The Blackburn Murder the First Major Battle of the Civil War Daniel Morrow Earlier, Massie Handed His Hymnal to Her Condition

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Middleburg’s Only Locally Owned and Operated Newspaper Volume 8 Issue 4 www.mbecc.com July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Humane National Sporting Foundation Gala Page 18 Museum Sneak Preview ortunate Hunt Country pa- wing where every historic fireplace trons and supporters forgot mantle and wide-plank floor has the steamy July evening been impeccably restored. Atten- weather when they were tion to detail has been visibly and recently invited for cocktails and pleasantly the watchword through- Fa sneak preview of the National out. Sporting Library’s new Museum. “We are so proud of it,” Board The completely renovated Chairman Manley Johnson said. and expanded Vine Hill evoked an “The National Sporting Library extraordinary array of positive com- Board’s decision to expand into the ment and compliment as guests as- fine art field was made to help keep cended the limestone steps to enter the history and legacy of America’s the new wing. Crossing the airy great country life alive and well. We opening gallery, they went up the are immensely pleased to create this sweeping spiral staircase to beauti- museum for our community.” fully lit and appointed exhibit rooms In fact, the mission of the Nation- on the second floor. al Sporting Library and Museum, is to Designers and architects have ‘preserve and to share the art, literature created pristine new wing galleries, and culture of horse and field sports.’ welcoming and elegant, that inte- Located on the Library’s Middleburg, grate seamlessly with the renovated Continued Page 5 Historic Furr Farm Sesquicentennial Celebration Billie Van Pay ne of the most historic farms in Loudoun County, the Furr-Leith Farm on Snickersville Turnpike, sold last year af- Oter having been owned by the Furr-Leith family for seven gen- erations. Chet and Laura Lea Moore of Aldie, Va., are the new owners, and they have involved a number of the community organizations in preparation for a major public event in 2013 that will highlight the grand old farm’s history. The Sesquicentennial Civil The Moore family War Celebrations in Northern plans to have the Furr Farm be- Virginia have brought the na- come a location for part of that tional news media and tourists in celebration. monumental numbers to the area The Furr Farm battle site, recently, and most of the area’s registered with the Department organizations and agencies fo- of Historic Resources, is the site cused on education, history and of one of the major cavalry bat- preservation are participating in tles of the Civil War; the battle is and promoting those events. known as having been the Pre- The national tourism pro- lude to Gettysburg. gram for the National Heri- During the June 17, 1863, tage Area and National Scenic Battle of Aldie, Confederate Byways, which stretches one sharp-shooters from the Second hundred and eighty miles from and Third Virginia dismounted Gettysburg to Charlottesville, along the Snickersville Turnpike has designated the countryside behind the stone wall on the Furr along the route as the “Journey Farm and waited for the Union through Hallowed Ground.” cavalry which came around the There are more Civil War battle blind curve into a hail of fire. As sites concentrated in this area a consequence, the First Mas- than anywhere else in the na- sachusetts suffered great casual- tion. As the 150 year anniver- ties, the severest experienced by The Blackburn saries occur from battle site to battle site along the route, his- Continued Page 6 tory is being retold Page 4 in nineteenth century Murder terms to people of the twenty-first century, a Page 4 tremendous and diffi-

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10 East Washington Street • Post Office Box 485 • Middleburg, VA 20118 office 540.687.6321 fax 540.687.3966 middleburgrealestate.com 540-338-7770 www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 4 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 5 News of Note The Blackburn Murder The First Major Battle of the Civil War Daniel Morrow earlier, Massie handed his hymnal to her condition. Childs Burden McDowell and Pierre Gustave Toutant front the Confederate forces arrayed be- defenses at Charleston Harbor, Beaure- place 150 years ago this July 21st. It is a one of the group, a young law student Ellie’s younger sister, 18-year- Beauregard. hind that slow moving stream. gard had never before commanded men great time to refresh our memory on this n early 1854, Mary Anderson, ar- named Benton Taylor, and turned to old Julia, had walked to church that ne hundred fifty years ago last Irvin McDowell was career army. P. G. T. Beauregard was 43 years in battle. history. Visit the battlefield and take in guably one of the most beautiful face whatever might be out there in the night on the arm of VMI Cadet, First December 20, South Caro- He was admired and respected by both old and also career army. Born to Creole The story of these two class mates the film and electronic map presentation. women in Virginia, refused to go dark. Classman Thomas Blackburn, tall, lina seceded from The United the General in Chief, Winfield Scott, and parents on a sugar plantation near New who met as enemies on the plains of There is no better place for a walk and no out with a young Washington Col- As a preccaution he ordered blond, and by all accounts one of the States. Before the year ended, the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Orleans, Beauregard’s first language Manassas is an important part of our na- better place for quiet reflection. lege law student, Charles Burks Chris- Taylor to lead the two ladies of their