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itting pretty. That’s what customers will find behind glass cases of Middleburg’s Finest Chocolates. Rows and rows of artisan chocolates beautifully sculpted to tempt chocoholics or satisfy anyone on the hunt for a cocoa fix.

As an experienced e n t r e p r e n e u r, S t e p h a n i e Yowell was looking for a local business to run. She decided on Middleburg’s Finest Chocolates, previously known as Shenandoah Fine Chocolates, and purchased the business last Sept. 15. A Photos by Heidi Baumstark Culpeper native, Main Street Stephanie Yowell, owner of Middleburg’s Finest quaintness is in her blood so Chocolates, holds a chocolate horse, which it was a natural fit to land her new venture on Middleburg’s is one of many specialty items in her store on Washington Street.

Washington Street.

Yowell’s chocolates truly live international wines, dessert wines, and up to their name: the “finest.”

They’re made from old family recipes wine glasses.

One of those local wines is from Three passed down through generations.

The freshest creams, butter, nuts, and Fox Vineyards in Delaplane. Recently, spices are blended to make hand-dipped Yowell met Holli Todhunter, proprietor of chocolates crafted from recipes dating to Three Fox; Todhunter and her husband, the early 1900s. Pure vanilla is used to make John, have owned and operated the winery the soft-center creams for that velvety- since 2002. smooth surprise. Some of the store’s treats “I was looking to hook up with come from a family in Pennsylvania; someone who sells chocolates,” Todhunter others come from Virginia, including said. “We plan to invite Stephanie during chocolates from the original Shenandoah the Valentines’ weekend to pair chocolates Fine Chocolates in Winchester. with our wines. We like her dark chocolate; “Everything’s made in small batches I bought some around Thanksgiving.” and made to order,” Yowell said. “They’re For personalized gifts, Yowell carries not sitting on a shelf; I don’t buy in bulk.” specialty-shaped chocolates that have been Customers will find poured into a variety of truffles, crème-centered molds, including horse chocolates, fudge, figures, cows, horseshoes, and novelty treats like Middleburg’s Finest Chocolates even vintage cars, sports “muddy” gummi bears 12 E. Washington Street cars and motorcycles. drenched in chocolate.

540-687-5010 For movie lovers, there Then there are the popular Hours of operation: are movie ticket shapes; pairings of salty and Tues.-Sat. : 10 a.m.-5 p.m. “we provided those in sweet: chocolate-covered Sunday: noon-5 p.m. gift baskets for actors and pretzels, potato chips, and directors at last year’s several confections made Middleburg Film Festival.” from salted caramel. There are even sugarMusic lovers will appreciate chocolates free treats. Chocolate barks come studded in the shape of music notes and different with all goodies like crystalized ginger, instruments. Tool lovers will discover nuts, dried fruit, and bacon. chainsaw and power drill chocolates. For “Our bacon bark is popular with a lot of guys,” Yowell said. “They come in and organizations, Yowell can custom-order corporate logos for business owners or see that and think, ‘That’s it!’”

There are also chocolate shot glasses employees who want to market their that can be filled with dessert wines, branding.

“I’m actually looking for a fox mold for liqueurs, or plopped with a truffle inside to double the pleasure. Or try the mimosa our foxhunting customers,” she said.

Yowell’s main goal is to be a contributing truffle flavored with orange marmalade and a champagne-infused white ganache. member of the community. One way to Other truffle flavors include toasted accomplish that is through a program she’s coconut, mint, raspberry, caramel, vanilla, rolling out that will benefit local charities.

“Every odd month, we’ll have a ‘Month champagne, amaretto, tiramisu, coffee, and of Giving’ where a percentage of proceeds their most popular—cappuccino. will be designated to a local cause,” she “It’s a fun shop. After all, everyone who comes in is really happy—or they leave said. “We’ll announce this on the Facebook happy,” Yowell says. “Middleburg has that page.”

And gearing up for Valentine’s Day, kind of spirit, that atmosphere. The other business owners here love their town and she added, “Soon, it will look like Cupid stopped here!” take pride in the old-town feel.”

By selling candy made only from old In addition to chocolates, customers can purchase artwork by Staunton artist family traditions, Yowell loves the idea Jennet Inglis. On weekends, the shop that she’s also supporting small businesses. offers wine tastings paired with chocolates. “But the unnecessary evil of the job,” she Customers can also purchase local and kidded, “is I have to taste everything.”

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ere’s a story that merits attention. It involves an insidious and apparently increasingly common threat known as the Lone Star tick. Originally identified in Texas, it’s now made its way up the east coast, and for some, its bite can trigger a serious allergic reaction.

Last September, one member of our community had a cheeseburger at a fast food restaurant and not long after, noticed some hives. It was nothing serious and she chalked it up to possibly tainted beef.

A mont h later, she had another cheeseburger for dinner at a local eatery. She went to sleep around 11 p.m. and a few hours later, was in serious distress—hives that were maddeningly itching, stomach cramps and pain.

When she stood up, she almost fainted.

At that point, a call to 911 was in order and she was transported by ambulance to the Winchester Hospital. Emergency room doctors were mystified as to what had caused her discomfort, but a few days later, her husband was working out in a local gym and was telling people about his wife’s scary episode. One woman said she’d heard similar stories recently about the same sort of reaction from several other Middleburg residents. She also had been told that it might have been caused by what is known as the alpha-gal sugar.

“We searched the web and found out that some doctors at the University of Virginia had identified it,” the victim said.

“We went down to UVa to have it checked and they said it was caused by the Lone Star tick. They said it usually took about two months for the allergy to take full effect. I never saw a tick on me. But they told me it was definitely the Lone Star.”

And the substance that triggered the frightening allergic reaction? Red meat

or its byproducts. As in cheeseburger, cheeseburger.

Dr. Norris Royston, a long-time family physician in Marshall, said he’s treated several similar cases, and diagnosing the root cause can often be difficult.

“If the test comes out negative, it doesn’t mean you haven't been affected by the organism,” he said. “You can be deathly allergic and have it affect you right away, or it can take three or four days. It’s becoming more common.”

Royston said in addition to hives, there can also be life-threatening possibilities— difficulty breathing, swelling of the tongue, tightening of the chest, heart palpitations.

“You can’t have hotdogs, you can’t have sausage, you can’t have any meat byproduct,” Royston said. “You have to start thinking chicken, chicken, chicken and a little fish.”

What’s in the beef that triggers these dramatic reactions?

Beef, pork, venison, rabbit, even some d ai r y pro du c t s , contain alpha-gal. The tick bite triggers an immune system response. The body perceives the sugar the tick transmitted to the victim's bloodstream and skin as a foreign substance, and makes antibodies to fight it. That sets the stage for an allergic reaction the next time the person eats red meat and encounters the alpha-gal sugar.

In 2011, two University of Virginia researchers—Dr. Scott Commins and Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills—published the first paper that linked the Lone Star tick to the allergic reaction.

"I see two to three new cases every week," Commins told CBS News last year.

According to a story on CBSnews. com, “one of the first cases they (the UVa researchers) saw was a bow hunter who had eaten meat all his life but landed in the emergency department several times with allergic reactions after eating meat.

More cases kept turning up in people who were outdoors a lot.”

"It seemed something geographical,” Commins told CBS. “We thought at first it might be a squirrel parasite. It took us a while to sort of put everything together" and finger the tick.

Allergic reactions can be treated with antihistamines to ease itching, and more severe ones with epinephrine. People with the allergy are advised to carry EpiPens with them at all times in case they’re stricken again.

Just remember the Lone Star tick. And if it bites, think chicken.

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Millwood Post Office Has History and HOPE

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illwood’s post office was once a gas station and service center, and apparently a very popular place to spend an afternoon.

“It had a wood stove and a pool room,” said Laura Rodgers, Millwood’s postmaster.

“Locals would hang out and play pool and keep warm by the fire.”

In the National Register of Historic Places, the building is described as “a sizeable early-20th-century brick service station . . . the hipped roof is clad in pressed tin shingles, and the deep porte cochere that once sheltered the gas pump island is supported by heavy square brick columns.”

That porte cochere no longer serves as a gas pump. Instead, it’s the post office’s quintessential blue collection box.

Prior to 1985, the Millwood post office was located across Bishop Meade Road, adjacent to Locke Store. The first floor was used as the post office, while the upstairs housed a barbershop with its own entrance in the alley. In a letter dated Jan. 26, 1979, however, the U.S. Postal Service informed the local post office that Project HOPE would soon be coming to town, and that the current space would not be able to handle the 200,000 or so pieces of mail that

would be coming and going on an annual basis.

“They knew they couldn’t handle that much mail where they were,” said Rodgers, “and so it was time to move.” A 1985 letter details a rental agreement between the post office and the then-owner of the building: “$3,600 annually for 15 years.”

The current building is now owned by John Staelin, husband of Elizabeth Locke, whose jewelry business is just down the road and is one of the post office’s steadiest customers.

“We have a few other big customers here,” said Rodgers. “There’s still Project HOPE, of course. And then there’s the Masters of Foxhound Association – they use us all the time. And Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, Long Branch, and recently, Wildlife Veterinary Care.”

Millwood also has 271 individual boxes inside. On one recent morning, the post office was the scene of friendly banter between Rodgers and local residents stopping by to pick up their mail. When one regular customer mentioned that he was thinking about buying a car, Rodgers cheerfully offered to tally up the cost of a five-year car loan.

