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11 Community discussions about reimagining the Lee statue begin.

12 County shares broadband expansion details.

13 UVA holds candlelight vigil, teach-in for Ukraine.

16 Ways we’re keeping the Rivanna healthy.

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23 The Works: Quirk Gallery features striking new work.

25 Screens: Don’t Look Up is a smug, unfunny mess.

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We’ve had a few genuinely excellent spring days recently—before you know it, summer will really be upon us, and it’ll be time to grab some friends, fill up a cooler, hop in a tube, and float the day away. In Charlottesville, of course, that means heading to the shallow, refreshing waters of the Rivanna River.

I enjoyed reading your reflections of happy memories on the Rivanna in this issue’s question of the week (p. 33). Those reflections help illustrate what’s at stake when it comes to urban planning in and around the

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UVA found itself in the national press once again this week, as fourth-year student Emma Camp penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead.” Camp writes that UVA’s Grounds is a repressive, uneasy place where “Students of all political persuasions hold back—in class discussions, in friendly conversations, on social media—from saying what we really think.” She writes that after expressing an unpopular opinion in a class discussion, “The room felt tense. I saw people shift in their seats. Someone got angry, and then everyone seemed to get angry.”

New York Times op-ed columnist Jamelle Bouie, a UVA alum and Charlottesville resident, was among the public intellectuals and students who pushed back against the argument.

“As political conservatism becomes more unhinged and hostile to democracy, I am sure that it is going to become even more unpopular on campus,” he wrote.

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Square in 1829, following Thomas Jefferson’s death, others set down candles around the courthouse steps. After each name, the crowd chanted “Asé,” meaning “I’m with you” in the Yoruba language.

Burton later led a procession across the street, as several others held up a wooden sankofa bird from Ghana. The bird represents reclaiming the past, “so we can move forward and understand why and how we came to be who we are today,” explained Anderson.

Descendant Larycia Hawkins performed a libation ceremony, pouring water from the James River—a major route in the transAtlantic slave trade—in front of the sankofa. Others later joined in, watering pots of colorful flowers.

Anderson emphasized the importance of descendants uncovering and sharing their ancestors’ stories, as well as reclaiming the spaces where they were brutalized and dehumanized.

“Everyone has had a say in what goes on in this space except us— the people who are most affected,” said Anderson. “If we talk about moving forward and truly healing, we need to be at the forefront of that.”

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In the early 20th century, Rufus Holsinger took portraits of nearly 500 Black Charlottesville-area residents. The Holsinger Portrait Project, an initiative to interpret and publicize the work, plans a full exhibition of the photos in September, and has just opened a pop-up display at the Northside Library as a preview. The portraits “show members of the African American community as they wished to be seen—as people of dignity, beauty, respectability, and strength,” reads a press release from the organizers.

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efore the United States abolished slavery in 1865, thousands of enslaved people were sold in downtown Charlottesville. The Reclaimed Roots Descendants Alliance— whose ancestors were enslaved at Monticello, the University of Virginia, Highland, and other plantations in the Charlottesville area—held a vigil at Court Square on March 3, the anniversary of the Union cavalry’s arrival in Charlottesville during the Civil War. “We are here because Black bodies were trafficked. We are here because freedom was taken. We are here because families were separated,” said president Myra Anderson. “It’s a rare opportunity as Black individuals that we can be in a space, holding space for ourselves, our history, our trauma, and our pain.”

After descendant Julia Hubbard sang “Oh Freedom,” descendant Phillip Cobbs read an excerpt from an 1848 narrative written by Henry Watson, graphically detailing his experience being sold at a Richmond auction at the age of 8.

While descendants Courtney Anderson and Joan Burton read the names of enslaved Monticello families who were sold in Court

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Mason Pickett’s hobby is standing around Charlottesville holding homemade signs with offensive language directed at Democrats, social justice activists, and the like. (Former city councilor Wes Bellamy was a favorite target.) But last week, Pickett’s cardboard signs read “Putin sucks” and “Stand with Ukraine.” Now that’s evidence of some unprecedented consensus-building.

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Reimagining the Robert E. Lee statue, which stood in downtown Charlottesville for almost 100 years, is the goal of Swords Into Plowshares, which held its first community engagement session on Saturday.

bronze, and could be made of a variety of other materials. It could also include several objects, and be installed at multiple locations around the city. “We have no boundaries,” she said.

Schmidt pointed to the University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers as proof that “thinking out loud and thinking together” can yield positive results. The memorial came to fruition through a robust community engagement process, including surveys and public forums for students, staff, faculty, alumni, local residents, and descendants of enslaved laborers.

Project participants were later asked to divide into small groups, and discuss their aspirations for the artwork, using a provided list of questions. In one group, Paola Christy shared some of the difficulties she’s faced raising a biracial child in Charlottesville, and emphasized the need for more representation and spaces for children of color. Her teenage daughter, Zaharra Colla, added that many places in Charlottesville are unwelcoming. “It’s not always about the place—but the people,” she said.

“Our goal at the end of it is to create something so representative that when we offer it to Charlottesville, they’ll say yes.”

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The group agreed that the project should focus on the city’s Black history, such as the 1964 destruction of Vinegar Hill, which was home to many of the city’s Black-owned businesses. Christy suggested the art installation include an interactive model of Vinegar Hill, which might make it easier for young people to engage with and understand the history, as well as inspire them to pursue entrepreneurship and other important careers.

Colla agreed the artwork should be interactive and educational, as well as bring the community together and foster mutual re-

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or nearly a century, Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue—erected during the Jim Crow era, in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan—towered above the park at the city’s center, signaling to Black residents that they were not wanted downtown. After years of court battles and a deadly white supremacist rally, the city removed the racist monument last summer and donated it to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt down the statue and use the bronze to create a new public artwork, one that is welcoming and inclusive of the entire community.

On Saturday, the Jefferson School kicked off the innovative project, titled Swords Into Plowshares, hosting its first community engagement session at the museum. More than 50 community members attended the event, and dozens more tuned in on Zoom.

“We’re not looking for the representation of the Black body to replace the object. We’re looking for the representation of Charlottesville and how Charlottesville deals with its own needs towards healing,” said Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School. “Something happened to us. Something has been happening to us. So how do we channel all of that energy?”

Jalane Schmidt, a member of the project’s steering committee, showed attendees a slideshow of various memorials, and discussed the feelings they conjure in the viewer. While some, like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, may make visitors feel mournful or somber, others, like the Montgomery Civil Rights Memorial, are focused on inspiring guests to think deeply and reflect upon Black history. “What does it mean to incorporate everybody and express our values in our public spaces?” she asked.

Douglas explained that the new artwork does not have to be limited to the melted

spect and appreciation. “The future is my generation and what’s being put into our mind,” she added.

Representatives from each small group later shared the ideas they had discussed. Several emphasized the importance of the artwork honoring the city’s Black history and residents rather than attempting to assuage white people’s guilt. “These public places used to be Black neighborhoods,” said one attendee.

Many groups shared that the project should be safe and accessible to all, and engage a variety of age groups, by, say, including doors visitors can walk through. One suggested the artwork have a playful or whimsical feel, completely transforming the hateful energy of the Lee statue.

When the statue was first awarded to the Jefferson School, a group that lost out on the bidding filed a letter of protest and then a lawsuit against the city. The group, represented by the same lawyers who sued to keep the Confederate statues up, alleged that the statue-awarding process had been conducted improperly. But the Jefferson School is moving forward with its project.

After hosting engagement sessions throughout the spring and summer, the Jefferson School plans to compile the community’s input into a guiding document this fall. In the winter, it will issue a request for proposals, requiring interested artists to attend public forums and engage with the community. The organizers hope the new public artwork will be completed and offered to the city by 2026.

“Our goal at the end of it is to create something so representative that when we offer it to Charlottesville, they’ll say yes,” said Douglas.

Douglas encouraged participants to get more community members involved, and complete the survey on the Swords Into Plowshares website. The Jefferson School is also working to raise money for the costly project, and recruit ambassadors to get the word out.

The next community engagement session will be held in May.

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or years, some Albemarle County residents have lacked adequate access to high-speed internet.

