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Local designer and artist Barbara Sharp, shown here with Briggs Williamson, is actively involved with young artists as part of the Art Under the Oaks program during the horse show at Upperville.

Show Time in Upperville

By Caroline Fout For Middleburg Life

The 163rd edition of the Upperville Colt & Horse Show, the oldest horse show in the United States, will take place at the Grafton and Salem show grounds off Route 50 from June 6-12.

Local equestrian Sloane Coles expects to be among the top riders in the $216,000 Upperville Jumper Classic finals at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 12.

But she and many others Photo © Vicky Moon agree that the most com- Seeing spots and dots, some of the attendants in the petitive event at the horse leadline coordinate their fashions with the pony. show is the lead line for very young riders. Highlights include: Lead line Class: Taking place on Saturday, June 11th in the afternoon, the Lead line Class, fan favorite, kicks off featuring a parade of well-groomed ponies and children. Its divided into two parts with riders ages 1-3 and 4-6. The ladies leading the petite equestrians are decked out in colorful sundresses and hats, some even matching the spots on their dresses with the spots on their ponies. The class itself is judged on the suitability of the pony to its rider, and is a class not to be missed.

Youth Art Program: It takes place Photo © Vicky Moon in the hospitality tent, Wednesday June The leadline offers young riders many 8 and Saturday, June 11 from 1-3 p.m. prizes. it’s part of “Art Under the Oaks,” a juried show of local artists. The young art- that operates the best as a unit and moves ists will work on fabric collages, drawing together through the ring will take home and painting the horse, and live sketching the blue. show horses.

Ladies Side-saddle: Taking place on Family Class: Also taking place on Saturday, June 11th is the Ladies Side-SadSaturday, June 11th is the Family Class. dle. The competition concludes with the There’s a minimum of two entries per team, and this is a long-time Upperville Hermen Greenberg Memorial Stakes. Sattradition that allows families to compete urday’s competition features the $20,000 as a team. The more family members in- International Derby at 5 p.m. across the volved, the more challenging the class be- street in the Salem Farm Jumper Ring I. comes, as each team is instructed to walk, For additional details go to www.uppertrot, and change direction. The family ville.com.

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The writer recently completed his sophomore year at Middleburg Academy as an exchange student from Germany. This story was taken, with permission, from the school’s newsletter, The Dragon. fter I spent three weeks in the United States in the summer of 2014, I knew that I wanted to spend a whole year there.

The huge highways, cities, and free refills amazed me, especially since Germany is so very different. However, when I decided that I wanted to spend my year with Youth For Understanding (YFU), a non-profit exchange organization that helps to find the best host families around the world, I did not know where I was going to go.

A few months later, I heard I was going to go to Middleburg Academy. I was excited: A top-notch private school, about an hour away from Washington D.C. And while I did not know what it would be like, YFU helped largely by providing seminars, guides, and more.

One of my favorite and first activities at Middleburg Academy was to enroll Photo by Art Pekun in their sports program. It’s one of the biggest differ- Jan Juergens calls Middleburg Academy his second ences to Germany, where home. school is only for studying technology in school there. (if even). There are no after-school activiI can truly say that I like Middleburg ties; no sports, no music, no clubs.

Academy way better than any other school At Middleburg Academy, however, ev- I have attended before. Beside the obvieryone has the chance to do whatever they ously better academic program, and great would like. One of the first things I did school community, the whole atmosphere was to run cross country. Right at the first has struck me. I would almost go as far as practice, I knew I wanted to do this sport calling it a second home. for the whole season, also due to the great Several times I have stayed at the team and coach, Mrs. Brittany Myers. school until 8 or 9 p.m. in the evening, Cross country is largely unknown in enjoying the wonderful library, or other Germany. I really wanted to play tennis, places. With the vending machine, there my main and all-time favorite sport. But is even other food to eat. I remember that, the experiences I gathered during the sometimes, Mrs. (Edwina) Bell, wife of cross country season were great. I still like the Headmaster, would bring some baked running on the weekends.

Over the winter, I joined the swim- cookies to my AP U.S. history class, a gesming team. Even though I was not a great ture that I take with the greatest appreciswimmer, not being able to dive proper- ation. In an environment as this, which I ly, the team warmly welcomed me as a could have never dreamed of in Germany, member. The season was a lot of fun and I do feel very comfortable, and a place to definitely helped me to improve my swim- have fun than just simply a place to learn things you would learn in a regular school. ming skills, and stay active after school.

I want to thank the people at MiddleIn spring, I could finally play tennis, five to six times a week. Every day after burg Academy who made this great year school I am having a great time! The team possible for me, a year beyond my expecis obviously great too, and even though we tations. I also want to encourage students lost our first game, everyone is aiming to at Middleburg Academy to take the chance improve their skills.And playing for my I did to go to another country for one year. school feels great, being different from just If it is with YFU, or any other exchange organization, it is a unique experience that you playing on your own.

Another thing I have noticed when I you will not have twice. Another option is first arrived is how nice and open every- to host exchange students as a family; welbody is to new people, and even new cul- coming host families are always needed in tures. During one of my first lunches, I did the YFU program.

Finally, I have to say that I appreciate not know where to sit. A friendly group invited me to sit at their table so I would my time here at Middleburg Academy not sit alone. I still am surprised how well greatly. It’s been an unbelievable year.

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people helped me to join the community at Middleburg Academy, and how open and interested they were.

Something I will definitely miss when I go back to Germany is the great appreciation and recognition of technology of the 21st century. Back in Germany, phones had to be in the schoolbag, even during breaks. If you were caught, your phone was taken away, and not easily returned.

I would have never imagined that students would be allowed to use their laptops for note-taking, instead of writing on paper. Other things like Google mail are great advancements. By giving every student a personal email address, and the ability to write to other students, or even teachers, helps greatly. I will try to bring as much as I can to Germany, to also improve

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Middleburg Museum Looking for a New Home and artifacts in different exhibits. As its charter states: “The Middleburg Museum Foundation was created for the purpose of recording, preserving and sharing with residents and visitors the rich history of Middleburg, from its founding to the present time and beyond. The Foundation strives to enhance the public’s knowledge of Middleburg’s important role in our nation’s history, from Levin Powell to John Mosby to the Kennedys and beyond.”

Plams also call for possible interactive and hi-tech exhibits and eventually publishing historical documents online for easy access. Items also will be on permanent loan from private homes in the surrounding areas.

The museum expects to be funded by continuing donations, fundraising and outside grants. A gift store on site should generate revenue as well. These items will reflect the history of the town and will exemplify Middleburg. There is some thought to selling prints, crafts and other items from local artists.

Littleton and the board also hope the project will bring additional business to the town.

“We definitely want to support the local economy as much as possible,” he said. “The board is very excited because the dream has been there a while and now will be finally realized. This was all possible by the great and generous donation of Betsee Parker.”

By Sebastian Langenberg For Middleburg Life

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he Middleburg Museum is in search of its forever home.

In December, 2014, Betsee Parker bought the former Middleburg house of the late Nancy and Howard Allen, longtime residents and founders of the Fun Shop, with the specific intent to donate it to the Middleburg Museum. After much consideration, the 12-member museum board determined that while it was a fabulous asset, it didn’t quite fit the intent of the museum.

With three stories and four bedrooms, board member Bridge Littleton described the building as “just too large for what the museum was looking to do.”

Soon after deciding to sell, the Masters of Foxhounds Association, currently located in Berryville, purchased the property. The MFHA bought it as a home-base office as well as a future museum and library.

Littleton was supportive of the sale because “it really was a win-win solution,” he said. The proceeds, matched with donations from private collections and the fundraising that the board has already accomplished, puts the museum in a proper position to take its next steps.

The Museum is now looking into where it will relocate, weighing all options from long-term rent, to buy and build,

The Allen Home has a new owner. to leasing land and building. The board hasn’t made a final decision, but Littleton said they do “have an eye on a place that would be interesting to buy.”

The goal is to identify and purchase a new site in a matter of months. The ideal building would be 1,000 to 1,500 square feet, not expensive to maintain, and would be large enough to hold up to 25 people in one room for seminars. It also would have at least a half attic to house heating and air conditioning equipment.

“We absolutely want to outfit the museum with quality and temperature control to preserve the artifacts for a very long time,” Littleton said.

The first goal is to settle on a location,

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then find a director a few months before the building is finished so that he or she will be able to give input into the building’s design, as well. In addition to the full-time director, a part-time staff and volunteers will help run the day-to-day operations. Board members also are expected to donate time and energy.

“The credit [for creating the museum] really goes to Ura Lewis,” said Littleton.

Lewis, a lifelong resident, conceived the idea of the museum a number of years ago and formed a 501(C)3 non-profit. Since then, she’s been tirelessly working to get the museum from concept to reality.

The museum will be open to the public and will preserve documents, photos,

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Saturday nights May 14th to September 17, 2016

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Twilight Polo Crowd Has an Arena Stage at Great Meadow

By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life

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olo has been John Gobin’s life for as long as he can remember. Practicing, playing, and teaching the game, he’s also carved out a niche for himself around these parts in recent years by overseeing all phases of the sport at Great Meadow Polo in The Plains.

He also runs his own polo school, and his cell phone goes off non-stop at all hours of the day and night. Still, Gobin seems used to the helter-skelter nature of his life’s work. After all, he has farms in Wellington, Florida, Aiken, South Carolina and one not far from Great Meadow, where he also keeps 56 polo ponies.

He also plays competitively in the spring and fall, and from now until the end of the season in September, he and his assistant, Whitney Ross, deal with countless details of staging arena twilight polo matches every Saturday at Great Meadow.

Gobin has been involved with Great Meadow Twilight Polo for ten years, the last four running the show. It’s been so far, so good since at the weekly Saturday night matches now drawing between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators, and occasionally inching toward 4,000.

The action is non-stop, with three different matches that begin at 6 p.m. and finish at about 9 p.m. Every week there’s also a different theme—Disney, beach party, ’70’s Disco—and on Sept. 11, the National Sporting Library & Museum is sponsoring one of several tournaments on

goal player himself. As a professional, he was a seven-goal man and over the years has played on a number of U.S. Polo Association national teams in competitions around the globe.

A native of Rehobeth, Mass., he worked in a local horse barn as a kid, mucking out stalls and grooming horses. He eventually learned to ride well enough so that he was asked to play in local arena games. At age 18, he went to Argentina on his own and stayed three years playing field polo with some of the finest players in the world.

“That’s where I learned to play at speed,” he said.

Now 47, he’s also learned to slow down a bit since badly breaking his arm a few years ago and spending three days in the hospital. “It’s a young man’s game,” Gobin said. “When I broke my arm, that was definitely a sign.”

Gobin, Ross and another assistant, South African Aaron Pagel, also have between 20 and 30 students at their polo school, including several older players who have become so enamored with the game, they’ve formed their own teams.

Some even compete in Twilight Polo.

Gobin takes great pride in his thriving Virginia polo operation and clearly, a lifelong work ethic has made it all possible.

“Being an American professional polo player, it was difficult to get opportunities,” he said. “Basically, I had to outwork everyone, work twice as hard as the competition. That’s never changed.”

At Saturday Twilight Polo at Great Meadow, that’s also obvious.

younger crowd, some local, some coming out from Washington, also is more than welcome, what with a DJ playing tunes, wine from sponsoring Greenhill Winery in Middleburg available to purchase and lots of dancing in the popular pavillion. Sometimes crowds don’t disperse until close to midnight, and the price is always right—$40 per carload.

“The level of play is also much higher and Photo by Tony Gibson the organization of the John Gobin oversees all phases of the sport at Great matches is much more Meadow Polo in The Plains. certain and defined,” said the schedule featuring some of the game’s Rob Banner, president of Great Meadow.

“John has done a magnificent job with the top names.

The nature of the Great Meadow quality of the polo and the whole expericrowds also has changed dramatically ence. The crowds have definitely grown.

Families bring their kids to the matches. since he took over.

“When I first came here, they were Young adults come for the entertainment trying to shoot for more of a D.C., yuppie and we’ve always had a great local followaudience,” Gobin said. “Now, we’re aiming ing.”

Facebook has helped, too. Banner for more of a family crowd—kids, parents, grandparents. We do a tug of war for takes and posts photos and asks fans to kids in the arena at halftime of the games. tag themselves in the pictures “so their We’ve got a mascot in a Polo Bear suit. We friends will see them and maybe come out leave balls and foot mallets in the arena af- the next Saturday night,” he said. “They’ll ter the games are over so the kids can hit bring back other couples or families. People enjoy the $40 price, the arena is a great it around.”

There are picnics and tailgates, and a place to watch it up close, and the polo is concession stand for those who don’t want pretty darned good.” to bring their own food and drink. The Gobin was a pretty darned good high-

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Great Expectations at Great Meadow T he P l a ins, V irginia

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Women in Racing Roundtable Discussion and 2016 Side Saddle Chase Award Ceremony Saturday, August 13, 2016 • 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

102 The Plains Road, Middleburg, Virginia Join the National Sporting Library & Museum in celebrating American women in racing!

WINNER - The 2016 Ladies Side Saddle Chase United States high-point rider is Dr. Mary Musheno of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Lisa Delplace, CEO of Oehme, van Sweden|OvS will present Dr. Musheno with the perpetual award at this special awards ceremony and roundtable event.

ROUNDTABLE - The afternoon features a roundtable of women jockeys, owners and trainers, as they discuss the role of women in racing. Speakers include Diane Crump, Eva Smithwick and others. Devon Zebrovious will moderate.

Dr. Mary Musheno. Image courtesy of Middleburg Photo

The tailgate-themed reception is generously sponsored by Fields of Athenry Farm. Guests will also enjoy a fashion meetand-greet sponsored by Middy n Me and Chasing a Fox in a Little Black Dress.

Reception begins at 2:00 p.m.

Dr. Musheno will be awarded the Oehme, van Sweden|OvS trophy at 2:15 p.m.

The Role of Women in Racing Roundtable begins at 2:45 p.m. $25 Admission, $20 NSLM Members Left to right: Maggie Johnston, Devon Zebrovious and Lisa Delplace. Image courtesy of Middleburg Photo

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Call Him Troy or Whatever, but He’s Still a Riddle

By Mark Deane For Middleburg Life

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he life story of Christopher Riddle, a racehorse turned riding horse, continued to take more twists and turns.

As recounted previously in Middleburg Life, Christopher was raised and raced by my family, until an injury forced his retirement from the racetrack. Middleburg horse trainer Tim Daly re-trained Christopher for a new career as a riding horse, and then sold him to a horse broker, Jesse Austin, who in turn sold him to a local professional, Colleen Marshall.

Marshall loved Christopher, who had a rather quirky character. Marshall seemed to understand Christopher; their personalities clicked and they were a good match for each other. But, her focus changed after the birth of her first child, and in the process of downsizing her horse operation, she made the difficult decision to sell Christopher.

