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As I grow older, July is treated like summer’s version of January — time for a fresh start or a restart across life’s spectrum. We’ll be updating vacation plans, embarking on new house upgrades, revising business objectives, and recommitting to that diet/workout.

Oh yeah, and a lot of lazy afternoons watching baseball.

We get the opportunity to make these choices in our lives because of this great nation we live in which derives its zest from the Declaration of Independence.

This year we are celebrating our nation’s birthday more consecutive days than I can remember beginning with our Town Limits celebration on Friday, Great Meadow on Saturday, barbeques on Sunday and our true holiday on Monday. What a great country! “…I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here, and framed and adopted that Declaration of Independence…which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time...” ~ Abraham Lincoln, Independence Hall, February 22, 1861 Happy 240th Birthday, America!

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JULY 2016

FEATURES

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A GARDEN SCRAPBOOK

Linda Hostetler spent decades creating the lush gardens around her home

by Aimée O’Grady

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The interesting families who have lived in the old Carter home John T. Toler

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Scrapbook The Plains resident Linda Hostetler has spent the past two decades creating the lush gardens that surround her 1800s stucco residence.

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These gardens stand as a testament to her lifelong passion for garden design as a fine art form.

Hostetler is a transplant from California where she worked as a graphic designer, “When we came to The Plains in the 1990s, we saw this house and immediately fell in love.” A large, classic stucco house with few embellishments, it sat in a barren yard without so much as a single shrub to adorn it.

“There was nothing here but three dead cherry trees in the backyard,” says Hostetler.

A nineteen-year-old photo of Hostetler’s son, Daniel, only four years old and standing in a mostly barren yard next to a newly-planted magnolia is a reminder of just how far the gardens have come.

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Top: The Hostetler home when Linda purchased it in the 1990s. Below: The Hostetler home now that Linda has worked her gardening magic and added a front porch and second floor shutters.

A boulder at the back of the property is the head of a small water feature that runs through the upper part of the yard.

It ends in a sixteen by twenty-fourfoot pond, with more frogs and koi fish.

“When we renovated the kitchen, the builders found bedrock and broke off a boulder that I asked to have moved

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here,” she recalls.

She spent her first years in Virginia working as a graphic designer. Her favorite job was a designing a catalog for Windy Hill Plant Farm. She became so engrossed in the contents that she began using her earnings to purchase some of the plants featured in it. Her

passion grew from there. “As an artist, working with plants stretched my graphic design background by adding horticulture to the palette. A tree becomes a sculpture, a path a thread to weave through the tapestry. Plants inspire, thrill and challenge me!” she explains.

Today, a mosaic path, mulched walkway, and bridges take guests through the one-acre property.

Most of the land is covered in flowering plants and foliage in coordinated hues of gold, blue, and red. “My goal is to have something blooming every day of the year,” shares Hostetler. Her four-season garden is as exquisite in the winter, when the structure and conifers take center stage, as it is in the months when vibrant blooms and leaves are showcased.

Hostetler limits the plantings in the garden that surrounds her brick patio beyond her kitchen window to only white blooms, with the exception of one vibrant hot-pink peony. “It was mislabeled,” laughs Hostetler. “So once a year for a couple of weeks, this garden has one pop of pink.” The all-white garden’s location was deliberate.

“I needed something beautiful to look at while I was in the kitchen,” Hostetler says.

Hostetler’s property features mostly perennials, but she makes sure to leave a few open spaces.

These bare patches allow her to play with annuals and tropicals every year, and dedicated space means she doesn’t have to disturb her perennials to do so.

“Over time,” Hostetler says, “I began experimenting in our gardens and transitioned from a

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Hostetler allows her creativity to run wild in her home garden that looks amazing in winter, spring, summer, and autumn.

From pet memorials, to plants given to her over the years, to a prayer etched in stone that her father told to her as a child, the garden is Hostetler’s scrapbook.

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graphic designer to a garden designer. The first garden beds I planted were right outside the back door.” Two beds filled with vibrant red peonies and ornamental cabbages that have bolted, sprouting tall yellow blooms, fill the space. Hostetler is training two variegated willows to arch over the path from the house to the driveway.

Across the pea-gravel driveway begins the large garden with a welcoming wooden archway. Hostetler is currently installing a spiral mosaic pathway in the shape of a fern. While working in one of the upper beds, Hostetler realized there was a beautiful view of the garden and immediately set to work on another project: creating a seating area to enjoy the view. “I am always planning something new,” she explains, “or moving something that is not performing its best.

Sometimes it does not have the right amount of sunlight or drainage.”

In the front yard, a piece of garden art depicting a face sits in a bed with succulents framing it. “Here I plan to have sedum that has a bright rose color in the fall. I want it to look like the plant is her hair blowing wildly around her face,” Hostetler says. This is to bring attention to the ornament that otherwise may be overlooked with all the plantings surrounding it. “It’s hard to see her without some pop.”

Although she sticks to a consistent color theme throughout the garden beds of varying shades of gold, blue and red, Hostetler employs other colors as accents. For example, the silver tones of a lavender bush are used to complement the main colors and frame

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It acts as a blender to break up colors.