CenturyLink customers continue to experience broadband and telephone outages, sometimes lasting for days or even weeks.

And for many residents, CenturyLink is their only option.

But for some, better internet and phone service is on the way. Thanks to the 2021 Virginia Telecommunications Initiative, the Albemarle Broadband Authority—in partnership with CenturyLink—received a $2.3 million state grant last year to bring fiber broadband to more than 1,000 homes and businesses in the county.

“In this project we are addressing accessibility. We’re taking sub-broadband speeds and bringing them up to fiber speeds,” said Albemarle Broadband Program Manager Jason Inofuentes during a webinar on the initiative last week.

In recent years, expanding broadband access has been a priority for Albemarle. The county’s Broadband Accessibility and Affordability Office was created in 2021 to move forward with those goals, and the county expects to achieve universal internet access by 2025. State investment like the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative will help.

On March 31, Tilman Road, Meriweather Hill, and Snow Hill Lane residents will be able to order the fiber optic service on Q.com, or by calling Quantum Fiber. It will take two to three weeks to set up the service.

“What that launch date represents is that the path for the fiber along the road, in front of your house, through your neighborhood— it’s done,” said Inofuentes. “That is when somebody can string another piece of fiber, connect to this, and service is ready to go.”

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$65 a month, respectively. Up to around 650 feet of fiber is available to residents for free. Those who need additional fiber can pay around $1.55 per foot.

“A lot of homes get covered under that 650 feet,” said Trish Stipanovich, CenturyLink’s Virginia field operations manager.

“There are some larger lots that will have that extended [drop]...but you will be given an option on whether you want to proceed [or] not.”

The new fiber optic service first launched on Jones Mill Road and at Old Garth Heights in January. Over the next seven months, service is expected to expand to Gilbert Station Road, Advance Mill, Fray Road, Milton Hills, Box Holly Lane, Taylor’s Gap Road, Campbell Road, Cobham (Keswick), and Stony Point Road.

Before installing the fiber optic cables, Quantum will send a technician to each customer’s house to measure the amount of footage needed for the property. Miss Utility will then locate and mark the public utilities on the land, like electric and gas lines.

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VA’s McIntire Amphitheater was bathed in the warm glow of hundreds of LED candles on Thursday evening, as members of the UVA and Charlottesville communities gathered for an hourlong vigil to stand in solidarity with Ukraine.

The Ukrainian flag was projected at the front of the stage, a show of support as the country fights off a violent Russian invasion.

People held posters and candles as they listened intently to faculty and Ukrainian students, who shared their personal experiences through songs, poetry, and speeches. Organizers collected donations for The Voices of Children, a Ukrainian-based organization that provides counseling to children impacted by the war, and World Central Kitchen, which is providing free meals to Ukrainian refugees.

Student Lisa Kopelnik spoke about how important it was for governments to provide as much help as possible to protect Ukraine.

“As students at UVA, every day we have the privilege of speaking our minds, advocating for our needs, and working together to achieve our vision,” she said. “The youth of Ukraine deserve the same. They deserve to be able to live freely, love their cities and nation, [and] envision a future for themselves. They cannot be deprived of a basic human right to exist.”

Sophia Baraban, also a student, read a poem from her Ukrainian father and relatives that described how they longed to be able to look upon their native land once more, free of any attempts at obstruction.

“I have neither fate nor freedom. Only one hope is left,” she read.

The vigil ended with a moment of silence, and attendees were encouraged to line up their candles at the front of the stage before silently departing the venue.

Two days earlier, a group of professors held a teach-in to provide cultural and historical background on the events unfolding in Europe.

“The invasion brought together Ukrainian identity in a way we had not yet seen,” history professor Kyrill Kunakhovich told the 250 students and faculty who were there (another 250 tuned in over Zoom).

“This is what it looks like when a war of dictatorship and kleptocracy is launched against a people demanding freedom and democracy,” added history professor William Hitchcock.

The professors tried to offer students and faculty some guidance on how to help those suffering. They suggested making donations to Voices of Children, Kyiv Independent, World Central Kitchen, Care.org, and Razomforukraine.org.

Todd Sechser, who teaches politics and public policy at UVA’s Batten School, offered background on the possibility that the crisis could escalate to nuclear war, and national security expert Philip Potter shared how the “radical transparency” of the Biden administration has encouraged the United States’ allies to quickly coordinate around a package of economic sanctions and other measures.

Philip Zelikow, a history professor who served on George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council, closed the event by urging the students to remain engaged and work to “build a new world order.”

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Around the riverbend A new plan aims to make the Rivanna River healthy and accessible

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“If you’re looking at just water quality, the river is impaired for biological health,” says Lisa Wittenborn, executive director of the Rivanna Conservation Alliance, a nonprofit that aims to clean and protect the river.

Her group, staffed by an enthusiastic corps of volunteers, tests the river’s biodiversity and bacteria levels multiple times per year. They monitor the presence of tiny river creatures—larva of dragonflies, damselflies, mayflies, stoneflies, plus clams and worms and crayfish and more—to see how the river is doing. Right now, “the little organisms that live in the river don’t have the diversity and abundance that we would like to see,” she says, and the bacteria levels are higher than ideal.

Water quality issues can be exacerbated if people litter and behave badly when they visit the river, but it’s the built environment around the water, rather than the recreational swimmers and boaters, that is most responsible. Four miles of river runs along the eastern edge of the city, and the river’s watershed covers 769 square miles, from the western edge of Albemarle County all the way through Fluvanna. From its headwaters in the Shenandoah, the river eventually feeds into the James and then the Chesapeake Bay. “In such an urban system, with a lot of impervious surfaces, rainfall hits the ground and runs off immediately into our stormwater system, into our streams, and into the river,” says Wittenborn. Fast moving rainwater increases the amount of sediment in the stream, which makes it hard for river creatures to see and eat. The runoff also “picks up things like dog waste and trash, and

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here are no leaves on the trees, but signs of spring are visible at the Rivanna River. A dozen turtles sit on a log on the riverbank, their shells bluish, almond-shaped dots from a distance.

“What really has inspired us all along is just the wildness that’s accessible right from the city,” says Gabe Silver, co-owner of Rivanna River Company, which rents kayaks, tubes, and other river equipment. “Great blue heron, green heron—people see river otters right in city limits on the Rivanna. We have bald eagles that nest on the river right outside of town.”

Recently, more and more people have joined these critters. Silver reports that the pandemic “drove a really significant jump” in river usage, and that interest has remained high. The same dynamic has been visible across the region—1.7 million people visited Shenandoah National Park in 2020, a 17 percent increase from 2019.

On this Sunday afternoon, one of the year’s first truly warm days, squeals of joy can be heard from the playground in Riverview Park, and an intrepid young swimmer is splashing around in the river’s rocky shallows as a parent watches from the orangeybrown dirt of the bank.

The high level of interest makes the river’s health and accessibility all the more important. In January, the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission released an 86page Urban Rivanna River Corridor Plan, packed full of recommendations for the river’s future. Both Charlottesville and Albemarle officially approved the plan in February. The river has flowed through the central Virginia hills for thousands of years— what will it take to keep it healthy for the next thousand?

Clams and worms and mayflies, oh my

Gabe Silver, co-owner of the Rivanna River Company, says recreating on the river is a great way to get to know nature.

washes those into the waterways. And that’s where a lot of the bacteria issues are coming from,” she says.

Despite these issues, Wittenborn says the data suggests that the conservationists are “holding the line.” A recent analysis of the last 15 years of biological data didn’t reveal many trends, suggesting that the river’s water quality issues aren’t getting worse.

“Actually, in four areas we identified places where the stream health scores had improved, statistically,” Wittenborn says. The group was able to connect those healthier locations to specific restoration projects and upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant.

“All of those things seem to have made improvements in the stream health conditions downstream, so that was very encouraging.”

It’s difficult to come up with long-term solutions for these water-quality issues, since the area isn’t going to get less developed as time passes. Still, Wittenborn says, there are things people can do on their own properties to limit the amount of harmful runoff hitting the water. She encourages planting rain gardens or collecting rainwater in barrels.