Enter the next owner in Christopher’s life: Melinda Cardell. Melinda and her trainer, Susan Skolnick-Lozano, were horse-shopping at Colleen’s Little Pond Farm when Christopher caught their eyes.

Cardell and Skolnick-Lozano decided to take a chance on him, striking a deal with Marshall to take him to their barn for a month on a trial arrangement.

Cardell was searching for a horse to trail ride and hunt, and she hoped that Christopher would be that perfect partner.

“Christopher was the right size for my 5-foot-8 frame,” Cardell said. “I had just sold my former riding horse, a Percheron/Thoroughbred cross, and Christopher was much less bulky.”

During that month, it seemed Christopher and Cardell were going to form a great partnership. On his best behavior, Christopher worked out so well for Cardell that she not only kept him after the trial had ended, but also trusted him enough to allow other students at Skolnick-Lozano’s stable to ride him.

Christopher Riddle was re-named “Troy” by his new owner. When my family owned Christopher and the time came to give him an official Jockey Club registration name, I dreamed up Christopher Riddle by combining the names of my nephew, Christopher, and part of the name of the horse’s dam, Princess Riddle.

When we shipped Christopher to Tim Daly, we did not send his official Jockey Club papers with his registered name. In his travels, Christopher got a new name from each new owner. Colleen Marshall had called him “News Flash,” but the word “Flash” made Melinda Cardell think Christopher was going “to take off in a

flash.” The blockbuster movie “Troy” had just premiered, so she decided to name him “Troy.”

All went well with the partnership of Cardell and Troy for about a year. Then, his offbeat personality began to surface. As Cardell recalled, “He would dump me for the least little thing. I thought I was decent rider, but I could not get him to settle down. Since I was single and on my own, I could not chance getting hurt.”

And so, once again, Christopher went back on the sales market in the spring of 2010.

In an effort to overcome Christopher’s spookiness, Cardell hired a college-aged girl, Melinda Critzer, to ride him. Critzer was heading to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Cardell agreed to allow the young woman to take the horse with her to college where she was planning to join the riding team. The two women thought that the experience Christopher would gain from being in the school’s equestrian program and might even make him more likely to sell.

“Troy was a sweet horse, but spookiness was just a part of his makeup,” Critzer recalled, adding that the experi-

ence of being part of the college program did not have the desired positive effect. “I understood Troy pretty well by that time desired and knew all of his quirks. But the horse had to follow the coach’s schedule at school, and Troy never really adjusted to that.”

With the college experience proving expensive for owner Cardell, who paid Christopher’s board and vet bills, she directed the barn instructor to offer Christopher for sale. Again, there were no takers.

Cardell then turned to her trainer, Skolnick-Lozano, who was able to broker a deal with the Farmington Hunt Club in Charlottesville to take Christopher. Since the club was a non-profit organization, Cardell was able to claim a minor tax deduction, some small compensation for the expenses she had incurred.

When the deal was finalized, Skolnick-Lozano informed the two Melindas of the news: One Melinda (Cardell) was relieved; the other Melinda (Critzer) was a bit disappointed. As Critzer recalled, “I received the call about mid-spring semester that Troy (Christopher) was leaving. I was a little disappointed, but my main focus was to help find him a good home.”

Christopher Riddle had affected the lives of the two women in very different ways. On one hand, Cardell, never rode again. Critzer remembers Christopher/ Troy quite fondly, as a lovable character with personality issues, some of them cute, like his penchant from drinking from a water hose.

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Lillibet in Motion Raises Funds for Breast Cancer Twelve years ago, Lillibet, now 24, was in the seventh grade at The Hill School when her mother, Patty, passed away from breast cancer.

During high school at Foxcroft, she supported the local Cherry Blossom walk to raise money used to fund breast cancer research. Because of her rigorous riding schedule, she was never able to participate in the walk held yearly in early May until this year.

Knee surgery this past December left her still unable to ride, but in decent enough condition to participate in the walk. She started training for the walk in February and Courtesy photo “I did a lot of hiking at Sky Meadows and a lot of walking Avon finishers Martina Caputy, Lillibet Motion, and Martina Putnam Caputy on the dirt roads around my house. It was great physical for a total of 39.3 miles, including an imtherapy for my knee.� pressive 26.2 miles the first day. “I felt She joined a team with her friend, great emotionally,� she said. “Physically it Martina, called “Hoofing it for Healthy was pretty rough, but it was an amazing, Hooters,� composed of people from up uplifting experience.� and down the East Coast and raised Why Avon 39? The first day walk is $3,473, nearly twice of what was required the marathon distance. The 13.1 mile secin order for her to participate in the walk. ond day is a half-marathon. An overnight She received most of her support through campsite is set up for all participants. friends, family, social media and fundMotion said she hopes to participate raiser events.

On the first weekend in May, along in the walk again next year. With anothwith over 1,900 other participants, she er two months left before she’s allowed to walked through the city of Washington ride, she’ll soon go on a road trip with her

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s a young girl, Lillibet Motion lost her mother to breast cancer, and ever since, she’s been looking for a way to have some influence in helping to find a cure.

She finally got that chance last month when the Avon 39 Mile Walk for Breast Cancer came through Washington. As the description of the event says on the website, “You train to strengthen your body as you raise the funds to crush breast cancer.� It’s exactly what she wanted to do: contribute to breast cancer research and prove that the seemingly impossible could be possible with the right amount of will.

When she was six months old, Motion was first placed on a horse and since then she has spent a large portion of her life in a similar fashion. “Riding a horse was just easier than sitting in a stroller,� she explained on a sunny afternoon after spending the morning at the barn. Although the rest of her family is racehorse-oriented (her father, Andrew Motion buys thoroughbred weanlings to train and sell later, and her uncle, Graham, is one of the world’s top thoroughbred trainers), Lillibet focuses on show-jumping, riding hunter/jumpers. She trains with local Grand Prix rider Sloane Coles and also owns two horses, both in retirement at her father’s farm in Bluemont.

dog across the country and back to visit friends and see the rest of the country.

Her goal is eventually to go to Europe as an FEI (FÊdÊration Equestre Internationale) groom. With all that’s going on, she’s still making a big effort to participate in the walk and help the cause.

Avon 39 takes place in seven cities across the U.S. and the funds raised will help put food on the table of a breast cancer patient and her family, enable access to mammograms and medicine, and fuel critical research. This funding has enabled more than 18 million women globally to receive free mammograms and breast cancer screenings, educated more than 145 million women about breast cancer, and funded promising research into the causes of breast cancer and ways to prevent the disease.

In order to participate in the walk, each individual must pledge to raise at least $1,800. All of the money collected will be donated to the general effort to destroy breast cancer including patient care, medicine, and general research. The Avon 39 organization supports many different universities, hospitals, and research centers to accelerate breast cancer research and ultimately conquer it.

In the 2016 D.C. walk, $4.8 million dollars was raised. And since the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade began sponsoring the walks in 2003, $550 million has been raised and contributed to a wide variety of breast cancer organizations.

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disrupting,” Slater said. “Instead, we offer a continuity of care in a Montessori-prepared environment.”

Parents also can enroll students in Montessori’s summer program for however many weeks they prefer. The first week begins June 6 and ends the week of August 22.

A unique feature of the school is that all environments have an adult who speaks Spanish, making it a full-immersion Spanish program. The school also has a hog-farming operation for their middle school micro-economy program launched in 2013. The farm is just minutes from the campus and buyers from local businesses purchase their pork, including the Goodstone Inn, The Whole Ox, Mt. Airy Farm Market, and Upperville Country Store.

Slater’s daughter, Cassella Slater, is the school’s adolescent director and admissions director and also helps manage the hog-farming operation. Prior to joining the staff, she taught middle school science in Ghana, Africa. The Slaters’ youngest, Bobby, is 14; next year, he’ll head off to high school.

While in Ghana, Cassella worked with local farmers and fell in love with watching students think through problems and come to that “Aha!” moment on their own.

“I saw the core of Montessori shine through my classroom,” she said. “They proved to me how valuable it is to connect practical work with education. Growing up with my mom as a Montessori guide, I saw in my students the freedom to use their brains for themselves.”

t looks like a page right out of a picture book: the Middleburg Montessori School. Plopped in the middle of Atoka—one of 23 villages in Fauquier County—the school has been a sanctuary of learning for over 35 years.

The school community gathered recently to celebrate the installation of a cupola on top of a new building addition. Head of School BethAnn Slater said “it was the crowning touch and was part of a great design drawn by Pam Albers, an advisory board member, alumni parent, and architect. Without amazing guidance from Andrew Stifler and Chris Patusky—both on our advisory board—this new building and capital campaign never would have come to fruition.”

Slater, of Upperville, has owned the school since 2003. But its roots go back to 1980 when it was founded as a private AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) preschool. It now has elementary and middle school students with “rolling enrollment” so parents can enroll their child anytime during the year starting at 16 months through age 15.

A variety of environments are offered: toddler (16 months through age 3); primary (age 3-6); elementary (age 6-12, through sixth grade); and middle school (age 13-15, through eighth grade). If needed, students can stay for an extended day to 6 p.m.

“Transitioning to another care facility is

Middleburg Montessori is a fully AMI-accredited primary school, which holds true to the most authentic vision and philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952), a physician who developed the method in Italy in 1904. She opened her first Casa dei Bambini (Children’s House) in one of the very poorest areas in Rome.

Montessori’s approach to education stemmed from a solid grounding in biology, psychiatry, and anthropology. She studied children of all races and cultures around the world, soon observing the universality of human development being played out before her. Through careful scrutiny, she realized that children construct their own personalities as they interact with their environment.

What sets Middleburg Montessori apart is its commitment to follow the AMI model.

“Other Montessori schools follow American models, but we are carefully preparing environments based on the AMI movement, maintaining the integrity of Montessori’s legacy,” Slater said, adding that anyone is welcome to come and observe a Montessori environment at her school.

Jason Zimmermann’s daughter has attended the school for three years and will enter elementary this fall; his son has been in primary for two years.

“I cannot say enough great things about the staff,” he said. “The way my children talk so lovingly about their teachers shows how committed they are to not only edu-

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Wagner has seen many positive changes in her daughter in just a short time, including learning practical skills such as the importance of cleanliness and organization. She said her daughter also is learning how to observe, work with others, and takes initiative to solve problems.

Slater, who has a Masters degree in education, said she “always knew I wanted to run a Montessori school, and now we have this gorgeous new addition.” Slater’s mother enrolled her, at age three, in the Georgetown Montessori School in Washington, D.C. Since then, she’s been following in her mother’s footsteps preparing her own children to learn their lessons the Montessori way. And now Slater’s daughter, Cassella, is continuing that tradition.

“I never thought I’d be back in my hometown so soon in life, but I couldn’t imagine it any other way,” Cassella said. “I love my job and working with my mom and the wonderful staff. Montessori is beyond academics—it’s the development of the entire child.”

BethAnn also emphasized her deep appreciation for her advisory board members who have supported her throughout the years.

“Overall,” she said, “it’s been a lovely ‘it takes a village’ effort.”

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You don’t get any more local than Sonabank. Georgia Derrico and Rod Porter, our CEO and President, have owned their farm in The Plains for almost three decades, and their son Devon, Senior VP out of our Middleburg office, has lived there most of his life. “I grew up at our farm on Burrland Lane since the age of nine,” says Devon. “I’ve always loved farming and the outdoors, and I now raise pigs, chickens, and blueberries as a hobby. I went to Wakefield School in the late 90s, and loved it - despite my dubious academic and athletic performance. They did teach me the word ‘dubious,’ though, so that’s a plus,” he joked as he frantically looked up the word in a dictionary. “But either way, Middleburg and The Plains have always been my towns!” You can see Devon driving around town with one or more of his Bichons in tow, sticking their fluffy little heads out the window.

Linda Sandridge, our SVP in the lending department, has lived in the village for years. “I remember at our predecessor bank, Southern Financial, we were instrumental in some of the early growth of small business and home lending in our community. We helped build some of the beautiful homes and businesses in the area that we still see today. At Sonabank, we work the same way. We lend money to small and medium sized businesses to help the local economy grow and prosper!” You’ll see Linda walking her Bichons around town, and if she doesn’t remember your name, she remembers the name of your dog!

Natalie Lacaze, Sonabank’s branch manager in Middleburg, also grew up in the area. “I grew up helping my dad (Jean Michel Lacaze) at Frogs and Friends restaurant across from the Livestock Exchange. He runs Julien’s Café in Middleburg now, and we always get our lunches from there!” Natalie’s daughters attend the Middleburg Montessori School, and she is very active in the local community.

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armers in some parts of Virginia experienced one of the rainiest months of May on record, and they’re finding it difficult to keep their spirits afloat when so much field work has to be put on hold.

“The wet weather has really slowed down all farm work,” said Ellis Walton, a Middlesex County farmer and member of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors. “You can’t care for small grains and can’t get started on corn and bean planting because it’s been too wet to put equipment in the fields. No hay has been cut for weeks. I still have a half-inch of standing water in my own yard.”

In some parts of the state the steady rain has compensated for an earlier, dry spring. However, all across Virginia, including the Middleburg area, rainfall accumulations are two inches above normal, according to the National Weather Service. As a result corn, peanuts, soybeans and tobacco are all being planted later than usual.

“We were ahead of the pace as of the first of April, but after all this rain now everything’s behind,” said David Hickman, an Accomack County potato grower and VFBF board member. “Now we’ve got slugs eating the corn. They’re thriving under the crop residue out in the fields, eating all the seed.

Farmers need at least a couple of days of clear weather to cut and dry hay, and that has been hard to come by. Consequently, at least half of the hay crop is rated below average, according to the May 22 Crop Weather Survey conducted by the Virginia office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

In other Virginia farming developments, Virginia wheat growers’ crops will be highlighted during a mid-Atlantic tour on June 10. Industry stakeholders have conducted wheat quality tours in the Midwest for decades, but mid-Atlantic soft wheat tours are still in their infancy.

“Some people are surprised at how much soft wheat is grown in Virginia,” said tour organizer Andrew Clements, a merchandiser with Gavilon Grain LLC in Kansas City. “This tour may help shed light on Virginia’s wheat industry and help expand production.”

On June 10, agronomists, granary operators, merchandisers, millers and traders will gather on the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula and in Culpeper County to tour Virginia wheat farms.

Virginia Cooperative Extension agents will lead the tours.

Participants will examine wheat fields, check for signs of disease, take sample test weights and estimate yields.

Traders and mill representatives will use that data to determine the available wheat supply and its quality.

Wheat will be ready to harvest at the time of the tour, and as Robert Harper, the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation grain manager explains, “this will give us more information about the harvest and take some of the guesswork out of it.”