most handsome, most popular, and Major Anderson moved his federal gar- Chase. Born in Ohio, McDowell was was French. He was accepted into West tional history. The battle they fought took Itian. Humiliated and made the object company to the relative light and safety most well-connected young men in the Orison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter 42 years old and had been schooled in Point and graduated in 1838 second in of public scorn, Christian confronted, of Main Street. Valley. in the middle of Charleston Harbor thus France before matriculating at West his class. He joined the artillery but was stabbed and killed her cousin, VMI In the darkness the fighters had He was also something of a bad setting the stage for a heated confronta- Point. Beauregard was one of his class- soon transferred to the engineers – the A Patriotic Gesture First Classman Thomas Blackburn, in gone down, stumbling and falling into boy. tion that would lead to the secession of mates. He graduated in 1838 and was most prestigious service in the army. He Lexington Virginia. This is the story the ruts of the barely thawed mud of the He had only recently returned six more states: Mississippi, Florida, Ala- ordered to the artillery service. Later he served with distinction in the war with n July 4, 2011, two young of that murder, the trials that followed, heavily traveled street. to VMI following a court-martial for a bama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. would be picked to teach tactics at West Mexico under General Winfield Scott. men from the Shenandoah and the impact of those events on the Hopelessly near-sighted, Massie notorious prank played on none other On March 4, 1861 Lincoln was Point. He served admirably in the war He was wounded twice there and rose in OValley Young Marines replaced men and women of Virginia and Mary- could barely see the shadowy antago- than the famously humorless Major sworn in as the 16th President of the with Mexico and advanced in rank to rank to major. the well-worn American flag on land who would all too soon face the nists, now rolling on the ground, their Jackson. United States. Negotiations over the captain. Afterwards, he was appointed As an engineer, he was posted the premises of the Middleburg larger trials of the American Civil War. faces completely hidden, their bodies Worse, were his ties of “former status of Fort Sumter broke down com- a position in the Adjutant’s General’s to spots along the Mississippi River to Exxon, owned by Billy Journell. only dimly visible in the glow from the kinship” to another woman in the con- pletely in early April and the Confeder- office, essentially a desk job in military handle flood control. In 1861 he was The on-duty attendant, Kim, ea- Part One: Out of the Darkness church windows behind him. gregation, Sally Campbell Preston ate States of America began bombarding administration. By 1856 he had risen appointed to head West Point, a post he gerly agreed to allow YM LCpl Inside that brightly lit sanctuary McDowell, the daughter of the first the fort. Major Anderson surrendered the to major. After Fort Sumter, McDowell held less than one week before resigning Thaddeus Edwards of Middleburg James Woods Massie had heard the Reverend Dr. George Junkin, Presi- Governor of Virginia from west of the fort within 32 hours but the act of bel- was advanced to brigadier general and his commission and joining the Confed- and SSgt Alex Loria of Arlington the sounds before -- the slash and snap dent of Washington College, was just Blue Ridge, James McDowell. ligerence against a federal fort was tan- given command of the then named Army eracy. He was given command of the to remove the tattered flag and of a heavy switch or cowhide lash beginning evening services. Blackburn’s uncle, former tamount to a declaration of war. Lincoln of Northeastern Virginia. He had never Charleston defenses in March. There he replace it with a crisp, brand new and the echoes of hard blows striking His congregation numbered a Maryland Governor Frank Thomas, called for 75,000 troops to put down “the commanded soldiers in action and resist- led the forces that would initiate the war one in honor of our Nation’s 235th home. It sounded, he said, like nothing hundred or more. Among them were had met her when he was a congress- rebellion” and soon thereafter four more ed taking the field with his army in dire with the bombardment and surrender of birthday. The former flag will re- more than someone thrashing a slave. the usual assortment of VMI Cadets, man and she was a student at a DC fin- states left the Union. Virginia would be need of additional training. Nevertheless, Fort Sumter. Ironically, Major Ander- ceive a ceremonious retirement at Nothing unusual, it would seem, for a Washington College students, and ishing school. among them. Lincoln wanted a quick end to the rebel- son, the federal officer in charge at Fort the Young Marine’s annual sum- Sunday afternoon in Lexington. bright young men from Judge John Though she was less than half Nearly everyone thought the war lion because many of the men had come Sumter, had been Beauregard’s artillery mer camping trip, to be held in Massiee said nothing about it to White Brockenbrough’s Law School, his age he had courted her and married would be brief, lasting a few months into the army as 90 day volunteers. Their instructor at West Point. Philadelphia in August. It seems his three friends stepping carefully in many of whom, by their own admis- her in her father’s house in Lexington. at most. Northerners and Southerners enlistment terms would soon expire. Lin- By early summer of 1861, Beau- appropriate that it should be re- the dark along Nelson Street, on their sion, attended services less for religious Within a year, however, Frank