Rodgers has served as Millwood’s postmaster for nearly ten years.

“I guess I asked for it,” she said. “I kept saying to my husband, ‘Oh, I could do your job!’” After all, her husband, Ross Tomblin, is a mail carrier in Purcellville and their son, Damian Tomblin, is a mail carrier

Laura Rodgers, postmaster for Millwood.

in Berryville. At the time, Rodgers was finishing up her college degree, raising the couple’s children and substitute teaching at Clarke County Public Schools.

“So he took me up on it,” Rodgers said, “and here I am.”

Rodgers’ first introduction to the post office was in “relief help” where she was called in to help out at various post offices in the area.“I really got a lot of experience doing that,” she said. Rodgers had stints at post offices in Cross Junction, Middletown, Boyce, Berryville and White Post before signing on as Millwood’s postmaster.

“First thing in the morning, I get Project HOPE’s mail ready for them,” she said. “We kind of cater to them, because they’ve done so much to keep us here.”

Project HOPE also played an important role in 2012 when the post office system was trying to cut back Millwood’s hours.

“They were upset when we got cut back to 6 ½ hours, but it could have been much

worse. They really came through for us, and so we sort their mail first thing and always have it ready.”

Many in the Millwood area have admired the community garden located behind and on one side of the post office.

Last year’s crop included a flower garden with zinnias and a vegetable garden with squash, zucchini, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and spinach. Community volunteers worked Tuesday and Thursday mornings, donating produce to the local pantry.

“I think we might have just lost one of those volunteers,” Rodgers said. “Toward the end of the season, she dug up a lot of bulbs and did a lot of replanting. She gave me some of the bulbs. I don’t think she’ll be coming back.”

The Millwood Post Office is located at 2009 Millwood Road. It’s open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon.

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Loving the High Life on a South American Peak r. Martin Harrell knows plenty about pain. That’s his medical specialty—pain management— but as he sat in his tent on the side of a mountain last month, shivering in subzero temperatures made even colder by 25-mile-an-hour winds, surely he had to ask himself “what am I doing here?”

Not really.

Quite the contrary, Harrell was having the time of his life trying to ascend an Argentina mountain—Aconcagua in the Andes—and its 22,800-foot peak, the highest summit in South America and the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas.

Harrell, who lives in The Plains with his wife, Sheila, and children Molly and Will, recently returned from a twoweek climbing adventure with one of his physician friends. They were residents together at the University of North Carolina medical school when they both developed an interest in climbing, initially satisfying that pursuit in the far tamer mountains of North Carolina.

In 2010, they traveled to Mt. Rainier in Washington State. It was not quite as high as their recent Argentina climb, but challenging nonetheless on a mountain that was heavily glaciated. They were roped up, had to wear crampons on their boots for traction on the ice and occasionally had to traverse dangerous crevasses.

“I’d never done it before,” Harrell said, “and that first trip was definitely an eyeopener. We did it with a mountaineering company and we were on the mountain for six days. I also had to learn how to camp out. For me, it’s just a hobby. And I definitely don’t have the expertise or even the desire to ever do it alone.”

A year later, the two friends were back at Rainier taking a different route to the top, and they’ve since done several more climbs—volcanoes in Mexico and Ecuador before deciding to challenge Aconcagua.

On their most recent trip, there were four climbers and two guides, and because of an El Nino effect, a lot more snow than normal.

On the first day, they hiked six miles from the park entrance at 8,000 feet up to 11,000 to an intermediate camp, spending two nights there to get acclimated to the altitude. Then it was a 15-mile hike

up to the base camp at 14,000 feet. It’s a permanent facility, with 40 sturdy tents, with wi-fi, internet and a place to purchase pizza and hamburgers.

It was a tad pricey—$7 for a Coke and $15 to take a shower—but Harrell wasn’t complaining. A Charlotte native, he was able to get score updates on the Carolina Panthers in their opening NFL playoff game. And then it was off to the next camp, at 16,000 feet for a night, and then their highest camp, at 18,000 feet, where they spent three nights in anticipation of reaching the summit.

“It was freezing cold up there,” Harrell said, despite using a down sleeping bag and wearing a fleece-lined wool shirt, wool long underwear and a fleece and down sweater. Even worse, Harrell suffered altitude sickness—a bad headache, nausea, shortness of breath and an overall lack of energy.

“You’d walk 15 feet on level ground,” he said, “and it felt like mile 25 of a marathon.”

Two of his teammates and a guide set out for the summit early in the morning.

Harrell knew he couldn’t make it all the way but, with another guide, managed to climb to 19,400 feet before he was forced to turn back because of the altitude’s debilitating effects. Still, that was almost 400 feet higher than he’d ever climbed before.

“A personal best,” he said. “I wasn’t disappointed. Getting to the summit is one small aspect of it, and it didn’t bother me at all. It took the other guys 11 hours to get there. It would have been 16 hours for me, and that was really the threshold of what’s safe. I would have had to come down in the dark.”

Harrell had trained by running 35 miles a week and making 15 trips up and down Old Rag in the Shenandoah National Park. He said he was in fabulous shape, but altitude sickness can strike anyone, any time.

Still, he’d love to do it again. Everest, at 29,000 feet, is not on his bucket list, but there are peaks in the Alps, Ecuador and Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa he’d like to try.

“To do Everest, the base camp is at 17,000 feet and the whole thing is a twomonth trip,” he said. “I really don’t want to be away from Sheila and the kids for that long. This one was about two weeks. That was enough.”

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The Donkeys of Dog Patch Farm

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Photo by Missy Janes

River Ann Maloney waits to feed Sassy a carrot.

or more than 70 years, Dog Patch Farm has been a haven for strays…two- and four-legged.

Owned for many years by the Maloney family, the farm off the Springs Road in Warrenton has been a welcoming home for dogs, horses, family and friends for four generations.

And these days, peering around the corner of a runin shed, a different variety of equine is now ensconced on the premises.

Call them the donkeys of Dog Patch.

Through the power of Facebook, Sharon Maloney has accumulated 17 rescue donkeys in just three short months. It all started with an alleged cruelty case not far away.

“There was this farm where 70 horses were confiscated,” Sharon, also known to her friends as “Sam,” said in a recent interview. “A friend of mine asked if I’d go down there with her. There were two donkeys and four mini-horses. I took the two donkeys and brought them here.

“Because donkeys can survive on little to nothing, these guys were watching fellow horses starve to death and they survived. There were a few horses that had decent weight.

The owner had a field on the road with grass where they were turned out so nobody noticed what was going on.”

After paying $305 for each donkey on PayPal, Maloney borrowed a stock trailer and went to pick up her new charges.

She ended up taking five that first trip.

“The second go-round I took ten more,” she said.

“I’m up to 17 now and have three more coming.”

Maloney has been breaking horses at Dog Patch since 1979, but she’s moving in a different direction these days.

“My owners have gone to greener pastures and my rider went to Kentucky for the job of a lifetime,” she said. “So now I’m getting out of the horse business.”

Maloney grew up Photo by Missy Janes riding ponies and later bred, owned and trained The donkeys come in all racehorses from the age colors and all of them love a treat. of 16. Her brother, Kevin Maloney, showed hunters and jumpers on the A horse show circuit. He later trained with Olympic Gold Medalist Joe Fargis of Middleburg and competed in the 1983 and 1984 World Cup. Her father and uncle were both prominent and highlyregarded New York racehorse trainers.

The Maloneys' 54-acre farm began to look desolate recently with

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Payton Maloney comes to Dog Patch to help with the donkeys. donkey. His current pasture mate is Noelle and the hope is that he’ll teach her all the good things about feed buckets and kind humans.

“Some of them, like Diego and Clementine, will stay forever,” Maloney said. “I maybe will keep the more deviant ones too.”

No matter what, all the donkeys should end up in loving homes and be provided with all the care and attention they desire.

Between the Maloneys and other caring local samaritans, more than 100 donkeys have been rescued from kill pens in Texas and the southwest in recent months.

With the generosity of the community, Maloney will keep her donkey rescue completely self-funded and separate from the SPCA. Good friends have been sharing plenty of tortilla chips since the donkeys came to the farm. Her goal is to help as many as possible.

“The stars were aligned,” she said, “for Dog Patch to have donkeys.”

With the generosity of the community, Maloney will keep her donkey rescue completely self-funded and separate from the SPCA.

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Feeding time at Dog Patch with Sharon Maloney.

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only six retired horses in the large paddocks. Following in the footsteps of her late mother, Betty Maloney, Sharon had a plan.

“My mother and her friends started the Fauquier SPCA,” she said. “The original shelter was here on the farm. Now, I’m the president and the shelter is located in Casanova. I knew I was getting out of horses and I didn’t want the farm to be empty. My mother collected donkeys and had a donkey hood ornament. We even have a room called the donkey room in my house. But we didn’t have any donkeys at the farm.”

The goal this winter will be to tame each donkey and train them to be led, to walk into a stall and to eat out of your hand. In the spring, they’ll be available for adoption, giving Maloney the time and space to rescue more.

Most are Jerusalem donkeys, named for the cross marking that falls on their withers. Legend has it that Jesus bestowed the cross on their back as a tribute to their loyalty carrying him on Palm Sunday.

