of the world, is the mission of sculptor and artist Konstantin Dimopoulos, born in Egypt but most recently hailing from New Zealand. He and his wife Adele visited Brownsville Elementary
and WAHS to collaborate on an environmental art installation he calls The Blue Trees. In The Blue Trees projects he’s done in almost a dozen locations around the world from Denver to Singapore, Dimopoulos uses a water-based pigment to change the color of the trunks and limbs of a set of trees to a vibrant blue, with the aim of raising their visibility. “We go up to around three-quarters of the tree with the pigment,” he said at the Brownsville event, “so it’s sort of an illusion of a blue tree, like all art is a representation. But still, it’s eye-catching.” Eye-catching, indeed. The pigment is ultramarine, a deep
Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos has installed his work entitled The Blue Trees at locations all over the world to bring awareness to the scourge of deforestation.
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Blue Trees Environmental Art Comes to Brownsville, Western
WAHS Environmental Science Academy students use rollers to reach the higher spots in The Blue Trees art installation at Brownsville Elementary.
blue color originally derived from lapis lazuli and not found naturally on trees anywhere. The color is non-toxic and will wear off of the tree bark after a period from a few months to a year or more, adding a life-like, ephemeral element to the installation. While it’s in place, Dimopoulos intends for it to engender an appreciation of one of our most precious resources, starting with encouraging people to “see” trees in ways they have not before. “Trees have an intelligence,” said Dimopoulos. “I don’t mean knowledge, as in book knowledge, but an intelligence about how the world is. Long before people were here, they were
using the sun to make energy.” He stresses the spiritual connection between trees and people as well. “Stand near a great redwood, as I have, and look up. You lean back more and more to see the top, and it’s as close to God as you can get. Trees actually breathe life into us.” Dimopoulos, who dyed his silver hair blue for the event, mixes batches of the pigment for students to “paint” onto the tree limbs with brushes and rollers as he talks about the inspiration for The Blue Trees. “I became aware of the massive deforestation of southeast Asia and many other areas of the globe, and I wanted to do what continued on page 20
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Director Leo Connally (right) and Engl ish teacher Jen Buckett (left) enjoy a walk with students from Field School to the Croz et Library.
Students in Heather Solga’s class touch a sea snail at the Under the Sea program at Murray Elementary. the creatures in his tanks onto a
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large screen for his audience, and he called for volunteers to come up and gently hold several Murray Elementary School students (yes, all of them!) got a of the animals. After the allschool session, each class was chance to see, learn about, and actually touch a variety of sea able to spend time with Wilson in the foyer to touch the articreatures at a recent all-school presentation by Andrew Wilson, facts and live sea creatures. In Emilie Pastorfield’s class, founder of Under the Sea, a traveling marine aquarium pro- second-grader Jayden pointed gram based in Washington, to the large conch shell that D.C. Affiliated with the Glen Wilson had blown through to Echo Park Aquarium on the make a sound like a horn. “That was my favorite,” he said. “This Potomac River, the group brings is the stuff I want to try to do sea creatures such as mollusks, when I get older.” sea stars, octopi, and even small “I love the sharks,” said sharks to schools to teach kids about the variety of life in the Hayden, Jayden’s classmate, “but I’m scared of them. Seeing ocean. “We have several different them up close makes them less programs, but the best learning scary.” The activity was organized by experience is what we’re doing Murray’s PTO, which works to today,” said Wilson, a biologist bring four different kinds of whose prior work for the Virginia Marine Science cultural enrichment programs Museum included rescuing to the school each year. “We try stranded whales on Virginia to mix it up,” said Jennifer Beach. “The students learn Winslow, PTO president. “We hope to have dancing, singing, about the animals and then get to see them up close so they can theater, and a hands-on presentation. This is our first year with ask more advanced questions, and touch them if they feel Under the Sea, which we heard about after they visited comfortable.” Hollymead.” Wilson used a camera to Wilson captivated the hunproject a clear, close-up view of dreds of children in the school gym with his lively, interactive style, infusing movement and humor into his talk. He says the program generates lasting in Students in Emilie Pastorfield’s second grade class watch a excitement the students. demonstration at the Under the Sea aquarium program.
“Teachers typically report that the students’ curiosity is on fire for the next week or so,” said Wilson. “It gives teachers the opportunity to cover things like math of the ocean and aquatic-related writing assignments and science projects.” For firing up young imaginations, it’s a cool day in school when the ocean comes for a visit.
Something New Under the Sun Leo Connally, director of Field School in Crozet, gets lonely in the summers. “The whole school’s open, and I’m here, but the kids aren’t,” he said. That will soon change with the inception this year of a brand new program called Field School Summer. A co-ed enrichment opportunity open to students from ages 6 to 15 and taught by Field School faculty, the three, two-week sessions in June and July will offer a bounty of content. “The faculty will have a chance to try different courses they couldn’t teach in our current curriculum, and the classes will be very hands-on, experiential and creative,” said Connally. Instead of registering for a single type of summer experience—soccer camp, for example—kids at Field School Summer will be exposed to six or seven different areas of interest during each program session, from sports skills to creative writing, STEM design to natural history exploration, with lots of outdoor time and never a dull moment. Each session will be independent and unique, so
participants who sign up for more than one session will not repeat content, but instead can build on what they’ve learned from one to the next. “We want the classes to be flexible, so, for instance, the Spanish instruction can be taught at any level and will focus on conversational Spanish rather than on a rigid curriculum,” Connally said. “Natural history class will study the wildlife and plant life in our area and teach basic outdoor skills like how to navigate when you don’t have a compass or phone with you.” The STEM class will use Nintendo Switch’s new Labo program, along with a touch screen, motion sensors, and an infrared camera, to build and control devices in a 3D environment. Field School is a middle school for boys in 5th through 8th grades (though the camp is open to both girls and boys), and its eight-acre campus just north of downtown Crozet is crisscrossed with biking and hiking trails and room to run. “The summer program will be unique to this area,” said Connally, “and will really let kids explore.” He hopes the sessions will be both educational and full of self-discovery for the participants. “When something is challenging, that experience equates to better learning,” said Connally. “We want to set up an environment where kids feel supported even if they fail, so they’re free to try new things and have fun.” Check out field schoolsummer.org for info on classes, faculty bios, and pricing. continued on page 34
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Farmers Markets Open You don’t have to look far these days to find a farmer with a basketful of fresh produce for sale. It’s a good thing, said Mary Delicate of the Virginia Farmers Market Association. She pointed to statistics compiled by the Farmers Market Coalition, a national non-profit. According to the coalition, farmers markets help farmers keep more of their profits, protect open land, give people better access to fresh food, and in general stimulate the local economy with more jobs and more customers. The Crozet Farmers Market opens Saturday, May 5, at 8 a.m. and continues through the season with fresh produce, honey, eggs, mushrooms and baked goods every week, ending each Saturday at noon. The market grows each year and features helpful advice from local master gardeners on alternate continued on page 12
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The Crozet Market deli opened in mid-April with a festive event featuring the local growers who supply the store. The deli has prepared take-out food, sushi, baked goods and regular deli items like meats and cheeses as well as coffee. Down the road, Rocket Coffee opened later in the month, with Marie Bette pastries as well as an extensive coffee and tea service in its convenient location on Rte. 250. Crozet’s newest coffee shop aims to serve the early morning rush hour and will open its door each day at 6:30. In Batesville, the Batesville Market is gearing up for Batesville Day May 5 by laying in a mountain of chicken, pork and poblano tamales as well as supplying a number of other food items for the event. The store is also sponsoring a chili tasting with Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie. Over at Piedmont Place, merchants celebrated Earth Day by taking a look at packaging with an eye toward sustainability. Anne DeVault at Over the Moon Bookstore uses biodegradable plastic bags for her books and gifts. At Smojo, Beth Harley uses biodegradable containers made from renewable materials like corn and sugar cane and is soon to offer stainless steel straws for sale for those seeking a sustainable way to enjoy their smoothies. Jennifer Blanchard and Keely Hass at
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Morsel Compass also use biodegradable and compostable packaging and will soon be offering biodegradable cutlery. None of these choices is an economic benefit for these businesses: Hass estimates that the sustainable choices add about $30 per thousand ordered to the cost. Pro Re Nata is the Crozet location for WMRA’s popular monthly Books & Brews. This
month’s event, May 8, features author Allison K. Garcia discussing her novel Vivir el Dream, about an undocumented college student trying to make her way in the world, exploring her Christian faith, and also coming to terms with why her mother brought her from Mexico. PRN now features burgers and more from the Griffons Aerie food truck.
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weeks. Saturday is also the day for the opening of the Nelson Farmers Market Cooperative in Nellysford, a huge outdoor market featuring music, cheese, all kinds of prepared food and home-grown meats, exhibits and crafts, as well as produce and baked goods. It’s the same place but a different name for the former Red Hill Market, now the North Garden Farmers Market, said advisory board member Dolores Dwyer. A festive opening day at Cutright Lake in North Garden will feature produce, baked goods and farm-made cheeses, as well as food and ice cream trucks. This Thursday market opens June 7, and continues through the season from 3 to 7 on Thursday afternoons. Another strategy for those running low on food in the middle of the week is the Shady Lane Farm market at Crozet’s Brownsville Market. Maynard Swarey, one of the hardworking crew at the Nathan Yoder family farm, hauls in plants, baked goods, produce and home-made jams and sells them under the canopy from 11 to 5:30. He has early strawberries and will have early tomatoes, thanks to a late fall planting under glass at the Free Union farm. One of his brothers-in-law does the same thing every Thursday on Garth Road near Foxfield, Swarey said. Up at Chiles Orchard, the asparagus harvest is underway, said Manager Lisa Henson, and strawberries are blooming and swelling in time for an early May harvest. Chiles offers vegetables in season along with the signature orchard fruit. The
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Waynesboro YMCA to Host a Sprint Distance Triathlon June 2 The Waynesboro YMCA “Tri for the Y” is a USAT-sanctioned event, which is being presented by Charlottesville Multi Sports (CMS). Additional information and registration can be found at: cms-events.com/event/waynesboro-y-tri/ The Waynesboro Family YMCA has been serving the region for over 60 years with a focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. Funds generated by the “Tri for the Y” will support the Cid Scallet Memorial Fund at the Waynesboro YMCA. Scallet, who died in 2016, was locally famous as the proprietor of the Batesville Store and was a member of the YMCA Board of Directors. He was a tireless advocate for the youth and families served by the YMCA. All money that is donated to the “Cid Fund” is used to cover scholarships for individuals and families who normally could not afford YMCA membership, childcare programming, participation in youth sports programs, and/or summer camp participation.
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Waynesboro Family YMCA will host the “Tri for the Y” Sprint Distance Triathlon June 2 for both experienced triathletes and those new to the event. The “Tri for the Y” will stage from Ridgeview Park, located on South Magnolia Avenue in Waynesboro. The swim portion will be conducted in a 50-meter outdoor pool (eight lengths for a total of 400 meters). The 15.5 mile bike portion will travel through rolling hills as well as along flat roads in Augusta County. The final leg of the event will be a 3.1 mile (5K) run, which will begin in Ridgeview Park and travel parallel to a portion of the Waynesboro Country Club. Not sure you can or want to do all three events? You can choose to do a duathlon (1 mile run, 15.5 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) or an aquabike (400 m swim, 15.5 mile bike). Or you can enter a team with three members, each doing only one event. Not a strong swimmer? There is an option for a team to "rent" a member of the Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club (SMAC) to swim this leg of the event.
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Clean water, open land, ancient rocks, teeming wildlife and even strong spring winds are part of what makes Nelson County special, said Betsy Agelasto at the 10th Annual Rockfish Valley Foundation Kite Festival in early April. Right on schedule, the wind came up for the popular event, as the crowd made kites, competed in parachute races and sampled the offerings of food trucks on a sunny day near Nellysford. The kite festival is a lot of fun, said Agelasto, but it has another purpose: to draw attention to the mission and work of the Rockfish Valley Foundation. The Foundation’s museum is housed in a former pottery studio in front of the fields where children launched homemade paper-bag kites and grown-ups sampled cider from Bold Rock.