And larger developments should install bioretention areas, “big rain gardens that allow the water to collect and infiltrate down into the ground rather than running off.”

“Everything we do in the watershed is affecting the health of the river,” she says.

“So we need people to think about what they’re doing in their own backyard, and how that is affecting our waterways. Because it all compounds.”

Touching the river With Charlottesville’s next sweltering summer approaching, more and more people will be drawn toward the water.

“We have been open now for six years,” says Silver. “In that time, we have seen a steady increase in the usage of the river recreationally, with on-the-water recreation, but also on trails and recreation adjacent to the river.”

As that interest continues to flow, it’s crucial that everyone can safely and easily access the water.

“To some extent, the public resources for enabling recreation on and around the river haven’t really caught up with the demand, or have never kept pace with the demand,” Silver says. Parking lots at Riverview and Darden Towe parks fill up, it’s not always easy to reach those places on public transportation, and the river’s steep banks make it difficult to get down to the water.

When the Rivanna River Company, the Rivanna Conservation Alliance, and the city worked together to install a better water access point at Riverview Park, it “instantly became a place for people to go with kids and families to just wade around and play in the river, and touch the river,” Silver says.

“We need more spots like that. It’s free, it’s always there in the summer when it’s hot, it can be a great place for kids to get to know nature, get to know rivers,” he says.

From the perspective of outdoor recreation, Silver isn’t yet concerned about human overuse. In an urban river corridor like this, “summer Saturdays being busy with human beings playing on the water is pretty typical,” he says. “If you go upriver or downriver from that main stretch between Darden Towe and Riverview Park, you still find, I think, a fairly peaceful experience.”

Moving forward, “It’s worth thinking about [how to] leverage the interest and enthusiasm for the Rivanna into caretaking for the Rivanna,” Silver says. His company is helping to organize Rivanna RiverFest on May 1, which will feature food trucks, live music, and opportunities to learn more about the river’s past and present.

“I think all of us in the outdoor recreation world want to believe that there is a connection between using a natural resource and coming to care for it both in our hearts and in our actions,” he says. “We can continue to work on ways to connect the dots for people who are newly using the river.”

Planning for the future The Urban Rivanna Corridor Plan aims to “build a vision and develop an action plan for the urbanized section of the Rivanna River,” according to the report. Sandy Shackelford, director of planning and transportation at the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, says the plan was created to facilitate coordination between the Charlottesville and Albemarle governments when it comes to policymaking in the Rivanna area.

The document doesn’t dictate which stretches of the banks are best for new development. “The local Land Use plans and the Comprehensive Plans have already identified where the development and redevelopment is appropriate,” Shackelford says. “We’re not changing that. But where development and redevelopment is already allowed, there are ways to do that with greater context sensitivity and awareness of environmental impacts.”

Since 2014, the planning agency has been researching the river and conducting community outreach in order to create a set of recommendations for the city and county.

The goals fall into a handful of different categories. The Environmental Protection section includes aims like “Encouraging the use of locally native plants for landscaping at parks and businesses,” and “Identifying and protecting the most sensitive biological and ecological areas by limiting access and installing signage.” In the Multi-Purpose Trails and Bridges section, the planning commission recommends “Providing seating

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areas at regular intervals along trails throughout the corridor.” In Development and Redevelopment, the report urges the city and county to “maximize the environmental sustainability and context sensitivity of new development.” The plan also encourages the localities to apply for grants to fund some of these initiatives.

In February, Charlottesville’s City Council amended the city’s Comprehensive Plan to include the Urban Rivanna Corridor Plan.

Albemarle, currently in the process of updating its Comprehensive Plan, saw its Board of Supervisors endorse the plan and direct staff to consider it as the new Comprehensive Plan is ironed out.

Supporting the plan doesn’t mean its recommendations have become law, or even guarantee that the localities will follow the plan’s proposed course of action. “It doesn’t necessarily commit resources,” Shackelford says, “But it does give additional weight to staff being able to pursue some of these resources. That could be things like applying for grants or prioritizing work programs, or things like that.”

Shackelford says the planners tried to include realistic, short-term goals. Installing erosion control and flood prevention infrastructure like fencing along the bank could go into a parks department work plan “at a fairly low cost,” she says, and could have a big impact on the river’s health.

In some areas, like transportation, the plan recommends additional study. “We tried to think about things from an equity lens,” Shackelford says, “Things like increasing access by different modes of transportation, and thinking about who is going to have access to the park.”

She also points out that the river’s historic resources are not adequately cataloged.

The report offers a cursory history of the

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According to data from the Rivanna Conservation Alliance, recent projects have improved the river's water quality in a few spots.

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river: Monacan Indians live throughout the region, and their historic capital, Rassawek, was located on the Rivanna, about 30 miles southeast of the city. In the antebellum era, enslaved laborers worked on plantations along the river’s banks. In the 19th century, Woolen Mills and Union Mills developed into major economic engines for the region.

“So much local history happened around this really small section of the river corridor,” Shackelford says, and additional research will be required to ensure that history is well told.

From here, Shackelford says the next phase is creating an even more detailed master plan, with specific projects and cost estimates from engineers. Responsibility for undertaking some of the more complicated recommendations laid out in the plan lies with the area’s municipal governments.

“I thought the recommendations were great,” says Wittenborn. “I think the real question is just, are they going to be implemented? It doesn’t matter if you don’t follow through.”

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The Albemarle High School Jazz Ensemble returns to The Jefferson Theater for its fifth annual Swing Into Spring benefit concert. The award-winning 35-piece ensemble, led by Director Andrew LaPrade, comes out to play in support of The Haven’s mission to end homelessness in the greater Charlottesville community. The evening features appearances from local and regional jazz musicians, including Charles Owens, Taylor Barnett, Bobby Gregg, Elise Underwood, John D’earth, Greg Thomas, Michael Elswick, Ivan Orr, Jennifer Morris, and Owen Brown. $17-35, 7pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

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Local author Marc Boston writes stories for young people that emphasize the importance of diversity and inclusion. His newest picture book, A Promise to Grow, was created in partnership with area nonprofit City of Promise, which works to end generational poverty and foster a culture of achievement in all kids.

Set in Charlottesville’s Westhaven community, the story follows CJ, whose pride in his neighborhood and kind heart move him to create a community garden. The book’s foreword tells a child-friendly, yet candid version of the loss of Vinegar Hill, and the afterword, written by Andrea Douglas and JordyYager, discusses pivotal moments and figures in the community’s history, including John West, a formerly enslaved man who became a civic leader.

Following a reading by Boston, the community will work together to create a mural that will be displayed at Dairy Market. Free, 4pm. Dairy Market’s Brick Cellar. dairymarketcville.com

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Wednesday 3/9 music Hard Swimmin’ Fish. Playing original twisted vintage roots music. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com Josh Mayo and friends. Featuring a fun roster of local musicians. Free, 9pm. Rapture, 303 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. rapturerestaurant.com

dance Bachata Fusion Class. Edwin Roa teaches a fun beginner-to-intermediate-level bachata lesson to get the party started. $6-8, 7pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixart park.org

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Latin Night with Bachata Social. Come dance the evening away with us as we play the hottest bachata, salsa, merengue, cha cha, cumbia, reggaeton tunes and more.

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stage The Legend of Georgia McBride. An outrageous, campy, and heartfelt valentine to drag queens, and a celebration of divas and difference. $25-30, 7:30pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. livearts.org

words Highland Virtual Book Club. The March meeting discusses Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri. Free, 7pm.

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Thursday 3/10 music Thursdays Around 5. Featuring Michael Clem and Firefly’s food truck. Free, 5pm.

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Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. livearts.org

words Reckoning: A Series on U.S. Presidents and Racial Inequality. This virtual series explores the views and the political policies of individual presidents toward minority populations, with an indepth focus on how each of these minority groups were affected. Free, 7pm. Online. woodrowwilson.org “The Three Sisters”: Indigenous Origins and Best Growing Practices. A lecture led

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Arts from Underground. Artmaking, drinks, and karaoke inside The Looking Glass. Free, 7pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixart park.org

Trivia Night. Sip on cider and test your knowledge. Free, 6pm. Potters Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. potterscraft cider.com

Friday 3/11 music Bill Adams Band. A little bit of blues, folk, R&B, and a lot of slide guitar. Free, 5:30pm.