Harper said flour mills check wheat for quality factors like mold and test weight. With all the recent wet weather and cloudy conditions, it’s likely that crop quality will not be as prime as farmers hoped.

The mid-Atlantic soft wheat tour started about five years ago in Pennsylvania, when a wheat trader took a local grain elevator representative and a local crop broker to several wheat farms. Since then, the tour has grown to 32 industry leaders and covers Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. This year the tour has added another group in Pennsylvania and expanded to New Jersey and Virginia, Clements said.

Weather also has been a factor in the bee business. While the number of Virginia honey bee colonies declined between the winter of 2015 and the winter of 2016, a relatively warm winter may have helped more bees survive this year.

According to a survey released last month by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, there were 8,000 bee colonies in Virginia on Jan. 1, 2015 owned by professional and amateur beekeepers with more than five hives. As of Jan. 1, 2016, there were 6,500 hives. But 28 percent of the state’s bee colonies were lost over the winter of 2015, compared to only 17 percent this past winter.

Virginia beekeepers had to import 800 colonies and renovate 460 more in 2015. Renovating a colony involves either providing a new queen to a hive or providing new worker bees. Those numbers dropped to 500 new colonies and 130 renovated colonies in 2016.

Colony collapse disorder has been a new challenge to beekeepers in recent years. However, Tignor said the real problems in Virginia are insect pests and several other diseases. Sometimes, he said, those factors can lead to a hive being abandoned, as is common in colony collapse disorder.

Honey bees are essential pollinators for about one-third of Virginia’s fruit and vegetable crops, so any significant losses are important to farmers and consumers alike. Beehive losses are typically highest in the winter, when food supplies are scarce, Tignor said.

Interest in renewing the supply of bees is so strong in Virginia that the General Assembly established a grant program in 2012 to help new beekeepers start operations. The next round of funding, about $125,000, is due to be dispersed after the new fiscal year starts July 1.

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What’s in a Name? A Horse Pedigree

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n 1868, Sanders DeWeese Bruce published the first volume of what would become the official stud book of American thoroughbred horses. He subsequently published five more volumes, and a revised volume I, before selling it to The Jockey Club in 1896.

As early as 1815, attempts to make an American stud book had been announced and pedigrees were regularly submitted to various magazines and newspapers at least as far back as the mid-18th century.

One of the more notable examples appeared as “Annals of the Turf,” by George Washington Jeffreys, published in the “Petersburg Intelligencer” beginning in 1826.

It was included as an appendix to the fourth edition (1828) of a popular work on the care and management of horses by Peter Cottom. The fifth edition of Cottom’s work contained an an entire section entitled “The American Stud Book.” It was the first alphabetical listing of pedigrees to be published in stud book form in America.

However, it was not a free standing work, dedicated to pedigrees. That distinction goes to “The American Race-Turf Register, Sportsman’s Herald, and General Stud Book.” Published in 1833, it was compiled and written by Patrick Nisbett Edgar, who, legend has it, fled Ireland after murdering the family gardener.

Edgar’s task was gargantuan. He claimed to have ridden about 15,000 miles and written several thousand letters soliciting pedigrees. Aside from the physical toll involved, there was also contradictory information, a general scarcity of information and, at times, a flood of information that Edgar could not sort out.

Contradictory and too much information usually overlapped with horses of the same name. There were 13 horses listed with the name Diomed as well as the famous one, listed separately from the others, who won the first running of the Epsom Derby in 1780 and was imported to America in 1798 by General John Hoomes of Bowling Green, Viginia.

Edgar listed 10 horses named Atlanta.

There were 11 mares named Kitty Fisher and one more as Fisher, Kitty-all named after the English courtesan, a favorite of numerous artists (including Sir Joshua Reynolds) and one of the first persons to be famous for... well, simply being famous.

Edgar’s credibility was also hindered by his own irascible nature. If he thought someone had not been nice to him, he might very well leave that person’s horses out of his stud book. Among others, he left out the horses of William Ransom Johnson, known as the Napoleon of the Turf, for what Edgar described as Johnson’s “illiberality” towards him.

One of the valuable aspects of Edgar’s undertaking was occasional anecdotes of

various horses, such as that of Sweeping-Tail. During the American Revolution, she was captured by the British, recaptured by an American for a large Photo courtesy of the National Sporting Library reward, retaken by the British, and sub- An early engraving of Sir Archy. Sir Archy was later hailed as a sequently kept as foundation sire of American thoroughbreds and was included in an escape horse for the first group of horses inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 1955.

Lord Cornwallis.

Another of Edgar’s anecdotes is the “Old Mr. Davis, on arriving at the tragic story of Polly Williams, who had house of the person to whom he had lent won so many races that no one would race his mare was astonished to learn that his against her. celebrated mare was traded away, and Her elderly owner, a Mr. Davis, kept more particularly to the very man, whom her as a riding horse and had loaned her to of all others, he was unwilling should own a relative who, unbeknownst to Mr. Davis, her, and more especially, as he was now traded her to a Mr. Deloney. Mr. Deloney, quite certain that he had lost both his in turn, challenged Mr. Davis to a race, mare and his money.” claiming that his mare would beat any The race was never run. Polly Williams that Mr. Davis had. Mr. Davis, believing was mysteriously shot through the head he could race his great mare, confirmed and killed.

As Edgar concluded, “Mr. Dathe bet. vis claimed the stakes and got them.”

As Edgar described it, “They both As Edgar stated in a preface to another mounted their horses and went over to a of his anecdotes, “It almost puts credulity neighbor’s house in order to draw the artiitself to the blush. ” cles of agreement and to pay deposit mon(Richard Hooper is an antiquarian ey. After these preliminaries were completed, the parties separated, Mr. Davis book expert in Middleburg. He is also the to send into Virginia for Polly Williams, creator of Chateaux de la Pooch, elegantly and Mr. Deloney to put her in order for appointed furniture for dogs and home. He can be contacted at rhooper451@aol.com.) the race.

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s part of the program at this year’s Upperville Colt & Horse Show, five distinguished individuals will be added to the Wall of Honor on Saturday, June 11. The inductees have participated in all facets of the show from making barbecue, competing, owning and serving on the board of directors.

Albert A. Barber: As a long-time board member and treasurer, Barber helped to lead the show organization through much of the recent ring construction. Never without a positive mindset and gentle attitude, Barber has always helped to keep the show moving in a smooth and orderly manner.

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Rose Marie Bogley Joseph Richards, III, a fifth generation Washingtonian, a residential developer and builder and long-time horseman, died at the Adler Center in Aldie, VA on May 4 following complications from a fall at his residence the week before Easter. He was 82.

Mr. Richards was born in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 26, 1934 to Joseph and Esther Walther Richards, Jr. and spent his formative years on Oliver Street in Chevy Chase and on his family’s farm in Howard County. His father bred, raced and fox-hunted thoroughbred horses under TriColor Stables. Mr. Richards’ horse, Colonels Request, won the prestigious International Gold Cup in The Plains, Virginia in 1987.

Mr. Richards graduated from Blessed Sacrament School in Washington, D C., attended Georgetown Preparatory School, graduated from Devitt Preparatory School and attended Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where he was a member of the polo team.

He was the great grandson of Alfred Richards, a longtime brick manufacturer in Washington whose legacy of residential and commercial construction in the Capitol Hill area and throughout the city during much of the 19th century remains evident today. Following in his great grandfather’s footsteps, Mr. Richards became a successful residential developer and builder throughout the Washington area.

A lifelong rider, Mr. Richards was an amateur point-to-point competitor and a foxhunter, as well as an avid sailor and tennis player. In later life his passions became the Catholic Church and the Richards family history. His efforts to preserve the family vault at Congressional Cemetery in Washington led to a study of the site by forensic anthropologists with the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum.

He was a long-time member of Congressional Country Club, the Potomac Hunt, the Fairfax Hunt, a subscriber to the Orange County Hounds, and he was a beloved fixture at the University Club of Washington, DC where he spent many happy days during his later years.

Mr. Richards is survived by his loving wife of 21 years, Patricia McCloskey Richards, three children, Ruth Ann Adam (David); Mary Jane Hague (Andrew); and, Carol Lynn Nelms (James) and four grandchildren, Andrew Stewart Hague II; Christopher Michael Hague; Richard Dennis Kinnard; and, Matthew John Kinnard (fiancée Alayna Hendrix); a sister, Patricia Richards Jones (Lamond) and a brother Peter Richards (Marvel). He is additionally survived by over 200 relatives in the Washington, DC area and many others elsewhere. He was predeceased by his parents and older sister Joan Richards Galliher (Charles). His marriage to Ruth Peterson ended in divorce in 1971.

There will never be another Joe Richards. He was unique in his sparkle for life and his intense loyalty to family and his overflowing circle of friends, neighbors, and acquaintances. Joe was full of laugher and love and to the very end both a gentle man and a gentleman. He will be thoroughly missed but never forgotten.

The family will gather for a private entombment at a later date at Congressional Cemetery.

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed toward Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, 9200 Kentsdale Dr., Potomac, MD 20854.

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Rose Marie Bogley: For many years, she has exhibited elegance and grace in riding aside. Showcasing her fantastic ability, Bogley won the Silver Fox class in 2007. In earlier years, she won the Local Working Hunter Division aboard Speculation in 1982.

Isaiah Saylor Brown, Jr. was known as “Mr. B” Isaiah Saylor Brown Jr.: The late Mr. Brown (1943-2015), known as “Mike” and fondly referred to as “Mr. B,” was director of food service for Foxcroft School in Middleburg. He also owned and operated Mr. B’s BBQ and Catering and was a valuable member of the concessions team. He was a member of Prosperity Baptist Church in Summit Point, West Virginia and a member of the Berryville Planning Commission from January, 2010 until April, 2015.

Diana and Bert Firestone

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Diana J. Firestone and Bertram R. Firestone: Long-time supporters of the Upperville Colt & Horse Show, the Firestones have graced the ring with a number of different champions over the years. These horses include Golden Chance, Maker’s Mark, Two of Hearts, Tindle, Barbizon, Bremen, Liva, and Silver Skates, winner of the Upperville Jumper Classic in 1992.

Their Newstead Farm was home to their annual exhibitors party and served as a social highlight of the show for years.

Joining the Firestones in their induction into the Wall of Honor is their horse, Barban Court. He was purchased for Diana to show. Shown in the Amateur Owner division, the appaloosa jumped to a record breaking win in the Pimm’s Hunter Derby. The colorful gelding received a nearly perfect score of 98.

Helen Buchanan Jones Helen Buchanan Jones: Sitting aside atop Katy Did, the late Helen Buchanan Jones (1888-1980) emanates the equestrian style of the early 1920s. A frequent winner at Upperville, Katy Did was part of Mrs. Jones’ Ayrshire Farm, a wellknown name in the show ring and hunt field. Her niece, the late Polly Howard of Warrenton, showed many years at Upperville. Her great nephew, the late Tommy Stokes, lived at Ayrshire and was a past manager of the show. Helen Jones’ great niece, Helen Wiley, showed ponies at Upperville and is a former board member.

“Aunt Helen loved this horse show,” Wiley recalled. “She had a huge luncheon where the warm up ring is now behind the main ring. I’m so proud of her.”

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Travel Safe and Secure with Wallach & Company

By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life

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veryone has a story about traveling abroad, that maniacal Parisian taxi driver going 80 down the Champs Elysee, that first, frightening London ride in the rental car with the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car, the mystery meat in a Hong Kong restaurant you later discovered was filet of feral cat.

Richard Wallach has his own treasure trove of hair-raising tales told by the travelers they deal with by the thousands every year. He and his wife, Ginger, own Wallach & Company, with offices in Middleburg’s Federal Court. The firm specializes in providing travel insurance for a wide variety of clients, local, national and international.

Take the long-ago case of an American biologist who travelled to do research into the deep jungles of Borneo, only to start having terrible stomach pains. Fortunately, he’d signed up with Wallach’s company for insurance, and before long, a helicopter was on its way, first dropping axes and chainsaws so a landing zone could be cleared, then transporting the poor fellow to a medical facility in Australia. Turned out he had appendicitis, and after a week, he was back doing whatever it is biologists do in Borneo.

The good news. His travel insurance covered it all.

Richard Wallach also recalled anoth-

out working for a Vienna, Virginia-based company, International Underwriters, in 1978. Ten years later he bought out his division of that company and in 1991 moved the business to Middleburg, where Ginger grew up, attending Hill School and Notre Dame (now Middleburg Academy).

Wallach comes from a military family that moved across the country and around the world on a fairly regular basis. He’s a VMI graduate, served in Vietnam and after being discharged, worked as a commercial pilot before getting into the travel insurance business. There are four people in the Middleburg office, including Ginger, and he estimates they provide insurance to about 15,000 clients per year.

“A lot of people buy this insurance for international assistance,” Wallach said. “A person is in a foreign country and has a problem—he’s lost his credit cards, he needs a lawyer, or medical assistance. We have an international assistance center in Baltimore. They get a toll free number from wherever they are in the world and when they call, they’ll immediately be in touch with a person who speaks the language of the country they’re in. They will get them to an English-speaking person who can help them, a doctor, a lawyer.

You have a safety net that operates 24/7, 365 days a year to provide assistance for a person who is having significant issues and has no other place to turn.”

A biologist in a Borneo jungle can certainly attest to that.

day, all the way up to one year.”

The tourist/traveller represents only a small portion of their business. Wallach & Company does a lot of work with government agencies, particularly the State Department. They have a number of colleges and universities on their client list, insuring students on their way to those year-abroad study programs so popular these days. And of course, business travelers also are a key component.

With the peak tourist summer months approaching, Wallach was asked if there’s been any noticeable decline in travel for pleasure abroad, considering the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, and turmoil in so many other parts of the world.

“I’m not really seeing that,” Wallach said. “Just as an example, after 9/11, we assumed that the studyabroad business would drop off.

But it was just the opposite. Students were saying ‘we’re not afraid, we’re going to those countries.’ It actually picked up. I think the last 10-15 years, people have accepted Ginger and Richard Wallach Courtesy Photo that there is a degree of caution that needs to be recognized. But there “We will insure medical, evacuation has not been a major dropoff. Our dropand, even repatriation of remains if that’s offs are pretty much predicated on how necessary,” Wallach said. “We do it for the stock market is doing. When capital people of any nationality. We’ll only insure gains go down, so does travel.” them once they’re out of their home counMost of his company’s business these try. It’s strictly short-term, international days is done via the internet, a major travel insurance. It can be as short as one change from when Wallach first started er client traveling in Eastern Europe who had a nasty car wreck that left him on the side of the road in critical condition. First responders got him to a nearby medical facility where he was stabilized, then transported to Switzerland by helicopter and eventually returned home to California in an air ambulance. The cost was close to $200,000, and once again, because he had the foresight to obtain the proper insurance, someone else paid the bill.