In the well-organized interior are displays highlighting the County’s unique features, with plenty of opportunities for school children to touch stuffed foxes and coyotes, or open drawers full of dried scat and pelts. They can trace the way a drop of rain becomes first a stream, then a river and then part of the mighty Chesapeake flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. “This is also a resource for older students and adults doing research on Nelson County natural history,” said Agelasto. “If someone needs a topic for a research paper, we’re always glad to help.” Later in the week, the Foundation welcomed a unique learning partnership of high school students and Nelson County youngsters. In “Naturally Nelson,” led by master naturalist and volunteer Leah Jung, dozens of ninth graders from Western Albemarle High School’s Environmental
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Studies Academy became natural history instructors for fourth graders from Tye River Elementary in what has become an annual spring event. For two days, the Western Albemarle group manned outdoor, hands-on educational stations of their own design to teach the younger students about food webs, animal adaptations for survival, plant structures and function, pollination, and how to find and use the tiny critters from Spruce Creek to measure stream health. On another day, environmental educators for Nelson County set up the same kind of experience for fourth graders from Rockfish River Elementary School. The events made good use of the Foundation’s well-marked, hands-on series of trails for children, who traveled through the interactive stations to learn about distinctive Nelson County water, rocks, plants and animals.
All are threatened by the march of progress, said Neil Laferriere at a seminar later that day, sponsored by the Friends of Nelson County. In particular, the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will destroy large swaths of habitat for important plants. Beth and Neil Laferriere own Blackberry Botanicals in West Virginia and were at the Rockfish Valley Community Center to help volunteers identify and save plants that would be destroyed by the impending clearing of Nelson County land. They’re also part of a multi-state plant rescue effort called the Pipeline Native Plant Rescue Group. “It’s not just the plants that get bulldozed or poisoned along the 125-foot-wide swath cleared that will be lost,” Neil said. “Loss of the shade canopy will kill plants that are on the edges on both sides of the clearing, too.” This is not an insignificant loss, Beth explained: “Our
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mountains are home to 1,500 plants that have important medicinal use. Of that number, 500 are not found anywhere else.” Volunteers trained in plant rescue painstakingly dig up and move the plants to plant sanctuaries, to universities for research, and to individual herbalists for propagation. The Laferrieres brought samples of ancient wild herbs like goldenseal, bloodroot and blue and black cohosh for the volunteer rescue team to examine. Also of interest, said Beth, are some of the ancient cultivated botanicals our ancestors planted around their homesteads and cabins: “For instance, there’s a component in daffodils now being researched for a component that prevents dementia,” she said. Kathleen Maier, of Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville, spoke about the importance of mountain herbs to our Irish ancestors in these mountains. “This was their apothecary,” she said. “There’s nowhere else quite like our temperate rainforests.” Blackberry Botanicals will return to Nelson County in June for more workshops, but much of the recent work done
by Neil and Beth has been plant rescue along the Mountain Valley Pipeline path in West Virginia. This construction drew recent national attention because of the protestors and tree sitters in strategic sites. “If I could have my wish, the pipeline would go away,” Neil said. “But what if it doesn’t? Our wish is to be respectful so we can get permission from the utilities to go in and save the plants before they’re gone forever.”
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training, the work of putting it together is a heavy lift. To build the yearbook, Hughes’ dedicated class of 13 students have to teach themselves the ins and outs of graphics layout using Adobe InDesign and photo editing in Photoshop, and learn to operate under constant looming deadlines. “One pressure point is sports coverage, because so many of our students are involved in their own sports that it’s hard to attend other events,” said Hughes. “We’ve really improved in recent years with better photography and interviewing.” In the past four years The Odyssey has won a silver medal and two gold medals from the Columbia
Scholastic Press Association, so the team is clearly on a winning streak. More than merely assembling a scrapbook of events and pictures as a historical record, the yearbook staff tries to tell a vivid story of what is was truly like to be at WAHS in a given year. “Last year’s catchphrase was ‘In the Now,’ for our 40th anniversary,” said Hughes. “The students used four colored bars in a forward arrow, like a play button, as a graphic element tying the theme together.” The 201718 yearbook, due back from the printer shortly, is built around the theme “We are United.” “It actually started with physical renovations inside the school that are uniting us,” said Hughes, “but was transformed by the events of August 12 and really took on more meaning
William Hughes teaches the yearbook class which produces The Odyssey, WAHS’s award-winning yearbook.
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from there.” Madison Stone, the yearbook’s editor-in-chief and a senior, says this year’s smaller crew has made managing the process much more of a struggle than in past years when as many as 23 students were on staff. A point of emphasis is extensive photographic coverage of the student body. “We use indexing software to make sure everyone is in there, beyond just their portrait, as many times as possible,” said Stone. “With over 1,100 students, that’s a challenge. But we’ve done a lot of training in the past year and are more serious about it than ever, and it’s always improving.” Jill Williams, who teaches world history and journalism, advises the students who put
together the school newspaper, The Western Hemisphere, during her journalism classes. “It’s an entirely student-run publication,” said Williams. “They drive the content, write the stories, take the pictures, and do the layout and edits.” The newspaper aims to publish five or six times per year, and includes reporting on schoolwide events, student achievements, the arts, and sports results, as well as reviews and opinion writing. Williams’ 4-credit class stresses the fundamentals—the importance of getting quality sources and sufficient sources for a story, how to be mindful of headlines and their impact, how to write news and how to do interviews and reviews. As
CROZETgazette in-chief for UVA’s Cavalier Daily, and other alums for “Meet the Press,” Congressional Quarterly, and The Hill. Smallest of the three publications in terms of circulation is the school’s literary magazine, Myriad, an annual volume of poetry, short fiction, song lyrics, and other creative writing. After several years under various faculty advisors, Kelly Burnette, who teaches digital imaging and art history, took the helm of the magazine last year as part of her creative writing class and hopes to guide it to a wider audience. “In deciding what to put in the magazine, we focus on the strongest writing, pieces that are interesting or entertaining,” said Burnette, “and it’s really important that we hear from voices throughout the school.” Myriad includes about 20 pieces of writing each year, as well as about 20 photographic images and artwork spread throughout the volume. The 6 x 9 inch publication runs 54 to 60 pages and is printed in full color. “Though we’ve included original song lyrics in the past, one innovation this year is that we’re printing a QR code in the magazine, so people can scan the code with their phone and go online to actually hear the song,” said Burnette. While some of the submissions this year reflect students’ impressions about local and national events over the past year, Burnette says the writing represents all kinds of perspectives and styles, and the staff takes their job seriously. “The way the students go about selecting the writing has really impressed me, and that’s somecontinued on page 19
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student workloads increase, deadlines often slide. “The challenge is that the students are all doing a billion other things,” said Williams, “so while it would be beneficial to stay after school to do layout, it’s just not possible when kids are playing sports and doing other things.” Working on the paper also teaches the students about inclusiveness, reputation, and perceived slant in news coverage. “Our most recent issue had stories about the [March for Our Lives] student walkout and gun safety, and there were some kids who felt that the coverage was biased, and said so,” said Williams. “That gave us the opportunity to reexamine our work and think about how to strengthen the writing, to reevaluate what we’d done from a different perspective.” Opinion writing, such as a recent piece entitled “Promposals: Cute or Coercive?” gives staff writers a chance to address trending student issues, and the newspaper’s website allows those with design skills to show off their multimedia flair. “I think our strength is our writing and pretty clean design,” said Williams, noting that the 16-page publication has received ‘Excellent’ ratings from the Virginia High School League contests in recent years. Though the budget for the paper would probably only produce two issues a year, the students sell bagels, seek advertising, and sell subscriptions to fund further content. Williams is pleased that WAHS journalism students have gone on to pursue professional careers in writing and reporting, such as Tim Dodson, currently editor-
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Crozet Home Sales Continue to Surge by david ferrall | ferrall@crozetgazette.com
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At the end of the first quarter of 2017 real estate participants were scratching their heads wondering “what just happened?� The period was the strongest first quarter ever in Crozet real estate history. With nice weather early, new home builders and current homeowners alike were experiencing high traffic and quick contracts. The traditionally strong spring real estate season seemed to have started at least a month early. And a year later we have experienced the same again. There were 64 total sales in the first quarter of 2018, up 25 percent from the 51 sales at the same time last year, a scorching clip that portends another record year if the pace continues. Of the 64 total sales, one sale over $1M will be excluded for statistical purposes (a $4M 135acre estate on Dick Woods Road). The 25 percent increase in sales compares to the roughly 9 percent increase seen in Albemarle County as a whole (see the attached five-year sales trend chart provided courtesy of Nest Realty). The average price per finished sqft was up 3.5 percent; the average and median prices were both up marginally as well. Fortunately there was only one distressed sale in the period; we hope to see this at zero in coming quarters. Land sales doubled to 8 from 4 at the same time in 2017. Of the total 63 property sales, 12 were for properties on an acre of land or
more. These properties tend to be in outlying areas around Crozet, and historically make up about 25 percent of total sales. The 20 percent figure for this past quarter is down slightly, probably reflecting the increasing number of sales of new homes that are on smaller parcels of land. The average days-on-market for resale properties was down to 65 from 79 last year. The quickening sales pace highlights the common buyer complaint of low inventory. The reality is properties are selling faster at higher prices. There were 36 detached home sales in the quarter, up slightly from 34 last year. The average price for these homes was $487,000, down 3.5 percent from last year. Of these 36 sales 10 were for new construction homes. The average price for these homes was $585,000, which was down a surprising 9 percent from the same time last year. The average size for these homes was down 200sqft, which helps account for some of the price decrease. The cost per fin-
ished sqft was down 3.5 percent as well, which helped to knock the price down. Four of the sales were in Old Trail, with the remainder spread across Haden Lane, Chesterfield Landing, Westlake and Foothills. The bulk of the total sales increase seen quarter-to-quarter occurred with attached properties. As property prices in Crozet advance, townhouses and villas can be more affordable options for buyers, and builders/developers are responding to the need. There were 27 attached sales in the quarter, up 59 percent from the 17 sales in the period last year. The average sales price of $362,000 was a 26 percent increase over last year, reflecting the growing influence larger new construction units are having. There were 10 new construction sales in the quarter. The average cost for a new townhome in Old Trail, the only neighborhood where new construction was happening in the quarter, was a stunning $490,000, with the average size being 3,058sqft. This new con-
struction price was up 22 percent from the same time last year, while the average size was up 42 percent. Going forward, the newly opened Glenbrook at Foothill Crossing will offer attached villa-style homes, a new attached option here. Crozet seems to be setting sales records with each quarter, and it appears this will continue for the foreseeable future. This is supported by the most recent S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller report, which shows home prices nationally up 6.7 percent from their pre-Great Recession peak in July 2006. Prices have now risen for 70 consecutive months. So, the advice remains the same: if you want to sell your home in Crozet price it appropriately and the buyers will come. Quickly, most likely. If you are a buyer, be prepared to act posthaste on a resale. On new construction, get ready to pay what the builders are asking, as there are few incentives at present due to strong demand.
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VPA Winners Gazette writers Lisa Martin and Theresa Curry were winners at the Virginia Press Association’s annual awards banquet April 14. In the Specialty Publications category, which the Gazette is lumped in against competition such as Richmond Magazine, Virginia Living and Style Weekly, Martin won first place for investigative writing for her story on coyotes in Crozet and Curry won third place for a portfolio of feature stories.
Martin also won Best in Show, a top honor, in Specialty Writing, recognizing the quality of several entries she wrote. The distinction names her as one of the best reporters in Virginia. Allie Pesch, not pictured, won first place for ad design for an ad she designed for Blue Mountain Brewery, but could not attend the banquet because she was in Boston to run the Boston Marathon (her time: 3:36:22 against strong headwinds and drenching rain).
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age the walls or the artwork. It’s a way of representing students in the library and also having a nice aesthetic there.” The pair then wrote up and pitched the innovation to the national industry magazine School Library Journal, where it was accepted and will be published later this year. As avid readers and writers, Aminuddin and Beaumont are passionate about their craft, both participating in events such as the annual National Novel Writing Month. “I’d like to get more disciplined and write every day, and to try to ignore my inner editor,” said Beaumont. “I love to read, and I want to one day make people feel the same way that I feel when I’m reading those books. That’s why I want to be a writer.” For Aminuddin, writing is more personal and therapeutic. “I write some fiction but also I write about what’s going on in my life—it’s a good way to remember events like trips,” she said. “I feel like pictures can capture a moment, but writing captures emotion.”