The Pub at Lake Monticello, 51 Bunker Blvd., Palmyra. lmoa.org Boxed Lunch with Landon Elliott. The local indie pop-rock band celebrates the release of its EP. $10, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesouthern cville.com Ian Gilliam. Unique blues. Free, 10:30pm.

The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com John Kelly. Live music at the indoor tasting room. Free, 4pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarm andwinery.com Kat & The Travelers. Roots jazz-blues, hot swing, and vintage country. Free, 6pm.

Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com Organ Recital by Daniel Sañez. Featuring music from across northern Europe and Italy from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, including works by Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Buxtehude, and Bach. Free, 7:30pm. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 Rugby Rd. westminsterorganconcertseries.org

stage The Legend of Georgia McBride. See listing for Wednesday, March 9. $25-30, 8pm. Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. livearts.org

words CreativeMornings. A morning lecture for the creative community. Free, 8:30am. Online. creativemornings.com

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Gratitude Charlottesville Charity Poker Tournament. Raising money for Gratitude Charlottesville. $50-100, 7pm. The Club at Glenmore, 1750 Piper Way, Keswick. gratitudecville.com

Saturday 3/12 music Berto & Vincent. Lively Latin guitar. Free, 11am. Tavern & Grocery, 333 W. Main St. tavernandgrocery.com 2 Wishes Trio. Featuring Joy Kuhar, Mike D’Antoni, and Dan Sebring. Free, 2pm.

Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com Concert Series: John King. An exclusive concert with Nashville singer-songwriter John King. Free, 7pm. The Inn at Willow Grove, 14079 Plantation Way, Orange. innatwillowgrove.com Jamie Baum and Short Stories. The jazz flutist brings her own quintet to town. With Monika Herzig’s Sheroes. $15-20, 8pm.

Unity Church, 2825 Hydraulic Rd. jazzflute. brownpapertickets.com Ken Farmer and Wave Milor. Deep blues and storytelling. Free, 4pm. Knight’s Gambit Vineyard, 218 Knole Farm Ln. knights gambitvineyard.com Lord Nelson with Adam’s Plastic Pond.

Lord Nelson celebrates the release of Transmission. $15, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesouthern cville.com Matty Metcalfe and David Kulund. Playing a blend of well-known sing-alongs, covers, and original songs. Free, 2:30pm. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com

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The Legend of Georgia McBride. See listing for Wednesday, March 9. $25-30, 8pm.

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classes Book Arts Workshop: Japanese Bookbindings with Lana Lambert. In this two-day workshop, experience the beauty and function of Japanese Bookbindings. $240-260, 10am-5pm both days. Virginia Center for the Book, Jefferson School City Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. vabookcenter.org Grafting Workshop. Expert hands-on instruction will introduce you to the fine art of grafting. $50, 9am. Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarle ciderworks.com

outside IX Farmer’s Market. Over 60 local vendors with fresh produce, prepared foods, artisan goods, and more. Free, 9am. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org The Haven 8K Run For Home. The 8K run or 4K walk through Charlottesville’s downtown area raises money for local nonprofit The Haven. $40, 8am. Near the Ting Pavilion, Downtown Mall. thehaven.org

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“Flow,” “Spring, Peaches” and “Orchard, Spring” are visually striking examples, but I was particularly taken with the perfectly balanced “Water, Blues” and “My Garden.”

Whitlock has been producing monotypes for years. “I’ve stayed with it so long because it’s like playing another instrument,” she says. “You see something new that you wouldn’t have if you just stuck to your primary medium.”

At the other end of the gallery hangs Holland’s “Compositions in Blue: Cyanotype.”

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process discovered in the mid-19th century that uses paper coated with a photo-sensitive solution and sunlight to produce an image of a stencil or object. Cyan is a hue with profound emotional resonance. Whether it strikes primordial chords within our subconscious, referencing natural phenomena like the night sky or deep water, this bold yet quiet color has an undeniably mysterious and romantic quality.

In 14 works, Holland takes full advantage of this. The reduced palette of blue and white sets off her striking arrangements of both natural and manufactured

objects. Some of these she leaves as is. With others, she introduces collage and watercolor, occasionally adding the bling of silver foil to augment the white.

Holland’s assortments of leaves lend themselves well to the cyanotype technique.

The veiny beech frond skeletons of “Forest Bathing,” the silvery disks of “Money Plant,” and the graphic power of the fan-shaped leaf blades in “Gingko Pattern,” all present a different kind of foliage. Holland’s approach reveals an affinity for the individual qualities of each specimen. With the first two, she employs collage to enhance the basic thrust of the work, adding silver to underscore the mica-like money plant pods and inserting silver hands in the allegorical “Forest Bathing.” When it comes to the distinctive gingko leaves, she adds nothing, deeming the graphic rhythm of their silhouette powerful enough.

In other pieces, Holland turns to the world of handicrafts, using antique lace doilies, placemats, and embroidered handkerchiefs as her subjects. These are poetic works that highlight the intricacy of needlework and the filmy quality of fabric. Against the blue field, these stark white pieces are transformed to reveal works of intricate design and superb workmanship. One can’t help thinking about the anonymous creators of these bits of needlework.

“I think women’s work is undervalued,” says Holland. “Especially old crochet, and lace, and all these things women did. You can pick them up at junk shops and vintage places for very little, which is amazing when you think how beautiful they are and the amount of time that was put into them.”

Holland gives these pieces a second chance and shines new light into their origins.

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An Evening with David Wax Museum. The “Mexo-Americana” band performs live. $1820, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com Brunch with Sammy. Enjoy brunch with Sammy Horn on piano. Free, 10am. The Pub at Lake Monticello, 51 Bunker Blvd., Palmyra. lmoa.org Gary Green and Justin Storer. Harmonica wizard Green and folk musician Storer join forces. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glass housewinery.com Irish Music. Irish jam session with fine renditions of traditional tunes. Free, 2:30pm.

Albemarle CiderWorks, 2545 Rural Ridge Ln., North Garden. albemarleciderworks.com Music on Park Street. Works by Bach, Mozart, and Enescu. Free, 4pm. First Presbyterian Church, 500 Park St. firstprescharlottesville.org Paramount Presents: The Mavericks: “En Español” World Tour. Fan-favorite Latin, country, and rock ‘n’ roll. $38-75, 7:30pm.

The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net Swing Into Spring Benefit Concert. Featuring the AHS jazz band and an all-star lineup of the area’s top professional musicians, the concert raises money for local non-profit The Haven. $17-35, 7pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St. jeffersontheater.com

Charlottesville’s Priscilla Whitlock and Richmond-based artist Mary Holland complement each other’s work in a dual exhibition at Quirk Gallery.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter on the big screen. $10, noon. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com Met Live in HD: Ariadne auf Naxos. Soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’ enchanting masterpiece. $18-25, 12:45pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

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s daily temps start to climb, and we await the vibrant colors of spring, Quirk Gallery offers a visually stunning show celebrating the work of two artists, Priscilla Whitlock and Mary Holland, whose work is guaranteed to lift winter’s gray grip.

Whether producing vignettes of her garden, open meadows, or mountain vistas, Whitlock’s “Eden” conveys with paint the essence of a place—not just its physical manifestation, but also the experience of being there. She clearly revels in depicting nature, and her manipulation of paint and her lively gestural style expose a deep appreciation for the purely visual aspects of painting, too.

The trio “Spring, Greens,” “Goldenrod Thistles” and “Wild Field, Mustard” are heady depictions of a world in full bloom.

The paintings buzz with life. Whitlock captures the effects of nature—wind, shifting light and shadow, and the sense of ever-present insects—to reflect this bombinating sensation, but her painterly approach infuses the works with vitality. With “Spring, Greens,” Whitlock zooms in beyond the vegetation depicted in the other two works and emphasizes the riotous sensual quality of the place as a whole.