Lamb’s-ear is another example,” explains Hostetler.

Wildlife abounds throughout the gardens on the property. From the smallest creatures, like snails and ladybugs, to frogs, snakes, and rabbits, the garden is simply teeming with life. “Last year I counted 27 bird nests in the gardens, many of which had two clutches,” says Hostetler.

Gardening has helped keep Hostetler connected to nature throughout the years, “I spent my childhood ‘outside until the streetlights came on.’ My love for plants revives a study of insects, amphibians, birds and other wildlife. It is fascinating to observe the networks and communities in my mini-universe.”

“I love sharing flowers and cuttings with friends,” she says. “It’s one of my favorite things to do.” Hostetler’s mother recently relocated to an assisted living facility.

She left her home of 35 years, where she and Hostetler spent years growing her garden. Hostetler is transplanting some of those plants from her mother’s garden as a memory of that time spent together.

Filled with life today, Hostetler’s garden also serves as a snapshot of her life. From

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pet memorials, to plants given to her over the years, to a prayer etched in stone that her father told to her as a child, the garden is Hostetler’s scrapbook.

Today, when Hostetler is not in her own garden evaluating plant cultivars, she designs four-season gardens for others.

From small gardens to elaborate and expansive showcase gardens, Hostetler simply enjoys sharing her talent and passion with others. “As a designer, I love to take on a new space and work with people to create a garden unique to the site and the client,” says Hostetler.

The Hostetler garden was chosen to be included in the 2017 Capital Region Garden Bloggers Fling, an annual meetup of garden bloggers from across North America and the U.K. The Fling, which showcases the finest gardens across DC, northern VA, and suburban MD, will be taking the bloggers on a tour that highlights the diversity of our area. The nationally acclaimed Hostetler garden is one of the best gardens in the wine country.

To reach Linda Hostetler for a garden consultation, email her at hostetlerdesign@ comcast.net. ❖

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Join the Warrenton Area Civitians and Families4Fauquier at 5th and Main Street on July 4th for the Children and Pet Parade in Old Town Warrenton.

Decorate your dogs, bikes, trikes and wagons. Please nothing motorized.

Parade line-up starts at 9:30 a.m. Parade starts promptly 10 a.m. following Uncle Sam to the Fauquier County Courthouse. The Fauquier Community Bank will be playing patriotic music on the courthouse steps. Flags, balloons, dog treats, decorations, water, and popsicles will be available.

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Movie begins at dusk (between 8:45-9 p.m.). Crafts start at 7:30 p.m.

Please join Families4Fauquier and the Fauquier County Sheriff’s office for our Summer Bicycle Rodeo at 11 a.m. at PB Smith Elementary School on July 23rd.

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Clockwise from top left: Painting Fathers Day tiles at Earth, Glaze and Fire. The Fauquier Fox with a young event guest. Rachel and Rosalyn meeting Ronald McDonald at the Red Nose Party. Painting piggie banks at Sona Bank.

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THE INTERESTING FAMILIES WHO HAVE LIVED IN THE OLD CARTER HOME

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escendants of English land baron Robert “King” Carter built many homes in Western Prince William County in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but most were lost during the Civil War, or by neglect and decay.

One exception is Falkland, located on present-day Falkland Road just east of Buckland. The property on which the manor house was built was once part of Cloverland, owned by Charles Carter of the Shirley and Corotoman plantations.

The 2,000-acre tract ran along Broad Run all the way from Thoroughfare Gap to present-day U.S. 29. Charles Carter’s son Edward (17671806) built the Greek-Revival manor house at Cloverland in the 1790s. This house survived until the mid-20th century (See Haymarket Lifestyle, October 2010) It is believed that Falkland was built sometime after 1825

by Edward Carter’s son, John Hill Carter (1799-1859) on the site of an earlier house dating back to 1752. His first wife was Susan Baynton Turner (17991826), the daughter of Maj. Thomas Turner and his wife Eliza Carter Randolph Turner of nearby Kinloch. They had one child, Jane Eliza (18211915), who married Robert Beverley (1822-1901) of Avenel in 1843.

John Hill Carter later married Mary Jane Loughborough (c. 1819-1903), and six children were born of this union: Lavinia (1836-1889), Cassius (1837-1914), Matthew Loughborough (1838-1866), Charles Shirley (1840-1877), R. S. ‘Scottie’ Carter often accompanied his father, contractor Randy H. Carter, to Falkland while work was being done on the 1952 addition.

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Caroline (b. 1842) and Eliza (1856-1908).

The main house at Falkland occupies a high, flat rise in the foothills of the Bull Run Mountains. “The reddish-gold colored stone used in constructing this house is very beautiful and unusual, compared to the relatively common red sandstone seen in other older buildings in Prince William County,” according to the survey done in the 1970s for the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission.

The stone used in the construction was quarried on the property.