They also come in shades of white, brown and spotted as well as Jerusalem.

Ten-year-old Payton Maloney helps her Aunt Sharon on Sundays with barn chores. When asked what her favorite things about donkeys she said, “Pretty much everything.”

Sharon Maloney and her helpers spend time each day in the fields to acclimate the donkeys to farm life. The first group included five females and it’s still to be determined if they’re in foal. This spring, there could be five newborns Entering the field with two buckets, one filled with carrots, the other with tortilla chips, some of the donkeys walk confidently up for a treat. They’ve already made huge strides since their arrival in December. A few others hang back, still a tad shy, but that should change with time.

A donkey named Clementine is the most forward.

“She was wild when she first came,” Maloney said. “A big, strong man had a shank and she dragged him all over the field.”

The extremely shy animals get turned out with Diego, the farm’s friendliest

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In the golf cart at feeding time with Beth Frye, Christian Maloney in her lap, Bryce Maloney and Derek Maloney.

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att Foosaner knows about Mission Critical Communications requirements — the rapid response set-up of specialized equipment, the deployment of unique satellite and on-the-ground infrastructure, and the highly skilled personnel needed in order to transmit and share information during disasters and high level national security events.

He’s spent two decades designing and delivering systems that ensure reliable, secure communication between field units and command centers when crises and high stakes situations occur.

In his last position at Sprint Nextel, where he worked for 15 years, Foosaner created and directed the Emergency Response Team that enabled law enforcement and emergency service providers to communicate with each other during Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, the D.C. Sniper threat and, all told, 27 presidential declared disasters, seven national special security events, 115 field training exercises plus joint terrorism and drug enforcement task force operations.

Outside of his professional life — and complementing his roles as communication industry executive and father to three — the Middleburg resident pursues another vital mission: facilitating the safe use of technology among children.

Since 2005, Foosaner has been

Matt Foosaner involved with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the nation’s clearinghouse on issues related to missing and sexually exploited children. He serves on the organization’s Law Enforcement Committee and Development Committee for the Board of Directors. “I’ve helped make them aware of new technology threats that lie ahead, as well as how to use those developing technologies to their advantage in their investigations,” he said during a recent interview.

Foosaner wants to similarly inform and empower parents. He has created a “Parenting the Digital Child” cyber safety seminar, presented most recently at The Hill School in Middleburg where he and his wife, Terri, enroll their children.

“These are tough discussions for families to have, dealing with parents’

worst fears,” Foosaner said.

“But technology is here to stay, and as parents we need to understand it better and learn how to help our kids navigate it.”

The statistics he cites can be frightening. The FBI, for example, reports approximately 750,000 sexual predators using the internet to try to make contact with children “all day, every day,” said Foosaner.

He outlines their cyber grooming methods, including the use of “military-grade” anonymizing software Photo Courtesy technology and popular online gaming networks. To keep parents from becoming immobilized, he adapts the “Keep Calm and Carry On” slogan into his presentations and provides ample call-to-action tips and resources. He points parents toward NetSmartz (www. netsmartz.org) and the United Kingdom’s edgier Think U Know (www.thinkuknow. org) as top online tools for developing cyber citizenship.

One central theme Foosaner hopes families will absorb: “there can be no expectation of privacy. Parents need to let kids know that until they are 18, mom and dad share all passwords and have complete access to all online activities.”

Installing parenting software helps track internet usage, emails and texting.

“Research shows that 82 per cent of online sex crimes against minors (both boys and girls) begins with predators using a child’s

online social networking sites to gain information,” Foosaner said.

“Parents understand the repercussions of technology and its misuse,” he added, “but they don’t understand the technology itself very well. Kids, on the other hand, know the technology better than their parents, but are not physiologically developed enough to understand the ramifications.”

Parents, he said, are “morally and legally responsible for ensuring a safe environment and can be found civilly liable for actions of their children under the age of 18 (this includes sexting, cyber bullying and distribution of unlawful images).

It’s the same as buying your kids a car, a privilege, not a right, for them to use it.”

Foosaner referenced a current case involving a Colorado high school where 115 kids voluntarily exchanged over 400 explicit photos of themselves. Charges could amount to a Class Three felony, whether a student sent a photo, forwarded a photo, or even received and retained such a picture over time.

Now at Time Warner Cable Business Services, where he is the Director of Vertical Programs, Matt Foosaner has, over the course of his career, received national recognition. Awards have come from as high up as the Directors of the FBI and Secret Service, and he’s been named a “Homeland Security Professional to Watch.”

Foosaner is equally effective at mobilizing communication forces on a micro-level — one household at a time — to ensure a different kind of “homeland” security. Sharing what he knows with parents helps keep kids and families safe in the networked age.

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Anna Duffey House is now The Sporting Gallery.

he Duffey name is quite familiar to many of my fellow long-time Middleburg residents, mostly because it belonged to two old homes on Washington St. One of them, the Anna Duffey house, is still standing. That’s where the Sporting Gallery, with so many wonderful paintings displayed on its walls, has been located for 37 years. The other Duffey home was owned by Ned Duffey. It was right across the street from the Methodist church, and sadly was razed to make room for a corner of the Safeway parking lot many years ago.

“Play is the highest form of research.”

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Ned Duffey lived there, and right next door was a little news stand he owned where you could buy newspapers and magazines and satisfy your sweet tooth, too. Mr. Duffey was a member of the vestry for 40 years at Middleburg’s Emmanuel Episcopal Church and there’s a plaque on the wall in his memory.

He also had a clock and watch repair business and I remember many years ago when somebody came into the Middleburg bank when I worked there and said he’d had one of his clocks repaired by Mr. Duffey. When it had all been put back together, there was still one piece left over.

Mr. Duffey said ‘oh, that’s all right. It won’t matter much.”

By the way, there was another Duffey, Mr. Harry Duffey, who was a charter member of the Middleburg Bank’s original board in 1924.

Miss Anna Duffey’s house also goes way back. Greg Dubinetz, who owns the Sporting Gallery with his wife, Liz, said he’s seen old tax records that trace the building to 1790, and other records that say 1820.

Either way, it’s been there for a long time.

Miss Duffey never married, and after she died, the house was renovated and rewired in 1950 by a local architect so that the Chronicle of the Horse could set up its offices in that space. When the Chronicle moved, it was a real estate office for a few

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years occupied by the late Lef Lefferts.

G. Gordon Barton, Liz Dubinetz’s late father, opened the Sporting Gallery in that building in 1978 and it’s been in that space ever since. Greg and Liz took over the business in 1986 and Greg said that if you look in one of the front windows overlooking Washington Street you can just make out the words “Merry Christmas 1899.” A different pane of glass is signed by another Duffey, also at the turn of the century.

There are a number of old buildings like that all around Middleburg and thankfully, many of them are still standing and being put to good use either as private residences or places of business. It’s what makes our town such a special place.

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encampment and rushed through the field. Carter and his horse then leaped over a four-panel fence at the end of the field galloping along a lane that ran beside the east end of the cemetery, he crossed a big yard and turned back onto route 50. They tore down the grass buffer that ran along the two lane highway and made for camp as fast as they could go.

On the road, between the gas station and the Inn, lay the lifeless body of ATF Agent Bill Timmons, dead from a shot into the brain through his left eye. In a week, after his autopsy, they would learn that the round was a modern 9 mm slug from an unfortunate ricochet—a case of friendly fire. His best friend and Godfather to his 3-year-old daughter, Agent James Rivers, desperately performed chest compressions on Timmons. The wound to his eye said it all. Davis stood over Agent Rivers as he struggled hopelessly to save his friend.

Davis then said to the other agents gathered there, “That other man will now give warning to the Confederate camp at Aldie Mill. They will be ready for us.” There was a pause for effect.

Then Davis quietly said, “Let’s go.”

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shot shattered the wooden canteen tied to the front of his saddle.

I n s t i n c t i v e l y, he turned his horse away from the oncoming assault.

He spurred his mount and took off down South Jay Street lying f or w a rd ont o his horse’s neck.

They streaked down the little lane heading straight for the Middleburg Cemetery. They shot across East Photo Courtesy Federal Street and through the front gates of the cemetery. Following a meandering grassy lane inside the cemetery, they rode straight for the backside of the burial ground and Carter launched his horse over a four-foot high, black-iron fence. His horse’s belly just clearing the faux spear points atop the old fence.

The trooper’s only thought was, “Go fast.” He turned east toward the

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his is an excerpt from the new book, The Confederate Chronicles Cavalry Troopers Furman and Carter tied their horses “I’ll be damned,” muttered Davis. to one of the white metal “Men,” he called without turning. He barriers in front of the Exxon needn’t have. All the agents’ eyes were station store across the street from the already on the two cavalrymen.