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thing only I get to witness,” said Burnette. “I’m the facilitator but they run the show, and I want the class to feel like they own the magazine 100%.” Two students who run their own show are sophomore Claire Aminuddin and junior Peyton Beaumont, filling the newly-created positions of library communications and outreach interns. Under the supervision of librarian-dynamo Melissa Techman, the students use part of their study halls and free time to spread news about what’s going on in the library via their blog posts and Twitter accounts, and also to write book reviews and work on projects that enhance the library experience for their fellow students. “We came up with a new display technique for artwork in the library,” said Aminuddin. “We take student photographs and blow them up to large poster size, and we developed a way to hang them using very strong magnets that don’t dam-
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I could as an artist make some kind of change.” The otherworldly blue on the trees is reminiscent of the whimsy of Dr. Seuss, and Dimopoulos finds some parallels. “Dr. Seuss wasn’t a scientist, he was an artist,” he said. “His book The Lorax [in which the title character defends the trees from clear-cutting] was the result of something that he saw that needed to be addressed.” The Blue Trees project was chiefly organized by art teachers Shannon Horridge at Brownsville and Nancy Mehlich at WAHS as a collaboration, and several trees at the entrance to WAHS have been colored as well. The project was partially funded by a grant from the nonprofit Arts in Western Education, which raises money to fund the Fine Arts programs
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(music, art and drama) in the western feeder district of Albemarle County. Brownsville Principal Jason Crutchfield looks at the project more as art than advocacy. “I’m a big supporter of the arts,” he said. “Art is freedom, it’s creativity. To me, it’s about opening these kids’ minds as to what’s possible, even where things don’t look possible, like blue trees.” Crutchfield stresses the transformative nature of the hands-on experience. “Looking back in our lives, rarely do we remember how we acquired the content, but we sure can tell you about the experiences we had.” Dimopoulos hopes the experience sticks with the students as well. “We do this project, and who knows what the kids will do with it in the future,” he said, smiling. “It’s up to them.” The hope is that, as the students contemplate The Blue Trees, a seed is planted.
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Uncle Lem: The Legacy They were shouting hallelujah in July 1865 when John Napoleon James showed back up on the doorstep of his fatherin-law Hiram Via’s log home alongside Moorman’s River in Sugar Hollow. After four ugly years of an un-civil war, plus another three months of sidestepping the death angel ranging through the Union Army’s prisoner of war camp at Point Lookout, Maryland, the native South Carolinian finally could begin life anew with his young bride Frances Anna. John-N and Fanny wasted no time getting settled in a family way. Over the next 20 years, their home was blessed with seven boys and five girls. The second-born of those siblings arrived in November 1867 and was named in honor of his paternal uncle Lemuel and his maternal grandfather Hiram. The family just called him Lem. In 1885, the James family’s home burned to the ground. All souls were spared, along with Fanny’s sewing machine, but everything else was lost. As difficult decisions were made on how to move forward, 18-yearold Lem moved in with neighbor Tom Boyne. Three years
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later, he married Cornelia Maggie Becks of Rockingham County, and they subsequently moved in with Wash and Susan Via a little farther around the mountainside from the Boynes. James “Jimmy” Daughtry (1917–1990) and his wife Irene (Thompson) (1919–1995) of Waynesboro traced their roots to Sugar Hollow in western Albemarle County. They were diligent and loving keepers of their family heritage. “Uncle Lem used to come and spend a week or so at a time with us and we just loved it,” said Irene. “He didn’t have a home. He’d just stay with his children. Just go around place to place. He and his wife Cornelia lived with Uncle Wash Via (b.1815) and Aunt Susan (Ballard). They had their [four living] children while they lived there. Oh, Uncle Lem said they were the best five years of his life. Nealie died [in March 1899] and they buried her [with her tiny infant son in her arms] there [on the south shoulder of Pasture Fence Mountain above Sugar Hollow].” Miss Mattie Maupin (1856– 1935) who lived nearby wrote, “Lem James’ wife was buried Lem James was born in Sugar Hollow in 1867. A true mountain man and outdoorsman who hunted and ran trap lines for furs, he supported his family as an apiarist, orchardist and subsistence farmer. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]
Sugar Hollow native James Daughtry, along with his wife Irene (Thompson), enjoyed retelling tales of their former neighbor Lem James and life in old Sugar Hollow. [Photo by Phil James]
last Sunday. The poor creature did not live but a few hours after the birth of her [fifth] baby. They put off too long sending after Dr. Miller from Rockingham. He took the child but it killed her. Lem has been very sick since her death, he took it so hard. Left four little children. [Cornelia] asked Lem not to separate her little ones.” Lem honored Nealie’s final request. Eleven months later, he married Sallie McAllister, a wonderful helpmate, who raised Lem’s four youngsters as her
own, along with a fifth child born later to extended family. “Lem said Aunt Susan and Nealie would knit socks at night by the fire,” recalled Jimmy Daughtry. “When he left there, Aunt Susan gave him five pair of wool socks that she knitted. All made from the wool sheared from their sheep. “He had an old bull tongue on a wooden plow and four times he drove corn with that bull tongue. It had a narrow shovel on it when you plant continued on page 22
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with a bull tongue. He’d go down one side of the row and sow, and come up the other side. Then he’d go down the middle and back. Uncle Wash would come along behind with his hoe and hill up every stalk. By early evening, they’d stop. They never did rush. He said a lot of times, they’d be in bed and the sun hadn’t quite gone down. Five o’clock the next morning they were out there going again. He said they made tremendous crops of wheat and corn. “Uncle Lem and I wanted to go fishing, but we didn’t have any poles. So we went down to the hardware and picked out a reed pole. Well, he got the biggest and the longest pole they had. His was a whopper. Our garage was 18’ long. We put it up in there. Hung it up on the rafters and it was as long as the garage was. I got a smaller size. He showed me how to plat the hook. I always just tied a knot, but he said, ‘Oh, that won’t be right’. You had to plat it. I couldn’t do it now, but he showed me, and we platted the hooks on each line and we rolled them up and put them up in the garage. When he died
that pole was still up there.” Longtime Waynesboro businessman and Sugar Hollow native Purcell Daughtry recalled, “Lem James would go in the mountain and hunt bee trees. He had a big thing for finding them. Must have been an expert with bees. He rented them to the orchards for pollination. That’s the way he made a living.” “When he’d see a bee fly, boy, right then he was going where the bee tree was!” said Irene Daughtry. Cornelia Frances James Wyant (1879–1932) was a younger sister of Lem. She married Hiram C. Wyant in 1898. Their son Emory (1911–2001) said, “I worked with Uncle Lem up in the apple orchard for several years. He was the foreman at Ellison’s Orchard, about two miles from White Hall going toward Crozet. Ray Warrick lived close by. “He loved to hunt and he loved his honey—his bees. But I think that was in the James family. Nearly all of them liked bees. My Gran-dad [John-N James] was a bee hunter. He hunted bees in the mountains and everywhere, hunting bee trees. He had little binoculars that he watched the bees with. He said that the way you hunt bees, you don’t go where they’re
Warren James prepared to open a package of 10,000 bees to install into one of the dozen or so hives custom-made in his woodshop. Inspired by stories of his greatgrandfather Lem’s prowess as an expert hunter of bees and bee trees, Warren and his wife Leslie harvested their raw wildflower honey to sell at the Crozet Farmers Market. [Photo by Phil James]
Lem James with his great-nephew V.L. James Jr., c.1938. Lem and his wife Sallie (McAllister) raised V.L.’s father Virgil. Lem’s intimate knowledge of the mountains around Sugar Hollow, love of the outdoors and passion for hunting were passed down in that family. [Courtesy of Phil James Historical Images]
sitting on flowers. You find where they’re watering at. They go to the closest water. He’d take a little flour with him, drop a little on the bee, and watch him fly away. You watch which way he goes and how long it will take him to get back. With the flour, he would know that bee when he came back and he knew how long he’d been gone. He could almost go right to the tree. He’d recognize that bee because he had flour on his wings. Lemuel Hiram James passed away in 1946. The man who
always preferred being in the outdoors attracted little attention and left behind no tangible worldly goods. Warren James (1942–2017), a great-grandson of Lem, was proud to be a fourth-generation beekeeper. When dealing with the challenges of that age-old craft, he would often ask the question, “Now, what would Lem do?” The fifth and sixth generation apiarists of that family today join others whose memories and traditions keep alive the legacies of a Blue Ridge Mountain man.
V.L. James displayed a treasured family relic: a walking stick hand-carved and used by Lem James of Sugar Hollow. [Photo by Phil James]
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I often cook from recipes, but sometimes I just make stuff up. Never in my younger days would I do that. It’s come from practice and confidence. Of course family cooking (pasta sauce, artichokes, breaded chicken) were always done from memory and by ‘feel’.
Last May, I had some baby beets and made this soup. It’s an interpretation of borscht and CrozGaz_March 2017_Layout 1 2/27/17 other root vegetable soups that I’ve enjoyed. The friend to whom I served it exclaimed “you must put this in the Crozet Gazette!” So here you are, from memory:
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Beet Soup 1 quart chicken (or vegetable) stock 1 lb small, fresh beets Salted water for cooking the beets 1 small onion Wash the beets and remove the tops, but leave the skins on. Then boil the beets in salted water until tender. Cooking time will depend on the size of the beet. Drain and allow the beets to cool; the skins will slip off easily. Coarsely chop the beets and add to the stock, along with the onion, salt, and celery. Bring to a gentle boil and cook until the onion and celery are soft, about 30 minutes. Use an immersion blender, or a standard blender to emulsify
2 stalks celery 1 tsp salt 1 cup heavy cream 1 tsp fresh dill
the soup. If using a standard blender, be very careful, blending the soup in small batches, because hot soup in a blender can become explosive! After the soup is completely blended, stir in the heavy cream and serve with a sprinkle of dill. As with pasta, I believe that all soups should be served hot (I know, a personal preference, but I find cold soups, as well as macaroni salad, to be an anathema). But, if you’re the kind of person who likes cold soups, go for it. Makes 4 servings.
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Walt Davis offered a prayer. “We are so grateful for our department, who work tirelessly to serve and protect,” he said. “We pray for our community.” Chief Mike Boyle gave credit to the department’s Truck Committee, “Thanks to all you guys. This truck replaces an old engine. It took more than a year, but we’re very proud of it. The mud flap says ‘Crozet Volunteers’ on it. We want everyone to know we are still all-volunteer. Why? They love this community. Each and everyone of you is important to us. You are part of our lives. This is our family. This is our home. We’re here to protect you. “Two thousand hours of training are required of volunteers,” he said. “And additional training is needed for every leadership role. They make those sacrifices because they love you. We’re not here because we have to be, but because we want to be.” White Hall Supervisor and Board Chair Ann Mallek said, “I’m here to celebrate with you. For 108 years we’ve had the CVFD. We—the citizens of Crozet—are so grateful for all you do. We want to strengthen that effort.” Albemarle Fire Chief Dan Eggleston, who lives in Crozet, said, “Today culminates many years of work. I’m proud of the CVFD for their great achievement. This is a state-of-the-art apparatus. It can inter-operate with any engine at a scene. “Crozet is a unique situation because of its urbanizing growth. But we have a lot of rural area around us, too.”
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The new engine, a 2017 Pierce Velocity Pumper, was built in Appleton, Wisconsin. It has a 525-horsepower engine designed to let it hustle to accidents on Afton Mountain. Chase Sandridge gave a short history of the department. “We started in 1910. There was a siren on top of the Cold Storage Building (now Mountainside Senior Living). Only six people in town were authorized to press the siren button.” He had a series of slides to show. The first station on Main Street, since renamed Crozet Avenue, now a Western Albemarle Rescue Squad building, was shown with the volunteers out front. Then the new station put next to it, now WARS’s main building, again with proud firefighters around an engine. Then the current base on Three Notch’d Road. In the pictures that skip through time young men become grandfathers and in the end stand beside their grandsons. “We like to think of ourselves as trendsetters,” said Sandridge. “We’ve taken a lot of first steps.” The screen showed an antique-looking pumper from the 1930s. “My grandfather saw this 1937 Seagrave delivered to Crozet on a flatbed rail car,” he said. “We had the first tanker truck with a tandem axel. We had the first enclosed cab truck. We were the first to have compressed air foam.” A drone video of Engine 56 driving into town and up to the station brought the timeline up to date. “100 percent volunteer since 1910,” Sandridge summed up. The department hosted a reception afterward with cupcakes and a fancy sheet cake made to look like the engine.