The original house was a two-story, three-bay Federal-style structure; a 1½ story wing was added on the southwest side about 1844. The walls of the main section are three feet thick at the base, tapering to 18 inches in the attic. On the southwest end of the house is an interior, double-chimney, while the smaller wing has a single interior chimney.

The survey notes that the craftsmanship of the interior of the early home was exceptionally good, “…reflecting the taste of a cabinet-maker who was active in the Buckland area in the 19th century.”

Downstairs were the entry hall and main stairs, drawing rooms, dining room and the original kitchen. The 1½ -story wing added later contained the new kitchen and master bedroom. Upstairs were three bedrooms in the original part, and a fourth bedroom in the wing.

Falkland had the usual plantation outbuildings, plus a 1½-story frame “schoolhouse,” according to the survey.

West of the main house was a tenant house.

NICK CARTER OF FALKLAND

The Civil War would have a serious impact on Falkland and the John Hill Carter family. It is known that son Charles joined the Southern cause at the beginning of the war, serving under Capt.

John Marr in the Warrenton Rifles. But it was the actions of Matthew Loughborough “Nick” Carter during and after the conflict that most remember.

Nick Carter is described in the survey as “…an impulsive, violent, murderous man who allegedly rode with Col. John S. Mosby. Under arrest after the war for some outrage he had committed, he fled to Texas.”

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account was compiled by Robert Beverley Herbert (1879-1974) in his book, Life on a Virginia Farm (1968).

Mr. Herbert’s grandmother was the aforementioned Jane Carter Beverley, half-sister of Nick Carter, and she remembered much about him that she shared with her grandson.

A willful and mischievous child while growing up at Falkland, “His father nicknamed him ‘Nick, after ‘Old Nick, (the devil),” according to Mr. Herbert. As a youth he was known around Buckland as a show-off, and later developed a drinking problem.

During a flood, it appeared that the bridge over Broad Run would be washed away. As his neighbors watched, “Nick mounted his horse and rode back and forth across the bridge, emphasizing his exploit by firing his pistol as he went,” wrote Mr. Herbert.

In This Was Prince William (1978), a more brutal incident was recalled.

“While sitting on a porch with a young lady to whom Nick was attentive, her cat came along, and she expressed more interest in the cat than she did in him.

Whereupon he picked up the cat, and holding it up by the back of the neck, shot a hole through it.”

Nick Carter’s problem with alcohol was noted by his half-sister, Jane Eliza Beverley. “I was fond of him, but was sorry when I would see him come to Avenel,” she told Mr. Herbert. “He always wanted something to drink, which I knew he shouldn’t have and didn’t want to give him.”

In his early 20s at the beginning of the war, Nick did not join a regular organized Confederate unit, and at some point, became affiliated with Capt. John S. Mosby’s Partisan Rangers. This allowed him to fight while being able to stay close to home, and then fade into the background after striking the enemy.

According to Mr. Herbert, “Capt. Henry Dulany of Upperville described Nick Carter as a handsome man with a superb figure who wore a reddish brown beard, but his general make-up was marred by a

Top: JOHN HILL CARTER 1799-1859. Bottom: ROBERT BEVERLEY HERBERT 1879-1974. high, almost falsetto voice.”

Nick Carter’s exploits as a guerilla fighter were well known. “He and a close friend named Charlie McDonough, and mounted on good horses, used to make a practice of riding through any detached bunch of Yankees they happened to locate. They trusted to escape by the speed of their horses, and the fact they could jump fences,” wrote Mr. Herbert.

But one time near Middleburg, the Yankees counter-attacked and gave chase, and “…as the two men approached a low, boggy place, an old sow wallowing there ran under one of the horses, which fell,” according to Mr. Herbert. “The rider who was down was Charlie McDonough, who was killed either by the fall or by the pursuers. The other rider was Nick Carter.”

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Top: Photographed before the wing was added in the 1950s, Falkland looked much like it did during the Civil War. Courtesy of Scottie Carter.

Bottom: The frame schoolhouse at Falkland, shown in the 1970s, was where the Carter children were taught. It was later made into a guesthouse.

Falkland served as Nick’s base during the war, and it has been noted that the house had several “cubbyholes,” including one between the two chimneys, where he hid when the Yankees came looking for him. Visiting the house many years later, Mr. Herbert noted, “It’s a very fine old place, with more nooks and corners which could be used as hiding places than almost any home I’ve ever seen.”

But Nick would have to hide before the Yankees entered the house. On one occasion, he was resting on a sofa with his shoes off when enemy troops burst in. He jumped out a window and ran up into the Bull Run Mountains, where he hid for several days. Family members managed to get food to him until the Yankees departed.

The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, and on April 21, Col. Mosby disbanded his troops at Salem (Marshall). But for Nick Carter, the war was not over, and his hatred of the victorious Yankees only intensified.

“After the close of the war, Nick was walking along a road near Falkland when two Yankee soldiers came along,” recalled Mr. Herbert. “He was not in uniform and did not appear to be armed, and gave the impression of being just a country farmer.

“They asked if there was any place nearby where they could get a drink of water, and he conducted them to a spring.