Middleburg Country Inn and entered The pursuing clerk, shocked by the the Tiger Mart. The very hungover crash of the fallen wine bottle, drew Trooper Furman suddenly filled with back and lost his footing and fell to the delight and animation. He greeted the ground…as if shot. clerk grandly and asked, “Which way Carter hissed, “Craig, look at that!” to the Ice Crackling beverages, my Furman looked over just as the good man?” sprinting agents started shouting, “Oh sorry, I cannot sell alcoholic “Freeze!” beverages before 9 a.m., state Liquor The agents were running straight for Board law you know,” chirped the the riders, weapons drawn. In Furman’s diminutive clerk. Furman looked over frazzled, hungover mind, one thought at the ice-cold beers—the domestics, asserted itself: Hold up the remaining the importeds, and a little further wine jug and show it’s just about wine, over…at the wine. The very thing he and maybe his mind was also thinking had decided would cure him, just of making some kind of surrender sitting there, free for the taking. gesture. But when he suddenly raised His alcoholic’s mind had already run a fast calculation that, in fact, he would not be able to get a drink until 9, it was now 7:20 a.m. and they’d have to get back to camp. This clerk was too straight to be talked into an early sale. A desperate plan took hold. Furman pulled a $50 bill from his wallet. He looked at Carter, who was frozen in place. Then he briskly stepped up to the cooler and hefted two 1 ½ liter bottles of some kind of red wine. He turned and walked up to the clerk, who blurted the words, “You can’t….’

“Here, my friend,” said Furman as he placed the $50 on the counter. “It’s a national emergency!” With that, he turned on his boot heels and strode out the door with Carter just behind.

“Craig, you can’t just…”

“I just did, now shut up and mount.”

“You wait! You can’t take that…” yelled the clerk as he chased after the troopers.

A s Tr o o p e r F u r m a n bounced in his stirrup and rose up to his saddle, he lost Author Tracy Beer his grip on the big wine bottle in his left hand. It fell making a loud, explosive crashing sound as it his right hand, it triggered the shoot impacted the parking lot pavement. impulse in more than one agent.

The loud noise could be confused with Furman tumbled off the back of his a gunshot. horse, hit with multiple shots. His This sound is what had caught the panicked horse took off down the road gathered ATF team’s attention from toward camp as he lay on the ground in across the street. ATF Agent Davis’s front of the gas station.

Carter, stunned, could not process eyes fixed on the two mounted, graywhat had happened to Furman. Then a clad and well-armed cavaliers.

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Mother Nature’s decision to send a snowy fury to the local area in late January served as a reminder that, while there is still plenty of winter to go, spring – and the home-buying season that accompanies its arrival – soon will be upon us.

And when it does, estates like this month’s featured property will be those most in demand.

A glorious country manor home set on more than 10 acres near Purcellville, the property offers a picture-perfect locale in the heart of the growing Hunt Country wine world. In fact, with the exceptional soil and verdant surroundings, it will be possible for the next owners to join the vintner vocation (or avocation) and develop a winery, if desired.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $1,199,000 by Scott Buzzelli and Peter Pejacsevich of Atoka Properties.

No detail has been overlooked in this newly renovated and professionally decorated custom home. But we are getting ahead of ourselves; first we need to look at the “big picture,” starting with curb appeal.

The home occupies a strategic position in the landscape, making it both a visual delight from surrounding areas and offering stunning views from every indoor vantage point.

Once inside, you’ll notice the attention to detail that has been lavished on the home. Newly refinished hardwood floors, upgraded light fixtures, a gorgeous custom mobile that conveys . . . it’s an impressive list, one that also includes fresh neutral paint and carpet throughout.

Formal rooms are delightful, large enough to entertain a gathering but also perfect for family living.

The expansive kitchen boasts a huge island, abundant cabinets, built-in desk, wet bar, and top-of-the-line appliances.

gy-efficiency improvements have reduced utility costs to that of a home half the size.

Having spoken earlier about Virginia’s growing wine industry, we’d be remiss if not mentioning that, in November 2015, the local area hosted a wine-tourism conference, which worked to boost Virginia’s image worldwide.

“As the nation’s fifth largest wine producer, Virginia is quickly becoming the premier international destination for wine and culinary travelers,” Gov. McAuliffe said at the time.

More than 1.6 million tourist visit Virginia’s wineries, large and small, in a typical year, with the commonwealth’s 250 wineries having a $750 million impact on the state economy.

Our featured property for February offers you the opportunity to benefit from the burgeoning interest in wine-making.

Or, maybe it’s something you might think about doing down the road.

No matter your disposition, this particular property is a delightfully enchanting place, with the versatility and flexibility to meet every need and exceed expectations.

Articles are prepared by Middleburg Life’s real estate advertising department on behalf of clients.

For information on the home, contact the listing agent. For information on having a house reviewed, contact the Middleburg Life real estate advertising department at (540) 687-6059.

Facts for buyers The master retreat is a highlight of creative elegance, while each of the additional four bedrooms provide copious

amounts of space.

Informal areas are equally adept at showcasing versatility, while recent ener-

Address: 14914 Manor View Lane, Purcellville (20132).

Listed at: $1,199,000 by Scott Buzzelli (540) 454-1399 and Peter Pejacsevich (540) 270-3835, Atoka Properties

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The gently rolling land is traversed with paved lanes to access the stately manor home, tenant homes, Confederate Hall, the barns and 6 furlong training track. The Georgian Style Training Barn is stunning and includes 28 stalls and a 1/8 mile indoor training track, with excellent access to the fenced paddocks and fields. $10,750,000

Magnificent horse property in the midst of the serene countryside. From the picturesque Young Road two driveways access the 107 acres of Hidden Trail Farm. The first leads to one of the finest indoor arenas surrounded by exquisite ride out. The second is the graceful, park-like drive, which parallels a creek and then gently curves up to the elegant manor home. $6,500,000

Custom Built stone/stucco three-story home with 4 bedrooms plus large master in-law suite with separate parking and entrance. Slate roof,game room,custom theatre, workout room, study, office, dog room,custom kitchen, 4 stone fireplaces, approximately 8,000 SF. Extensive horse facilities include 18 stall barn,2 stall barn, 14 paddocks, lg. ring and much more. $5,500,000

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Magnificent country retreat on 41 acres with incredible privacy & beautiful views. The c. 1850 manor home has been graciously expanded into a 7 bedroom home with separate entertaining venue & two-story office with T-1 capability. Pool, tennis court, gardens, greenhouse, 5 car garage. $3,175,000

726.66 acres in 14 parcels, all of which are 50 acres or larger. Accessed from Hume Road (635) and from and Black Rock Ford. Great elevation, views, open land,woods and frontage on the Rappahannock River.

Mixed game for hunting. Great opportunity for tax credits. $2,979,306

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165 +/- acres on Little Cobbler with amazing views of Big Cobbler and the Blue Ridge Mountains! Pond, Open Land, Pool, Hot Tub, 4 Lvls, 4 BR, 4 BA Brick Home w/2 Bay Garage/Guest quarters to the left of main residence, Machine Shed, Screened Porch, Wet Bar, Large Stone Courtyard and Terrace, Full House Generator, 3 Fireplaces, Approx.6,500 sq.ft.

Property is in Land Use and includes 2 parcels. $2,350,000

18+ acres of mostly open and rolling land with the home sited perfectly with vast views from both front and back overlooking the pond, gardens and front fields. Cathedral ceilings, Master on the main floor, huge library/living room, private guest rooms, apartment on lower level w/own kitchen/entrance, sprawling deck w/awning. Perfect location ~ OCH territory ~ VOF conservation easement. $1,995,000

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O’BANNON LAND - 50 elevated acres on a quiet road near The Plains overlooking Great Meadow with fantastic views to the west. Mostly open, some fencing, multiple house sites. OCH Territory. $640,000 82.99 acres with access from either The Plains Road or Hopewell Road. Nice elevation and several options for house sites. All wooded, with amazing view potential.

Includes a certification letter for a 5 Bedroom septic system. Property is in Easement and cannot be further subdivided. $1,395,000

Recently renovated, this 4 level traditional brick home beautifully blends with the custom cedar Timberpeg-3 season porches & family room addition. Horse facilities include:4 stall, center aisle barn, run-in shed, 3 fenced paddocks on 10 mostly open acres w/easy access to tremendous ride out. Indoor & outdoor entertaining areas, pool with raised spa & multi-level terraces create a private retreat. $1,349,000

BEARS DEN - 151.61 acres in 3 parcels. (50.49, 50.48 and 50.64) Can be sold individually as well (50+ acre parcels) One largely wooded parcel, other two parcels share a pond and have wonderful views. Great location off of Leeds Manor Rd. and only minutes from Warrenton. $454,000 ea

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

Generator back up power. $5,500,000

c.1823, with a stunning tree lined entrance, offers one of the grand manor homes in the famed horse country of Upperville. Recently renovated, the home offers wonderful indoor and outdoor living areas. Porches, gardens, barns, paddocks, riding arena, pond, pool and magnificent views from the Bull Run to Blue Ridge Mountains. $4,200,000

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n 1750, a little book was published in Lyon, France— Elemens d’ Hippiatrique. Its author, Claude Bourgelat (17121779), had gained renown for his expertise as a rider and his extreme skill at breaking horses during his service in the army.

This reputation had helped him gain the position of officer in charge of the L’Academie d’ Equitation in Lyon. A man of learning, Bourgelat was also a friend of Voltaire and a contributor to the massive enc yclopedia of arts and Image courtesy of the National Sporting Library and Museum sciences created by d’Alembert Frontispiece from Bougelat’s Elemens and Diderot. d’Hippiatrique, Lyon, 1750. It can be interpreted What made Bourgelat’s as academic learning illuminating scientific obserlittle book noteworthy was vation and astonishment at gaining knowledge. its expression of the need for veterinary schools, a hitherto and, as a child and young man, LaFosse unknown institution. Diseases in farm would accompany his father, a marshall stock were wreaking havoc, and the of the king’s equerry, as he administered horse was still the major animal used for to sick and diseased animals. By age 18, transport and military endeavors. It was an LaFosse was teaching equine anatomy to age of science, and Bourgelat believed that the cavalry at Versailles. veterinary practices should follow suit.