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Baa baa Gum Tree have you any wool?

By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life

Paquin Horan feeds one of the lambs as William Wiseman watches

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wenty-plus years ago, Fr an ny an d Wa lte r Kansteiner acquired three Merino sheep.

Since then, their Gum Tree Farm near Middleburg has become home to a flock of 70, producing home-grown and hand-made organic wool luxury items.

“We consider the land and each sheep a work of art. From ewe to you, ” Franny said. Gum Tree also is a working organic farm that produces vegetables, eggs, beef, lamb, wool, milk and hay. The vegetable gardens feed several families and, the owner added, “as well as anyone else with an open car window in August when the zucchini comes in.”

Franny learned to spin and knit over the years as their flock expanded. She began by making fingerless mittens, socks, blankets and capes, then added knitters and weavers to their farm family. Local school children in Virginia are always welcome to visit, especially when new lambs are around, as William Wiseman and Paquin Horan recently discovered.

When spring shearing takes place, Franny is truly up to her elbows in wool, and each piece is made by hand.

“We consider it an honor to share our farm with the sheep and our duty to make something beautiful out of their wool,” she said. “Their wool holds an inherently pure quality that’s passed on to the knitter and wearer. The beauty of a small flock is that each sheep and finished product has individual attention.”

The farm is their work space, with a “Wool House” studio for sewing and knitting. “But we all love the sheep shed the most because it is full of promise,” Franny said, adding “new lambs, spring shearing and a lot of sheep. Our design ideas come from our customers, family and friends who wear the things we’ve made for them. We have knitters, weavers and seamstresses all over America.”

Each knitter usually introduces another into the Gum Tree staff and they all receive wool from the farm. They knit the products and mail them back. “We also are beginning a “knit your life back together” program for women coming out of challenging situations,” Franny said. “We provide teaching, wool and patterns and pay for the pieces they knit.”

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Franny Kansteiner greets guests who come to watch shearing sessions

Products from Gum Tree include fingerless mittens, socks, blankets, and capes and more

the sheep that make our clothes. From beginning to end,” she said.

The fact that everything is “American Made” also is a point of pride.

“Our country is full of incredible stories of production, resourcefulness and resilience,” she said. “Trying to take the small amount of wool from our sheep to a f inished product is very challenging. Our country has become very good at producing large quantities of high quality goods. But it also has MIDDLEBURG LIFE

been at the expense of American workers at the smaller mills and wool processing shops.

“American-made products capture the American spirit and what’s made this country great.

We should persevere and preserve our talents and individuality. Take care of the things we have and they know where they come from. Our land. Our hands.”

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Llangollen

Under The Brennans’ Stewardship, Llangollen Remains a Hunt Country Jewel This is the first in a series of articles on the Great Estates and Homes located around the Middleburg area

ed on the grounds. And she loved to throw a party. Over the years, her guest list varied from entertainer Bing Crosby to Sen. Joe McCarthy, from heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney to socialite Doris Duke, from Prince Aly Khan to jockey Eddie Arcaro. And many more.

“Eddie Arcaro goes on first hunt while at Llangollen,” was the headline over a column in the old Washington Star on Nov. 30, 1954. Arcaro, the jockey of the year at the time, reportedly stayed with the hunt’s first flight for most of the day, “despite the fact he’d ridden with the shortest irons in hunting history,” according to Kitty Slater.

Liz and Jock Whitney divorced in June, 1940 but she retained the estate and lived there until her death in 1988.

Toward the end of her life, the home had fallen into considerable disrepair, and the property was eventually sold in 1989 to Roy L. Ash and his wife, Lila.

Ash, who co-founded Litton Industries and was a budgetary advisor to President Richard Nixon, saved Llangollen from developers who wanted to tear down the buildings and replace them with a multi-home housing complex.

He and his wife did a major restoration of the home and property and Donald and Patricia Brennan Photo by Douglas Lees also created a large Angus and Angus-cross cattle operation. As he apThere was plenty of Llangollen histo- proached his 90th birthday, Ash sold the ry in the 20th century as well. John Hay estate to the Brennans.

“Jock” Whitney, who purchased the propOver the last ten years, Donald Brenerty in 1930, kept adding on to the main nan’s wife, Patricia, has painstakingly restructure. Whitney, a wealthy sportsman stored the interiors of the home to match who later became a businessman, diplo- the style used back in the days of Chief mat, publisher and philanthropist, con- Justice Marshall. The estate also has bestructed a wooden horseshoe stable at come the home to Virginia International a cost of over $150,000. After it burned Polo Club started by their daughter, Maudown in 1962, it was rebuilt using fire-re- reen, one of the finest women polo players sistant cinderblock and stone and also in the country. included a below ground level regulation The Brennans came to Virginia from squash court. the North Shore of Long Island, where In 1934, Whitney deeded the prop- they raised their six children. Patricia and erty to his new and fetchingly beautiful their three daughters all were involved wife, the former Mary Elizabeth Altemus with show horses. Maureen, a former of Philadelphia. The marriage only last- Grand Prix rider, first came to Middleed only a few years, but Liz Tippett (she burg in 1998. After her horse, Mr. Higmarried again, of course) became a fix- gins, shattered his leg in a freak accident, ture in the Hunt country, and Llangollen she decided to take up competitive polo became the center of Middleburg’s social, and the sport became her passion. fox-hunting and steeplechase scene.

The Brennans took over the former She developed a widely-admired rac- estate of late Washington Redskins owner ing stable on the property that produced Jack Kent Cooke off Atoka Road, which a number of stakes champions. Llangollen also included the historic Phipps Polo attracted crowds of 20,000 when the Llan- Field at Goose Creek. And then came the gollen Cup steeplechase race was contest- purchase of Llangollen almost ten years Brennan clearly is a student of history. He knows that Lafayette once visited Llangollen. There is a meticulously maintained cemetery not far from the house containing the remains of Cuthbert Powell and the in-residence Presbyterian minister as well as several unmarked graves that legend says belonged to slaves.

And Brennan’s vast knowledge of Civil War history, including all the local battles and skirmishes that occurred not far from his property, is clearly evident over the course of a fascinating three-hour session recently that was part-tour and part-interview.

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By Leonard Shapiro Washington Post Staff Writer

onald P. Brennan has always been an entrepreneurial man of action, so the first time he made his way up the mile-long driveway leading toward the magnificent main house on the hill at Llangollen, there was no doubt in his mind. He knew he just had to have it.

“I just kept thinking ‘there isn’t a comparable property,” Brennan said. “What motivated me was 1,100 contiguous acres, 50 miles from D.C. and it was a one-off property of incredible historical significance.”

Brennan was a long-time managing partner at Morgan Stanley in New York who also once owned Waterford Crystal and was one of the founders of the K Club near Dublin, the site of the 2006 Ryder Cup. The Brennans purchased Llangollen in 2007 and have made all manner of major renovations and improvements both to the original 18th century main house, its various structures and the gorgeous grounds sitting just below a Blue Ridge Mountain foothill.

In her 1973 book, the Hunt Country of America, the late author, Kitty Slater, described Llangollen as “one of the most famed estates in the Hunt Country.” And with good reason. It traces its roots back to 1740 and Lord Fairfax’s Virginia holdings. It was named after a market place in Wales, and once was owned by Chief Justice John Marshall, his brother James and his brother-in-law Rawleigh Colston.

In 1827, Cuthbert Powell, the nephew of Middleburg founder Leven Powell, purchased Llangollen’s central tract from Colston, and built the initial manor house, described by Slater as “one of the more handsome mansions of the countryside.”

“The high-ceilinged rooms,” Slater wrote, “ have tall, recessed windows, white-board heart-pine floors, chair rails, deep cornices and intricately carved mantelpieces.”

“There are 22 rooms and 17 fireplaces,” Donald Brennan added. “All of them working.”

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later. Maureen’s polo operation is now based there, and she lives in one wing of the main house.

Donald Brennan has played polo himself and now mostly rides around the property on horseback. He also has another intriguing equestrian pursuit.

Several rooms on the lower level of the house—where John Mosby and some of his infamously roguish Rangers once hid out—offers the perfect setting for his own unique hobby.

That would be collecting and restoring vintage military saddles, going back to Napoleonic days, including one general officer’s saddle lined with red velvet and covered with a bear skin. There are over 50 saddles in the collection.

“Back then,” said Brennan, “many of them were like weapons systems. The saddle had to deliver the soldier to the action.

They carried the weapons, the guns, the swords. Some of them weigh up to 60 to 70 pounds.”

The saddles are just the half of it.

Brennan also has studied their history and outfitted each with the appropriate historical accoutrements—weapons included—that would have been used back in the day. Needless to say there is not a large army of like-minded collectors, but Brennan has developed sources and resources to keep busy outfitting his current collection while pondering his next acquisition.

“There are a few other characters out there like me,” he said. “There’s one in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who specializes in U.S. military saddles and one in Madison, Wisconsin who specializes in German calvary saddles. And there’s another one in East Sussex, England focusing on British and French military tack, who recently sent me an original, un-restored Franco-Prussian War era saddle found in a barn in Normandy.”

Still, aside from his family, Brennan seemingly takes his greatest pride from restoring Llangollen to its past glory as arguably one of the grandest estates in Virginia, if not the entire country.

He’s also properly proud that Llangollen has been a gathering place for all manner of community activities, from local charitable benefits in the columned Georgian home, the outbuildings, the polo fields, for a wide variety of good causes, and also making it accessible for students of history as well as local school children.

“I view myself as the steward of it,” he said. “Anybody can come here, look at it, touch it. I feel pretty strongly that places like this should be preserved and shared.

There’s a great history here. It’s a very special and magical place.”

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Land Trust of Virginia Annual Garden Party

The Land Trust of Virginia held its 18th annual Garden Party at Orion, home of Gayden and Robin Parker. Held to recognize individuals who support conservation and to raise support for the Land Trust of Virginia. This year, once again, featured a

silent auction, live plein-air painting by several local artists and an award ceremony for Conservationist of the Year, Steward of the Year and the Heritage Award.

PHOTOS BY: SEBASTIAN LANGENBERG

Steve Price and Carole Taylor award the Conservationist of the Year to Robert Bonnie. And Bruce Smart approves.

Charlie Westbrook and Carole Taylor awarding the Steward of the Year to Sharon and Vince DiRenzo Diana Bunting, Feroline Higginson and Marci Nadler

Leslie VanSant and Carole Taylor presenting the Heritage Award to Scott Miller and Sharon Virtz

Edward and Katrina Ryan

John Solomon, Deanna Solomon, Judith Taylor and Dick Taylor

Curt Barnard and Emily Smith

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Tom McMillen Still Has That Feathery Touch

PHOTOS BY: CROWELL HADDEN

By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life

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t 6-foot-11 and a deadly accurate shooter, Tom McMillen once was the most highly-recruited high school basketball player in America. He became an All-American at the University of Maryland, had a long and prosperous pro basketball career and also was a Rhodes Scholar, a Congressman and a member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness— as a high school senior.

And yet, what really puts a One of Tom McMillen’s peacocks in all its glory. smile on his face has everything Courtesy Photos to do with being particularly proud of his pet white peacocks.

The birds live and thrive on the Marshall property McMillen and his physician wife, Judy Niemyer, have occupied for most of the last decade. They have another residence in Maryland, but spend a good bit of time at their Virginia home a few miles from a town that also has a significant interest for him. More on that later.

About six years ago, the McMillens made their first peacock purchase, acquiring a few white birds and several of the Fresh out of the shell more colorful variety. to succeed, including comprehensive in“We had a blue one,” McMillen said, surance as well as ongoing tuition so they “but either a predator got it or it ran away. can earn their degrees even after their athAt that point, we decided we were just go- letic eligibility runs out. ing to have white ones and we also decid“We want these kids well taken care ed we wanted to breed them. If you inter- of,” McMillen said. “I am not in favor of breed, it does get a little crazy. They roam paying players, giving them a salary. I bethe property and when we go out of town, lieve it opens a Pandora’s Box. For one, all they’re in cages.” the money and benefits would be taxable.

They have 11 white peacocks, as well as Now it’s a tax-free benefit. I also think it 13 chickens and 15 guinea hens. would lead to a lot of inequity in college “People come over just to look at sports.” them and they’ve also asked us for some And on the local front, McMillen is of them,” McMillen said. “In the spring, keeping his eye focused on Marshall, which is their mating season, the males do as well. Several years ago, he purchased make some noise. June is a big month. The and renovated two buildings on its main males lose all their feathers, and over the street, a retail and apartment property that fall and winter they grow them all back.” includes an art gallery and a Palates studio Some have names. and also the building that now houses the “When one of them came out of the increasingly popular Whole Ox specialty egg, it had some personality right away,” food and restaurant enterprise. He’s obMcMillen said. “We called it Clinton. tained eight acres not far from Interstate We’ve got one named Churchill. When we 66 and is looking into the possibility of had the blue ones, we called one Disraeli building a small hotel. because he seemed so wise. Then there’s McMillen also is concerned about the Wild Ass, because he’ll just run right up to future of Marshall in light of current plans you. No, we don’t have a Lefty yet, but we to build 300 new homes there. probably will.”

“I think the challenge is to make these That would be a reference to Lefty changes while at the same time keeping Driesell, McMillen’s colorful, foot-stomp- the small town feeling,” he said. “When ing head coach at Maryland in the early we did the Whole Ox and our other build1970s who remains a good friend. And ing, it was to make a statement. You need now, more than five decades since he left a mix—places like the Old Salem and the College Park, McMillen is still heavily in- Marshall Diner and then the other things. volved in college athletics, recently named The reason people like Marshall is that it’s as chief executive officer and president of still small town. the Division 1-A Athletic Directors AssoStill, McMillen remains bullish on ciation. Its members come from 129 major Marshall. He and his wife love spending as colleges that represent programs produc- much time as possible in the country, and ing $9 billion in revenues. of course, they’re totally enamored with all There are countless issues to be dealt those peacocks.

“We have a lot of fun with them,” with, foremost among them making certain college athletes are properly educated, McMillen said. “They’re just beautiful and provided with the benefits they need birds.”