While one of the Yankees was kneeling down drinking, Nick grabbed the pistol which the other man had in a holster, and shot the owner of the pistol and then the other man before he could get up or do anything about it. He was then able to get away with their horses.”

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a wanted man. Mr. Herbert found a letter sent Sept. 30, 1865 by Gen. C.C. Augud to Maj. Gen. Terry, Commander of the Department of Virginia in Richmond, which read in part: “I deem it my duty to inform you that I am this morning advised from good authority that Nick Carter, a desperate and lawless character belonging in Fauquier County, and who has been committing a number of outrages since the surrender of Lee’s army, is at present organizing a band of men like himself for purposes of plunder and robbery.

“Two young scamps of the name Marstella are said to be associated with him. Carter’s mother, a widow and of great respectability, resides near Thoroughfare Gap. The Marstellas live not far from Bristoe Station, on the O&ARR.” The letter was passed to the Provost Marshal’s Office in Warrenton, where it was noted in a reply dated Oct. 12, 1865 that the matter involving Nick Carter had been investigated, and that there was no evidence of a gang being formed.

“It is reported that Carter left for Mexico some two months ago, and since that time, nothing has been seen or heard of him,” wrote Provost Marshal Capt. W.E. Orr. “I can learn nothing in regard to the Marstellas.” The matter was closed, at least in Virginia.

What actually happened to Nick Carter was revealed – at least in part – by letters sent home to his family. He first headed north, passing through Baltimore on his way to Canada, where he stayed briefly before heading to South America. It appears that he had been recruited for some kind of expedition there, but wrote that it was “…just so much money thrown away.”

He departed South America in December 1865 and stayed for a brief time in Texas, before crossing the border at Eagle Pass into Mexico, where he “... accompanied a party of gentlemen on a tour of several thousand miles…in a country that is infested with bands who spare neither friend nor foe.”

Nick Carter was the second-in-charge of the group, which were likely mercenaries hired by a Mexican warlord. “Our party numbered thirty, and we lost only three killed and two slightly wounded on the entire trip. The fight in which we lost the men was not long, but very severe.” They had been surrounded by bandits flying the “Daquila flag,” meaning they would give no quarter, but this time they escaped.

It is not known when or where the next fight took place, but nothing was ever heard from Nick Carter again. There were rumors that he had returned to Texas and changed his name, but this was never proven. Online records state that Nick died in Mexico in 1866.

In 1956, Mr. Herbert journeyed to Cordova, Mexico – the city from where Nick’s last letter was sent – but due to the passage of time, he could find no trace of him, either in records or talking to the oldest English-speaking citizens he could find.

In a strange twist, it has been stated in several histories that Nick Carter’s exploits were the subject of a series of “dime novels” printed in the 1890s. This is not correct. The “Nick Carter” in these stories is a detective.

“I know nothing of the detective Nick Carter,” said Mr. Herbert. “Whether the creator of this fiction ever heard of the

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Ownership of Falkland passed to daughter Eliza, who was married to Eugene Rossis. It passed through other owners, but remained intact. “In the early 1900s, Falkland was a large dairy farm, shipping milk and produce by train to Washington, D.C.,” according to the VHLC survey.

Farm products were moved down a narrow road from Falkland across the fields to the station at Thoroughfare. In 1931, the property was acquired by David and

Gen. Douglas MacArthur were retaking the Philippines. On Dec. 27, 1944, Col. Malevich and Col. Saint were put on the Enoura Maru, a Japanese cargo ship loaded with POWs for transport to another camp in Manchuria.

On Jan. 10, 1945, while the ship was in port for repairs at Takao, Japan, it was strafed and bombed by U.S. aircraft, and Col. Saint was killed. The survivors were loaded on another ship and taken to the prison camp in Manchuria.

Liberated at the end of the war, Col. Malevich returned to the U.S., and was treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. He brought Col. Saint’s

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by Ernest and Barbara Kellogg, who acquired the property in 1986. The Kelloggs raise Alpacas on the farm. At right is the 1844 wing; at left, the 1952 addition.

personal effects to his friend’s widow and her children, who were living in Alexandria, Va. Col. Malevich and Jean Saint were married shortly afterward, and first lived in Alexandria. Mrs. Malevich wanted to move to the country, and in October 1946, purchased Falkland from the Batchelders.

While living at Falkland, daughter Stephanie and son Steve II were born. In 1952, Col. and Mrs. Malevich built the second wing on the house, matching the 1844 wing and balancing the structure.

The architect for the project was Meade Palmer, and the contractor was Randolph H. Carter. The stone used on the new addition came from the original quarry on the property, resulting in a near-perfect match.

Col. Malevich died in 1969 and his wife in 1971. What followed was a difficult time for the children, who had to deal with double inheritance taxes and the courts.

They were forced to sell the property in 1973.

Elizabeth Batchelder.

In 1946, Falkland was purchased by Col. Steven Malevich (1911-1969) and his wife, Jean (1912-1971). Mrs. Malevich was the widow of Col. Frederick Gilman Saint (1908-1945), and the mother of their two young sons, Charles and Crosbie Saint.