“Dogwoods, Spring Mountain” has an entirely different mood. Its muted colors suggest dawn or dusk, a quieter, more somber time. In the work, a vista of mountains rises above a grove of dogwood trees. The mountains are rendered in broad mauve and blue brushstrokes. Whitlock uses jagged lines to describe variations in the terrain, but for the most part this area has a distinct serenity as compared to the foreground. Visually, this situates the mountains in the distance, but it also fittingly depicts their grandeur and permanence. In front, the trees of the title are animated with wind and light. They seem to bend and twist before our eyes, brought to life by Whitlock’s adept handling of the paint.

With the showy “Bee Balm, My Garden” and “Blues, Pinks, Whites, My Garden,” Whitlock ventures closer to the world of abstract painting. Yes, these works are representations of plants in the patch of earth by her studio, but how she arranges her composition and the way she applies paint demonstrate an emphasis on the formal aspects of painting.

Just look at the riotous blobs of pigment in “Blues, Pinks, Whites,” and the daubs of scarlet, green, and blue overlaid with the scrawl of oil stick in “Bee Balm.”

Like her paintings, Whitlock’s monotypes (unique images printed from a plate that has been painted by the artist) are about putting pigment down on a flat surface.

These delightful, small-scale works possess a thrilling freshness and dynamism that holds its own against the larger works.

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Porch Dogs. Live music at the indoor tasting room. Free, noon. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmand winery.com Together in Song: Bach and Bonds. A day of listening, learning, and music-making with The Oratorio Society. $10-30, 10am. Aldersgate Methodist Church, 1500 Rio Rd. E. oratoriosociety.org

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Free, noon. South and Central Latin Grill, Dairy Market. southandcentralgrill.com

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dance Salsa Class. Learn to salsa and strut your stuff. $6-8, 7pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org

stage The Legend of Georgia McBride. See listing for Wednesday, March 9. $25-30, 2pm.

Live Arts, 123 E. Water St. livearts.org

classes Paint & Sip with Catelyn Kelsey Designs.

Paint a beautiful view from the mountain top. $35, 2pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. catelynkelseydesigns.com

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Almost Famous Brunch. Take a stroll with Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe’s nostalgic rock odyssey. $10, noon. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com Nosferatu scored by Bob Lanzetti. F.W. Murnau’s masterwork is back on the screen with a haunting new score. $10, 3:30pm.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com

Monday 3/14 Baby Jo’s. Tunes from the seven-piece New Orleans-inspired boogie and blues band. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com Celtic Angels Ireland. A joyous performance of Irish music and dance. $20-30, 4 and 7:30pm. Wayne Theatre, 521 W Main St, Waynesboro. waynetheatre.org

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter on the big screen. $10, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5th Street Station. drafthouse.com Jimmy Miller’s Bracket Breakfast. Panelists include Jim Ryan, John Grisham, Caroline Darney, and Macon Gunter, with emcees Steve Rappaport and John Freeman. Raising money for Piedmont CASA. $75, 7:30am. The Pavilion at Boar’s Head Resort, 200 Ednam Dr.

Tuesday 3/15 music

Tuesday Evening Concert Series. Presenting Apollo’s Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. $5-39, 7:30pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds. tecs.org

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A Promise to Grow: Book Reading and Community Art Project. Local author Marc Boston reads from his new picture book, followed by a community art project. Free, 4pm. Dairy Market. dairymarketcville.com

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n Adam McKay’s satire Don’t Look Up, astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), discover a “planet-killing” comet that’s hurtling toward Earth. Aided by NASA official Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), our heroes bravely try to warn the world. As the news breaks, backwards mobs vehemently deny the comet’s existence, and these three Cassandras desperately struggle to prevent doomsday. What all this amounts to is a ham-handed allegory about climate change, undone by its preachy, self-congratulatory tone, which constantly reminds the audience this is a very important film. In reality, its recent Academy Award nomination in the Best Picture category hardly reflects the actual film. For an alleged comedy, Don’t Look Up takes itself way too seriously.

The issues the film confronts are important: America’s rampant greed, misguided priorities, sick obsession with celebrity, overdependence on technology, scientific illiteracy, and—metaphorically— global warming. But tackling substantial topics doesn’t inherently give a movie substance. This story about whistleblowers blasts a shrill and persistent whistle.

Moreover, Don’t Look Up really isn’t saying anything new, in terms of either cultural commentary or science fiction. Its runaway comet concept is a deathless chestnut in genre films and literature, in everything from When Worlds Collide to Greenland. Parodying that sub-genre could be very funny, but here the humor is bludgeoning. Ultimately, Don’t Look Up plays like an overlong, halfbaked episode of “Black Mirror,” with little of that series’ scathing intensity.

Don’t Look Up has been compared to Stanley Kubrick’s apocalyptic comedy Dr. Strangelove, which is stretching a point. What Kubrick accomplished tightly in just over an hour-and-a-half, this film doesn’t come close to matching in its draggy two hours and 25 minutes.

There’s a gag Kubrick belabored in Dr. Strangelove: a sign reading Peace is Our Profession at the Air Force base where World War III is triggered. Don’t Look Up has similar weak spots—the flick stridently overworks various on-the-nose satirical jabs about why our heroes can barely get anyone to listen or actually mobilize the world to overcome the grave problem at hand.

DiCaprio and Lawrence are both good.

Melanie Lynskey is excellent as DiCaprio’s put-upon wife, and Tyler Perry is spot-on as a glib, glad-handing talk show host.

Meryl Streep as the U.S. president and Cate

Blanchett as Perry’s co-host are both arch and unfunny. Jonah Hill as the president’s son is, as his part demands, repulsive, but he doesn’t believably capture that character’s stupidity. And as a cartoonish military thug, Ron Perlman gamely does his best with a very broadly written role.

It’s Mark Rylance’s performance that steals the movie. As billionaire cell phone mogul Peter Isherwell, whose vast wealth blinds the public to his deep fallibility, Rylance skillfully hits all the right notes, from his simpering voice to his perpetual gameshow-host grin.

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Don’t Look Up R, 145 minutes Streaming (Netflix) of messianic double-talk, which masks the dehumanization and invasiveness lurking behind his technology. If all of Don’t Look Up paid off like Rylance’s exceptional performance, it would be a superior film.

Most of the film’s ideas holler out for more skillful treatment. The cinematography gets needlessly jerky. There are self-indulgent montages that could have been better handled.

During Oscar season, as you make your list of movies to watch before the awards show, don’t bother to look at Don’t Look Up.

The issues throughout the film are important: America’s rampant greed, misguided priorities, sick obsession with celebrity, overdependence on technology, scientific illiteracy, and—metaphorically—global warming.

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The Way Down Wanderers. Songs with guts that ask big questions. $15, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

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Monday Night Trivia. Hosted by Brandon “The Trivia Guy” Hamilton. Free, 6pm. Prince Michel Vineyard & Tap 29 Brewery, 154 Winery Lane, Leon. princemichel.com

Oscar-nominated disaster film Don’t Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, is a comedy that takes itself too seriously.

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Monday Music Series. Enjoy food and drink paired with live Latin music from Vincent Zorn, Berto & Vincent, or Beleza. Free, 7pm.

South and Central Latin Grill, Dairy Market. southandcentralgrill.com

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TWO LATEST BOOKS & MORE from local Author William A. James, Sr.

In, A MURDER ON FIFTH AND DICE AND THE RUIN OF FIFEVILLE,

IN THE STREETS OF VINEGAR HILL, James

James shows how drug-dealing and gang violence led to the condemnation, demolition, and gentrification of Fifeville. It is a Sequel to his IN THE STREETS OF VINEGAR HILL, 2007. (He is writing a play based upon this latest Book)

reveals how fear and misunderstandings caused The Charlottesville City Council to condemn and Demolish a 20 Acre Tract (30 Black businesses and 600 residents) from the Downtown area from 1958-1964.

In, HARD TIMES AND SURVIVAL: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AFRICANAMERICAN SON,

James relates His Story and the Reader learns what He means when He Says: “Do not GiveIn to Adversity, but overcome it by Steady and Constant Perserverance.”