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Trinity Church Hunt Country STABLE TOUR 2016

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David Hartley

Helen Wiley, the Rev. Rob Banse, Walter Kansteiner, and Valerie Dove

Piedmont huntsman Jordan Hicks with the Piedmont Foxhounds

A popular event was a visit to Trinity’s “Bishop’s Garden” by the Piedmont Foxhounds

Jim Hammond, John Greely, Judd and Paige Glascock welcomed guests to Trinity Church Stable Tour Chair Gina Hammond, with the Rev. Rob Banse and co-chair Betsy Crenshaw

Pony painting (and clean-up) at Salem Oaks Farm was very popular with the young visitors to the tour

Beth O’Quinn and Sloane Coles at The Oaks Three generations of Haneys: Dan, Daniel, and Colt, welcome visitors to the M.A.R.E. center

Kennie and Melissa Neal

Bruce and Edie Smart of Trappe Hill Farm

Beautiful horse sculptures at St. Brides Farm

Debbie Gale with Leigh-O Wood

Joan Elliot

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The beautifully groomed 321+ acres of this thoroughbred horse breeding & training farm rests at the edge of Middleburg. 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. $10,450,000

The 400 acre country estate offers some of the finest land in Hunt Country. Perfectly sited for privacy, the handsomely restored manor house of stone enjoys views of gardens, lawn and fields from every room. Located between the historic Towns of Middleburg and Upperville and convenient to Leesburg, Winchester & Dulles airports. Currently in 3 parcels with the potential $8,750,000 for tax credits.

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 $6,500,000 curves up to the elegant manor home.

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Magnificent 155 Acre Atoka Road Estate with gated entry opening into the private drive lined with mature trees. The charming historic manor home, c. 1827 backs to expansive views of fields and ponds. 4 tenant homes, 3 barns, indoor and outdoor riding arenas. Gently rolling pasture land with fenced paddocks and fields. Property is in a VOF conservation easement. $3,250,000

Stunning 2012 addition and complete restoration created a classic and elegant Virginia manor house. Attention to detail throughout including a custom designed kitchen open to the family room. Property also includes pool, guest house, 4 stall barn on 18 acres located in the Orange County Hunt Territory. Convenient access to I- 66, Rt. 50 and Dulles International Airport $2,999,000

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. $1,980,000

A picturesque and tranquil retreat nestled on 158+ acres in pristine Rappahannock County. At the end of the private drive is the historic Stone residence, c. 1745 with additional stone cottage for guests or office and tucked into the woods, beyond the home, is a charming and beautifully restored 2 bedroom log cabin. Gardens, lawn, barns, paddocks and tremendous ride out potential provide an outdoor haven. $1,845,000

An amazing custom built 4 Bedroom, 3.5 Bath Colonial on 70 mostly open acres with approximately 5000 square feet of living space. This exceptional home has been modified from an original 1810 home on site. 5 stall barn, 6 car garage, pond and more. Property is currently in Land Use. $1,800,000

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

Executive, 10 acre mountaintop retreat, perfectly sited with a southern exposure to enjoy the panoramic views from sunrise over the Bull Run Mountains to sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains. Exquisite finishes and 10’ ceiling height. Two spacious master suites with two additional en suite bedrooms. Pool, paddocks and perennial gardens. $1,350,000

This 4 level traditional recently renovated 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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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

Extraordinary estate on over 180 acres; Ideal for horses; 7 Bedrooms; New Gourmet State of the Art Kitchen & Baths; Gorgeous full wall windows, overlooking 10 acre lake; 10 stall stable, Paddocks with run-in sheds, Pool and poolhouse with fireplace, spa and new tennis courts. $3,950,000

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. $3,700,000

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Steeped in history, the 98 acre estate of Ashleigh features an elegant Greek Revival manor house, c.1840, 2 bedroom pool/guest house adjacent to heated pool. 2 bedroom tenant home, 10 stall barn with 1 bedroom apt. and manager's office, additional 4 stall & 3 stall barn. Paddocks, pond, & magnificent gardens. 42 acres of this property are in managed Forestry Land Use. Excellent access to I-66. $2,500,000

51+ acre farm with a beautiful 4 Bedroom home with gourmet kitchen, wine cellar, great views, pool, flagstone terrace and carriage house; extensive horse facilities - 9 stall barn, covered arena, outdoor arena, 7 paddocks, 4 stall shed $2,500,000 row barn, machine shed, etc.

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. $1,895,000

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The 16 room Manor House, c.1774 on 87 ACRES with expansive views-mountains, rolling hills & the property's 1300' of Shenandoah River frontage. Ballroom with dramatic Tiffany style windows. Tenant house and horse barns. VOF easement w/2 DURs. CONTINGENT upon property being divided with option to purchase more. $1,700,000

The stately mansion is sited on 8½ acres within the town limits of The Plains, VA. The size of the home and its room sizes lends itself beautifully for hosting large events. The foyer measures 48’ x 11’. The zoning allows for potential division rights or potential tax credits. Convenient to Exit 31 of I-66. $1,495,000

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.

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OLD CARTERS MILL ROAD - 53+ acres of beautiful, open and gently rolling land with expansive views of the countryside and distant mountains. Located in the coveted Orange County Hunt Territory of Fauquier County, this land provides exceptional ride-out potential. A home-site has been studied including engineers report verifying a site for a 5 Bedroom septic, well and potential pond site.

Open space easement, land cannot be divided. $1,300,000 MAIDSTONE ROAD - 50.14 Acres of Land, half pasture, half wooded with Goose Creek Frontage. Mountain and Pastural Views with pond and multiple house sites with elevation and perfect location with easy access to I-66. Piedmont Hunt Territory. $727,030 BERRYVILLE - 90.7 Acres of rolling hills bording the lovely North Hill Farm. $720,000

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An Evening in Old World Germany

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New Life for an Enchanting, Grand Farmhouse ‘Brooke Hill’ Has Been Fully Restored and Sits on 25 Acres of Pristine Grounds

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The result is a property with a classic provenance and a forward-thinking personality, ready to play host to large gatherings and be the backdrop for exceptional, exuberant daily living.

Centrally located on its lot for privacy, the frame-and-stucco home showcases pastoral vistas and offers the opportunity to capture summer breezes.

The home currently is on the market, listed at $949,000 by Jim Thompson and Lynn Wiley of Washington Fine Properties.

A covered front porch invites us into the entry foyer, with its opening to large living and dining rooms, to begin our exploration.

The original section of the property is a two-over-two Virginia farmhouse, incorporating a sunroom addition on the back and a two-story addition (master bedroom suite and a large living room) to the southwest.

The living and dining rooms are graciously proportioned, with original woodwork and heart-of-pine floors.

The glass-enclosed sunroom and the kitchen offer large windows overlooking the pasture and terrace.

Upstairs in the original section, there are two big bedrooms with tall ceilings and a full bath. Opening off one bedroom is a unique reading nook balcony leading to the staircase.

In the new section, there is a mastersuite accessed by a second staircase. The master retreat showcases a gas fireplace

and large master bath with soaking tub, separate shower, generous closet space and more.

The lower level is finished with a fourth bedroom, another full bath, a recreation room and office with exposedstone walls. The unique stone flooring for the lower-level rooms is warmed by radiant heat.

The walk-out lower level opens to a patio behind the house, with gardens planted with perennials and herbs.

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pleted to be ready for animals.

There are some old stone walls on the perimeter of the property, and several springs, plus a stream and ideal pond site.

Mountain views abound, yet the site is so private you cannot see your neighbors. Centuries-old trees around the house include walnut, maple and oak.

An ideal site for a horse farm or cattle operation, or just to enjoy as a primary residence or weekend retreat, Brooke Hill is versatile enough to meet any situation, making it well worthy of consideration.

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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

Address: 4449 Mountain Laurel Lane, Marshall (20115).

Listed at: $949,000 by Jim Thompson (540) 687-2224 and Lynn Wiley (540) 454-1527, Washington Fine Properties.

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Mount Gordon Farm Old Goose Creek Farm

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

The Plains, Virginia $11,750,000

Middleburg, Virginia $5,995,000

Middleburg, Virginia $3,200,000

128 acres and immaculate 3 level, 13,000+ sq ft stone & shingle main house • 5 BR • 8 FP • Exceptional finishes on every floor • Caterer's kitchen • Elevator • Spa • Separate guest cottage • Pool • Farm manager residence • 3 additional tenant houses • 12 stall center-aisle stable • Pond • Extraordinary land w/incomparable views extending beyond the Blue Ridge Mts • Orange County Hunt

Immaculate equestrian property in turnkey condition • Exceptional location • Stone home expanded to approx.

7,000 sf. • Includes 4 main level suites • Lovely gardens, pool, garage apartment & pond • Blackburn designed 6 stall stable • 70x210 indoor arena • Observation deck • Tack room • 2 wash stalls & office • Addtl 4 stall barn • Entire property is fenced and cross fenced on 26 acres & 8 paddocks

Elegant & sun-filled country home • Gracious rooms for entertaining • 4 private suites • His & hers dressing rooms • Extensive millwork • Main level living just minutes from town • Views of 65 protected acres • Stream • English gardens • Terraces • 200 year old stone walls & open pasture • Idyllic setting also includes 3 BR cottage • Garage & bank barn • Middleburg Hunt Territory

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Fairview

Old Fox Den Farm

Alix Coolidge Helen MacMahon

(703) 625-1724 (540) 454-1930

Middleburg Area $2,975,000

Helen MacMahon Paul MacMahon Ann MacMahon

(540) 454-1930 (703) 609-1905 (540) 687-5588

The Plains, Virginia $1,985,000

Greystone

The Plains, Virginia $1,900,000

Westwind Farm

Circa 1904 Colonial home • 3 BR • 3 1/2 BA • High ceilings • Gourmet kitchen • 5 fireplaces • 90x200 covered arena • 12 total stalls • Main barn redesigned

by John Blackburn • 4 bay garage with apartment • 12 paddocks • Asphalt drive & security gate • Heated pool • Property has 2 DUR’s and whole house generator • Hilltop setting with mountain views

Restored 3 bedroom 1830's farmhouse on 65 acres • Multiple porches & fireplaces, lots of charm • Lovely pool, shared pond, 4 stall barn, workshop • Expansive mountain views, rolling open pasture & fully fenced elevated land • Gorgeous setting in the protected valley between Middleburg and The Plains • Conservation easement permits 2 more homes to complete the compound

Circa 1807 • 33 acres ideally located between Middleburg & The Plains • Rare quarried stone exterior, 10-foot ceilings • Period mantels, original wood floors, two-story front porch • 3 BR/3 BA, each a private suite • Historic stone barn includes one BR/BA apt, heated tack room, 6 stalls • Carriage barn • 3 paddocks, large turnout field, run-in sheds, auto waterers • Whole farm generator • Pond • Orange County Hunt

Classic Middleburg colonial, completely redone in 2009 • 5 BR • 4 full BA, 2 half BA • 2 FP • Gourmet kitchen • Top of the line finishes throughout • 2-car attached garage • Beautifully landscaped • Sweeping unobstructed mountain views • 21.08 gently rolling acres • Fenced & cross fenced • 3 stall barn, tack & hay storage

Paul MacMahon

Helen MacMahon

Helen MacMahon

Paul MacMahon

Boyce, Virginia $2,300,000

(703) 609-1905

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Willow Way Farm

(540) 454-1930

Middleburg, Virginia $1,825,000

(703) 609-1905

Middleburg, Virginia $1,625,000

Echo Hill

The Plains, Virginia $1,350,000

Old Boarding House

Beautiful stone home on wonderful street in the heart of historic Leesburg • Completely renovated in 2011 • 5 bedrooms • 4 full and 2 half baths • 3 fireplaces • Screened porch • 2 car detached garage with apartment • Gourmet kitchen • Grand room sizes • Wood floors and detail throughout • Beautifully landscaped

Prime Middleburg location • House completely redone in 2004 • Hill top setting with panoramic mountain views • 3 BR • 3.5 BA • Main level master suite • Pine floors • Beautiful millwork • 3 FP • Attached 2-car garage • Beautiful windows • Gracious room sizes • 4-stall barn • Riding ring • In-ground pool • Lovely gardens • 31.05 acres recorded in 3 parcels

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

Charming antique brick and stucco farmhouse • Circa 1820 • Expanded to appox 4,000 sf • Well maintained 4 BR home w/recent addition including master suite & large family room • Wood floors • 5 FP • Whole house generator • Lovely walled gardens • Sought-after location • Magical setting nestled among large protected farms close to Middleburg on hard-to-find small acreage-just under 2 acres • OLREA

Paul MacMahon

Paul MacMahon

Helen MacMahon

Alix Coolidge

Leesburg, Virginia $1,700,000

(703) 609-1905

(703) 609-1905

(540) 454-1930

(703) 625-1724

Duck Pond Boyce, Virginia $1,027,000

Marshall, Virginia $997,000

The Plains, Virginia $870,000

Gorgeous country home • Historic village • Panoramic views • 3 acres • Beautifully landscaped grounds with terraced herb garden and pool • 3 BR, 2 full + 2 half baths • Master bedroom w/gas FP on main level • Large dining room w/built-in china cabinets • 2 BR upstairs w/shared BA • Lower level family room w/wood-burning FP • Wet bar & french doors to pool area • Recently renovated

Fine 4 BR, 2.5 BA house on 39 acres • Well cared for and well maintained • Wrap-around porches • MBR on main level • Kitchen and baths updated • Lovely property • Excellent 4 stall barn with H/C wash stall and heated tack room • Board fencing • Paddocks • Very good run-in shed • Level land, mostly open • Pond • Invisible fence on 10 acres • Blue Ridge Hunt territory

Beautiful fieldstone home • 21 acres of mostly open land • Stone portion c. 1835 • Renovations include an open kitchen & adjoining sunporch • New metal roof • New windows • New siding • Updated bathrooms • Original pine floors • Lots of charm & wonderful natural light • Lovely setting w/grand oak trees • Minutes from several wineries • Great home or a weekend retreat (less than hour from DC)

Charming cottage and 10 private acres on The Plains Road • Prime location w/convenient access to Rt. 66 while surrounded by protected neighboring farms • 3/4 BR stucco home • Large front porch • 2 FP • Hardwood floors • Home office could serve as first floor bedroom • Mature woods with flowering trees • Perennial gardens • Fenced yard for dogs

Joseph Keusch

Tom Cammack

Helen MacMahon

Helen MacMahon

(540) 454-0591

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Westwood

Middleburg, Virginia $1,175,000

6428 Main Street The Plains, Virginia $1,125,000

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Dogwood

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The Warrenton Garden Club recently hosted an Afternoon Tea and Garden Tour at Poke near Marshall. The Duchess of Rutland presented her book “Capability Brown & Belvoir: Discovering a Lost Landscape.” Signed copies of her book are available at Horse Country in Warrenton.

Emma, Duchess of Rutland, takes a ride at Belvoir Castle

The Duchess of Rutland’s new book, Capability Brown & Belvoir: Discovering a Lost Landscape

Penny and Timothy Bryan

Douglas Wise, event chair with Dana Westring

Phil Burtt, estate manager of Belvoir Castle

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avy Rear Admiral Brent Scot, Chaplain of the MaMarine Corps and Deputy Chief of Chaplains for the Navy, will preach this year’s ecumenecumenical sermon at Middleburg’s 41st anannual Free Church Homecoming, SunSunday, June19 at the Middleburg Baptist Church.