She was the daughter of John Edgerton Crosbie of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a well known oilman, banker and successful horse breeder.

Both Col. Malevich and Col. Saint were serving in the Philippines in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when the Japanese invaded the islands, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They were captured in April 1942, following the surrender of the U.S. and Filipino troops cornered on the Bataan Peninsula. Both survived the infamous 65-mile Death March to prison camps in the Philippines, and managed to stay together during years of brutal captivity at Camp Cabanatuan and other POW sites.

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The buyer was the Columbia Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, headquartered in Takoma Park, Md. Their original plan was to establish a retreat on the 536-acre property. A family lived there for awhile as caretakers, but after they left, the house stood vacant, and was severely vandalized.

Falkland was later purchased by Dr. David Kiernan, an ear-nose-and-throat specialist, who repaired the damage, updated the house and lived there with his family.

In August 1979, Falkland was purchased by business partners Robert Alvey, George Kelly and E. R. Conner Jr., for a residential development. Their previous projects included Hickory Grove Estates and Long Level.

The restored main house and 52 acres were offered for sale as one tract, and the rest of the property subdivided into large lots.

“We want to have a nice development of Colonial-type houses,” said Mr. Alvey at the time, adding that there would be “…horse trails around the entire property, using roads that circumscribe threequarters of it now.” A system of roads was put in, and the development was known as Falkland Farm Estates.

The house and 62 acres were purchased

by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kellogg in 1986.

The house was again updated, and facilities for raising an Alpaca herd were built on the farm (see Broad Run Lifestyle Magazine, January 2016). Starting with 12 Peruvian Huacaya Alpacas, the herd at Double “O” Good Alpacas has numbered as many as 280 animals, including more than 50 boarders. ❖

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HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION The Departure of the Class of 2016

By Joseph Kim

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ot long ago, in mid-May, the seniors of Kettle Run High School participated in their first public school graduation. It was a sizable, yet profound ceremony which consisted of live music, speeches courtesy of staff and students, and the presentation of diplomas to each individual recipient. As a member of the performing school band, I got to closely observe each robed graduate make their way on stage where they then received their certificates as well as an encore from a massive audience of students and families alike. The air was filled with a swell of applause, bellowing, and even air horns and percussion.

As an unimportant freshman, the seniors of Kettle Run were initially an intimidating crowd. They were the “devil-may-care” top predators in a disorganized hierarchy of high schoolers.

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program, and they always struck me as a dedicated and hardworking group of individuals. We underclassmen appreciated their guidance, and their work ethic and cooperation helped us earn the highest ‘Superior’ rating at our final marching band assessment.

Originally, I thought the seniors would only antagonize the neophytes, but in reality, they were a reliable source of information for anything we needed to know about high school.

Even as a 9th grader, the event was a surreal and emotional celebration.

Some of my closest friends were up on stage, shaking hands with the principal, and accepting their diplomas. The long hour that was dedicated to each senior made me really think about how little time I actually got to spend with them this year, and how much less time I would have with them after the occasion.

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"Alex thought it would be great to start keeping bees, but then his schedule became too busy with travel, and I needed to step in" to take care of his apiary. Since then, Mabin has become the primary beekeeper in her family. She relies on her husband for some of the literal “heavy lifting” of beekeeping.

Deep bee hive boxes, called supers, can weigh upwards of ninety pounds when filled with honey.

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don the bee suit and get in the apiary with her. "Both my son, son-in-law, nieces and nephews have helped me with the bees," says Mabin.

Mabin and her husband joined the Northern Piedmont Beekeepers Association and attended the seven-week beekeeping course, taught by Master Beekeeper Ann Harman. The Mabins continue to work with a vast network of beekeepers in our region, including members of the NPBA, Jerry Headley at Virginia Bee Supply in Remington, and, of course, the internet.

Some of Mabin's most memorable beekeeping experiences have come from swarms. A swarm occurs when a percentage of the hive population leaves the hive with their queen to start a new hive, “They form a consensus on when to leave the hive,” says Mabin. To enable her to fly the queen stops laying so her body becomes smaller. The bees initial landing spot is random, but from there they fly to a predetermined location. The remaining bees then select a brood cell to feed a special food called royal jelly. This process results in a super-sized worker bee that becomes the hive’s new queen.

“Many beekeepers don’t want a hive to swarm, since it means that the original hive loses some of its manpower and the new hive will take time to get going. A swarm will slow down honey production,” explains Mabin. But for Mabin, catching

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a swarm means she will likely start a new hive. "To me, a swarm is a sign of a healthy hive," Mabin states. "When the bees leave the hive, they are looking for a new home and are leaving behind a strong colony."

Since Mabin works from her home tending to the farm, she is often around when a swarm happens. "I may notice activity above one hive that is a little off.

When the bees fly higher above the hive than they regularly do, I know a swarm is about to happen." Shortly thereafter, Mabin may hear a loud buzzing and see a cluster of bees move off in a particular direction. "The bees in a swarm all know where they are going,” she says. This is because days prior to a swarm, scout bees search out a new location for their hive.