James will sign copies at 2nd Act Books on March 19th from 4:30 to 5:30 SOLD AT:

Local Author William A. James, Sr. Call or Write, William A. James, Sr. 434-985-8987 PO Box 6991, Charlottesville, VA 22906 Wjpublications@aol.com

The University of Virginia Bookstore 400 Emmet Street, Charlottesville, VA 22904 (on UVA Grounds).

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Aries (March 21-April 19): Aries author Isak Dinesen defined “true piety” as “loving one’s destiny unconditionally.” That’s a worthy goal for you to aspire to in the coming weeks. I hope you will summon your deepest reserves of ingenuity and imagination as you cultivate a state of mind in which you adore your life just as it is. You won’t compare it negatively to anyone else’s fate, and you won’t wish it were different from what it actually is. Instead, you will be pleased and at peace with the truth of exactly who you are right now.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): As author Mary Ruefle points out, “In the beginning, William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn’t even speak.” And yet eventually, he became a literary superstar—among history’s greatest authors. What happened in between? I’m not exaggerating when I attribute part of the transformation to magic.

Vast amounts of hard work and help and luck were involved, too. But to change from a wordless, uncoordinated sprout to a potent, influential maestro, Taurus-born Shakespeare had to be the beneficiary of mysterious powers. I bring this up, Taurus, because I think you will have access to comparable mojo during the next four weeks.

Gemini (May 21–June 20): As talented and financially successful as Kanye West is, the Gemini singer-songwriter experiences a lot of emotional suffering. But no one lives an ideal life, right?

And we can learn from everyone. In any case, I’ve chosen quotes by Kanye that are in rapt alignment with your astrological omens. Here they are: 1. “I’m in pursuit of awesomeness; excellence is the bare minimum.” 2. “You’re not perfect, but you’re not your mistakes.” 3.

“I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.” 4. “Everything I’m not makes me everything I am.”

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Singer-songwriter Jill Scott has earned one platinum and two gold records. She approaches her craft with diligence and intensity. On one occasion, she was frying a burger at her boyfriend’s house when she sensed a new song forming in her imagination. Abandoning the stove, she ran into the next room to grab pen and paper. Soon she had transcribed the beginning of a melody and lyrics. In the meantime, though, the kitchen caught on fire. Luckily, she doused it. Later Jill testified, “His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.” I don’t think you’ll have to make as big a sacrifice as hers in the coming days, Pisces. But you should respond robustly whenever inspiration arrives. an enemy, or the trivial joy that comes from realizing your house keys aren’t missing. Real ecstasy, on the other hand, might arise from a visceral sense of the presence of God, or the rapture that emerges as you make love with a person you care for, or the elation you feel when you commune with your favorite animal. Anyway, Cancerian, I predict that in the coming days, you will have an extra rich potential for the real kinds of rhapsodic delight and enchantment.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Jennifer Lawrence portrayed a rugged, fierce, resourceful champion in The Hunger Games film trilogy. In real life, however, she has few resemblances to that stalwart hero. “I have the street smarts and survival skills of a poodle,” she has confessed.

But I’ve got potentially good news for her and all the rest of you Leos. The coming months will be a favorable time for you to cultivate the qualities of a rugged, fierce, resourceful champion. And right now would be an excellent time to launch your efforts.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Each of us periodically has to deal with conflict. There come times when we must face the fact that a specific situation in our lives isn’t working well and needs to be adjusted, fixed, or transformed.

We might prefer to pretend the problem doesn’t exist. We may be inclined to endure the stressful discomfort rather than engage with its causes. But such an approach won’t be right for you in the coming days, dear Virgo. For the sake of your mental and spiritual health, you have a sacred duty to bravely risk a struggle to improve things. I’ll provide you with advice from novelist John Fowles. He said, “I must fight with my weap-

ons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.” Fowles goes on to say that he will offer generosity and gentleness and no-shame and forgiveness.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A blogger named MysteryOfWhat expressed appreciation for her errors and wrong turns. “I love all my mistakes!” she exclaimed. “I had fun!” She has a theory that she would not have been able to completely fulfill her interesting destiny without her blunders and her brilliant adjustments to those blunders. I won’t encourage you to be quite so boisterously unconditional in celebrating your fumbles and miscues, Libra. My inclination is to urge you to honor them and feel grateful for them, but I’m not sure I should advise you to shout out, “I love all my mistakes! I had fun!” But what do you think?

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Norman MacCaig wrote, “Ask me, go on, ask me to do something impossible, something freakishly useless, something unimaginable and inimitable like making a finger break into blossom or walking for half an hour in twenty minutes or remembering tomorrow.” I hope people say things like that to you soon, Scorpio. I hope allies playfully nudge you to stretch your limits, expand your consciousness, and experiment on the frontier. To encourage such a development, you could do the same for your beloved allies: nudge them to stretch their limits, expand their consciousness, and experiment on the frontier.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Look at your body not as a source of physical attraction but as a shrine,”

wrote teacher Sobonfu Somé. Personally, I have no problem if you regard your body as a source of physical attraction—as a gorgeous, radiant expression of your life energy, worthy of inspiring the appreciation of others. But I agree with Somé that you should also treat your body as a sacred sanctuary deserving of your reverence—especially now. Please boost your intention to provide your beloved organism with all the tender care it needs and warrants.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19): “It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time,” writes author Barbara Kingsolver.

Yes! I agree. And by providing you with this heads-up from her, I’m hoping that the subtly potent events unfolding for you in the coming weeks will not go unnoticed. I’m hoping you will be alert for seemingly small but in fact crucial developments—and thereby give them all the focus and intelligence they deserve. Later, you’ll remember this delicately pivotal time with amazed gratitude.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What’s more important: to learn or to unlearn? The answer, of course, is they are equally important. But sometimes, the most crucial preparation for a new learning phase is to initiate a surge of unlearning.

That’s what I’m recommending for you right now. I foresee you embarking on a series of extravagant educational experiences in a couple of weeks. And the best way to ensure you take maximum advantage of the available lessons is by dumping useless knowledge and irrelevant information and numbing habits.

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In Amber McBride’s Young Adult novel-in-verse, Me (Moth), a grieving teen girl named Moth has lost her family and her identity. When Moth meets Sani, a

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Naomi Hirahara sets her 2021 mystery, Clark and Division, in 1944 Chicago, where a young woman searches for the truth about her revered older sister’s death.

Gleaned from thirty years of research, and rich with period details, the novel shows the struggles of one Japanese American family newly released from incarceration in a California internment camp.

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Ellen Crosby, author of the Virginia Wine Country mystery series, will moderate a conversation between the three writers on March 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.

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ing on his own son. And with the world hurtling towards catastrophe, a desperate single mother tries to buy her first home.

Charlottesville writer Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s much praised debut, My Monticello, comprises five stories and a novella, each set in Virginia, and is being adapted for a film on Netflix. Johnson will discuss her work on March 18 at 4:00 p.m. at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.

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Exploring Family Bonds The three women in Exploring Family Bonds, March 17 at 10 a.m. at JMRL’s Central Library, have written meditations on parenting, building families, and finding connections between identity and blood history.

Julietta Singh’s The Breaks: An Essay considers race, inheritance, and the challenges of gay mothering. The New York Public Library called it one of the “Best Books of 2021.”

Taylor Harris’ work has appeared in O Quarterly Magazine, The Washington Post, Parents, McSweeney’s, and more. Harris’ heart-wrenching memoir, This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown, examines the bond between a mother and a mysteriously ill child, as Harris bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed about science and medicine, motherhood, and faith.

Jan Beatty’s lyrical American Bastard explores her experience as a child born to unmarried parents as she travels across

continents to find her birthfather, a Stanley Cup-winning Canadian hockey player, and her birthmother, a workingclass woman from Pittsburgh. The book takes a hard look at the West’s often romanticized conception of adoption.

Independent researcher Elizabeth Birdsall, whose current work examines children’s agency in child custody disputes, will lead the conversation.

Grieving and Healing: the Poetry of Rita Dove and Victoria Chang UVA’s Rita Dove is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a former United States Poet Laureate. In Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems, her first volume of new poetry in twelve years, Dove brings us the voices of a resentful elevator operator, an exuberant octogenarian dancer, and a mordantly humorous spring cricket philosophizing about hip hop, critics, and Valentine’s Day. In the book’s final, personal section, “Little Book of Woe,” Dove journeys from terror to hope as she learns to cope with debilitating chronic illness.