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there is something we can do about it. Right now, our state legislature is in a special session to pass a budget, and this budget hinges on whether or not we expand Medicaid to provide health insurance for roughly 400,000 Virginians. Our delegate, Steve Landes, consistently votes against Medicaid expansion. Call Steve Landes to let him know you support Medicaid expansion, and expect him to do the same. Vote in next year’s statewide elections, for candidates who support all Virginians’ access to quality healthcare. At her first cardio visit, post-surgery, my daughter’s cardiologist told us that she had been in the earliest part of heart failure before her surgery, but no one had known for certain until she recovered and started to thrive. She was a sick kid masquerading as a healthy one. Without those routine visits, no one would have known how seriously her heart needed help until she was dying of heart failure and in need of a transplant. My child is precious and deserves the lifesaving care she received because she is alive at a time during which it is available. Every child, every person, is equally as precious and deserves that same access. We must expand Medicaid to give all Virginians a chance at a healthy life. Leanne Fox Crozet The Destruction of Crozet Crozet, a small simple quaint town, destroyed by the greed of construction. Large builders who block other smaller builders from building in places like Old Trail. Landscaping destroyed by the insensitive greed of those that are selfish and fulfilled by money. Violations of traffic laws by persons who believe they are better than others. Expensive Volvos, BMWs, Range Rovers and Mercedes all reminding us that Crozet will never be the same. Albemarle County, shame on you for allowing all the new construction with no definitive plans to handle the increased
MAY 2018 traffic flow. Police officers from Albemarle County who rightfully claim there are not enough officers to patrol Albemarle County. Crozet, are you prepared for the increase in crime, traffic accidents and lack of law enforcement? Crozet students who attend Western Albemarle High School who no longer in the main ride the buses. Parents who give cars to entitled children thus creating excessive early morning traffic. Cars speeding on Jarmans Gap Road, excessive speeding thru Old Trail and Crozet Avenue. How could this happen? Everywhere you look trees are being destroyed with beautiful scenic views becoming extinct. Rude attitudes, nasty dispositions from newcomers who really believe they are more important than those who have been the pillars of Crozet. Wildlife being displaced as a result of more and more builder greed. I speak with individuals who have been residents of Crozet for a very long time who all say WHY HAS THIS HAPPENED? We all realize that change is inevitable. Spoiled children crowding the coffee shop in Old Trail after school and these very same children parading disrespectfully thru the Mexican Restaurant when patrons are trying to enjoy a meal. These acts of rudeness define some of the communities now being resurrected. Patience is a virtue, but not in Crozet where getting to where you need to go as fast as possible is more important than the safety of those around us. Bikers and avid runners seemingly believing that they can run and ride on the roads where cars should go around them when they themselves do not follow the rules. Crozet, hold on. This will be a rough ride into the future. A future that will have more problems than a small little town ever had nor ever thought. Graham Bernstein Crozet Millenials and Nature With the understanding that I am only one out of 75.4 million American Millennials, I would kindly like to offer a dif-
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Emergency Call Center system manager Gabe Elias gave the presentation, supported by planner Rebecca Ragsdale, known to Crozet from her work on the Crozet Master Plan. The whole matter was being brought to the public because the new tower needs a setback waiver because of the size of the lot the county owns for it. The waiver goes before the supervisors in June and the CCAC meeting counted as its public hearing. “The old tower will come down once the antennas are transferred,” Elias said. In other business, the CCAC postponed action on a plan to present “guiding principles of growth” derived from the Crozet Community Survey results to the Supervisors. The idea is that they would be rulesof-thumb for evaluating development proposals that come before the Supervisors while the Crozet Master Plan awaits its turn for an overdue update. A resolution had been drafted. The idea was to support each principle with citations to survey results and to passages in the current plan that also express the “prevailing vision,” it said, is to maintain Crozet’s “small town feel.” It set out five principles that had overwhelming public support in the survey results. First, “Do not alter or expand the Crozet Growth Area boundary.” Second, “Ensure downtown Crozet is the center of development and the priority area for public investment.” Third, “Limit development along Rt. 250 adjacent to the growth area.” Fourth, “Reject development of the Interstate
64/Rt.250 interchange.” Finally, “Expand transportation options in the Growth Area” and keep infrastructure improvements up to speed with growth. New member David Mitchell, a builder, challenged the first principle—don’t expand the Growth Area. He thought it might be needed. Valerie Long, a new member from Old Trail who introduced herself as a zoning lawyer, said, “I suggest we take a step back. I see this as proposing changes.” New member Josh Rector, also a builder, said the solution is to go ahead with a master plan revision. New member Brian Day offered a summary of the purpose. “The master plan is outdated. There’s ambiguity and misunderstanding now. The community has spoken [in the survey]. This is our view.” Planning Commissioner Jennie More said she did not want an applicant to ask for a growth area boundary adjustment. White Hall Supervisor Ann Mallek said the resolution is “a positively framed document,” and suggested wording designed to make it stronger. A vote on the resolution was put off until May. The CCAC decided to ask survey experts Shawn Bird and Tom Guterbock to make another presentation then on the design and results of the survey for the sake of the new CCAC members. They will also be asked to make that presentation to the Supervisors. The CCAC asked new chair Allie Pesch to look into a plan to get the chairs of the county’s seven advisory councils to a meeting to discuss a common agenda on development issues that are countywide.
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Chuck Tewksbury became enchanted with Taps when he was a young man at Boy Scout camp in Massachusetts. He found the slow “Day is Done” melody soulful and stirring as it echoed across the fields every night before lights out. He made it a point to learn to play it on his own instrument, the trombone. When he served in the Navy on a ship in the Pacific, he was disappointed that, in order to maintain quiet and not reveal the ship’s location, the Taps were spoken over the loudspeaker instead of being played on a bugle. “Now all hands hear this!” the announcer would say. “Lights out! Sleep well.” “That was not very comforting,” he joked at his well-attended performance and presentation on the history of Taps at the Lodge at Old Trail on April 12. We were all blessed to hear him play the musical version that day. Taps can be played on a bugle—a small trumpet with no valves or keys—or a trumpet or a trombone, which uses a sliding bone to alter the pitch. The tune was written in 1862 by Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield at Harrison’s Landing, Virginia (near Richmond). Previously, the end of the day had been signaled by firing three shots, but it soon became clear that a bugle call was safer, which would be followed by three drumbeats— hence the name, “taps.” Dissatisfied with “Scott’s Tattoo,” the existing bugle call
then in use, Butterfield decided to rework it. His 24-note tune quickly spread throughout the army, and was eventually officially adopted as the “extinguish lights” signal. Some referred to it as “Butterfield’s Lullaby.” The haunting melody is currently played at all military funerals, flag ceremonies, and other memorial occasions. There is a monument commemorating the origin of Taps at Berkeley Plantation—the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his son William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States—which sits on Harrison’s Landing Road near the site of its composition. “Taps comprises two levels,” Tewksbury explained. “The first is played on an open trombone, and the second repetition is played with a mute, as if echoing from the distant mountains.” We were treated to both that day, played slowly and with feeling as they should be. I doubt there was a dry eye in the house. “It is important to celebrate and express appreciation for the men and women who have given their lives to protect the freedom of our country,” Tewksbury pointed out. “It is an emotional experience.” Although rarely sung, the lyrics run “Day is done, gone the sun/ From the lakes, from the hills, from the skies!/ All is well, safely rest;/ God is nigh.” Don Gaines of the Lodge Family Singers led the audience in singing two patriotic hymns, “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “God Bless America,” to open and close the
Don Gaines led the audience in singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
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A Display of Patriotism at the Lodge at Old Trail
Chuck Tewksbury plays Taps for the residents every evening at the Lodge.
program. Chuck Tewksbury was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, and played trombone in the Lowell High School marching band as well as in a jazz combo called The Katzenjammers (after a comic strip about a pair of cut-ups popular from 1900 to 1950; the name also means ‘wailing cats’ in German). After a long career in textile technology, he and his wife Skip moved to Charlottesville, where he was the director of the Institute of Textile Technology, retiring in 1994. He has played in the Senior Center’s Second Wind Band for twenty years. One night last year, Lodge resident Gerry Baer heard him playing Taps on the floor below, and asked him to play “76 Trombones” at the Lodge Family Singers’ performance of selections from The Music Man. By popular demand, this octogenarian now plays Taps every evening after dinner, either in
the Lodge lobby or outside by the flagpole in nice weather. Sadly, our dear friend Gerry passed away in January of this year, but I’m sure she was with us in spirit for this moving performance. Tewksbury and Skip have also joined the 16+-member Singers, which meet every Monday morning and perform at the Lodge on special occasions as well as at Hospice House and Mountainside Senior Living. They are directed by Susan Renard and accompanied by June Andrews of the Crozet Methodist Church. They recently performed Broadway tunes from My Fair Lady and Oklahoma. “I’m thinking of doing “silly songs like ‘Mairzy Doats’ for our next show,” said Renard, “and we always include a singalong.” The choir is only one of myriad activities available to Lodge residents. “This is not a rest home,” Tewksbury confided with a wink.
Chuck Tewsbury spoke about the history of Taps at the Lodge on April 12.
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Coldest Spring in Your Lifetime January was brutally cold but February was insanely warm. Then cold dominated almost all of March and April. Lately, “normal weather” means nothing around here. Of course, Heidi frequently says that “The weather is always crazy. Keeps us employed.” So, as the highly paid meteorological writers for the Crozet Gazette, we decided to dig into the record books to put March and April in perspective. We dug back 100 years and found that the March/April combo was the 4th coldest on record. This year’s average temperature was just 47.8 degrees. Normal is 52 degrees, with the coldest ever in 1926, when temps were half a degree colder than this year. The other colder years were 1940 and 1944. In other words, it was the coldest March/April in your lifetime…unless you are my mom’s age. And she wasn’t even born yet back in ’26.
Why did this happen? Answering the “why” about weather is never really satisfying. We could say that the jet stream was unusually amplified and stationary. The jet stream snakes around the world in a wavy pattern. Usually, this moves and changes a great deal, but recently we have been stuck in a big cold dip over the central and eastern USA. But why did that happen? The answer is more philosophy than science. May is starting off hot, so be careful what you wish for. In another month or two, you may be begging for a cold front. Rain and Drought Update Rainfall in April was 4.43” which was above normal. We have been a bit concerned over a possible long-term drought developing, but recent rains have helped and any potential problems are still a long way off.