Admiral Scot will deliver the prinprincipal message for the traditional event, which began as a patriotic ecumenical service during the 1976 Bicentennial.

It brought Middleburg’s diverse worworshipping communities together for a joint celebration every June at MidMid dleburg Baptist, the site of the original “Old Free Church,” constructed in the late 1700’s and originally used jointly

by Middleburg’s Baptist, Episcopal and Methodist churches.

The service begins at 11 a.m. and will be followed by a pot luck picnic.

Child care will be provided for the service and all events are open to the public.

On The Town: On Saturday, July 23, the Middleburg Arts Council and the Town of Middleburg will host the fourth town-wide arts celebration, Art in the Burg. Artwork from more than 20 local and regional artists will be on display at 108 East Washington Street, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Celebrating MiddleMiddleburg as an arts destinadestination, Art in the Burg, will also feature music by the Crooked Angels.

During this celebration of the arts, visitors will have the opportunity to purchase art, talk with the artists and enjoy many other venues that have art on display. For additional information, visit http://middleburgarts.org/art-inthe-burg-2016.html.

From August 5-7, it’s Middleburg’s

tenth annual Summer Sidewalk Sale.

Sponsored by the Sonabank, the Town of Middleburg and the Middleburg Business and Professional Association, the sale will be held Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday as posted by shops. Look for balloons outside participatparticipating shops and restaurants for additional information, please contact the MiddleMiddleburg Town Office at 540687-5152.

Local artists have contributed a number of works that will be included in an exhibition and sale called“Somecalled“Something Red” that runs through July 4 at the Artists in Middleburg (AiM) headquarters at 102 W. Washington

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St. All works are for sale Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Contact sansandy@theartistsin-dy@theartistsin middleburg.org or call 540-6876600.

Book It: Mid Mid-dleburg’s fabufabu l ous i nd e p e n dent bookstore, Second Chapter Books, will host two author prepre sentations and b o ok sig nings at Common Grounds in MidMiddleburg. The first, on June 11 from 1-3 p.m. features John Schalestock, who will present his novel “Dark Swans and PaintPainted Faces” set in the jungles of Laos and North Vietnam during the very early days of the Vietnam War. On June 18, from 12:30 to 3 p.m., also at Common Grounds, there will be a fundraiser and book signing with Mary Jane O’Loughlin, author of “Ruby and Baby.” It’s all about elephants and a portion of all book sales a book will be donated to the Amboseli Trust for EleElephants. For more information, contact the store at 540-687-7016.

Lily Show: The Fauquier Loudoun Garden Club will host the 2016 GCV Lily Show on June 15-16 held again at the Foxcroft School. Foxcroft was founded in 1914 by Miss Charlotte NoNoland, a founding member of the club.

The show is sanctioned by the North America Lily Society.

The artistic schedule of the show is titled “Lions, Tigers, and Bears- oh my!” and will include 54 arrangements created by the 48 clubs throughout the state plus hundreds of lilies. On Wednesday, June 15 the hours are 2-7 p.m.; in Thursday, June 16 from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. A cocktail party to view the show is scheduled Wednesday from 5-7 p.m. For more information visit www.flgardenclub.org or contact lrhame@aol.com.

Oatlands: On June 12 and June 26, there will be Traditional Afternoon Tea from 1-3 p.m. in the historic Carriage House. It includes assorted sandwichsandwiches, scones and delicious sweets and Oatlands’ special afternoon tea blend.

On June 19, there will be a Father’s Day Tea from 1-3 p.m., also in the Carriage House. Teas are $29.95 plus tax per person ages 3 and up. To make a resreservation please call, 703-777-3174 or www.oatlands.org for additional inforinformation and a full schedule of events.

Summer Camps: NOVA Parks and the Mosby Heritage Area AssoAssociation is accepting reservations for a Civil War Camp, to be offered Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15. The camp is open to rising 5th to rising 7th grade students with an interest in the Civil War, in local history, and in visvisiting local historic and heritage sites, with a behind-the-scenes experience.

The camp meets daily at Temple Hall Farm, north of Leesburg and transportation is provided to nearby historic sites. Daily hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contact Tracy Gillespie at NOVA Parks at tgillespie@nvrpa.org or Rich Gillespie with MHAA at 540687-5578.

The Community School of the Piedmont will have its annual ChamChamber Camp for intermediate string stustudents from June 20-24. Also contact CSMP about scheduling summer mumusic lessons for both adults and chilchildren. For more information, call 540592-3040 or email piedmontmusic@ aol.com.

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Located in the tranquil countryside near Orlean. Va. with 5 Bedrooms, 3.5 Ba. Colonial on 24+ partially wooded acres, with Thumb Run meandering through the property, nice barn, shed/workshop. Priced to sell at $589,000 which is below the Fauquier County Tax Assessment of $665,600.

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Preserving, Living, and Making History: The Story of the Waterford Foundation

local artisans and businesses.

The fair is an educational occasion as well. The juried artisans are required to spend 50 percent of their time demonstrating their craft. “Selling their art or product is only one of their objectives,” said fair director Tracy Kirkman. “We ask that they show fair-goers what they do as well. There are a lot of traditional arts that people don’t see anywhere else.

Broom-makers. Coopers. These trades are dying out elsewhere, but Waterford is a working village, a place to showcase a bit of living history.”

Last year’s fair was canceled due to the torrential rains of Hurricane Joaquin, marking the first cancellation since the organization’s inception.

“The good news is,” Kirkman said, “that after last year, we should have clear skies for the next 70 years.”

This year’s fair, scheduled Oct. 7-9, is slated for a momentous return. For the first time, farm breweries and food trucks will set up shop among the vendors. 129 artisans will sell their works and demonstrate their craft. There are string bands, barbershop quartets, and magic shows.

The renowned home tours will resume as well.

“For history buffs, the home tours are the main draw,” Kirkman says. “Our docents are all well-versed in the history of the village and its homes, right down to the furniture.”

Over the years, the Waterford Foundation has done more than preserve its village’s history; through its educational opportunities, community events, and national recognition, the foundation has become a part of Waterford’s history.

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arveling at Waterford’s antique homes and scenic vistas trailing off into the horizon, one can’t help but feel engulfed in history, all thanks to the Waterford Foundation. Its story is one of rich history and strong communal ties, of neighbors coming together not only to preserve, but to persevere.

The Waterford Foundation was founded in 1943 by 16 residents who recognized a need to ensure the legacy of their village by safeguarding it from encroaching suburban sprawl.

“Our foundation is one of the most successful grassroots preservation organizations,” Preservation Director Margaret Good said. “It’s still very grassroots today.”

The founders’ mission remains the same today: to preserve the historic buildings and open spaces of Waterford while educating the public about life and work in an early American mill town.

In 1970, the 1,420-acre area, which includes the village and surrounding farmlands, was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior, placing the village in the same echelon as Mount Vernon and Monticello. However, in the case of Waterford, it’s not the estate of a Founding Father that is commemo-

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The historic community is comprised of Federal-style homes built in the early 18th and 19th centuries; the Fairfax Quaker meetinghouse built in 1740; a corner store, in use since 1900, which sells jellies, hand-rolled beeswax candles, and other sundries made by locals; the Old Schoolhouse, where the foundation is headquartered, and its adjoined auditorium, a lyceum for concert series, book talks, and art exhibits; and the one-room school for African-American residents of Waterford, where a unique educational opportunity exists.

Every year, 1,500 third- and fourth-

grade students take part in a reenactment of a typical 1880 school day. Costumed volunteers, the “teachers,” lead pupils through history lessons and hold a spelling bee to inform and expose students to the limitations African-American students faced during Reconstruction.

Much of the capital needed to maintain these cherished buildings and educational programs comes from the Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit, the foundation’s largest fundraiser. The Waterford Fair attracts 20,000 visitors annually, adding approximately $300,000 to the foundation’s coffers while directing an estimated $4.5 million into the hands of

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arvey Ussery’s path to his modern homestead wasn’t direct, but built upon his understanding of nature and self-reliance. Ussery grew up gardening with his father in North Carolina, but never had much livestock. His inspiration to keep chickens came from his grandmother.

“She’s been a tremendous inspiration for me,” said Ussery, also known to many as the Chicken Man. “She and Joel Salatin have been the biggest influences on me.”

Ussery also knows more about chickens than most. He’s now retired and spends his time between his 2 1/2-acre homestead in Hume, writing and speaking. His latest book, “The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers” is available for those who want to start a flock.

His grandmother’s hearty chicken flock largely fed itself. Sometimes a hen would disappear and would return days later with all her chicks in tow. All his grandmother would do is throw kitchen scraps in their coop so they knew it was home. His grandparents lived on a 50acre parcel, and even though his grandfather worked full time at a textile mill, he was able to farm the land and sell his crops.

Ussery attended Wake Forest before moving to California for graduate school.

There he studied religion, ethics, and theology. After graduation, he said he lived “the gypsy life,” including a three-year stint as a full time resident at a Zen monastery in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. He helped run the center and was the head gardener, where he taught the monks how to garden.

Ussery then moved to Springfield, Virginia with his wife, Ellen, and worked for the U.S. Postal Service. He knew that he wanted to get back out to the country, and following in his grandfather’s footsteps, Ussery began his farm in Hume while working full-time.

Ussery looked to nature to learn how modern chickens can be more self-reliant. Chickens were not always managed and fed the way they are today.“ Chickens were traditionally managed as scavengers for resources that were free,” he said.

He lets the hens hatch their own eggs and take care of their own young. With this method, the mother takes care of their chicks and they’re able to leave the chicken house from day one. They’re very good at caring for their young, even in terrible weather.

One day Ussery was away from the farm when an unexpected storm hit. “It was a buttkicker,” he said.

Over an inch of rain came down in just thirty minutes. It even began to hail.

When Ussery got home, he ran out to the chicken yard expecting to find dead chicks caught out in the storm. To his amazement, he found the mother hen, soaking wet and looking like a barnacle, but under her wings were her ten chicks, fluffy and dry.

Chickens freely running around the property might cause some people to worry about the stench of chicken manure.

Ussery again looked to nature to solve that problem.

“I always quote my mentor Joel Salatin,” he said of Salatin, the founder of Polyface Farms and a well-known proponent of the local farm-to-table food movement, as well as the work-with-nature style of farming. “If you are around any livestock operation, regardless of species, and you smell manure, you are smelling mismanagement.”

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Chickens at the Ussery Hume homestead.

Ussery’s property, although abundant with chickens, has no smell, only fresh air.

He sequesters the nitrogen with mulch that he spreads in the run. He then sows cover crops on top of this for the chickens to pick through. As the chickens scratch, they bury their manure into the dirt where it composts with the stalks of the plants that they eat.

The chickens are just one part of Ussery’s land. He and Ellen have lived in Hume for nearly four decades. They grow nearly all the food they need. About 85 percent of the food they eat they produce themselves or buy locally, and it’s never processed. They used to take trips to Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia a couple of times a year, but as the local movement has taken off, eating local has gotten easier.

“I can now get pastured pork within a few minute’s drive of here,” he said.

He also encourages people to buy local, and start their own gardens, as well.

But it won’t be easy.

“The adult experience is having too damn much to do,” he said. “Sometimes it’s a choice between being out here and doing this kind of work, which for me is a lot of fun, it’s liberating, it’s good for the body. And that’s what I’m doing Sunday afternoon, rather than watching television. It’s a choice.”

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They’re So Cooperative at Southern States autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; concern for community.

Southern States provides not only products and services, but expert advice. It makes or offers just about everything agricultural, including animal feed and Photo by Caroline Fout fertilizer, seed Michael Hutton, Ruth Parker, and Allen Tipton of Southern States processing, grain among the top 100 largest U.S. agricultur- marketing, equine health supplies, farm supplies and, of course, a myriad of garal retailers.

Cooperatives are formed by their dening products. Most recently, Southern members “when the marketplace fails to States has launched a new “precision ag” provide needed goods or services at af- program. This is a three-tier approach (Discover, Evaluation and Analysis) to fordable prices and acceptable policy.”

By combining their purchases, coop- helping farmers by providing options at eratives such as Southern States facilitate the beginner, intermediate and advanced the ability of farmers to indirectly own levels.

Southern States’ comprehensive weband operate feed mills, fertilizer plants, test farms, and farm supply warehouses. site includes an online store, “how-to” Cooperatives adhere to international- pages, and, in keeping with a commitment ly recognized principles: voluntary and to education, training and information, open membership; democratic member numerous “how-to” articles and videos control; member economic participation; geared toward both experts and amateur

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outhern States Cooperative has an impressive history, going back to 1923 when 150 Virginia farmers met in Richmond with “$11,000 in capital, two employees and a second-hand typewriter.”

The farmers gave a name to their cooperative: Virginia Seed Service (VSS).

They believed that by combining their resources, they would be able to purchase better seeds, and particularly seeds better suited to Virginia’s agricultural conditions. Middleburg’s Southern States outlet remains an extension of that philosophy A few years later, VSS began looking beyond the confines of Virginia, and in 1930, it changed its name to Southern States Cooperative. It has continued to grow in the intervening years, from helping establish a chain of research farms across the U.S. to participating in the formation of a national seed-breeding research organization, FFR, which remains the largest such operation anywhere in the world.

Southern States has now evolved to more than 200,000 member/farmers and 1,200 retail outlets in 23 states, mostly across the mid-Atlantic and South, including its bustling outlet in Middleburg.

Along the way, it’s become one of the country’s largest agricultural cooperatives. A recent article in Crop Life ranked Southern States Cooperative as No. 9

hobbyists. The articles and videos are on a wide variety of subjects, including lawn, garden, farm, home, livestock, horse, and pet. There is an entire portal dedicated to articles about caring for pets, selecting the right food, grooming and other general pet care advice.

And then there are recipes—from canning tips and recipes to home-made ice cream to catnip toys you can make for your cats. There are “Harvest Home Recipes,” a collection of “farm to fork” recipes, all done by professionals with hands-on experience. Articles and videos are updated frequently with new and seasonal information.

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When Growing Heirloom Tomatoes, Think Prune

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Most heirloom tomatoes are indeterminate, meaning they keep growing and growing, sometimes reaching upwards of six feet high if trellised. Just as you would with fruit trees and bushes, these varieties of tomatoes can be pruned and trellised to yield a higher volume of better tasting fruits.

Since indeterminate varieties set so much foliage, the idea behind pruning is to cut back and shape the foliage as much as is reasonably possible in order to direct the plant’s energy and nutrients to its fruit. Striking a balance between taking away too much and too little is key. Here is how we approach pruning, based on years of taming the tomato plant: Identify what to remove. The first step in pruning is to identify what to take away, and what to keep in tact. The tomato plant has a main stalk, which is also known as the “leader.” The leader is always preserved when pruning. Leaf branches grow on the leader stalk, and are the main leafy foliage along the stalk. Between the leader stem and the branches grow suckers, shoots that can grow and form their own branches, suckers and fruit.