In her 2020 collection of poems, Obit, Victoria Chang considers “the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.” Chang found a fittingly personal way of processing her grief over her mother’s death: over a feverish twoweek period she wrote scores of poetic obituaries for “civility,” “language,” “the future,” “Mother’s blue dress,” and other felt losses. Obit was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry.

Dove and Chang will read from their work at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center on March 20 at 3:00 p.m.

Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Rust Belt Vegans If you dare, or if you doubt, page through Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen, a community cookbook showcasing little known Rust Belt cuisine and old-fashioned Rust Belt know-how. You’ll find vegan versions of regional standards like Polish pierogis, Detroit coney dogs, and Mexican conchas.

Editor Meredith Pangrace will talk about these recipes and demonstrate one or two on the Festival’s Facebook page, on March 18 at 2:00 p.m.

Natural Treasures, Natural Healing Kat Maier has been a practicing clinical herbalist for over 30 years, and is currently director of Sacred Plant Traditions, a center for herbal studies in Charlottesville. Maier’s book Energetic Herbalism: A Guide to Sacred Plant Traditions Integrating Elements of Vitalism, Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine traces links between traditional healing practices, essential plant medicines, and ecological stewardship.

Solidago plumosa is a rare species of goldenrod found only on the banks of North Carolina’s Yadkin River. The carnivorous Sarracenia alabamensis, commonly known as Alabama canebrake

pitcher plant, grows only in one small, central area of the state. These and other rare and native plants, now threatened by development and climate change, are integral not only to their natural ecosystems but to American Southern identity, argues Georgann Eubanks, author of Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction.

Studying the area’s astonishingly rich biodiversity, Eubanks finds inspiration in talking with her heroes—the botanists, advocates, and conservationists young and old—on a quest to save these green gifts of the South for future generations.

Maier and Eubanks will discuss their research and their travels on March 20 at 11:00 a.m. at the Ivy Creek Natural Area.

Civil War Archives Andrew Lang’s A Contest of Civilizations explores how the crisis of the Civil War challenged the doctrine of American exceptionalism. Caroline E. Janney’s Ends of War shows that Lee’s surrender at Appomattox triggered a period of military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and sporadic violence.

Jonathan W. White’s To Address You as My Friend collects the letters of AfricanAmericans to the man they hoped so much from, President Abraham Lincoln.

Janney, Lang, and White will discuss the war, its aftermath, and its repercussions for the country’s self-understanding on March 16 at 2:00 p.m. in the UVA Bookstore.

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American Imperialism: Its Impact and Its Legacy

Seeing Trees, Saving Forests Poet and essayist Diane Ackerman calls Meg Lowman’s The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us “an eye-opening and enchanting book by one of our major scientist-explorers.” Once the only girl at the science fair, now a biologist, botanist, and conservationist nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, Lowman blends memoir and fieldwork as she takes readers on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world’s treetops.

The five beautiful megaforests left on Earth today harbor innumerable species and play an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere and slowing climate change. Preservationists John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy intend Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet as a call

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Imperialism, family history, and the immigrant experience are the subjects of Albert Samaha’s Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, written “to honor my elders.” As Samaha recounts how his mother and her brother Spanky—a rising pop star back in Manila, reduced to working as a luggage handler at the San Francisco airport—struggled for financial security following their immigration to America, he wonders whether their decision to forego middle-class life has been worth the cost.

Rooting his family’s own history in Spanish colonialism, American intervention, and Japanese occupation, Samaha considers ways in which the world’s most powerful nations drive global migration.

In Jonathan M. Katz’s Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine serves as a window on America’s rise to global power—and how it shaped the world we know today.

“The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler,” The Washington Post says. It’s also “a compelling and insightful meditation on the trauma people still feel as a result of Butler’s career and the American ambitions it represented.”

Katz and Samaha will discuss the impact of American economic and military imperialism on the lives of ordinary citizens, on March 19 at 10:00 a.m. in Irving Theater, CODE Building on Water Street.

Life in Bogotá, Colombia, is just about perfect for Juana in Juana Medina’s Juana & Lucas: Muchos Changes—until she has to go to skate camp, that is. She can’t even skate! And her Mami is going to have a baby?!

When little Africa wants to be a Double Dutch legend like her grandmother, her brother scoffs—how can she win when she’s never jumped rope before?

But Africa has a birthmark in the shape of her name—and it tells her she’s always a winner.

Brittany J. Thurman’s Fly, illustrated

by Anna Cunha, is a sweet story about a young black girl’s confidence and perseverance as she follows her Double Dutch dreams.

Picture book lovers can hear these and three other stories, and read along via closed captions in this virtual event on March 19 at 10:00 a.m.

The Virginia Festival of the Book is a community effort, presented by Virginia Humanities with the help of the city of Charlottesville along with local foundations, businesses, civic groups, and enthusiastic individuals. It’s good to be a reader in Virginia.

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to conserve these wild woods, counteract 43 climate change, and save the planet.

Lowman, Lovejoy and Reid will talk about their experiences traveling and studying the world’s great forests, and share practical steps to help preserve them from climate change.

This Virtual event will take place at noon on March 16.

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Enjoy total privacy and be surrounded by natural beauty while living in a neighborhood for strolling and bike riding. Custom home has 10’ and cathedral ceilings, reclaimed wood floors, antique mahogany mantle and two fireplaces, one of which is floor to ceiling stone. Family room and kitchen form a Great Room. Gourmet kitchen with top of the line appliances and granite counters. Luxurious first floor owners’ suite. 3 or 4 additional bedrooms. Meriwether Lewis school district. Two covered decks overlook your gorgeous yard with Rocky Run creek meandering through. $1,250,000.

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MEADOWBROOK HILLS

Lovely 3-bedrooms, 3-baths, circa 1958 brick home located in one of the City’s most desirable neighborhoods- convenient to all that Charlottesville has to offer! Walkable to Barracks Road & UVA, and just a short drive from Downtown. MLS#622783 $589,000 Will Faulconer, 434.987.9455

RIVANDALE FARM

An oasis of tranquility and fine country living within 20 miles of Charlottesville, 14 miles to CHO Airport. 177 private acres with c.1901 classic Virginia farm house, completely remodeled and updated. MLS#626933 $3,795,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 www.RivandaleVa.com

MOORELAND

Classic Virginia brick home, circa 1855, on 22 acres, just seven miles south of Charlottesville. Property includes a cottage, outbuildings, shared ownership in a beautiful pond. Lovely mature landscaping and mountain views. $985,000 MLS#624421 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 www.moorelandva.com

Charming and historic circa 1890 four bedroom, two bath residence on four private acres. Attractive architectural details include high ceilings, front and back covered porches, three fireplaces, hardwood floors, extensive trim work, and two outbuildings. Extremely well cared for and renovated, with a recent conversion of detached garage into an inspiring studio space. Mature plantings, majestic trees, views, and plenty of outdoor space within minutes west of the University of Virginia.

MLS#627016 $995,000 Court Nexsen, 646.660.0700

GREY OAKS

In the heart of this exceptional country estate is an immaculate, 6-BR, 6.5-BA home offering outstanding views overlooking a 2-acre lake to the Blue Ridge Mtns. Total tranquility, over 53 rolling acres, wonderful outdoor spaces, and a 1,800 sf barn. MLS#617485 $4,165,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

MADISON

Over 560 acres of wooded land on Thoroughfare Mountain in Madison County. Three contiguous parcels, completely private, with endless possibilities.

Hunt, ride ATVs, camp, build a weekend retreat or a permanent residence in total serenity. MLS#621697 $2,685,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

HB3 FARM

Proximity, privacy, and views on 28 acres. Outstanding farmhouse with formal and informal spaces.