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Church Food: Home Cooking Brings Communities Closer By Theresa Curry
bought it too cheap and cooked it too fast,” she said. Another culinary mistake she made more than once: “Macaroni and cheese that’s just too dry. I learned that can happen even if you follow a recipe. “In those days, of course, we all had huge gardens,” she said, “more potatoes, green beans and watermelons than we knew what to do with. Much of that has changed.” Layman, a retired U.Va. police officer and her husband, Robby, who’s about to retire as the police chief of Scottsville, raise “Black Baldie” cattle. One thing hasn’t changed, though, Liz Layman said. “This is definitely home cooking, comfort food.” After a few flubs in her early days, Layman has produced many well-cooked beef roasts and macaroni and cheese dishes. She’s definitely mastered the art of the congealed salad, and at the April potluck, served a sparkling orange salad with peach halves, and later made a blackcherry blackberry salad. “Mostly it’s what I have on hand,” she said. Connie Mays cans snap beans every year and brought a big bowl for that month’s lunch. Her husband, George “Eddie” Mays, pitched in with the preaching that Sunday while the pastor was sick. Over lunch, the congregation discussed his wonderful analogy of “clinging to Jesus the way Linus clings to his blanket.” “It was inspired by Hebrews,” he said. Diane Brown brought a colorful pasta salad and said she doesn’t really need a recipe anymore. Her dish of tri-color
twists incorporated mushrooms and cheese, cucumbers and chicken. She tosses the ingredients with a mix of Italian dressing and mayonnaise for flavor and creaminess. Brown, a retired PVCC administrator, said she looks forward to the lunches each month. “People are so busy now, it’s a way for us all to catch up with each other.” A few miles away, Holy Cross Episcopal Church––another small Batesville congregation–– makes sure there are refreshments after each service. “At one time, some members thought it was getting out of hand,” said Barbara Spencer, “so there was a meeting about only serving coffee and the response was a universal NO!” Still, it’s hit and miss, she said, with a small package of cookies one week, and a huge spread the next. “Some things might seem strange for after-church refreshments, but they’re fine with us,” she added. She remember someone bringing leftover pork tenderloin once, nachos another
time. “If we’re really lucky, Laurel Wilheim will bake a pound cake or Ruby Canody will make a coconut cake,” she said. Once a month, church members coordinate a more formal meal, a brunch, bringing dishes in crockpots and casseroles, all homemade, all comfort food. Besides cookies and cakes, there’ll be a pot full of cheesy grits, casseroles with ham, egg and potato, sausage biscuits and sausage gravy, made ahead and kept warm. “We will cook bacon right at the church,” she said. “It’s just better that way.” Lately, some church members have been encouraging more fruit for those with diabetes. There’s no question that these after-church refreshments, both planned and spontaneous, are important to the connections among members, Spencer said. “In fact, we have one member who slips out before the service is over so he can be first in line for brunch.” At one time, the church collected recipes and
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Certain things are expected when people gather for a community meal, explained Liz Layman, a longtime (49-year) parishioner at Batesville United Methodist Church. She said in her congregation it’s assumed that some people will always make their signature dishes for the monthly first Sunday potluck lunch. For instance, Dale Bailey, the pianist, always brings corn pudding and macaroni and cheese, she said, and people would definitely miss it if he didn’t. Gloria Nash, who attends Mt. Olivet Methodist Church (where the pot luck is every fourth Sunday) said she was in kind of a rut for a while, always making pork roast with stuffing and baked apples. “If my family brought something different, people would question us,” she said, “and one church member found out a former minister liked butter beans, so she felt she had to fix them every time.” Now she, like Batesville’s Layman, finds it wise to vary the homemade food she brings to the church so people aren’t so disappointed if they don’t show up. She was planning baked spaghetti, garlic bread and salad for the April meal. “There aren’t very many of us, so we bring more than one dish,” she said. In her early days with the monthly gatherings, Layman was a young wife, and she made plenty of mistakes. She remembers in particular a roast that was so tough that the people of the church just tactfully pushed it around on their plates. “I
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Managing Expectations and Finding the Can’t Maybe once a year, I attempt a “Jarmans PR”. For those who haven’t explored it, “Jarmans” is the gravel portion of Jarmans Gap Road here in Crozet that starts right near Chiles Peach Orchard and climbs relentlessly up the gap between Bucks Elbow Mountain and Calf Mountain, 1600 feet of elevation gain over 2.9 grueling miles. This was once the original route of the historic Three Notch’d Road over the Blue Ridge Mountains and into the Shenandoah Valley. While it’s amazing to think of the history this section of road must contain, history is typically not on your mind when you’re running/hiking it to the top. Running Jarmans is simply too hard for higher thinking. In fact, most people never run the whole thing. It’s simply too steep, for too long. Even easy efforts are punished by the relentless climbing on the long gravel road. And so that’s why, maybe once a year, I will attempt a Jarmans personal record—how fast can I make it from the bottom to the top? Giving an allout effort for all of Jarmans is a soul-crushing experience. It is a 30- to 60-minute experience of riding the line of what you can and cannot do. It is the type of workout that you lose sleep over the night before because you know how hard it’s going to be. It’s the type of workout that when you’re finished with it, you’re so incredibly happy that you don’t need to do it again for a long, long time. Like, maybe a year. Or longer. So, it begs the question, why in the heck do this type of thing? It sounds hard and hardly sounds “healthy.” In fact, it
brings up a very similar question: why do people sign up for races? Now we are paying for self-inflicted physical suffering! As I have just recently done both—my yearly Jarmans PR attempt, followed a few weeks later by a race, I’ve thought a lot about the “why” and my own answer came down to two things—managing expectations, and finding “the can’t.” Managing Expectations I’m sorry to say, but if you are starting or following some type of diet, fitness, or training plan, you’re going to have to manage some expectations. There are both internal expectations (your own of yourself ) and external expectations (what you think other people think of you). Internal Expectations These are goals we set for ourselves. It is crucial that we have self-imposed goals and some expectation that we should work hard to accomplish them. “I want to lose 30 pounds.” “I want to start exercising 5 days a week.” “I want to run a half marathon.” “I want to stay active until I’m 80.” “I want to break 40 minutes up Jarmans.” We need these goals to keep us motivated. Saying “I want to lose 30 pounds” means nothing if we don’t come up with a plan to achieve it, and then expect from ourselves the commitment to follow the plan to the result. These internal expectations are the single most important factor that drives us to stay healthy and fit, and they are definitely the most important thing that drives higher-level athletes to keep pushing and improving. But they are also a tricky balance. What if we try hard, yet fail? Do we give up? Do we find a new way? Do we continued on page 41
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The Coming of the Subdivisions by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com
Every time I drive by one of the many areas in Crozet currently being clear-cut for housing projects—such as The Vue on Blue Ridge Ave., Chesterfield Landing on Crozet Ave., or Sparrow Hill (formerly Adelaide) on Rockfish Gap Turnpike, to name only a few— the old folk song, “The Coming of the Roads,” sings its way uninvited into my brain. Littered with growing piles of tree corpses, the naked red fields lie bare like open wounds, stripped of all signs of life. Forests, farms, and wildlife habitat are fast disappearing—a loss captured by this beautiful, haunting song, written by Billy Edd Wheeler and first recorded by Judy Collins in
1965. Although Wheeler was writing about the devastation caused by Appalachian strip mining, the lyrics could apply equally well to Crozet’s nonstop development, with the “little town that could” rapidly becoming not so little anymore. “The Coming of the Roads” has been recorded many times since, by Peter Paul & Mary, Johnny Darrell, and Anita Carter, among others. You won’t regret spending three minutes on YouTube listening to Judy Collins sing this memorable song. “The Coming of the Roads” is a protest song thinly veiled in the form of a love song, or a song about abandonment and lost love. This device personalizes the tragedy of destruction described in verse 3 (after the first refrain): “Look how they’ve cut all to pieces/ our ancient
The Coming of the Roads By Billy Edd Wheeler; first recorded by Judy Collins Now that our mountain is growing With people hungry for wealth How come it’s you that’s a-going And I’m left alone by myself? We used to hunt the cool caverns Deep in our forest of green Then came the road and the tavern And you’ve found a new love it seems Refrain: Once I had you and the wild wood Now it’s just dusty roads. And I can’t help from blamin’ your goin’ On the coming, the coming of the roads
poplar and oak/ And the hillsides are stained with the greases/ that burned up the heavens with smoke.” The speaker has lost so much more than just her beloved; s/he has also lost “the cool caverns/ deep in our forest of green,” and, by implication, their whole way of life. The “you” of the song— whether brother/sister, friend, or lover—is leaving for a better job or a new life, perhaps possessed by the same greed that motivates the mining and clear-cutting. And s/he did not invite the singer to go along. The “wild wood”—along with all the wildlife habitat it once provided—has been replaced by “dusty roads,” taverns, and rust (another mining reference). “I think the roads are a symbol for the mining and industrialization that ruined much of the Appalachians,” commented Joe Offer on the online Mudcat Café blog. This heart-rending song expresses mourning for a lost Eden. For Crozet, the refrain could be changed to “The Coming of the Subdivisions.” I have lived in Crozet only ten years (and in Ivy for 30 years before that), but with all the new growth, I already feel nostalgic for a simpler time and view the future with some trepidation. I welcome newcomers, and might even be considered a Yankee myself, hailing from Washington, D.C., by way of Chicago. The new restaurants, the library, and the Plaza plans are exciting. But when is enough, enough? Since Albemarle County named Crozet a ‘designated growth area’ in 2001, our population has exploded. Crozet’s popula-
tion in 1990 was 1,733; in the 2000 U.S. Census it was 2,500; by the 2010 census, it had doubled to 5,560; and by 2016 it had surged to 6,854. Of course, this includes only the 4.5square-mile growth area, and does not count the surrounding communities of White Hall, Greenwood, etc. that enjoy our services. The world has discovered what the original residents knew all along—that Crozet is a small, friendly slice of paradise. But how long will this treasured character last? County planner Elaine Echols estimates a town population of 12,065 to 16,300 by the year 2030. “We’re trying to retain the aspects of Crozet that everybody loves while accommodating growth,” Echols told the Gazette in 2016. Good luck with that! In the 60s and 70s, we all wanted to sing like Judy Collins (1939- ), who got her start in the folk revival of the early 1960s and recorded 50 albums by songwriters from Pete Seeger to Bob Dylan to Leonard Cohen. Her sweet, strong vocals popularized such hits as “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell, “Wild Mountain Thyme” (traditional Scottish), and “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim. Still singing, she is about to launch a west coast tour with her old friend, Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills, and Nash fame). She is in fact the subject of my favorite CSN song, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Songwriter and playwright Billy Edd Wheeler was born in Whitesville, West Virginia, in 1932 and wrote songs such as “Jackson” (sung in the film Walk the Line), “Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back,” and “Coward of the County.” His new autobiography, with
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Look how they’ve cut all to pieces Our ancient poplar and oak And the hillsides are stained with the greases That burned up the heavens with smoke You used to curse the bold crewmen Who stripped our earth of its ore Now you’ve changed and you’ve gone over to them And you’ve learned to love what you hated before Refrain: Once I thanked God for my treasure Now like rust it corrodes And I can’t help from blamin’ your goin’ On the coming, the coming of the roads
Land clearing for Sparrow Hill on Route 250.
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Land clearing for The Vue on Blue Ridge Avenue.
describe Crozet developers’ repeated attempts to modify by-right zoning to accommodate as many residential units as possible. Many of these developments have been approved over the strong objections of their neighbors. We have all experienced the results of lagging infrastructure improvements, increased traffic, and rush hour bottlenecks. So as the population continues to explode, I can’t help but wonder: how much growth is too much?
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Doug Orr, is titled Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout: A Hillbilly Poet’s Journey From Appalachia to Yale to Writing Hits for Elvis, Johnny Cash, and More. Wheeler has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters, West Virginia Music, and North Carolina Music Halls of Fame. What a team Wheeler and Collins made! The opening lines of this song, “Now that our mountain”—or in this case, town— “is growing/ with people hungry for wealth,” perfectly
John W. Clayton & Son Allie Pesch and Kristen Hardy at the 2018 Boston Marathon finish line.
Crozet Runners Do Boston On one of the nastiest race days in the 122-year history of the Boston Marathon, several Crozet runners fought the wind, rain and cold 26.2 miles to the finish. Representing the Crozet area were: Joan Bienvenue, Wendy Eicholtz, Kristen Hardy, Jaime Kurtz, and Allie Pesch. Also fin-
ishing was Holly Grimm, who now lives in Suamico, Wisconsin, but who trained in Crozet for her Boston qualifying marathon. Runners in Crozet are encouraged to find the Facebook group #runcrozet to join group runs and find training friends of all paces.
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A Well-oiled Machine Brownsville third graders have been putting the final touches on their annual STEM projects in which household junk is creatively repurposed into machines of all sorts. “We started with a workroom completely full of junk,” said Bethany Robinson, lead third grade teacher. “We ask parents to just empty out their garages for us. One year somebody even brought in an entire broken down trampoline.” That trash became a treasure trove for the students, who raided it for parts: PVC pipe, springs, pieces of wood, boxes, lengths of rope and wire, and more. The idea behind the project is to solve a problem of the students’ choosing by creating a simple machine that does a job. Unlike more complex machines that employ engines, simple machines use leverage to multiply force, and the six classical examples—inclined planes, wheel and axles, wedges, levers, pulleys, and screws—were evident in the kids’ creations.