Their pheromones tell the swarm where to go.

Over the years, Mabin has found swarms all over her property. "They will be under farm equipment, on tomato cages, even on the side of another hive!"

But most times, they are in nearby trees.

To gather a swarm, Mabin first pulls on her bee suit and collects a box and perhaps a cherry picker to shake a high branch. "Collecting the bees is actually very easy. All I have to do is shake the branch and the cluster falls apart. I will put a sheet under the box to catch the ones that miss the box. Then I bring them to the bee yard and dump them into an unoccupied bee hive. The bees that fly off catch the scent of the pheromones and eventually find their way to the new hive."

To keep the swarm in the new hive, Mabin feeds the bees a sugary syrup right away. It is in this way that Mabin has increased the number of hives in her apiary to thirteen this year. Her apiary yields a few hundred pounds of honey each year.

Occasionally, Mabin cannot reach a swarm that has settled on a high branch and she leaves it. Neighbors have mentioned seeing the swarm and hearing its distinctive buzzing as it sets off for a permanent location.

One of her earliest experiences with beekeeping was what she thought was bearding. Bearding occurs when the hive’s population reaches over 30,000 and the ambient temperature in the hive becomes too high. When this happens, the bees simply step outside for some fresh air.

One day, Mabin went into her apiary only

to find all of the bees on the outside of the hive. Unsure what was happening, she called her mentor, Harman, and ultimately Northern Piedmont Beekeeper Association member Karen Hunt, who came by to take a look. “What happened was that the queen was released from her cage too soon and there was no comb for her to lay eggs in, so she just walked out the door and all the bees followed!” Hunt helped her move all the bees back into the hive.

Although anxious about taking on beekeeping, a fragile activity, she has become mesmerized with the tiny insects.

“I’m fascinated by how the bees make comb. It’s incredible that they do that,” she marvels. Mabin is drawn to patterns and repetitions, “A newly drawn frame is absolutely gorgeous, beautifully clean and creamy white. Full of possibilities. Mabin “marvels at the precision of the combs, the hexagon pattern that is so efficient... the evenness of the depth of the combs for brood. The fact that the bees have this ability to make the wax is in itself incredible.”

The plight of the honey bee was just gaining momentum when Mabin became a beekeeper. Her initial interest in bees was simply because the bees fit in with her small homestead of chickens and a large garden. Her garden has been altered because of the bees. They attract more diverse birds, and the birds ultimately transfer seeds.

The interconnectedness of her environment is echoed in her beekeeping adventures. This year, Mabin harvested honey from her hives shortly after the locust trees bloomed, which resulted in a very light-colored honey desired by retailers. She approached The Whole Ox in The Plains with her honey, and they agreed to sell it. Daniel Liberson, owner of Lindera Farms in Delaplane and a customer at The Whole Ox, saw the honey. As a producer of Locust Vinegar, he expressed an interest in using her honey to make mead at his farm.

Although Mabin cannot always rely on the spring honey to be influenced by the locust blooms because of all the variables involved, she is still pleased with her contributions to the environment and community, “It is wonderful to be a part of something that has a larger impact than what you are doing,” she says.

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Right: Mabin checks on a comb from one of her hives, photo by Aimée O’Grady. All other photos by Dylan Mabin.

Store employee, Gene Brady has been a beekeeper for the past 33 years. He took up beekeeping the same year his daughter was born. Brady grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas near an uncle who was a beekeeper. “The family would all gather around my grandmother’s long table for waffles, and Uncle Tom’s honey would be on the table. I never developed a taste for maple syrup - it was always honey,” remembers Brady. Because of these early experiences, he always knew he would try beekeeping.

Unlike Mabin, Brady didn’t have a vast network of resources. His education in beekeeping came primarily from a number of outdated books. “I knew someone in The Plains with one hive, and he offered to sell it to me,” Brady relates.

Although hives are generally moved at night when the bees are inside the hive and dormant, Brady went over in the middle of the day to pick up the hive.

He had no smoke and no suit. “It was all wrong,” he recalls. “This was my first experience with multiple stings.” Despite losing a lot of bees, the queen stayed and the colony survived.

During those early years when he lived in Orlean and ordered his bees through the mail, the small post office would often call Brady and ask him to pick up the bees since the buzzing from the wooden box would make the other post office patrons

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nervous. Today, Brady depends on his own network of beekeepers, which he has formed over the years.

Brady has witnessed an increase in the black bear population and other threats to the honey bees, such as the varroa mite and viruses, and he has taken steps to control both with electric fencing and an acid that attacks the mite without harming the bee. While Brady believes the honey bee will survive these threats, he isn’t as certain about the commercial pollination industry, which is reliant on the survival of the honey bee.

Through the decades, Brady has become fascinated with how highly evolved the small insects are. “There are amazing social aspects in the hive,” he explains. “Some bees clean the hive, the morticians remove the dead bees, there are nursemaids and then the pheromones change alerting the hive of the need for a new queen. The bees come together to make a new one. How did Mother Nature come up with such a highly-evolved insect?”