LaFosse passionately wanted to be part In agreement with Bourgelat’s vision of the faculty at this new institution and was another of his friends, the influential participate in this vision of the emerging Henri Leonard Jean Baptiste Bertin, science of veterinary learning. However, he controller-general of finance for King Louis XV. Bertin persuaded Louis to grant the was never allowed to teach at Bourgelat’s school and, in 1762, L’Ecole Veterinaire de schools. Perhaps Bourgelat saw him as a Lyon opened in Bourgelat’s former riding threat. The rejection embittered LaFosse the rest of his life, and a rivalry ensued. academy.

This bitterness, though, did not prevent A second Bourgelat school soon him from producing one of the most followed, just outside Paris at Chateau d’Alfort. It is still in operation today. magnificent books on veterinary medicine Among the first instructors at d’Alfort was ever created. A mammoth work with large a professor of anatomy, Honoré Fragonard, engraved plates, his Cours d’Hippiatrique first cousin to the painter Jean-Honoré appeared in 1772. And he did not stop Fragonard. there; he also opened his own private Fragonard, the anatomist, had school of veterinary practice, the third in developed a secret process for preserving France. flayed cadavers which included injecting Bourgelat’s two royal schools and wax into the veins. Numerous examples of LaFosse’s school attracted students from his work are on view at the Chateau, the the rest of Europe as well as from within most famous of which is a horse and rider. France, and it was not unusual to attend (It goes by several names, including Le both masters. Some of the prominent Cavalier de Fragonard. It can be searched students would return to their own on the internet, but be warned, it is a countries and establish schools there as gruesome sight.) well, thus expanding a scientific approach Both Fragonards hailed from Grasse, to animal medicine. the perfume capital of France and of the As this new science emerged, the world. Grasse began, however, as a center emphasis was still on treating the horse. for tanning; a messy, odorous business at Overlooking the fact that they were best. Leather goods were also made there, exporting their learning, the French and the unpleasant smell lingered on gloves boasted that with their new approach to and other articles until they were perfumed. veterinary medicine leading to healthier, Fragonard, the painter, followed the hardier animal so the French Cavalry scent of the perfumes and created masterful scenes of those who wore them. Fragonard, would soon be unbeatable.

Attention to farm stock would soon the anatomist, inspired by the skins of catch up and, in any case, scientific methods tanning and the flayed animals, created were being employed and the knowledge his own form of masterpieces. However, gained disseminated. one cannot help but feel squeamish when Bourgelat did not live to see the French looking at them. Certainly the faculty Revolution, but was it possible that LaFosse at d’Alfort felt that, and more, when was still feeling slighted when he stormed they dismissed him from the school as a the Bastille in 1789? madman.

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t’s a long way from his first physical therapy practice in Laguna Beach, California to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but Richard Jackson’s vision to help patients recover from all manner of medical problems clearly has no geographical boundaries these days, and apparently for many years to come.

Jackson, a doctor of physical therapy (DPT), founded the Jackson Clinics, now based in Middleburg, with 16 locations scattered around Northern Virginia. He has more than 170 employees, including 82 DPTs, and many of them are spreading their knowledge to students in Ethiopia and Kenya, the better to eventually provide better care for the medically under-served citizens of those countries.

A former Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in the late 1970s, Jackson began his first educational foreign forays in 2010.

One of his clinic directors, originally from Ethiopia, decided to leave the U.S. and return home in order to educate potential physical therapists in his native land.

Ethiopia, a country of 85 million, has only 250 physical therapists. Jackson and his wife, Anna, a human resources and IT specialist, decided to fund their own foundation to help their colleague improve those numbers.

“We started a physical therapy residency program in Addis Ababa University’s medical school,” Jackson said. “The dean of the medical school asked me to do a curriculum. They didn’t have a physical therapy school. They needed primary care therapists, not just technicians. So we wrote a curriculum that also included pharmacology and radiology. Students were doing trauma, setting fractures, suturing.”

Their first group of 24 students finished training in 2013, and many of Jackson’s employees have been involved in the process. Another group is scheduled to begin in March, and the DPT program there was the first on the African continent.

“There was such a great need for people in rural communities,” Anna Jackson said.

“They need medical doctors and physical therapy, and they’re starting to go out there and really make a difference. They can do everything except surgery.”

At an international physical therapy conference in Amsterdam in 2011,

Jackson happened to run into one of his former Kenyan students from his Peace Corps days. Not long after, the Jacksons went to Nairobi “because I was a known quantity, we were able to get things done right away. We started a program in orthopedic manual therapy. Every month since 2013 we send a university professor and a member of our staff for two weeks six times a year. Southern Cal is there now. Duke has sent people. The program is 1 1/2 years and there are 20 students in each class. It’s been very successful.”

One of their graduates was working at a refugee camp at the Somali border

But training more DPTs in foreign lands is definitely their forte. Anna recalled attending a graduation ceremony in Nairobi and when one student stood up and paid tribute to their American mentors.

“His name was Henry and he talked about the effect the program had, not just on him, but his colleagues,” Anna Jackson said. “He said they now looked to him and he was no longer afraid about making suggestions to other doctors.”

Richard Jackson also remembered those remarks.

“He said ‘I grew up as a young boy

Richard Jackson offers hands-on instruction. several years years ago. He was walking with friends outside the camp one day when they were stopped by a group of Somali rebels.

“They told them to get down on their knees and they were about to be executed,” Jackson said. “But one of the soldiers stopped them. He recognized Erastus (the therapist) and started tapping his prosthesis. Erastus had once treated him and got him walking again. They let them go.”

The Jacksons would love to expand their educational programs to other countries. They’re now looking at Rwanda, but need more funding. “Anna and I can only do so much,” Jackson said.

“Fundraising is not our specialty.”

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believing that white people (Mzungos they say) were all rich. What I’ve learned is that you are rich in the head and willing to share with us and make us rich, too. I learned that it’s not important what’s in your pocket. It’s what’s in your head that really will make an impact.’”

That impact is obvious at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, where there are now 60 physical therapists, many of them graduates of Jackson’s program.

Their outpatient visits have doubled in volume.

“The word is out,” Jackson said. “If you want physiotherapy, this is where you go.”

Added Anna Jackson, “if you can make a difference in the whole country, Holy Cow!!!”

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leadership. “They’re involved in everything that goes on here. And what I love about our board is their focus on the quality we have. They let us frame the school in a careful, thoughtful way for the future.”

That future seems limitless. There are now more applicants than spaces in the student body. Classes remain small— perhaps a dozen or less—which allows more individual attention. At some point, the student body might increase to 150, though that might be a stretch for the current physical plant.

And the biggest disciplinary problem?

Late homework.

Bell, who grew up in Versailles, Kentucky, has been a teacher and administrator at nine different independent schools over his long career. His specialty has always been to be what he described as “transformative” in reshaping academic programs. He and his wife, Edwina, an administrator at the school, also believe this will be their last stop, if only because, he said, “we just love the Middleburg area.”

Apparently, there is mutual admiration from some very important people involved with Middleburg Academy.

“I had a great compliment when our board chair was sitting in my office and we were just chatting,” Bell said. “At one point, he said ‘we never envisioned the school would be this good, this quickly.’”

Remember those three questions?

So far, Colley Bell has provided all the right answers.

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hen Colley Bell first took over as Head of School at Middleburg Academy three years ago, he posed three questions to his faculty, his students and the board of directors. He said he wanted to know “who are you, where are you going and who’s going with you?”

“As much as they look to the head of school as a change agent,” he said, “it’s really got to be a collective enterprise. I had key people in the school and on the board to push the conversation. And at the end of the day, it was about serving the students. It’s about preparing them for the world they’re going to be living in, and every school is trying to answer what that will be like.”

At Middleburg Academy, Bell inherited a school he firmly believes had several critical ingredients already in place— character, integrity, parent responsibility, and academic excellence, among others.

He also made it a point to canvas a number of past graduates to ascertain what they thought was important going forward.

“They all said ‘keep it vigorous, keep expectations very high and push technology,’” Bell said, adding that like many other independent schools, Middleburg Academy is now very much involved in the STEAM approach to educating its 130 students from eighth to 12th grade.

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will be STEM-related.”

The s cho ol als o has competitive inter-scholastic sports programs. Anyone who tries out for a team makes that team, including fencing and equestrian teams. Within the next 18 months, there will be a riding program centered at renovated stables dating back more than a century, one of only two day schools in Loudoun County with its own stables.

Bell is particularly proud of his highly-credentialed faculty, which he said, “also has humility. They’re allowed Photo by Leonard Shapiro to say I might not do this as Middleburg Academy Head of School Colley Bell well as I used to, and they listen to their students. It’s not engineering and math, with the A standing that they’re kowtowing, but it is important for Arts. Bell said it quickly became apparent his students wanted much to listen to them.”

And parents are always a huge part of the same, including more sophisticated computer training, instruction in the equation.