Working in three-person teams, the groups used the tools and techniques to build machines to do a variety of useful household jobs. Several projects involved pets, such as a machine to “launch” food or treats to a dog, a device to get a hamster back into its cage, and a “cat bathinator” to get that reluctant feline clean. Others focused on the artistic, like a paint machine that splattered paint onto a canvas to produce an artwork, or on the practical, such as a clever pizza cooker. Still others endeavored to move a ball through a Rube-Goldberg type maze, ending with a satisfying plop into a cup. The physics were only the half of it, however. “The hardest thing for all of them is the teamwork,” said Robinson. “The blending of ideas, making compromises, going through trial and error and coming up with solutions, all of that is challenging and valuable as well.” The final test was a “calibration” where each team’s machine had to work correctly five times in a row to pass muster. “The best part is watching the ideas grow and change in so many ways,” said Robinson. “Across all of the third grade classes, no two are the same.”
WAHS trivia champion team “Best Western,” ma de up of faculty members Dan Bledsoe, and Jill Lani Hoza, Williams at the Literacy Volunteers’ Wordplay Photo: Brian Lewis of Ce fundraiser. ntral Virginia Photogra phy Service
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The Western Albemarle High School faculty team of Jill Williams, Lani Hoza, and Dan Bledsoe captured the gold at this year’s Wordplay trivia competition in Charlottesville. The annual event is held at the Paramount Theater and raises funds for Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle (LVCA). After two fourth-place finishes in the last two contests, WAHS’s big-brained dream team “Best Western” beat out three-time champion “That’s What She Read” to win, dominating 36 other teams in the process. In the fiercely competitive game, it was a come-from-behind victory. “We were in third place headed into the finals, and then we had a perfect last round—didn’t lose a point,” said Hoza, who teaches AP psychology. “It felt really good, and
even a little surprising, to win. I think we got a little lucky this year that the questions were right up our alley.” Did they prepare any differently this year? “We brushed up on our dead people for the Dead or Alive category,” said Williams, referring to a tricky segment where competitors must identify famous people as being currently one or the other. Williams teaches journalism and world history, and noted that “[p]art of the challenge is speed, and if you have a little more processing time, as we did in the final round, it helps.” “The event is always great fun and it’s for a good cause,” said Hoza. “The win was the icing on the cake.” LVCA is always looking for additional volunteer tutors, and they have a training session coming up May 19. If interested, please contact literacyforall.org.
Brownsville third graders Alana, Brya n, and Clive designed a pet food “lau ncher” machine.
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Brownsville third graders Laurel and Alice (along with Gabe, not pictured) built a “Cat Bathinator” for those always-tricky cat baths.
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Sometimes when they are watching TV, Rosie will sit up and start panting. Other times, she will wake her owners up in the night panting in her bed and then pacing around the bedroom. Rosie’s owners always have air conditioning on and are concerned that she may be panting because she’s in pain. After examining her and seeing that she is mostly blind and deaf and has a lot of arthritis, I wish that she could just tell me. Panting is something dogs (and cats!) do that we humans simply don’t. By rapid, shallow breathing, panting is first and foremost a way for dogs and cats to cool themselves as they exhale warmer air and inhale somewhat cooler air. Thus, it makes sense that during exercise dogs will pant as they work themselves up. A quick note on cats panting: if cats were inclined to exercise, they would pant, too. Experts agree that cats are generally too cool to do something like exercise, so they usually don’t get too hot and thus don’t pant. But they can! But what about Rosie? I’m left to my own clumsy interpretation here. Fortunately, years of experience have given me a few leads on why some older dogs pant a lot when it doesn’t seem particularly hot. continued on page 36
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Panting because they are hot Okay, how many of you have been in the car, say with a spouse or significant other, and had a disagreement over how high the A/C should be? This is probably your older dog. You humans think your home is so nice at 70 degrees. Meanwhile, they are wearing a heavy fur coat and have all sorts of hormonal stuff going on and they are simply hot! Many older dogs have imbalances in hormonal control of their temperature set point. Things like elevated cortisol and other adrenal hormones can make them feel quite warm in a 70-degree home. I have been on prednisone before (synthetic cortisol) and predictably would wake up with night sweats. Dogs don’t sweat, so they wake you up in the middle of the night panting. Panting because they are anxious Dogs who are nervous or anxious will definitely pant. This is very well-documented. It’s also common that as dogs age and become a bit “senile,” they can have generalized anxiety. As I see it, the once confident dog has started to lose his vision or hearing or sense of smell, and is also slowing down a bit in the brain-processing department. All these lead to a lack of confidence in interpreting and living in their environment and the result is often some anxiety. It’s often displayed as being more clingy with owners, separation anxiety, and panting. Sometimes when
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When to Worry I spend a lot of my time at work watching other people work. This may sound like the ideal job, but for an ER doctor used to moving quickly it can be excruciating. Watching a trainee slowly close a wound with imperfect suture technique can be like watching a slow-motion train wreck. I slow down my breathing, bite my tongue and wait for the proper moment to intercede. Gently, gently I remove a few errant stitches, replacing them with care and turn the task back over to the chastened intern to complete in a more practiced manner. Watching does not come naturally to most ER doctors. By nature we tend to be focused on action, on doing something, anything. I have consciously developed my tolerance for waiting, for watching, over many years and I think I have gotten better at it. It has made me a better doctor and a better teacher as well. Sitting still, silently watching can be so revealing of a larger picture obscured by too many small attentions. I was thinking about this while stuck in an airport recently, waiting for a delayed flight. I wasn’t too upset by this delay. I had built in generous time buffers to my travel plans in order to minimize my stress levels. With nothing much to do for several hours, I found myself avidly watching the bustling of the throngs around me. Everyone was hurrying and stressed, as people at airports tend to be, worried about catching flights, missing connections, lost luggage and bad food. I had a book to read but for some reason watching everyone else worry about things I was not worrying about was more interesting to me and somehow instructive. It was clear to me that the stress in the terminal was contagious. Indeed, a large
body of scientific study shows that rudeness and stress in medical teams are both contagious and corrosive to effective performance. It was also clear to me that most of the worries in the terminal were unwarranted. No flights had been cancelled and almost everyone was getting on planes in plenty of time. As my wife often reminds me when my stress levels get too high, “I’ll tell you when to worry!” I was at gate 7. My flight had originally been scheduled for this gate but the gate had changed several times with each delay and with no time pressure I simply had neglected to move to the new gate. An anxious woman approached me. I guess my placid observational mien made me look approachable or knowledgeable or helpful. My ER residents often make the same misplaced assumptions. “Are you going to Philadelphia?” she asked me. Her gate had been changed to gate 7 but it had not yet appeared on the display and she was worried that she was in the wrong place. “No,” I answered back. She looked at me, clearly puzzled. “Then why are you sitting here?” she demanded. I thought about it for a few beats and said, “I got tired of standing.” She stared at me for a moment, as if trying to assess my mental fitness, and then burst into laughter. “Sorry, it has been a stressful morning,” she said. I gave her a smile and went back to my watching. She sat down, visibly more relaxed. After thirty years in the ER, diffusing others’ stress comes naturally. So do the wisecracks. And come to think of it, after thirty years in the ER maybe I should be the one to tell you when to worry.
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Each month a prize-winning photograph from the archives of the Crozet Calendar will be published together with a story from the photographer of how the image was made and commentary by Sam Abell about the merits of the photograph. By Sam Abell ‘A calendar picture’ is the phrase used to describe a photograph of near universal appeal. But sometimes the phrase is heard to describe not a picture of a scene but the scene itself: ‘That looks just like a calendar picture.’ Such a statement might be heard to describe the scenic appeal of the view looking west from Route 680 as it crosses Garnett Dam and Beaver Creek Reservoir comes into view. The elements of the scene—a gracefully meandering body of water surrounded by forested slopes and backed up by the Blue Ridge—come together to form what professional park planners call ‘a scenic climax’. If residents of western Albemarle County had to name one public vista that describes the natural and man-made beauty of their region, the mostnamed one might be Beaver Creek Park from the dam. It’s our ‘calendar picture.’ The challenge for photographers is to transcend the ready-made composition of that ‘calendar picture’ and make an image that does justice to the deeper moods of the park. Robert Gutkowski has done that by making a habit of regularly traveling past the reservoir, always accompanied by his camera and his awareness of the photographic potential of the scene. “I always travel with my camera, even if it’s just to the hardware store. And I make it a point to drive past Beaver Creek Reservoir on my way to or from work. There are often birds, fishermen, individual rowers or the crew team out practicing. Even if no one is on the water, the view towards the hills is often worth a picture. And the reflections in the water make a great mirror image, especially when fog is covering the slopes and peaks. “On this day I knew fog would give me a good opportunity. It was creating noticeable separation in the slopes above the water. As I pulled into the parking area near the boat slip I saw a rower, dressed completely in white, pass by. I made a few pictures of the white-clad rower reflected on the lake against a background of the dark forest. I
Robert Gutkowski’s photo, taken from the Beaver Creek dam, was featured in May in the 2017 calendar.
thought it would make an interesting image, which it did. “But I wanted to get a longer shot that took in more of the water and the fog-covered hills beyond the lake. I went back to the dam where I could look both down onto the water and out towards the surrounding shoreline and distant hills. I began composing the picture. As I did so I could see the rower returning, his silvery wake and white outfit making a bright point against the dark surface of the water. I knew he’d likely hit the perfect spot if I waited a bit longer. I was correct.” Gutkowski’s finely crafted photograph falls into a category of images I informally refer to as ‘dioramas’. (These are the three-dimensional miniature models, usually enclosed in a glass showcase, that are commonly seen in history museums. Using small figures set against a large painted landscape, dioramas typically depict a bygone era, such as ‘Life in Colonial Virginia.’) Success in constructing an actual diorama, or a diorama-like photograph, depends on mastery of scale and proportion. The relationship between the large landscape and the small figures has to be satisfyingly ‘just right.’ In Robert’s image the actual rower is too small. But because the
rower is seen against the bright background of his own wake he is sharply defined, almost silhouetted. In this sense it’s less about the rower and more about what’s directly behind him. But the gesture of the rower matters too. The balanced position of his uplifted oars is ideal. Taken together the trio of elements— the rower, his raised oars and the fan-like wake behind him—are enough to enlarge the scale of the small rowing scene. So there are really two compositions for Robert to consider—the overall composition of the landscape and the ‘micro-composition’ of the rower. The end result is satisfying because the balance, scale and proportions between macro and micro are near ideal. The ‘calendar picture’ of Beaver Creek comes to life. Gutkowski concluded, “I think our brains take in more than we are conscious of at a glance. But photography allows us to capture moments in time and examine them at great length. I try to make those sorts of photographs. My hope is that anyone from the area who looks at the Crozet calendar will recognize the place or subject that’s portrayed and get a feeling of home—but also see where we live in a way they might not have considered before.”
The deadline for the 2019 Calendar Photograph Contest will be October 15, 2018. Email entries to photos@crozetgazette.com.