Since he does not regularly wear his suit, gloves, or even his veil while tending his bees, Brady has become an expert at reading bees over the years. “Once you get stung, the bee releases pheromones alerting the other bees to a threat and then they come to sting as well.” Brady has become accustomed to reading the mood of his bees before attempting any beekeeping activity. “Some days, the bees don’t seem to care very much about my movements when I’m near the hive. But

there are days when the smallest amount of motion causes the bees to react quickly with abrupt motions collectively.

This careful observation of bees has given Brady a strong sense of appreciation for the delicate insects, “I believe that most beekeepers that achieve any level of success have spent a lot of time just watching the beehive, which we do because we are fascinated with this unique insect.”

Beekeepers move through the beekeeping activity with patience, carefully attuned to the needs of the small insects and observing the activity of the hive to predict their needs. In return, the bees flourish. Hives increase their population, swarms set off to create new hives, and pollinators work in fields and gardens in at least a 3-mile radius from each hive. Evidence of honey bees is everywhere. In the food at the farmers’ markets and the fields of seasonal blooms, all from a tiny insect with only a 4 to 6-week lifespan. ❖

Aimée O’Grady is a freelance writer who enjoys transforming stories told by Fauquier residents into articles for Lifestyle readers. She learns more and more about our rich county with every interview she conducts. She and her husband are happy with their decision to raise their three children in Warrenton.

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Many of the Tour’s competitors began their cycling careers during their teenage years. Most reach their peak strength, speed and endurance approximately ten years later. But for athletes who come into the sport later in life, many impressive and exciting competitive races exist for them to compete in.

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“It is never too late to take up an endurance sport,” assures Nieters. “A 50-year-old could go from the couch to an Ironman in just a few years with the right training.”

As a high school history teacher in his twenties, Nieters was an avid runner. He enjoyed the low barrier to entering the sport. “You only need a pair of sneakers to run,” he says. It wasn’t until he was in his late 20s that a friend recommended he compete in a cycling race, Longsjo Classic bike race in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

“I needed to be in a certain tier to compete,” he explains.

So he spent the next year training and competing in smaller events to climb the tiered-structure unique to cycling. It was during this time that Nieters uncovered his raw talent for cycling, and he cast his running shoes aside.

He was pursuing a master’s degree in Art History at the time, teaching during the day and training for races during every other available moment. Age was not an issue in

Nieters’ commitment; he aimed for the top prize at every race he entered.

It was also during this time that his friend’s bike shop in Warrenton closed. Nieters and his friend Curtis Prosser decided to open a new shop in Haymarket when the market research proved to support such a shop. Within three months of the idea being conceived, the shop, Haymarket Bicycles, was open (a second location, Haymarket Bicycles Studio has also since opened in The Plains). By then, Nieters realized he was spreading himself too thin and he made a drastic change to his teaching environment.

Nieters, who had been teaching teenagers in a traditional high school classroom, now found himself training both experienced and novice athletes on the open road. He encouraged participation with new riders, such as 25-year-old Joe Dombrowski, who hails from Marshall and is currently a professional cyclist who lives in Nice, France.

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Dombrowski got his start on Fauquier roads. “We would see him when we were out on rides and knew he had something,” Nieters recalls.

Dombrowski ultimately began riding on the Haymarket Bicycles team from 2008-2010 before joining the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) team Trek-Livestrong in 2010. Dombrowski spent this spring using the country roads in southern France as his training grounds for the Giro d’Italia, the Italian version of the Tour de France, which was held in June. Dombrowski currently competes as a member of the Cannondale Pro Cycling Team.

While 25-year-old Dombrowski, in his prime for the sport, is actively sought after by sponsors, Nieters understands that his age has become a handicap to his cycling career. “Sponsors are looking for young athletes who have yet to reach their peak and can maintain that peak for a certain number of years,” he says. But Nieters has not let his age become too much of a factor in the drive and determination he possesses.

These characteristics paid off when he and a team member were invited to compete in a cyclocross event in the Quisen Trophy Cyclocross competition in Beijing, China. “With participation from all over the world, there were only a few Americans invited to participate,” Nieters explains. Entry into this race is through an application process. All of the expenses of the trip were paid for by the Chinese promotional agency.

Cyclocross is similar to the Steeplechase in the equine community.

It consists of many laps around a short course with terrain that can include pavement, woods, grass, hills, and other obstacles. Since the races are often held in the fall or winter, they only last one hour to protect competitors from physical injury. The focus in this sport is intensity and bike-handling skills.

After a strong finish in 2012, Nieters has been invited back to compete at the event this fall. “The last time I competed in this event I was in Beijing for about 12 hours before racing. My body was a mess,” Nieters remembers. This year he is looking

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forward to a week-long visit in China and an opportunity to take in a few local attractions during his stay.

Cyclocross is ideal for a late-blooming endurance athlete. Cyclocross events regularly see athletes in their 50s and beyond, with categories for different ages as well as abilities. Even athletes who get a late start can compete.