“When we interview students, we programming and learning how to use 3-D printers. At the same time, plenty of class probably interview their parents even more time is devoted to art, music, ceramics, robustly,” he said. “We need parents who literature, writing, language and history, are really with us. If they’re not on board, with Bell even teaching an advanced we’ve got a problem. We have parents who are sending us their children from as far placement history course himself.

“I did not want to do (STEM) just for as 40 minutes away from the school. Our marketing purposes,” Bell said. “When you parents know they can trust us.”

Bell and his staff also trust their own look at STEM programs, you only have six percent of public school students in those student leaders, as well as its board of classes. And we’re told that 80 percent of directors.

“It’s robust,” he said of student the opportunities for children in the future

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n her sophomore year as an accounting student at Brockport State in New York, Pam Haefner heard a troubling news story on the radio one day on her way to class. That report led her to change her major, and ultimately her life’s work.

“It was about the incidence of child abuse being on the rise,” Haefner said in a recent interview. “I decided that if I could help even one child have a better life, it would be worth it. I changed my major to social work that day.”

For most of the last 20 years, Haefner has clearly made a difference, and not just for a singe child. She’s a licensed clinical social worker who recently moved from Leesburg to her Middleburg office at 101 N. Jay Street. Her clients range from toddlers to teenagers, to postpartum moms dealing with breast-feeding and little sleep to mothers and fathers trying to figure out the best way to cope with the complexities of raising their children.

Her psycho-therapy practice is called “Thrive Family Services,” with much of her work involving parent and child interaction.

“The whole focus,” she said, “is for families to thrive.”

And so, she admitted, when she walks into a Target “and I see someone struggling with a child who’s crying or misbehaving, I wish I could get involved, because I really

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do think I can help. I just want to see the relationship between a parent and a child be the best that it can be.”

Working with new mothers after the birth of their children is also among her specialties.

“It can also be very stressful on the mother and the father, and their relationship,” Haefner said. “I try to help parents reduce the stress and anxiety. Some women also have postpartum depression.

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Then he told the teacher ‘I like you, too, because you smiled at me.’ Then she said to him ‘I like you, too.’ A week later, there was no problem.”

Even in stable, loving family situations, other problems can arise.

“A lot of parents will say ‘I was fine with my first child but I’m having a hard time handling this one,’” Haefner said. “We try to find out what makes that child tick. No child wakes up in the morning and says ‘I want to be a pain.’….Bad behavior is born out of what need is not being fulfilled.”

Haefner is the mother of two welladjusted teenagers, 16-year-old Justin and 13-year-old Luke. Her husband, a science teacher at Hill School, also had a Leesburg practice as a psychologist before the family moved to Middleburg two years ago in order to “simplify our lives.” Paul Haefner is a rider, as is Justin, and Paul sees patients mainly as an equestrian sports psychologist.

Pam Haefner has a Masters in social work from Catholic University followed by another post-graduate program at the Washington Psychoanalytic Foundation.

She’s been practicing for 20 years and said she and her family are definitely thriving after their move to Middleburg.

Plainly put, she also lives to help many others do the same.

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They have difficulty with breast feeding, or they’re exhausted being up with the baby all night. It’s not like the old days where you’d have the support of a grandma or grandpa living nearby. Out here, people are more isolated and on their own.”

Haefner runs a new mom’s support group every Tuesday at 10 a.m. in her office, just as she did in Leesburg. She also works closely with children, usually two or older.

“They talk about the terrible twos but it’s really the terrible 2 1/2s,” she said.

“Tantrums, separation anxiety when mom or dad go off to work. It can be toilet training. My husband calls me “The Poop Queen.” I have had many kids with all kinds of toilet issues. Often these are easily resolved in a short period. Typically, it’s just about how to lessen their anxiety.”

She also deals with children acting out in the classroom, and others she described as “school-refusals,” kids who absolutely don’t want to go to school. One of her more interesting cases involved a preschool child “ripping the school up, just outrageous behavior.

“I went into the classroom and sat there and watched for an hour,” she said.

“He would look over at me every once in a while and I’d just smile at him. Later, I said to the teacher, all I want you to do is smile at him. Don’t instruct him, don’t reprimand him. At the end of the day, the teacher said the child came up and said ‘you know that lady who was here earlier? I liked her.’ She asked him why. He said ‘she smiled at me.’

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McCandlish Lillard, with its main office in Fairfax, actually had been part of the mega-firm trend of the 1980s when it merged with another big Baltimore practice. But in 1995, several of its original attorneys decided to untie the knot and go back to focusing on its Northern Virginia roots. At the time, the re-constituted firm had 15 lawyers, a number that has doubled since then in a practice that can handle just about anything.

“It’s a tried and proven way to practice

law that started with this firm 107 years ago with lawyers who set a certain standard and were active in their community,” Croft said. “Now, the firm is perpetuating the same philosophy. A lot of lawyers who have the opportunity to practice in smaller firms hate the whole idea of the big firm.

You’re a corporation. It’s a numbers game.

You answer to the management and it’s all about the bottom line.

“Our firm now is big enough to handle anything within reason, and we can still pick and choose our clients. There’s no hard and fast rule that you have to bill so many hours. Our lawyers can have a life, too.”

They also had some fun this past August by sponsoring the first annual Hound Dog Day to raise money for local dog rescue groups. The late Jesse B. Wilson III, a principal in the firm, created Hound Dog Day in the 1990s as a summertime counterpart of Groundhog Day. Wilson’s concept: if the hound dog walks across the front porch and stops to drink from his water bowl, summer will continue for six weeks. If not, fall comes early.

The firm celebrated this “holiday” with an annual company-wide cookout. But last year, in keeping with its community service philosophy, it was opened to the public. With sponsorships and the sale of t-shirts, the event raised over $8,000 for local rescue groups.

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Foundation and previously advising the Piedmont Community Foundation. There is Stephen C. Price of Philomont, a director ou’ve heard those never-ending at Oatlands, the George Marshall home lawyer jokes, especially the at Dodona Manor and Mosby Heritage genre that begins: “You know Association as well as general counsel for you need a new lawyer when the Land Trust of Virginia. you meet him in prison.”

Angela Campbell of Aldie is the pro Or: “You know you need a new lawyer bono legal advisor to John Champe High when he tells you his last case was a School’s booster club and has Budweiser.” led multiple disaster relief And one more: “You missions for Arcola United know you need a new lawyer Methodist Church, including when he picks the jury by several to the Gulf Coast playing duck-duck-goose.” in the wake of Hurricane But when it comes to Katrina. And C. Vincent one 30-person Northern Leon-Buerrero of Upperville Virginia firm, McCandlish actively supports the Mosby Lillard, with seven attorneys Heritage Association, Unison who all live in and around Preservation Society and the the Middleburg area, their Courtesy Photo Upperville Fire Department. good work is no laughing Attorney Al Croft In other words, it’s not only matter in this community. about billable hours for those A law practice that four and three other locallystarted in 1908 is now clearly bucking the based colleagues like Autumn McCullough national trend of mega-firms with several and Bethany Ingersoll of Middleburg and thousand attorneys on their swollen William Bethune of Lucketts. It’s about rosters. And for many of its practitioners, doing good in the communities where they offering their services to all manner of live. non-profits, school and church groups on a Al Croft, a Chicago native who has lived pro bono or vastly reduced fee has been the in Middleburg since 1973, spent 30 years norm, rather than the exception. of mostly commuting into Washington, And so, among the Middleburg area first as a federal prosecutor, then a litigator contingent, there is Al Croft providing legal for a big D.C. firm. Seven years ago, he services to The Hill School and Middleburg joined McCandlish Lillard, a decision he’s Community Center, serving as a board obviously never regretted.

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Mt. Pisgah Men’s Choir Sings a Joyful Song

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left to right: Richard Chinn, Gary Warner, Jeff Warner, Mason Lewis, Jerry Lewis, with Rev. Philip Lewis to the right

or heaven’s sake, the next time the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church men’s choir is scheduled to perform, make it a point to go hear them sing their joyful repertoire of gospel music with a capital G. The highly-acclaimed and much-traveled choir at the landmark 138-year-old Upperville church has been in existence since the mid1970s. The only original member is church deacon Melvin Warner, now 95 but still making his presence felt with his mellifluous baritone voice that has only mellowed with age.

Deacon Warner is an Upperville native who worked half-a-century for Mrs. A.C. Randolph and was a highly-respected horseman. Two of his sons, Gary and Jeff Warner, are also now choir members, along with brothers Jerry Lewis of Willisville and Mason Lewis of Gainesville, Henry Basil of Leesburg and two more Upperville residents, Norman Brooks and Richard Chinn.

And of course, two of the choir’s most integral parts are the church’s minister, Reverend Philip Lewis, and his wife, Christine.

Rev. Lewis directs the a capella choir with great enthusiasm, singing, clapping his hands and occasionally keeping the beat with a tambourine. His wife selects all the music from a variety of hymnals, including the New National Baptist Hymnal with over 400 songs. She also helps direct the choir during rehearsals and occasionally sings with them to add a slightly higher alto voice to the pitch perfect harmony of the entire group.