Expansive porches, stocked pond, barn with tack room, riding ring, workshop, gym, pool, pool house, and more. MLS#626078 $4,875,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863 or Court Nexsen, 646.660.0700

JEFFERSON PARK CIRCLE

Delightful, well-loved 2-story 4-BR brick residence located on a spacious lot with patio and mature plantings. Captivating, vaulted ceiling sun room and recently updated kitchen are just the beginning. A very special neighborhood close to UVA. MLS#626701 $850,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

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STONY POINTE

A spacious and meticulously maintained home on 57 private and protected acres, 6 miles northeast of Charlottesville.

Residence features 4-6 BR, 5 full and 2 half BA, large open floor plan on the main level, plus a deluxe gourmet kitchen and generous master suite. Other interior features include 3 bedrooms and home office upstairs, plus 3,000 finished sq. ft. on the walkout terrace level. Panoramic views of the Southwest Mountains and to the west are winter views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. MLS#626941 $2,850,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

WOOD’S END

Striking residence on 5+ acres in the heart of Keswick.

Architecturally-designed with numerous high-end custom features. Gracious one level living with 3,471 fin. sq. ft. Minutes from the world class Keswick Hall, Charlottesville, UVA, and Pantops. MLS#626196 $1,195,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

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RAGGED MOUNTAIN

4.32 acres, half open, with gently rolling, cleared homesite on a high plateau with lovely pastoral and mountain views. Situated in Ivy Valley, just off I-64 west of Charlottesville, less than 10 miles to the University of Virginia. MLS#622663 $525,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

LAMBS ROAD

Private, wooded lot, that’s conveniently close to Charlottesville, but still in Albemarle County. The property contains large, mature trees and a small stream that winds through the middle. 3 potential division rights. MLS#626128 $259,000 Jeremy Fields, 434.270.1220

SIMMONS GAP/ ESTES RIDGE

10 acres of mature woods. Property has long road frontage and consists of two parcels being combined and sold as one. No homeowners association! Design and build your dream residence on this very wellpriced parcel. MLS#621178 $189,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

MISSION HOME ROAD

146.88 ac. in Albemarle & Greene County. Privacy & protection adjacent to the Shenandoah National Park!

Full division rights & multiple home sites.Extraordinary timberland. Views of the mountains, along with easy access to trails & Skyline Drive. MLS#620276 $1,200,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

RAGGED MOUNTAIN FARM

Two wonderful estate parcels comprised of 185.01± acres in coveted Ragged Mountain Farm. Excellent elevated building site, complete privacy, and beautiful views. Murray/Henley/Western school district. MLS#621083 $1,895,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

COMMONWEALTH DRIVE

1-story, 2,147 sf. commercial office building at corner of Westfield Road just off Rt. 29S. Zoned Commercial Office (CO) use includes administrative and business offices, medical, dental and more.

CVCMLS#30317750 $749,000 Mark Mascotte, 434. 825.8610

BLANDEMAR FARM ESTATES

25.4 acres with varying topography and amazing rock outcroppings. Unique design opportunities to create a stunning residence with magnificent views.

Convenient to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia. Fiber optic available. MLS#593358 $554,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

FRAYS MILL

Mostly wooded preservation tract of 81.395 acres next to Frays Mill Subdivision in highly desirable northern Albemarle. This beautiful gently rolling land has a great, private homesite with Blue Ridge Mt. views, and creek on property. MLS#608509 $995,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

ESTES RIDGE

Beautiful 14.7-acre tract of pristine land with both open fields and mature woods. So many possibilities for the property - create a small estate parcel with main residence and dependencies or enjoy recreational activities. No HOA! MLS#621176 $289,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

BUFFALO RIVER ROAD

Elevated 21-acre tract, mostly mature hardwood forest and road frontage in northwest Albemarle.

Elevated homesite offers potential panoramic Blue Ridge Mountain views with some clearing. Adjacent 21 acres also for sale. MLS#625864 $170,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

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EDNAM FOREST

Wonderfully large 1.5+ acre building lot in Ednam Forest. Build your dream home on this elevated, wooded lot located in a single family community, minutes from UVA and within walking distance to Boar’s Head Resort. MLS#598537 $289,500 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

RIVER LAWN

Delightful combination of wood and pastureland with a spectacular bluff for a building site overlooking the James River in southern Albemarle County.

Property is under easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. MLS#569753 $745,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

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HOME SALES STATS

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, MARCH 13TH FROM 12 TO 3 1304 HIDDEN VALLEYS ROAD This unique, custom built home is tucked away on 10 private acres in Hidden Valleys. Veranda style porch, two-story foyer w/turned stair case.

Two master bedrooms with attached master baths, Kitchen with large island, two sinks, all appliances, and breakfast nook. Formal living room and dining room with double-sided fireplace. Sun with lots of natural light.

Screened porch off kitchen and a laundry / mud room with a large closet.

MLS# 618411 Asking price - $655,000

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THE 1605 POES LANE HOLLYMEAD

Dir: From 250 East, right on N. Milton, left on Milton, right on Rt. 53, left on Buck Island Rd., right on Martin Kings, left on Rolling Rd., left on Long Acre Rd., left on Hidden Valleys Rd, go to end, then left at the mail boxes, bear right to 1304.

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n 41 were in Albemarle with an average price of $535,703 n 13 were in Charlottesville with an average price of $404,243 n 8 were in Fluvanna with an average price of $355,756 n 5 were in Greene with an average price of $364,740 n 6 were in Louisa with an average price of $322,825 n 5 were in Madison with an average price of $322,400 n 9 were in Nelson with an average price of $534,675 n 13 were in Orange with an average price of $449,158 n 5 were in Staunton with an average price of $182,100 n 12 were in Waynesboro with an average price of $244,950

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Note: Real estate tax information gathered from local government Web sites and is believed but not guaranteed to be accurate as of publication date. Towns may assess real estate taxes in addition to those charged by each county.)

CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE

GREENE COUNTY

CITY OF STAUNTON

LOUISA COUNTY

CITY OF WAYNESBORO

MADISON COUNTY

ALBEMARLE COUNTY

NELSON COUNTY

www.charlottesville.gov Real estate tax rate: $.95 per $100 ci.staunton.va.us Real estate tax rate: $.92 per $100 www.waynesboro.va.us Real estate tax rate: $.90 per $100 www.albemarle.org Real estate tax rate: $.854 per $100

FLUVANNA COUNTY

fluvannacounty.org Real estate tax rate: $.884 per $100

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1200 OLD STONEY CREEK RD NELLYSFORD

greenecountyva.gov Real estate tax rate: $.82 per $100 www.louisacounty.com Real estate tax rate: $.72 per $100 www.madisonco.virginia.gov Real estate tax rate: $.71 per $100 nelsoncounty-va.gov Real estate tax rate: $.72 per $100

ORANGE COUNTY

orangecountyva.gov Real estate tax rate: $.804 per $100

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1024 Sunset Dr | Amherst Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is this state of the art Equestrian Facility. Amazing 1840s Brick Manor Home with large bedrooms, gleaming pine floors, tile baths, main floor laundry closet, numerous fireplaces and full basement with game room.

34-acres with hardwoods, several water sources, pond, rolling fenced pastures and beautiful views all around. Ultimate Horse Barn features HVAC, office, wash area, automatic waterers, stalls, tackroom and outdoor arena & working pen. A true horse lovers dream!

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$1,499,900 | montaguemiller.com/598369 Lynn Bowling | 434.941.3126

3988 Mola Ln | Earlysville In the country and close to town. Earlysville mini-farm on 6 acres with barn for horses and a pond. The house has 3 BRs, 2 BAs with an apartment in the basement (one bedroom, full bath and kitchen) hardwood floors..

$575,000 | montaguemiller.com/627030 Doug Burke | 434.996.6791

528 Jester Ln | Charlottesville Adorable and BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION cottage design with open floor plan! Low maintenance in and out and HARDIE PLANK exterior. Rear deck with mountain views. - Covered Front Porch waiting for a rocking chair!

$350,000 | montaguemiller.com/627182 Trish Owens | 434.825.5393

1636 Center Ave | Charlottesville On a quiet dead-end street in Frys Spring, this one level home has 5 bedrooms (3 upstairs, 2 downstairs) and 2 full baths. Currently leased and generating $1900 per month, excellent income-producing rental property for many years.

$339,000 | cartermontague.com/626964 Carter Montague | 434.962.3419

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