The main stalk is on the left, the sucker grows between it and the branch at a 45 degree angle. When pruning tomato plants, you’re always removing the suckers. You might leave the main stalk plus one sucker; you might choose to prune to only one stalk, which can result in more air flow and larger fruit, but less foliage.

More foliage can help prevent sun scald.

Pruning is all about striking a balance between taking away too much and too little. No matter which method you choose, always leave the branches on the main stalk intact, unless they are yellow or diseased.

In the beginning, prune early and often. A few weeks after transplanting, you will notice that your tomato plants are full, tall and filling out with many branches and suckers. This is the most important time to do your first pruning.

By catching suckers early and often, the plant’s energy is most efficiently directed to the main stalk. If you wait too long, the suckers grow into thick, lush stalks that take up a lot of energy. Remove unwanted suckers every week or two for a few weeks. If you trellis with the basket

weave method, it is helpful to time your pruning when the plants are ready for another layer of weaving.

Have a blade on hand for bigger suckers. Tiny suckers are easy to pinch off, but you can easily damage and tear the plant, snapping off larger ones. Have a small knife, snips, or orchard pruners on hand.

Anything that is very large and fruiting

might actually have a negative effect if removed, so consider leaving very thick stalks, and be more diligent about pruning tender suckers in the future.

Scale back heavy pruning at fruit set.

Once you get used to pruning, it might actually be hard to stop. However, some moderation is needed to keep a good balance with your plants.

In the beginning of the season, it’s very important to prune, but as the season progresses, heavy pruning is not as necessary, especially if you do a good job shaping and staking the plant.

In fact, by the end of the season, just remove any suckers that don’t behave in the basket weave trellis. Having additional foliage at heavy fruit set can prevent sun scald and enables the plants to have more fruiting stalks. This is especially nice if the season happens to be a bit longer. Remember, the plant needs it’s foliage to survive, just not all of it.

Don’t prune determinate varieties.

This story covers indeterminate tomatoes, but there are three more classifications: semi-determinate, determinate and dwarf. Semi-determinate tomatoes grow like indeterminate ones. Determinate varieties should not be pruned. Dwarf tomatoes are determinate as well, and should not be pruned either, except to remove any yellow or diseased leaves.

Don’t prune plants when they’re wet.

Keep your plants healthy and only prune and stake them when they are completely dry. Most devastating tomato diseases are spread through water contact.

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A Foxcroft WASP Made Middleburg Proud

By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life

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here was a time, nearly 75 years ago, when the Foxcroft School was on military footing, just like the rest of the country. Back in the 1940s, with World War II raging in the European and Pacific theaters, the girls of Foxcroft were regularly drilling and marching in formation on campus under the direction of school founder, Miss Charlotte Noland.

One of those students clearly was infused with the same sort of patriotic fervor that gripped the entire nation. Not long after she graduated from Foxcroft, where she captained the basketball and riding teams, Elizabeth Coit Hubbard, not even 18 yet and a native of Lake Forest, Ill., decided that she wanted to join the fledgling Women’s Airforce Service Pilots program. They were known as the WASPs, using a Disney cartoon character named “Fifinella” as their feisty insignia.

And they were truly pioneers in every sense of the word.

Elizabeth, also known to family and friends simply as “Sis,” eventually made her way back to Middleburg. Her mother, Elizabeth Merrill Furness, had moved to this area in 1938 and purchased an old dairy farm that she converted into the Piedmont Vineyard on The Plains Road in 1973. She was 75 at the time and Piedmont was the first commercial vinifera vineyard in Virginia.

Her daughter, Sis, married Bill Worrall, an Army intelligence officer, in 1946 and they lived in Alaska and Germany for many years before settling in northern California. The Worralls came back to Middleburg in 1976 to help Sis’s mother run the vineyard, and took it over when Mrs. Furness died in 1986.

Two of the Worrall children, Virginia Jenkins and her brother Bill Worrall, both have lived in the Middleburg area ever since, and their sister, Merrill Grasso, also spent many years here before moving away several years ago.

Sis Worrall passed away in 1996, and by then had become an active and beloved member of the community. She was an eager fox hunter, a fine fly fisherman and helped raise money for numerous good causes, particularly the Loudoun Hospital Center in Leesburg, frequently opening her home and vineyard for fundraising events and benefits.

Her children are all properly proud of their groundbreaking mother, even if she rarely spoke about her wartime experiences. Nevertheless, Bill Worrall has taken it upon himself to become a one-man research center on the WASPs, and particularly Sis Worrall’s contribution. Over the years, he’s collected all manner of materials, including the yearbook from her 1944 WASP graduating class, filled with MIDDLEBURG LIFE

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Most of those fearless women are gone, but the memory of what they accomplished during the war has never b e en forgotten.

Even now, there is serious talk in Hollywood about making their story into a film or television mini-series.

The WASPs were formed in September, 1942, nine months afPhoto by June Hughes © The Pink Sheet ter Japan attacked Sis Worrall with Lloyd Kelly Pearl Harbor, in large part because of the efforts of Army their absolutely essential role, they were Air Forces Commander General Hen- not considered official military at the ry “Hap” Arnold. They never engaged in time. That meant they were not eligible combat overseas, but their role in the war for benefits under the postwar G.I. Bill effort back in the U.S. was vitally import- that provided veterans educational, mediant. cal and housing benefits.

According to the Air Force HistoriThat shameful wrong was finally rightcal Support Division, the WASP women ed on Thanksgiving in 1977—33 years afeven paid their own way to travel to basic ter the WASPs program was disbanded. training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, On that memorable day, President Jimmy Texas. More than 25,000 applied, even Carter signed a bill granting World War some from Canada, England and Brazil, II veterans’ status to former WASPs. Just but only 1,830 U.S. women were accepted last month, the WASPs also were granted into the program. Of those, 1,074 earned the right to have their remains interred at their wings, including Sis Worrall.

Arlington National Cemetery.

To qualify, applicants had to be beThey definitely earned it, because tween the ages of 18 and 35, have a high most of their missions were not without school diploma, stand peril. They flew somewhat flimsy AT-10s at least 5 feet 4 inches and AT-6s, training planes essentially tall, pass Army physi- made out of plywood. The only metal was cals and have a pilot’s in the engines. license. Sis Worrall “Several women were killed in routine had the Foxcroft di- training,” Bill Worrall said. “One got shot ploma, but Bill and down while she was towing a target for Virginia have never artillery practice. Someone on the ground been entirely certain missed the target and got her aircraft.” their mother had a Virginia Jenkins said Sis definitely did pilot’s license when talk about her and her fellow “flygirls,” as she headed to Texas. they also were called, being slighted for so Nevertheless, what many years. she did have, even “I don’t think any of them were hapback then, was plenty py about it until they were finally recogof moxie, and she may well have literally nized,” Jenkins said. “Even though my learned how to fly on the fly. mother downplayed the whole experience Avenger Field definitely was no picnic. for most of her life, I know she was very “My mother did complain about the proud of what they had done.” sand, the wind, the bugs, the food,” VirIronically, Sis Worrall never flew again ginia Jenkins said. “I never heard anyone after the war, though her friend, former ever talk about chicken fried steak with Middleburg artist Lloyd Kelly, an amasuch disdain.” teur pilot himself, once took her up in his WASP assignments were diverse—as plane and let her take the controls. “When flight training instructors, glider tow pi- they came down, he said ‘she hasn’t lost lots, towing targets for air-to-air and an- her stick,’” Bill Worrall said. “She definiteti-aircraft gunnery practice, engineering ly could still fly well into her 50s.”

These days there is another pilot in the test flying, ferrying newly built bombers and fighter planes to major bases around family. That would be Bill’s son, Ben, an the country so they could then be trans- Air Force Academy graduate who now ported overseas, and other duties. Al- flies F-15s and is based in Okinawa, Jathough WASPs had the privileges of of- pan. He was still a young child when his ficers, they never were formally adopted pioneering aviator grandmother passed away 20 years ago. into the U.S. Army Air Corps.

“But he knew what she’d done,” Bill In all, 38 WASPs lost their lives over their two-year existence. And yet, despite Worrall said. “We all did.”

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here are many wild and cultivated plants that pose a threat to our natural environment and livestock. A good steward of the land controls noxious, invasive and poisonous plants. ◊ Learn to discriminate between beneficial, poisonous and invasive plants. Native plants are outcompeted for space, sunlight, soil nutrients and moisture when invasives overtake them. ◊ Get an up-to-date list from your county extension agent or the Virginia Native Plant Society. Remove thistle, multi-flora rose, Japanese honeysuckle, trumpet vine, ailanthus tree, Oriental Bittersweet and other invasive species so our native species remain healthy. Wildlife areas require routine control for long-term success. ◊ Some plants and shrubs used for landscaping are poisonous to animals. Be cautious. Clean up pruning debris and do not dump in fields with livestock. ◊ Encourage native wildflower and grass meadows by identifying open and wooded areas and managing those locations for wildlife. When establishing a new meadow, you must control anything invasive. ◊ Use organic fertilizer and weed control where possible. Careful application of chemicals (alternative or otherwise) should be used at minimal doses applied at the right time of year, not in early spring when rains are often. Fertilizers should be organic or slow release nitrogen. Organic is best. Chemicals should be applied by someone who is licensed and knowledgeable.

Adaptable and prolific, these animals now occupy a prominent place in our landscapes. Once hunted by gray wolf, cougar, coyote and bear, they continue to increase with barely a natural predator left. As their range continues to shrink from human development, landscapes and understory woodlands suffer. Deer feed on acorns, seeds and young trees, hampering the regeneration of forest. Native wildflowers are depleted. Ground nesting birds lose cover and cannot reproduce. ◊ To protect plantings from deer rub and browsing: • Deter with various organic scent options that smell badly. -Protect young plants with tree tubes or cages • Fence out with an enclosure of 7’ - 8’ tall.

• Procure a permit to cull large herds.

• Dogs that live outside can help.

• Design remedial measures w/natural resource professional. ◊ See Managing White-Tailed Deer in Suburban Environments, a technical guide. www.dgif.virginia. gov/wildlife/deer/suburban.pdf ◊ Bowman’s Hill Wildlife Preserve publishes a good list of deer tolerant native plants. www.bhwp.org A few natives that deer seem to avoid from Bowman’s list: Aconitum uncinatum (monkshood), Am-

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sonia hubrectii/tabernae montana (blue star), Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem), Aquilegia canadensis (wild columbine), Aster novae-angliae (New England aster), Aster oblongifolius (aromatic aster), Baptisia australis (blue false indigo), Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh), Coreopsis rosea (rose coreopsis), Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot), Panicum virgatum (switch grass), Phlox divaricata (blue wood phlox), Phlox stolonifera (creeping phlox), Rudbeckia fulgida/R. hirta (black-eyed Susan), Amelanchier spp. (service berry), Calycanthus floridus (Carolina allspice), Clethra alnifolia (summersweet), Hamamelis spp. (witchhazel).

Pollinators and Beneficial Insects vs. Pests ◊ Pollinators and beneficial insects often depend on particular plants to thrive and are responsible for assisting reproduction in 80% of the world’s flowering plants. ◊ Many have a complicated inter-dependence that is synchronized to bloom time and the life cycle of a parasite or predator. ◊ Eliminate chemicals or choose Grab your binoculars and explore some of organic options, beginning these walking trails: with the most benign solution.

Learn good bug from bad and Sky Meadows State how to attract one and detract Park, Appalachian Trail, The Hill School the other.

Arboretum,Wankopin ◊ Set up healthy conditions by Community Trail, selecting plants that belong in Old Goose Creek the proper situation - wet, dry, Bridge, Blandy shady, sunny, acid, alkaline, State Arboretum of Virginia, Beaverdam etc.

Creek Historic ◊ Keep a close eye for signs of Roadway District, stress or changes; intervene Bull Run Mountains promptly. This is the Integrated State Natural Area, Pest Management (IPM methPreserve Banshee od) of monitoring. Your extenReeks Nature Preserve, Washington sion agent and local arborist & Old Dominion Trail, are a wealth of knowledge.

Historic Long Branch Local Foods Fresh from the Farm Farm and Gardens, Walking trail at ◊ More local farms are expandSalamander Resort. ing their program from a traditional livestock-based operation to also raising vegetables for market. These efforts contribute to the countryside way of life and healthy options for all of us. Make your food purchases at farmer’s markets and consider purchasing a CSA - Community Supported Agriculture subscription for the season. ◊ Support for local farmers adds up to fresher food than that which has travelled a thousand miles or more to your grocery store. This eliminates unnecessary carbon dioxide and extra packaging associated with distant farms. ◊ Inquire and encourage the restaurants and markets you frequent to buy local and grow organic. Fewer chemicals will benefit everyone. ◊ Organic practices reduce nitrate pollution in ground water, increasing human and animal health.

This is an excerpt from Missy Janes’ book, Life in the Country. A long-time Middleburg resident, she’s a writer and photographer. Her book is available at The Fun Shop.

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Banner said. “We’ve spared no expense to have that high standard completed.” ack in February of In 2014, Great Meadow 2014 when the Great hosted the eventing selection Meadow Foundation trials for the 2014 Alltech FEI purchased the adjaWorld Equestrian Games. Last cent 174-acre Fleming Farm summer, it was the site for the property, foundation president Great Meadow International Rob Banner could see the fucompetition that served as the ture. In particular, he envifinal preparatory event for the sioned the day when his facility, U.S. Eventing Team prior to the which nearly doubled in size, 2015 Pan American Games in would be able to host worldToronto. class competition in Three Day And now it’s the Nation’s Eventing.

Cup competition, with that Courtesy Photo “This place is a natural to world-class arena Banner promhost international competition,” Lauren Kieffer, a winner at last year’s Land Rover Great ised. Recently completed, that Banner said at the time. “We Meadow International. $1.2 million arena is 300 by 200 Hand Crafted by select needed more room to be able feet, and there also is a separate to (build) a full cross-country course, Nations Cup Eventing competition to be 400-by-100-foot warm-up area, with both Western Pa. but now we have it. The real hope is to held outside Europe and a preparation having the same footing. And in addition Old Order & Eastern Pa. host the FEI-sanctioned Nation’s Cup of trial for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Event- to the eventing, spectators also can visit Amish Craftsman families eventing. That is really the prize because it ing team. In addition to the Americans an extensive trade show with a wide variFamily Owned & Operated Since 1973 brings European competition here, rather coached by Olympic gold medalist David ety of exhibitors showing and selling their O’Connor, so far the event also has atLocated In Aldie Va. Since 1980 than us having to go to Europe.” wares on the property. tracted teams from Great Britain, AustraThat future is now.