This past December, Rev. Lewis celebrated his 25th year at Mt. Pisgah, and the choir had already started singing several years before he arrived. February is Black History Month, and the Mt. Pisgah men’s choir’s history began when a visiting minister scheduled to preach one Sunday in the ‘70s liked what he heard in a back room of the church.

Deacon Warner’s brother, the late Warier Warner, who died in 1999, played a mean rhythm guitar back in those days. Before the service began, he and several other male members of the congregation were reading scripture and singing a song during a devotional period, and the visiting pastor wondered about that scintillating sound.

“He thought it was a men’s choir,” Mrs. Lewis said. “So he asked for a song from (what he thought) was the men’s choir during the service. They told him ‘we don’t have a men’s choir.’ The pastor said, ‘oh yes you do.’ And that’s how it all started.”

The choir performs five songs during Mt.

Front: Jerry Lewis, Rev Lewis 2nd row: Gary Warner, Richard Chinn 3rd row: Melvin Warner, Jeff Warner, and Mason Lewis

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Mt. Pisgah is a lovely little church just

off Delaplane Grade Road with a relatively small but extremely devoted congregation.

The church has recently undergone some major renovations and also is now in the process of trying to raise more funds for improvements to its fellowship hall.

The men’s choir has clearly helped raise the profile of the church and Rev. Lewis said he’s confident there will never

be a problem finding new members.

“We’re always going to have volunteers,” he said. “We’re singing to the glory of God. That’s why we all do it.”

Note: Deacon Melvin Warner is the father of Jeff and Gary. Jerry Lewis and Mason Lewis are brothers (Rev Lewis’ cousins)

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Pisgah services every third Sunday of the month, with a practice session that same week. They also have sung at a number of area churches over the years, including the annual community Thanksgiving service with congregations in attendance from all of Upperville’s churches. They’ve also performed the National Anthem at the Upperville and Warrenton horse shows, among many other local events.

“The fellas all enjoy what they’re doing,” Rev. Lewis said. “They do it from their joy within. And when you’ve got people doing it like that, the people listening feel it and experience it. It’s very exciting to hear it, and to see how people react to the music.”

On performance days, the members are dressed in matching dark suits, starched white shirts and either red or purple ties. They are all volunteers, but they welcome donations when they appear at other churches or outside events. And they know all the songs they perform by heart, with no sheet music necessary.

“I don’t have any formal training,” said Jeff Warner, who joined the men’s choir about four years ago after he and his brother Gary decided to “let’s go sing.

I’m generally a quiet person and so I just started singing because I wanted to be a part of something in the church.”

Mrs. Lewis said the choir’s favorite song is “Victory in Jesus,” and added that “it’s like an anthem for us. The congregation also loves it and we sing it about every time. Amazing Grace is also

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hat’s what Peter Hitchen and his Tilden Enterprises and Big Ass Cans subsidiary were charged with accomplishing after last month’s blizzard dumped 30 inches of white stuff on the town. And they were definitely up to the job.

Working 18-hour days with a crew of 14, they removed most of the snow within three days. Most side streets were cleared and made passable within a day and soon after, Washington Street was virtually snow free, with parking meters even visible on both sides.

Hitchen’s crew, also aided by Eddie Payne Trucking in Marshall and the town’s jack-of-all trades maintenance chief, Marvin Simms, also were busy clearing

a number of snow-covered parking lots, including the Sporting Library and Museum and the Chronicle of the Horse.

They used three dump trucks, three skid loaders and several more farm tractors to get rid of all that snow, utilizing dumpsters to transport it to Mickey Gordon Park, which looked like a miniversion of the Alps.

“We got it done as fast as we could,” Hitchen said. “Our main intention was to get everyone open for business again and I think we did. It was one of the biggest storms I’ve ever seen. So fast, so steady. Just amazing.”

Congrats are in order to Vince Perricone, the long-time owner of Middleburg Printers, who announced his retirement last month effective Feb. 1. A number of well-wishers stopped by their office for a surprise party in his honor recently, and Perricone assured everyone he was not about to just disappear.

This past December, he sold the business to Albert Patterson and Nolan Barzee, who also operate Mr. Print in Purcellville. The last month he’s been helping Patterson in the transition

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Peter Hitchen, owner of Big Ass Cans and Tilton Enterprises cleared the village of Middleburg out from under after the recent record snow.

stage and has made it known he’ll also be around to volunteer his services to several of his favorite causes, including Middleburg Humane and the Hill School auction.

“I’m done,” Perricone told Middleburg Life. “I’m tired, I’ve been in the printing business for 55 years and I’m ready to move on, do my gardening, visit my four children and nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild and do a lot of the things I just haven’t had the time to do.”

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Several members of the Players, including Elizabeth Rice, Steve Blakesee, David Witt and Clancy Yo v a n o v i c h , w i l l sing dur ing t he Va l e nt i n e’s D ay event, which also includes a silent auction. There will be videos of past Players productions, as well as a display of photographs, playbills, news clippings and other memorabilia. In addition, Jean Gold, Jim Poston, Gloria Armfield and Fred and Courtney Kohler will be honored for their many contributions to the Players over the years.

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he Middleburg Police Department moved into new digs at the end of last year, now located in the Federal Court complex at 107 West Federal Street, Suite One. And how sweet it is for Chief A.J. Panebianco and his department. The space includes a conference room, kitchen, officer training room, even a workout room with a few weights to stay in shape. The chief said they could use a few cardio-machines—stationary bikes, treadmills or step-climbers—and would be happy to accept donations.

“It’s a real improvement over where we were,” said The Chief. “It provides a much more professional environment and we have a lot more room. We’re still moving in and unpacking boxes, but we’re very happy with it.”

The Middleburg Players are having a special afternoon of “friendship, fun and food” at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church parish house Feb. 14 at 2 p.m.

The event will honor the memory of

Matt Day. Members of the 3.0 team were Susie Griffiths, Sheila Harrell, Lori McGuinness and Lydia Strohl; 3.5 members were Jenny Long, Mary Thomas and Tara Wegdam and the 4.0 team was Jayne Deckwitz, Barbara Hunter and Verna Stern.

The Middleburg Library Advisory Board, the all-volunteer group that supports the Middleburg Library, agreed at its January meeting to rename its book scholarship program in honor of former board member Charles L. Plante, who died December 21.

Known to his family and friends as Charlie, Mr. Plante was a long-time active supporter of the Middleburg Library and a member of the Advisory Board. A former chief of staff for two U.S. Senators, he earned a doctorate from Georgetown University and served as Philippines regional director for the Peace Corps.

As a lobbyist for the Kidney Foundation, the American Society of Transplantation and the United Network for Organ Sharing, Mr. Plante was the driving force behind congressional passage of legislation that authorized Medicare coverage for dialysis treatments for kidney disease patients.

The advisory board provides college scholarships to deserving high school seniors. In 2016, the newly renamed Charles L. Plante Book Scholarship Program will grant four $1,000 book scholarship awards.

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hen Marci Nadler lived in Washington, her paintings focused primarily on still life pieces, garden portraits and other views readily available in an urban environment. A change of scenery in 2008 led to new inspiration.

“We were looking for a new place to live in D.C. and a friend of ours suggested that we could live on his mother’s farm in Upperville,” Nadler said. “We fell in love with it. I was pinching myself everyday saying ‘is this real’ because it is so incredibly beautiful. When I was in D.C. I never would have considered myself a landscape painter. I did some more closeup garden pieces but out here the sky and scenery is so amazing.”

Nadler attended American University and has a degree in both fine art and graphic design.

“I love making art,” she said. “I’ve done it pretty much my whole life. Because

I’ve been encouraged along the way by land conservation and preserving the teachers and friends, it’s made a huge landscape through artwork is obvious to difference.” her.

Nadler paints outdoors to capture an “It took a while to acclimate when we image in its entirety. She said she uses moved here,” she said. “I now have favorite all five senses to bring life trees that I know and love into her pieces. She doesn’t to draw. It took about a find the changing light and year to finally digest what I Marci Nadler will be among conditions challenging, was seeing.”. the artists participating in but instead draws her She often paints the the Art of the Piedmont creativity from them. same scenes around her Show to benefit “I prefer to paint home at different times Middleburg Montessori outside because then of day or during different on Friday Feb. 19 at the everything gets into the seasons. On the farm Middleburg Community painting,” she said. “You where she lives, there’s a Center from 6 to 8 p.m. hear the peeper frogs and path of daffodils in the leaves and smell things. spring. Each year Nadler That all gets into the paints a scene or still life final piece. That's part of what I like. If of the flowers. One year, she attempted to you work from a photograph it's a static paint one of every variety, of which there image. Working with the changing light are a hundred. gives a piece life. I want the painting to be “I like to take a subject matter like a different than a photograph.” flower and make a very realistic study of Nadler took part in the Land Trust of it,” she said. “Then the more I work with it, Virginia pleinair painting event at their the more the abstract side starts to come annual garden party. The connection with out after I have looked at it for a long time.

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Since coming to Middleburg, Nadler’s focus on quintessential views has included scenes of Rokeby Road, crumbling drystacked stone walls and Goose Creek.

“Right now I’ve been working with reflections a lot,” she said. “Goose Creek is incredibly beautiful. What I really try to get is the underlying energies and the rhythms in a place.”

Not only has Nadler grown to love the landscape of the Middleburg area, but also the community.