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Spring Thoughts: An Assortment Green Is a Color, Too… and Flowers Aren’t Everything Can you guess the identity of the unusual flower shown in the accompanying photograph? Hint: you have to be looking closely even to see it. Spring in Virginia brings many more conspicuous show-stoppers to the fore. We all enjoy the dogwoods, azaleas, and daffodils that vie for our attention. But what about some more subtle aspects of the spring extravaganza? Although I enjoy the variety of grays and browns that winter provides, by the time spring arrives I’m ready for a change of color scheme. The newly-emerging foliage provides just that, and it’s not just that everything turns green, period. Green comes in a symphony of shades. The tulip poplars (Liriodendron tulipifera) bravely put out their bright green square-ish leaves earlier than most other trees, often even before the danger of frost is over. Shortly afterward, the red maples (Acer rubrum), having long since flowered in a haze of burgundy, turn to unfolding their delicate leaves in a rich green tone. After the tulip trees and maples have leafed out, the reticent oaks put on their own show. With perhaps a dozen species native to our area, you can find subtle differences in the color of the unfolding leaves. Close to home, a white oak (Quercus alba) and a willow oak (Q. phellos) both grow in view of my office window. I guess I’m easily amused, since I can take in the beauty of these trees for minutes on end. The
white oak’s golden yellow foliage serves as a bright backdrop to the medium-green leaves of the willow oak. Both produce a blizzard of golden brown flower tassels that drop off to decorate streets and clog gutters. As the leaves mature, they’ll darken in color, and on some oak species they’ll develop a glossy sheen to conserve moisture. What about the mystery “flower” shown in the photograph? In reality it’s a trick question and not a flower at all, rather the bracts of an opening bud on a buckeye shrub. You’ll see similarly colorful bracts on the buds of young hickories as you walk through the woods. Spring is much more than its admittedly spectacular floral display. Enjoy the multiple hues of green in the larger landscape, and take time as well to notice the small details such as unfolding buds. “Woodsmen, Spare that Tree!” Ever since moving to our property four years ago I’ve had an issue with a red maple in the back yard. Perhaps forty to fifty years old, it probably just showed up as a volunteer, but grew to a tree with a diameter of about two feet and a height of forty. It has undistinguished muddy yellow fall coloration, and being a maple, sucks up water at a prodigious rate. Initially a lone azalea was underneath the maple leaving lots of open space, so I proceeded to plant—and curse—as I went. The tree’s extensive roots were near the surface, making planting difficult. I tried to use drought and shade-tolerant selections as much as possible, but that limits your palette. As summer progressed, I could see some of my plantings wilting,
so watering was in order. Over time my plants survived but hardly flourished. I was anxious to try new things free from maple root competition. I decided the tree had to go, got a couple of estimates, and chose my arborist. Only then did my wife come forward to (figuratively) throw her arms around the tree and declare that, “It was here before we were! And you chose to plant under it.” Hmm. Quite true. So the maple still stands. And it still pumps out oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide, both good things. Always get a second opinion. Sneak-Weeds Some weeds are all too obvious, like dandelions in your lawn or chickweed in your flower beds. How you handle those is up to you, since they’re beneficial to pollinators. More to be feared are the weeds that remain in hiding. I was recently stunned by one example of a sneak-weed. I have a tea-olive (Osmanthus sp.) that’s a few years old and maybe eight feet tall. While admiring it close-up, I noticed that the leaves on one branch were different, not spiny like the rest. I gradually came to the conclusion that this was a different plant altogether, perhaps a Ligustrum, that had taken root right next to the Osmanthus. With some trepidation, I began pulling on the errant stem, fearing that I might pull up the good plant. Fortunately, the Ligustrum stem pulled right out, confirming my initial impression. Perhaps not coincidentally, both plants are members of the Olive family, the Oleaceae, perhaps emboldening the Ligustrum to hide among the branches of its botanical cousin. Other more common sneakweeds are seedlings of the highly prolific maples—there’s that unloved red maple again—that lurk under shrubs. It’s easy to miss them for a few years, until they poke out over the top of their host. By then they’re harder to pull, so it pays to catch them before they’ve put down a good root system. Check occasionally around and under your shrubs to spot them while they’re still little. Caution: this can be a good place for cop-
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perheads to lurk, so it’s best to explore first with something other than your hand. Postscript: Coincidental to our experience with the maple, my wife was reading Lab Girl, an autobiographical account by Hope Jahren of her life doing research on plants and soils. She writes that a maple not only takes up water during the day, it then returns some of it to the soil at night. I never knew that, but admittedly I can’t claim to be a professional botanist or soil scientist. Guess that red maple isn’t all bad.
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Here We Go Again— Emerald Ash Borer The Emerald Ash Borer, an Asian insect that was probably brought into the United States via cargo ships and airplanes carrying solid wood packing material, was first discovered in the Detroit area in 2002. From its initial occurrence, it has moved outward to 31 states and is expected to continue spreading throughout the country. The adult beetle feeds on the foliage of an ash tree without causing any real harm. However, the immature beetle feeds on the inner bark where water and nutrients are transported throughout the tree. If there is an abundance of these larvae, they can kill the tree by interfering with its ability to get these essential liquids where they need to be. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported that the Emerald Ash Borer has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in North America. Needless to say, and as is typical when a new foreign animal is found within the country, there is widespread panic. Municipalities, property owners, forest-products industries, and nursery operators are concerned about losing their ash trees. In the beginning, the USDA behaved rationally, restricting and enforcing quarantines to prevent ash logs and firewood from potentially carrying Emerald Ash Borers into new areas. But as the insect’s spread continued unabated, the agency moved to pesticide usage. Humans have become so used to the idea of employing poisons throughout the landscape that hardly anyone gives it much thought. Yet the consequences are profound.
A catastrophic result of treating trees with an injected pesticide (the main method of treating ash trees against the Emerald Ash Borer and hemlock trees for the Woolly Adelgid) is that those trees themselves become killing agents of non-targeted species as well as the targeted one. In these times of environmental consciousness, everyone knows that the wanton extermination of non-targeted species is an unsound practice. Strangely, some environmentalists argue that we cannot afford to lose our native ash trees because they support native insects. However, there is no ecological value to keeping alive a poisoned ash tree that will attract and then snuff the life out of such critters as the caterpillars of Tiger Swallowtail and Hickory Hairstreak butterflies, among many others. Imidacloprid, one of the commonly used pesticides suggested for use on ash trees, is already implicated in the decline of honeybees, and kills all kinds of insects and other kinds of invertebrates by interfering with the transmission of nerve impulses. Proponents for the use of this pesticide always point to its safeness for use around people and their pets. But people and their pets are not the organisms that make the environment habitable for the rest of life on Earth, and therefore should not be seen as the only determinant for whether a pesticide is acceptably safe. Although humans and pets would not, presumably, have much opportunity to eat this pesticide, the probability for other mammals, as well as birds, reptiles, and amphibians, is much higher. Employed systemically (injected into the tree), Imidiclopid moves easily throughout the entire plant, fill-
ing roots, leaves, pollen, nectar, and fruit with this toxic substance. What this means is that any kind of animal making use of any part of a treated tree is susceptible to serious poisoning, whether it is a White-footed Mouse eating an ash seed or a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker getting sap. Does this matter? It certainly does when you consider that both of these species eat Gypsy Moths (an alien species brought to this country deliberately) and thus help to limit their numbers. Although the United States government has spent millions of dollars trying to eradicate the Gypsy Moth from our forests via the use of pesticides, it is a battle that can never be won because pesticides simply breed resistance into the species, making it more of a problem for humans to deal with. It would be far more sensible to preserve ash seeds that could be planted after the borer populations have plummeted. Once large ash trees have been greatly reduced in number, the borers will starve for lack of a food source. A natural buildup of predator populations will take place and that will work to keep borer populations in check. This scenario has already played out with the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. Although populations of this nonnative insect (first detected in the US in 1998) were still noticeable in Virginia in 2017, its numbers were substantially reduced from previous years. You might question my assessment, because for most folks, finding several dozen of these stink bugs around the house still counts as too many. However, just a few years ago there would be hundreds of them in the fall on house siding. In Shenandoah National Park, we couldn’t even exit the car because stink bugs were flying and landing everywhere! It was quite a phenomenon. Although my initial assessment of the population decrease was based upon what was happening in my yard throughout the 2017 growing season, I confirmed from bird-sighting and hawk-watch reports throughout the fall season that the population drop had occurred throughout the state. The complaints of stink bugs were very
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The United States Department of Agriculture started putting up purple boxes throughout Virginia in 2012 to detect the arrival of Emerald Ash Borers, a nonnative insect. These nondiscriminatory sticky boxes needlessly kill hundreds of innocent insects, including butterflies.
few and far between as compared to previous years! Lastly, a sure sign that numbers were way down was the absence of stink bug media coverage. It’s strange that when some kinds of critters become problematic, the common and hysterical reaction of folks is, “We’ve got to do something!”, even if that “something” is to employ poisons that are harsh in their effect and non-selective in their action. No one considers that this demand for pesticides demands cruelty from researchers. All pesticides are tested for toxicity by feeding them to animals and applying these substances directly onto their skin and/or into their eyes. Should people worry more about trees than about the inhumane treatment of animals, such as the bunnies and guinea pigs used in Imidacloprid testing? If people would open their eyes to the big picture and learn more about all of the unseen but very real impacts of using pesticides, the world would be a much better place for us and the creatures that share it. Animals would no longer be subjected to immense physiological and psychological pain and suffering to test poisons, and our tax burden would be less because we wouldn’t be forced to support pesticide research and applications. No species of organism has ever been eliminated by pesticides. Please reconsider your options the next time you think pesticides will solve your problems.
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think less of ourselves? I have, on many occasions, set some lofty goals and worked extremely hard to achieve them, only to fall short. When the goals and expectations are big, and you only had one shot, it leads to a lot of introspection. Ultimately, however, I’ve found that I never regret setting a big goal and expecting that I’ll get there. Although I may not achieve the mark, I always learned a lot about myself in the training and preparation and I have realized that is where true growth happens. Also, the way we approach these goals and expectations in our health and fitness is the same way we will tend to approach goals and expectations in our family, personal, and work lives as well. External Expectations I would love to say that I don’t care what anyone else thinks of what I’m doing, but I’ll be honest, I can’t. In my many attempts and failures at large goals, I have definitely felt that I’ve let people down, even feeling shame or embarrassment for thinking that I could achieve a goal and then being stupid enough to share that goal with someone (or thousands of people)! Ugh! But here again, there are positives and negatives. Of course, ultimately you shouldn’t care what other people think about what you are doing with your fitness. It is your life, not theirs. However, sharing your goals with friends and family is a very important step in achieving them, in my opinion. It’s okay to make yourself vulnerable; you are probably inspiring
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Farnsworth makes furniture, but not for a livelihood. He’s been a carpenter and a photographer. But his day job is real estate appraisal. “I have a lot of passion for history as I use hand tools. I can’t help but think about the people who used them to make beautiful things. I want people to learn to build something that
MAY 2018 someone else as you open up. And if/when you fail, don’t worry, your friends are still your friends. Finding The Can’t During my recent Jarmans PR attempt, my mindset was on what I could do. But about half way up the mountain, I was reminded that races, challenges, and Jarmans PRs are really more about finding out what you can’t do. Pondering what you can do is a romantic way of thinking, “if I just stay positive and really try hard, I can do greater things.” But as I was working through the steep section of Jarmans, as my lungs and legs were taking turns failing, I realized that I was at a point that I simply couldn’t do any better. It was actually quite a relief. I was right at that line and nothing I could do made me go faster. Sure, I could ponder later what things I can change, but right then and there, I found my can’t. That was important because I know that if I want to grow, I need to find a way to push the point at which I can’t a little further away. I’ll never know where that line is if I don’t step right up to it and experience it vividly. In my recent Jarmans and race events, I reached my goal in one, but failed in the other. I’m happy to say that I reached my can’t in both. It was enough to meet my expectations in one, but not quite enough in the other, and now it’s time to regroup, make new goals, and find constructive ways to move forward. I have grown in both fitness and in mind in the process, and in the end, that is why we continue to sign up for races and run up Jarmans.
can last multiple generations. “Using hand tools helps you understand better what you are trying to do. Sometimes hand tools are actually faster than power tools with jigs,” said Farnsworth. “A lot of students feel unsatisfied with what life is giving them now. They want to connect with the past and do something with their hands.” Find the school’s website at woodandshop.com.
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Religion News By Theresa Curry theresa@crozetgazette.com
St. Nicholas Turns 20
For the past 18 years, a group of volunteers from Emmanuel Episcopal Church have visited the residents of Mountainside Senior Living in Crozet twice a month. Tuesday afternoon is the time for these long-running gatherings, first organized by Gren and Jeri King, who also continue as regular volunteers. Church members meet in the dining room of Mountainside at 2:30 on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month. They come bearing cakes and cookies, chips and cupcakes, but there’s another purpose to their visit, said Liz Huffman. Visitors greet residents with smiles and hugs. In April, Carolyn Rhondeau played popular songs with a springtime theme, then launched into old hymns, as many residents sang along. Nancy Avery made the rounds with Pearl, a puppy she’s training to be a service dog. Alice Sirianna, a geriatric nurse, made sure that everyone present received a few minutes of individual attention. “Some of the residents come every time and do not have many other visitors,” said Mountainside administrator Penny Goldman. She said there’s also a twice-monthly men’s group from Emmanuel that offers companionship and counseling to Mountainside’s men, offered by Gren King and John Poor.