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39469 John Mosby Hwy Three-day eventing is a former calThe Plains will host the Land Rover Great Admission on Saturday and vary test that combines scores from three Meadow International, the first ever FEI Sunday is $30 per carload (up to distinct phases—dressage, show jumping 6 occupants). A weekend pass and cross-country. Cross-country is a providing admission on both jumping and endurance test that requires days is also available for $50 many miles and hundreds of acres to fully per carload (up to 6 occupants). test competitors.

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The ● Corrective & Therapeutic Shoeing featuring gourmet food, frontcross-country will begin at 9 a.m. on Sun● Equine Nutritional Counseling row seating and much more! ● Specialized Treatment Stall day, July 10, with the closing ceremony Further details are available scheduled for mid-day. athttp://www.greatmeadowinwww.TradewindsEquineRehab.com TradewindsEquine@aol.com “We’re looking forward to it in a big ternational.com/#!tickets/ct8u . way,” Banner said in a recent interview.

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O’Connor, a long-time resident of The Plains, also played a significant role in securing the Nation’s Cup event for Great Meadow. Several years ago, Banner conBanner estimated as many as 20,000 tacted O’Connor, Chef d’Equipe of the spectators will be on hand over the weekU.S. Equestrian Team eventing squad, and end. And many riders and horses that wanted to see if it was possible to attract likely will be competing in the 2016 Rio big-time eventing events to the facility.

Olympic Games in August also will be in A former president of The U.S. Eques- the field for the Great Meadow event. trian Federation, a post he held for 10 To kick it all off, spectators also are years, O’Connor agreed with Banner that invited, at no charge, to come to Great Great Meadow was uniquely suited to Meadow on Friday, July 8 for a “Free on help achieve his goals and the two started Friday” celebration that will include an planning. opening ceremony, as well as a chance “He said if we’d buy the land (Flem- to inspect the new arena and the grand ing Farm) and built a world-class arena, opening of the Meadow Market Trade or email: info@middleburglife.com he’d bring the world-class competition,” Show.

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Artists and art aficionados attended the gala showing at the Grace Episcopal Church PHOTOS BY: LEONARD SHAPIRO

Springtime offers artistic inspiration

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Lunch reception at Sona Bank Photos by © Leonard Shapiro

Tucker and Mary Ann Withers stopped at Sona Bank to have lunch with Devon Porter, senior vice president.

The term “alpha” has a lengthy Investopedia definition. In short, “alpha” is the excess return over an investment’s benchmark index What most struck me after reading the return. Investors for “alpha”. biography about theaim Vanderbilt family, “Fortune’s Children: the Fall of Therefore, almost all investment the House of Vanderbilt” by Arthur T. advisors feel that they get paid to Vanderbilt II, was the sheer decadence of chase “alpha”. the parties.

One gave hishave gueststhe a gift of cigaFewhost investors necessary rettes rolled in one hundred dollar bills. combination of ability, time, capital Another made certain each oyster apand control over an investment petizer contained a pearl. Other parties to create “alpha”.

Regardless of were solely for guests’ dogs or entirely on horseback.

I know we love our animals experience, most investors have in Middleburg, even ability ARF’s wonderthese goals inbut mind: to live ful Dog Fest does not serve “stewed liver on their portfolio’s income, saving and rice, fricassee of bones and shredded for abiscuits” child’stoeducation or their own dog its canine guests.

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Sadly, a few years later many of these investments arestruggling first-rate. partygoers were to maintain their extravagant homes and lavish lifeMost investors share the challenge styles.

More decades passed and some of capturing theeven “return” of The the descendants were penniless. party had markets, truly ended.as opposed to capital

Friends, family and neighbors gathered on Chinn Lane for the annual yard sale to benefit Mt. Pisgah church in Upperville.

Vince and Tutti Perricone stopped by to visit

generating theira discussion own “alpha.”

We recently hosted that focused on wealth transfer from generation Problem is, most investors never to generation where we gave the Vandercapture the market’s entire return. bilt book as a party favor (not quite cash They don’t investment’s full or pearls but get our the guests seemed to like return, rather thewithin investor’s return. it).

It’s well-known the world of wealth that families rarely What’smanagement the difference? succeed in passing their wealth beyond the third generation.

Carl Richards, a writer quoted in the

financial rags, are callsdepicted this difference The Vanderbilts in “Fortune’s Children”gap.” as extreme examples. “the behavior Unfortunately, And it can’t only attributed tosound a few emotions can be prohibit spendthrifts. Our guest speaker, an heirinvestment decisions and investors ess to the Kodak fortune and now an buy and sell when they shouldn’t. investment counselor, discussed the importance of wealth discussion amongst family members.

The 102nd Foxcroft Commencement was held in Miss Charlotte’s Garden

Drawing from personal and professional examples, she explained how vital it is to teach children how a dollar is earned and how to hold on to that dollar. “The Commodore’s” familiar refrain “Any fool can make a fortune. It takes a man of brains For I’ve been just advocating to holdyears on to it,” re-enforces how difthat itinvestors stop trying to catch ficult can be to maintain wealth.

“alpha”.

I encourage investors to We understand the significance of the settle transfer in and discussion rely on an empirical wealth among family members and webased have many clients who approach, not on speculation, are generational. We also have the knowbut on the irrefutable science of how and tools to support the discussion. capitalYour markets. in a “Keep Money” isInvesting not just a catchy globally phrase but diversified, something we tax striveand to docost for all our clients. efficient portfolio will prevail.

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Kim Ginn, MFH Paul Wilson, MFH Michael Harper, Karyn Wilson, Huntsman Andy Bozdan, Joan Strahley, Carol Stadfield and Heather Heider at the Loudoun Fairfax Puppy Show at their clubhouse on a recent rainy day.

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Bernadette Boland won the Side Saddle flat race at the High Hopes Steeplechase races in Kentucky.

Meanwhile, her mother, Elaine Boland is busy with the opening of her new venture The Side Saddle Café in Middleburg which is a division of her Fields of Athenry Farm.

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Congratulations to Holidae Hayes, recipient of the 2015 UBS Global Employee Volunteer Awards, in recognition of her leadership in thetocommunity and Congratulations Holidae Hayes, commitment service. recipient of theto2015 UBS Global Employee Volunteer Awards, in recognition of her Holidae H. Hayes leadership in the community and Senior Vice President - Wealth Management commitment to service.

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The Middleburg Library Book sale included a children’s dive in section The Middleburg Library recently held its annual used book sale, which went swimmingly, particularly after heavy rain came pouring down not long after it closed for business. Library board president Marc Leepson reported the sale took in over $1,800.

The money will go primarily to fund book scholarships the Library Advisory Board awards each year to deserving local high school seniors going on to higher education.

Sometimes we do make mistakes. We recently received this e-mail from L. T. Dale, MFH of The Loudoun Hunt that read, “On page 34 of your May, 2016 publication you identify the race meeting at Oatlands Plantation as the “Loudoun Fairfax Point to Point Races.” The meeting is and has been for 50 years the “Loudoun Hunt Point to Point at Oatlands.” It is true that The Loudoun Fairfax Hunt and The Loudoun Hunt (established in 1894) collaborate to put on the event.” Sorry about that.

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Veramar Vineyard Offers Enhanced Tasting Program

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here is something a little different going on just across the mountains in the Shenandoah Valley. Veramar Vineyard has initiated what it calls an “enhanced tasting.” They’re still doing a standard public tasting, but also have instituted a program that takes a deeper dive into some of their best wines in a guided, small-group setting.

If you’re unfamiliar with Veramar Vineyard, the Bogaty family owns it along with Bogati Bodega in Round Hill and James Charles Winery and Vineyard a little further west in Winchester. In addition to producing wine, James Charles and Bogati winemaker Justin Bogaty also does custom crush for a handful of other Virginia wineries. The quality of the family’s wine is highly regarded throughout the Commonwealth.

I was invited to the first of these tastings in March, so I arrived at the appointed time and waited in the tasting room for the rest of the group to assemble. The small groups are limited to a maximum of eight people. After everyone arrived, we were ushered into a private tasting room just off the main public space.

Once inside, we were seated at a tasting bar. At each seat there were a pair of wine glasses and a plate of excellent Charcuterie. Behind the bar was Tom Donegan, Veramar’s wine specialist, who conducts many of the winery’s special events. Posted on the wall behind him was a board listing the four wines that comprised the day’s tasting.

I love the format. There are other wineries in the Commonwealth that do food and wine pairings, but they’re done either as a part of the regular tasting or as special events conducted for the wine club.

To my knowledge, this is the only winery in the state that has a regular food and wine-pairing program that is available on a regular basis for the general public. In addition, these are reserve or club wines that are being poured. In other words, they are Veramar’s premier wines.

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It was probably my favorite of the entire event and I took bottles home.

After that great start, we moved on to a Chambourcin dry-style Rosé that was pared with Prosciutto. The acidity of the wine was perfect alongside the saltiness of the cured meat. Then on to a Merlot that had a nose you could get lost in. The red fruit of the wine was expertly paired with a very rich duck rillette. We finished

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with the Veramar Rooster Red, which is a Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. The dark fruit of the blend was featured alongside a wonderful aged Manchego and fig jam.

The formal tasting lasted about a hour.

Tom did a great job leading us through the wines and for anyone learning about wine, the pairing format is a great educational opportunity.

I also found a certain sense of camaraderie among the members of our group and I very much enjoyed interacting with them. After the event ended, there was no attempt to shuffle us back out of the room.

We were afforded an opportunity to purchase glasses or bottles of wine and there was time to socialize and trade notes with other members of the group.

If you’re interested in attending one of these sessions, you’ll need to check the Veramar website for times. The enhanced tastings are conducted just a couple Saturdays a month and require an advance reservation. I should also point out that the tasting list will vary from session to session. So it may be possible to attend more than one and taste a different lineup. In any case, I walked away a huge fan of the program and the Veramar wines. I strongly recommend checking it out for yourself.

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The Virginia Gold Cup PHOTOS BY DOUGLAS LEES

Ann and Shockey Gillet

They were off and running at Great Meadow on the first Saturday in May

Over the water jump in the Virginia Gold Cup: Old Timer, Our Town, Dakota Slew, Grinding Speed and winner Ebanour

Carole Stadfield with her Jack Russell terrier Gabriel

Jeb Hannum , executive director of Virginia Equine Alliance with Frank Petramalo

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Ebanour owned by Irv Naylor ridden

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ProPerties in Hunt Country ORCHARD MANOR

MEETzE ROAD

LEES RIDgE ROAD

Top equine facility on 33.3 acres; 2 stables, 14 stalls, Indoor arena, Large Outdoor Ring, Board fenced pastures with run-in sheds, 1 tenant cottage, historical Luxurious Manor home completely restored, top of the line appliances, Luxury Baths,Generator equipped to handle emergency power loss, tennis court & pool. Minutes to Leesburg but totally in the country & private. $2,699,999

PRICED BELOW APPRAISED vALUE. This working farm of 316 lovely acres with rolling meadows, large ponds, stream and pastures. Main residence dates back to 1752 with recent upgrades and additions offers 3 Bedrooms and 2 ½ Baths. Old stone and frame tenant house with 3 Bedrooms and 1½ Baths. There are 9 additioanls agricultural outbuildings. Property is NOT in easement.

Motivated Seller. Price firm, *as is* $1,700,000

Ideal 50 acre equestrian property. Home overlooks 7 pastures with an abundance of charm/character with attractive updates. Large open rooms for one level living, renovated gourmet kitchen with granite, vaulted ceiling, beams, geothermal floors, 4BR/3.5BA. In ground pool, garage, 2/2 tenant house, custom 12 stall barn with hay loft and 2 breeding stalls, smaller barn with 9 stalls, 2 Morton sheds. $1,600,000

MERSEY ROAD

105 WALNUT STREET

Susie Ashcom (540) 729-1478

Anne Marstiller (540) 270-6224

MOSS HOLLOW

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An outstanding, well built 2 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath cottage on over 50 tranquil acres in Markham, perfectly located minutes from I-66. This lovely home takes advantage of nature and privacy with views of Cobbler, Buck and Rattlesnake Mountains from the expansive rear porch with the rustling of Thumb Run Creek nearby. One level living with Stucco, Standing Seam Metal Roof and many exceptional details throughout ~ A must see! $1,200,000

Barrington Hall (540) 454-6601

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Middleburg - Colonial on 12+ acres rolling pasture land & woods. 2-story Foyer with slate flooring, formal Dining Room & Living Room with fireplaces, glassed-in Family Room, newly renovated Gourmet Kitchen. 5 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths. Main level Master Suite. Traditional details include crown molding, chair rails, hardwood floors & slate roof with copper gutters. Attached 2-car Garage, Pool, Pool House, 6Stall Barn, fenced paddocks & dog kennel.$1,075,000

Cricket Bedford (540) 229-3201

TO BE BUILT. Rare in-town parcel on quiet street.

High quality, custom home by well-known local builder.

1st Level features Foyer, Den, Living Room, Dining Room, gourmet Kitchen with all high end appliances that opens to Family Room with fireplace, French doors to rear deck. 9' ceilings & hardwood floors. 2nd Level has Master Bedroom Suite with sitting area, walk-in & luxury Bath. 3 more Bedrooms & full Bath. Separate Laundry Room. Lower Level has walk-out stairs, large Rec. Room and/or 5th BR with Bath. Plans available. $799,000

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Redesigned c.1929 school house with new Master Suite, luxury Master Bath, walk-in closets. updated Kitchen, Dining Room, grand Living Room. Guest Bedroom & full Bath on 2nd level. Features large windows, hardwood & ceramic tile floors, fireplaces, high ceilings, built-ins & French doors. Extensive landscaped gardens with boxwood, crepe myrtle, crab apples & more. Great spaces to entertain. New Well & 3 Bedroom septic. $635,000

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 SALLY MILL ROAD - Middleburg Build your dream home on a rolling 3.17 acre parcel just East of town.

Cleared lot is in area of lovely homes, just South off Route 50 at corner of Potts Mill & Sally Mill Roads. Setting offers an elevated home site with views. Ideal commuter location with EZ access to both Dulles Int'l Airport & downtown Washington DC. Permitted 3 BR septic on file.$285,000

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The Plains ~Rare opportunity to live on a farm located between Middleburg and The Plains. Super attractive stone house for rent on large farm.

Located in the most desirable area of Orange County Hunt territory. 5 bedrooms and 3 baths.

Spacious Country Kitchen , Dining room with Fireplace, Living room with Fireplace, & Hardwood floors. New slate roof. Very private and quiet.1 year lease min. $3,000/mo plus utilities

Rein duPont (540) 454-3355

Cricket Bedford (540) 229-3201

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