“That's one of the things I like about this area,” she said. “This community and its support is a lot closer knit than D.C. What I would stress for any artist is the support of friends and family and patrons.

I feel blessed to have landed here.”

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They created folders with their research and Susanne Ortmann, from the Naturalist Audubon Society at Rust Sanctuary, recently visited the class.

The students made modest bird feeders at home and brought them to school to fill with birdseed and hang

This student incorporated rope for her feeder.

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A display of the creative home-made bird feeders.

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ou’ve survived that late January Snow-zilla, but now comes a blizzard of February activities—including lots to do around Valentine’s Day. Let’s start off with the fifth annual Art of the Piedmont auction and reception at the Middleburg Community Center on Friday, Feb. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m.

A number of well-known local artists will have their works on display, and it’s all for a great cause, benefiting the children of the Middleburg Montessori School.

The National Sporting Library and Museum is featuring “The Art of Fly Fishing” by Peter Corbin now through July 3. Corbin also produced a video slide show to accompany his exhibition and there will be a “Meet the Artist” event scheduled for Saturday, March 19 at 10 a.m. Admission is free to NSLM members and $5 for nonmembers.

The Middleburg Arts Council will present “Sunrise-Sunset,” a juried show hosted by The Byrne Gallery, through Feb. 27. The exhibit will feature artwork inspired by sunrises and sunsets, bringing joy and warmth to the cold month of February.

Sunrise-Sunset is the third annual juried show for artists from the Middleburg and neighboring regions. There will be 26 artists represented with work in painting, photography and other media. The gallery is located at 7 W. Washington Street. The opening reception is Saturday, Feb. 6 from 2-5 p.m. Additional events will be listed at www.middleburgarts.org, including artist talks on Saturday, Feb. 27. Contact Susan Byrne at 540-687-6986 or www. byrnegallery.com.

Over in The Plains, Live An Artful Life Gallery will host a creative session called “Lighting The Creative Spark” with Dr. Celia Im on Thurs d ay, Feb. 25. The session is meant to provide additional tools to increase creativity for an art endeavor or i n d ai ly l i fe.

Registration is open at LiveAnArtfulLife. com/events. Cost is $35 per participant.

And now for some music.

At Grace Episcopal in The Plains, their ongoing concert series will resume with “Love Is In The Air,” a Valentine’s Day appearance by internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled, accompanied by pianist Noreen Polera, on Feb. 14 at 5 p.m. Peled recently held a sold-out event at the Kennedy Center. Tickets are $25, and $15 for students, with anyone under 18 admitted free. For more information, go to www.gracetheplains.org or call 540-2535177 ext. 107.

The swell strains of Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin will be performed by the talented Rosa Lamoreaux and Friends, including favorites from The Great American Songbook Sunday, Feb. 28 at 5:30 p.m. It will be held in the ballroom at Barton Oaks, 2750 Landmark School Road in the The Plains. This will be the ninth

Cellist Amit Peled will perform on Sunday, February 14 at 5 p.m. for Love is in the Air concert at Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains annual Candlelight Concert Fundraiser for the Community Music School of the Piedmont. Tickets are $125 per person and for information, go to piedmontmusic. com or call 540-5923040 The f if t h annu a l Winter Weekend Sale is set to take place in the town of Middleburg Feb. 12-14. During the Valentine’s weekend event visitors will be able to hunt for wonderful gifts at shops all round town.

Sponsored by the Town of Middleburg and the Middleburg Business & Professional Association, the sale will be held Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday as posted by shops.

Many of the shops in the village will have discounts on everything from shoes to children’s clothes to fall and winter fashions, as well as specials in some of the restaurants. Red balloons will be floating outside participating businesses.

During Februar y, Middleburg’s Goodstone Inn is offering 50 per cent off room rates Sunday through Thursday and 30 per cent off Friday and Saturday evenings. Valentine’s weekend is not included and the rates are available only for the Carriage House, Bull Barn, Dutch

The artwork of Tia Maggio, inspired by her recent travels, will launch on Friday, Feb 6 at the Youngblood Art Studio in The Plains with a reception from 4-7 pm. In addition the stone sculptures by Chilean artist Carlos Edwards will also be on display.

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Airlie in Warrenton hosts special dinners, a Fabbioli wine dinner and brunch event during Valentine’s weekend, and offers cozy accommodations to snuggle with your sweetheart. On Feb. 1214 guests will be able to enjoy a delicious fresh three-course prix fixe dinner in the Airlie dining room for $50 per person plus tax. On Saturday, Feb. 13, the Signature Dinner series features Fabbioli Cellars.

Airlie Culinary Director Jeff Witte has paired culinary delights with the delicious wines of master winemaker Doug Fabbioli starting with a three-course dinner at 7 p.m.

On Sunday, Feb. 14, there will be a sumptuous brunch in the Airlie Room from 10:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at $35 per person plus tax. For more information visit the website at http://www.airlie.com or call 540-347-1300.

At Castleton, an instrument known as the bandoneon, which looks like an accordion but plays like an organ with four keyboards, will be in the hands of the universally-acclaimed bandoneonist and composer J.P. Jofre on Feb. 21 at 4 p.m.

Joining Jofre in his performance of original works as well as Argentinian classics will be the Hard Tango Chamber Band. Contact the box office at 866-974-0767.

On Feb. 14, Oatlands in Leesburg will host a special Valentine’s Day Tea featuring a display of 19th century valentine cards.

The collection will include several cards

by Esther Howland, who is known as the “Mother of the American Valentine.” Tea will be held from 1-3 p.m. in the historic Carriage House and requires advance reservation and purchase. Teas are $29.95 plus tax per person ages 3 and up. For reservations, call 703-777-3174.

Oatlands also will host two lectures in honor of Black History Month on Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. Lori Kimball, Director of Programming and Education at Oatlands, will share the story of William Jordan Augustus, who escaped from Oatlands in 1809 to seek his freedom in the north.

Sheri Huerta, a PhD Candidate from George Mason University, will present "Freedom Seekers, Public Opinion, and the Law." As courts in slave-holding states meted out harsh punishments to people who aided freedom seekers, courts in "free" states grappled with enforcing laws that protected slavery at the cost of denying individual rights. Contact Lori Kimball at 703777-3174 ext. 103.

Over in Berryville, the Barns of Rose Hill has an exhibition through Feb. 13 called “Inspired By The Beatles: An Art Quilt Challenge.” The show is the culmination of what happened when 150 fiber artists from around the world were challenged to each choose a different song by the Beatles and depict it as a 24x24-foot art quilt.

The Waterford Foundation will celebrate 73 years of preserving Historic Waterford with a second Valentine’s Sweetheart Ball on Saturday, Feb. 13 at Belmont Country Club. Honorary chairs Geary and Gail Higgins and event chairs Jackie and Jim Gosses, Connie Moore, and Jim Behan will host this gala event.

Guests are invited to dress up in their 1940s or other festive finery. The event includes champagne, cocktails, and a Silent Auction in the Historic Belmont Mansion at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner, drinks, dessert and a live auction. Then comes dancing in the Grand Ballroom to the Big Band sounds of the 17-piece Martinsburg Jazz Orchestra, guided by the Dance King, and serenaded by the three "Anderson Sisters" from Stage Coach Theater. Tickets are $150 each and tables for 12 are $1,700, available at www.waterfordfoundation.org or by calling 540-882-3018.

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MILLWOOD - Rare opportunity to own 190 beautiful, private acres on the outskirts of the 18th c. village of Millwood. Build your dream home on a hilltop site with mature trees and sweeping views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Plenty of open, rolling land for horses. Stream on the western perimeter. Total of 5 DURs and one exemption. $1,900,000

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the Plains Village. Office space in historic Clark House. +/- 900SF in 3 separate office spaces. Wood floors, high ceilings, street and garden views. Ideal for small business. Easy access from I-66. Ample parking on private lot.Half bath and kitchenette.

Ground maintenance and waste removal are included. Wakefield school neighborhood. Walk to post office and popular restaurants. Work where you live! $1,300/month

CROOKED BRIDGE - Beautiful 10 acre parcel offering spectacular frontage and views of Goose Creek. Mature hardwood trees, private road and installed well are some of the features of this parcel.

Convenient to Leesburg, Middleburg and Purcellville with easy access to the Dulles Greenway. $399,000 ROKEBY ROAD/UPPERVILLE - 1.84 acre parcel with 3 Bedroom septic Certificate on hand. Mostly wooded with fantastic views to the east! Great opportunity to own in a prime location! $350,000

the Plains Village. Office rental space in historic Carter Hotel +/- 1,080SF divided in two large rooms.

Stone walls, Fireplace, Newly renovated and ready for your business office.Easy access from I66 and RT55.

Ample parking on private lot.Half Bath and Kitchenette. Ground maintenance and waste removal included. Wakefield School neighborhood. Walk to Post Office and popular restaurants. Work where you Live! $1,000/month

HUME - This rolling pasture and wooded land of 8.5 acres is located just west of the village of Hume near Marriot Ranch. The parcel includes a lovely pond. One Rein duPont (540) 454-3355 Rein duPont (540) 454-3355 can ride a horse off the property onto dirt roads and Offers subject to errors, omissions, change of pricewoodland or withdrawal trails. without notice. Information contained herein is deemed$190,000 reliable, but is not so warranted nor is it otherwise guaranteed.

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