Carolyn Rhondeau plays familiar songs at Mountainside.
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The St Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Greenwood celebrated its 20th birthday with a festive service and lunch in late April. The occasion was marked by the attendance of spiritual leader Metropolitan Antony and other attendants. In keeping with tradition, the visitors were welcomed with flowers, as well as bread and salt. In the remarks during and after the service, Met. Antony noted that while most Orthodox churches serve fairly stable communities, the local church ministers to a constantly changing group of faithful, representing the fluid community of students and professors at the University of Virginia. Fr. Robert Holet of St. Nicholas said that even in the course of those short stays, “the parish has been deeply touched by so many faithful people coming from a variety of backgrounds.” It’s been a journey, he recalled, with early liturgies being held in various temporary homes including a Holiday Inn and attended by memorable people, including a man wrongfully imprisoned, a woman who in retirement became a full-time missionary, and two members who went on to become ordained in the church. While at the church, Met. Antony consecrated the icon of Christ Pantocrator recently installed in the dome of the church sanctuary.
Tea Party Offers Refreshment, Comfort to Mountainside Elders
Metropolitan Antony greets St. Nicholas congregation.
Nancy Avery introduces Pearl to Mountainside residents.
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Justine Taylor Justine Taylor passed away Sunday, February 18, 2018. She was born on July 20, 1930, in New York State to Anita White and Harold Lawrence Taylor. She grew up in the Hudson Valley and Westhampton with her older sister Anita Taylor Monteith and her younger brother Dupratt “Dewey” White Taylor, later attending boarding school in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she would one day make her home. She was called “Judy” by her siblings and friends. Her grandchildren called her “Nene.”Justine led an unconventional life for a woman of her generation. She left home at seventeen with her first love and spent her early adulthood traveling Europe and living on a sailboat. In 1951, she was the first woman to participate as a crewmember in a transatlantic sailboat race. Her first son, Charles Biondi Taylor, whom she called Charlie, was born in 1952, in Florida, where she raised him for five years before bringing him to Virginia. Her second son, James Justin Taylor, whom she called J, was born in 1963, in Charlottesville. Her beloved sons, grandchildren, and dogs were the center of her life. She shared with them her imagination and humor; her fierce devotion to animal rescue causes, including transporting injured wildlife for the Wildlife Center; her veganism with the exception of ice cream and chocolate; her love of listening to public radio and old time music while driving her white Toyota pickup truck; her countless creative interests and talents, including painting, drawing, clothes-making, gardening, blueberry farming, and ceramics. Most of all, she shared her strong convictions, her perseverance, her deep caring and love, and her uncanny ability to spot and cheer for the underdog in life.Justine is survived by her sister Anita, her brother Dewey, her son Charlie, her son J and his wife Boomie Pedersen, her
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grandchildren Rebecca Taylor, Shana Bloom, J Douglas “JD” Taylor, Laurence Brown Taylor, Emma Givens, Samuel Pedersen, Phineas Givens, and August Givens, her great grandson Silas Pedersen, her niece Anita Monteith, and her grandnephew Quentin Dixon. She was preceded in death by her parents Anita and Harold Taylor, Gladys Johnson, who acted as her second mother and whose children were like her own sisters and brothers, her half-brother James Lawrence Taylor, her brother-in-law James Monteith, her nephew Russell Monteith, and by all her animals, whom she adored and were also her family, her dogs Bushes, Pilot, Polly, Brillo, Samantha, Katie, Annie, Sarah, Buddy, Noski, and Big Woof, her cats Precious Puss, Charlie Puss, Splotch, Smudge, Sally, Webbie, and Caboose, her many chickens, and her horses Fanny, Cappy, and Fawn.The Taylor family expresses their gratitude to the staff of Mountain View Nursing Home for caring for Justine these last years. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Justine’s honor to the Alzheimer’s Association, the Wildlife Center of Virginia, or Peaceful Passings Senior Animal Rescue. In her honor, remember to be kind to your fellow earth-dwellers, both four and two-legged, and to see the beauty and humor in daily life.
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The Crozet Jam Band will hold another “Favorites Night” at the Starr Hill Tap Room on May 11. The CJB will play songs that have been most requested over the past year and a half of jam sessions at the Tap Room. The audience is encouraged to sing along and come up on stage to lead a song. The CJB will also perform at the Crozet Independence Day Celebration at the Crozet Park June 30.
Hearing loss is the third most common physical condition in America, yet many Americans still go undiagnosed. Stop into the library on Monday, May 14, from 4 to 6 p.m., for a 10-15 minute free hearing screening and learn how to prevent further hearing loss. To register, call the library at 823-4050.
CCAC Meeting
The Crozet Community Advisory Comittee will meet Wednesday, May 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Crozet Library.
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fering opinion than that which Ms. Condon expressed in her recent piece, “Resurrecting Faith Requires Connecting with Nature.” Ms. Condon refers to a Pew Research Center survey, pointing out that Millennials are the least religious of all American generations thus far. Religious in what sense? While it is true that many have left behind the patriarchal and often violent beliefs of Christianity (a faith based entirely on a gruesome human sacrifice), searching instead for their deep ancestral roots in the often more benign and nature-based faiths of Wicca, Witchcraft, and Astrology (“Merry Christmas! Why Millennials are Ditching Religion for Witchcraft and Astrology,” Kari Paul for Market Watch, Dec. 19, 2017). Surely these practices, which center around the changing seasons and skies, are just as likely to awaken an appreciation for nature as any other more ‘traditional’ belief? According to the Pew Research Center, Ms. Condon is correct that Millennials are less likely to identify as environmentalists. However, this is not surprising given the Center’s findings that we are less inclined to identify ourselves as anything. According to the same study, a whopping 50 percent of us are political independents as well. Eighty-two percent of Millennials support increased federal funding for clean and renewable energy research, and 52 percent of us oppose offshore oil drilling. Compare this to 74 percent and 29 percent of Baby Boomers, respectively (“An
Environmentalist Reality Check in the Age of the Millennial,” Julie Katsnelson for Generation Progress, Oct. 5, 2017). We’re also driving the camping industry. Thirty-eight percent of “active camping households,” and rising, are Millennials (“Outdoors Activities Popular with Millennials,” The Associated Press for TheCabin. net, March 20, 2017). Ms. Condon then goes on to assert that scientists are responsible for this imaginary shift away from nature. Her reasoning? They talk about Lyme Disease and germs too much. What I find most disturbing, however, is that the Crozet Gazette would publish an opinion piece as a journalistic article. In a day and age when we are constantly bombarded by “fake news,” print media has enjoyed a rise in respectability. This is something Ms. Condon and I seem to agree on, in fact. She mentions several times the dangers of the shifting, fluid world of the Internet; a space where partial facts are disseminated with ease and hardly questioned before they are spread to thousands, if not millions of citizens. Therefore, I challenge the staff of the Gazette to hold their publication up to the same light of scrutiny when penning or publishing an article. Even if what you are writing is an opinion piece, is it well researched? Or, as I suspect happened here, is it another low-blow against an already maligned generation, using convenient stereotypes and dog-whistle style tumefaction of post-war fears about “those darn kids”? Meagan Jennett Crozet
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Church Food —continued from page 30 published them online. But mostly, she said, the communal meals prolong the social hour, give people something to talk about and look forward to, and allow the parish home cooks to share their best work. Liz Buxton, who pastors both the Mt. Olivet and the Batesville churches, said the importance of all forms of food in these small rural communities goes well beyond a pleasant meal. “Some of these people remember the depression, or just difficult times,” she said. “To share food when you have barely enough yourself is an important act.” That’s mostly changed now, but Buxton, whom the parishioners call “Pastor Liz,” said there’s a lot of thought among church leaders of all denominations on the role of a church that’s not experiencing growth. “Maybe it’s not all about growth, or how much you tithe,” Buxton said. “When these congregations age and get smaller, you think about how best to serve them and how they can serve each other.” She mentioned a movement, called “Dinner Church,” that explores the origins of worship in light of today’s needs. “Think about it,” she said. “When Jesus wanted to communicate, he didn’t use an altar or any of the other trappings. He sat down with friends and strangers over a meal, and they talked.” Exploring ways to deepen connections within the existing community, regardless of what may happen in 10 years or 20 years, will have a profound effect on those who have been here all their lives, she said. And, in the end, she said, even if growth is what you’re seeking, people don’t join churches because of the building or even the sermon: “You stay because people made you feel comfortable, talked to you after church, shared a meal.” But it’s not only the small, rural congregations that find that food is entwined with church life. At Crozet United Methodist Church, Paul Malinowski considers it a privilege to provide dozens of muffins, or buns, or scones every Sunday after church. Malinowski is not your average home cook, though. He bakes in huge quantities for the Crozet Farmers Market and for private catering requests while working full time, and sees the Sunday pastries as his ministry. “It’s in my blood; it’s my passion,” he said. One Saturday afternoon, a mountain of cinnamon bun dough was proofing, while he mixed up the fragrant filling. Many pounds of dough would be rolled out, filled, rolled up, sliced, baked, cooled and frosted, an ambitious undertaking even for a pro. Malinowski is grateful for the opportunity to share his talent, seeing it as a way to draw people in a growing community together. Would they stay just as long to talk if we were only serving coffee? I don’t know,” he said. “But I doubt it.”
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CLASSIFIED ADS COMMUNITY WIDE YARD SALE in OLD TRAIL, Crozet. Visit all of Old Trail’s neighborhoods for individual and group yard sales: indoor furniture and decor, lawn and garden, books, clothes, and toys. No early birds please. Saturday, May 12 from 8 a.m. to noon. Rain moves everything into garages. Old Trail Community, Crozet. Just off Route 250 across from Western Albemarle High School. COMPUTER CARE: Quality computer repair in your home or office. Virus removal, networking, wireless setup, tutoring, used computers. Reasonable rates. Over 15 years’ experience. Please call 434-825-2743. PET CARE PROVIDER $14/ visit—depending on your needs. Wa l k i n g / Fe e d i n g / Pl a y i n g . Loving your pet. Contact Taylor Skevington for a meet and greet. 434-270-1041 tayskev@gmail. com EXPERIENCED SEAMSTRESS with over 30 years of tailoring and garment alterations experience. I work from home in Crozet (Highlands subdivision). Please call for a free consultation. Ruth Gerges: 434-823-5086. HOUSEKEEPER NEEDED. 1-2 days per week in private home 20 minutes from the Square. $25 per hour. No services, please. Call Jean at 434823-1076. LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteer tutors to assist adults in learning how to read, write, or speak English. More than 40 students are waiting to be matched with a tutor. Many students are refugees and immigrants trying to become integrated into our community. New Tutor Training will be offered Saturday, May 19, at the
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CROZETgazette CLASSIFIED ADS Jefferson School City Center. To register for tutor training or to learn more, call (434) 9773838 or visit literacyforall.org. Literacy Volunteers is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. WATER SERVICE PIPE REPLACEMENT by local with 30 years experience. Done the right way with the best materials used. Drainage solution and driveway improvements among other services. 434-960-8994. WANTED: ASSISTANT FARM MANAGER. Unique Opportunity! Full-time position in western Albemarle. Duties will vary but include landscaping, invasive plant removal, mowing, road and building maintenance, equipment maintenance, managing summer interns, special projects, and whatever else is needed. Exp with some of the above + integrity, reliability, punctuality, creativity and pleasant personality are key. Salary based on experience. Please send resume and inquiry to asstfarmmanager@aol.com. WANTED: SPORTS REPORTER: The Crozet Gazette is also seeking a parttime freelance reporter who will write 1—3 stories per month on local high school sports. Photography or photo-sources are required.Email jobs@crozetgazette.com for more information. Applications should include cover letter, resume, and three writing samples. PDF attachments are suggested. Photography samples encouraged as well. WANTED TO RENT: Pastureland for cattle in Crozet or White Hall area. Call Lowry Abell 960-1334.
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