This is because, as Nieters explains, there are three main variables in endurance events: duration, intensity, and frequency. “As we age, our recovery time becomes longer and longer. An older athlete may need to reduce duration and frequency but can maintain a high level of intensity, whereas an athlete in their mid-twenties can push all three variables.” The onehour limit of a cyclocross event makes it less taxing for older athletes, who simply need to train differently.

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Manager and cyclist, has known Nieters for about five years. Also a late-blooming competitive athlete, Griffin, at 42, currently coaches athletes half his age. According to Griffin, “cycling is a great equalizer. Age doesn’t limit your ability. You can ride in age groups or have a 40-year-old competing against an 18-year-old.”

Griffin believes that there is a balance between youth and wisdom and having a piece of equipment to assist you in the race, in this case, a bike, certainly helps.

His main interest in cycling is also cyclocross. “It is never too late to pick up the sport,” he says. While it helps to have an athletic background, cyclocross “is not just about how fit you are.”

Scott Stahl, exotic animal veterinarian and cyclist, hired Nieters three years ago to coach him after he saw Nieters and Dombrowski out pace everyone in a mountain bike race in Annandale

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Top Left: Neiters with fans in 2012 in Bejing, China. Top Right: Nieters during a Cyclocross event. Bottom: Neiters and Stahl winning the Virginia State Championship in Charlottesville single speed division and the 50+ masters division, respectively.

several years prior. “I had to know who these guys were after I saw them ride,” he recalls. Stahl appreciates Nieters’ style of coaching, “he has me assign a stress level to my work and family life on a daily basis and charts these numbers to determine how hard I can realistically train without getting sick from over-training and not enough recovery.” It hadn’t occurred to Stahl before that he may have been pushing himself to train too hard, only to end up sick and needing to take significant amounts of time off for recovery.

Recognizing that his 50-year-old body didn’t respond to recovery as it had in the past, Stahl decided to hire Nieters to be his full-time coach. Since then, his performance has improved dramatically and he has gone on to be the 2015 Virginia State Champion in his masters age category in cyclocross and won a local mountain bike race series competition sponsored by Potomac Velo in Annandale in 2015 where he competed against riders as young as 35.

For many riders, cycling is a form of self-medication, a stress reducer and helps to balance out their lifestyles.

Science has even demonstrated in lab rats that endurance running produces more neurogenesis, the creation of new brain cells, than high-intensity or strength training activities.

On just about any day, Nieters and Griffin can be found out on Fauquier roads getting in a ride. Meanwhile Stahl keeps his training to between 7 and 10 hours each week, which balances out his work schedule. Weather is no limiter, “You just have to find the right apparel,” says Griffin. Neiters and Griffin encourage residents of every age to grab that apparel and find the right activity for them.

To this end, Griffin and Nieters team up to coach endurance athletes.

They prefer to coach athletes who have a specific goal in mind, and use their custom-tailored training plan with respect to each of three variables of endurance athletics. The duo offers a well-rounded training schedule for every athlete at every age. “We prefer to combine all aspects of training,

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from the mental to nutrition, even the equipment,” Griffin says.

For Griffin, being a coach in an inspiring experience. “I enjoy helping people at any level of fitness who want to accomplish something challenging or reach their goals.” But he cautions that every athlete needs to be mindful of injury prevention. Nieters advises that anyone who is looking to take up an endurance sport needs to begin gradually, regardless of their age.

“Athletes need to introduce new training routines slowly and be sure to monitor biometrics, such as heart rate.” Nutrition and sleep are also key components to recovery for any endurance event training program.

Individuals of any age looking to make a change or scratch an item off their bucket list need to start small with manageable chunks and build up their training over time. “If you train and rest, you can do it,” assures Nieters. While it is unlikely that many athletes will train and compete professionally, there certainly are some who will. And for the rest of us, the health benefits to both body and mind should be motivation enough to take up a new activity.

Readers interested in endurance training can reach Nieters, Griffin and other coaches at Mapleworkscoaching. com. Nieters can also be found at Haymarket Bicycles Studio located in The Plains. ❖

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The Sauvignon Blanc will remind many of the French Sancerre wines with its fruity and floral notes. Of the white wines, the Viognier, with a hint of Petit Menseng, pairs wonderfully with pork and ham and the Vidal Blanc is a great go-to wine with barbeques, cheese and crackers.

The reds include the Sunset Red, a complex wine made from five different varietals. This wine, while drinkable now, is one that will be a great addition for your cellar, if put away for a few years. The surprisingly big Cabernet Franc pairs well with red meats as does the Aldie Heights Cuvee red blend, with its big, complex tastes.

Picnics are allowed outside, as are kids, dogs and Frisbees. Special events, like weddings, corporate events and other celebrations are also encouraged.

Those interested are invited to tour the new club facility, which opens the weekend after the 4th of July. ❖

Steve Oviatt is Past President of the Haymarket Gainesville Business Association who runs his own consulting business in addition to working with a number of local and international wineries. Steve acknowledges his daughter taught him everything he knows about wine. He lives in Catharpin with his wife, Nancy.

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