flocked to their colors to stand up for their coln ordered him to proceed to Manassas regard was ordered to take command of moved from service on July 4th way to late Sunday services at Lexing- inspiration than to see or be seen by the Thomas drove divorce legislation beliefs. By June, thousands had joined Junction to take that vital rail connection the Confederate forces in Northern Vir- and retired in the place where the ton’s main Presbyterian Church. young women in the congregation. through the Maryland legislature and the ranks and thousands more were com- and then to follow up that victory by tak- ginia, an army he would name The Army American flag originated. No one raised an alarm. Dr. Junkin’s family was also published a widely circulated pamphlet ing in each week. Both sides now looked ing Richmond. On July 16th, McDowell of the Potomac. There he engineered a For more information on It was dark; it was wet; it was there: his wife, his three daughters, on the process, charging that his teen to their experienced military men to lead moved his army out of Washington and defensive line along Bull Run that would the unit, visit the website at www. Sunday, and whatever was going on in and his new son-in-law, a West Point bride had committed incest with her these green soldiers into battle. The two headed for Fairfax and Centreville. On guard the important rail connection at svym07.com. the shadows it was, no doubt, none of graduate, Mexican war hero, and now cousin soon after their marriage and officers who were chosen were Irvin July 21st, he crossed Bull Run to con- Manassas Junction. Other than the static their business. a struggling instructor at the Institute, worse, in heavily Catholic Maryland, By the time Massie’s little group Major Thomas Jonathan Jackson, later had aborted the resulting pregnancy. had covered another five or ten paces better known as “Stonewall.” Tom Blackburn, the eldest son two men came tumbling out of the For the Junkin and Jackson of Frank Thomas’s sister, would be darkness behind, locked in each others families the recent holiday season had dead before his erstwhile Aunt Sally National Sporting Museum Sneak Preview arms, struggling in what one described already been exceptional. heard benediction. Continued From Page 1 as a “deadly silence,” “Ellie” Junkin, Major Jackson’s Virginia campus, the Museum will to the field… is very apt. And the sec- preciate the work of these individuals.” the value of these works as an expres- can sporting artists, which have long Perhaps recalling recent rumors new wife, was pregnant with their first (to be continued) house a rapidly expanding permanent ondary definition… Away from home Organized by theme, the exhibit sion of American life and culture, but, been esteemed by enthusiasts of the of slave unrest (and the mobilization of child, though it is unlikely that either collection of fine paintings, sculpture or to or at a distance… is equally ap- will include these categories: Artist ultimately, that they are a reflection of genre, but, until recently, were often troops in Lexington) only a few years she or her husband were yet aware of and objets d’art. propriate. Early in our country’s history, Naturalists & Explorers; Budding Na- ourselves,” Reuter explained. overlooked by art historians are also Scheduled to open in the Au- animal and sporting artists were active tional Style; Equine; Hunting with Paintings and sculpture have an important focus of the exhibition. tumn of 2011, visitors will be welcomed practitioners of the field sports. They Hounds; Livestock; Angling; Sporting been drawn from the NSLM’s perma- Included in this group are William Her- through the doors of the historic brick were afield to paint as often as they were Portraits; Pets; Trompe l’Oeil and Still nent collection as well as from private bert Dunton, Herbert Haseltine, Thomas structure to view exhibitions in a de- to hunt, fish, ride and shoot. They were Life; Shooting; the West; and Wildlife. collections, museums and other institu- Hewes Hinckley, Anna Hyatt Hunting- lightfully inviting setting very reflec- often working away from home and, According to Reuter, the 150 tions throughout the United States. The ton, Alexander Pope, Ogden Pleiss- tive of the setting for which these works frequently, were travelers or immigrants paintings and sculpture shown within exhibit will include iconic American ner, Percival Rosseau and John Martin were originally commissioned. to this country, seeking both opportunity these categories will help illustrate how artists including Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Tracy. According to NSLM Executive and inspiration in a new land. American animal and sporting artists Jacob Miller and Frederic Remington For further information about the Director Rick Stoutamyer, the renova- “American born or otherwise, have developed a unique national style as well as those by recognized masters new National Sporting Museum and its Be more than a patient. Be a priority. tion and expansion of Vine Hill, the many were adventurers or explorers reflective of our people, the rich variety of the animal and sporting art genre, in- exhibition, “Afield in America,” please Federal Manor House that will be home working afield, far beyond the confines of our wildlife and the breadth of our na- cluding John James Audubon, Edward contact the Curatorial Department, 540 to the Museum, is primarily finished al- of the academy or studio. Our inaugu- tional landscape. Troye, Arthur F. Tait and William T. 687 6542, extension 14, or visit www. though there are punch list items to be ral exhibit will create a context in which “It is my hope that the exhibi- Ranney. nsl.org. completed and tweaks to the lighting visitors can learn about and begin to ap- tion will convince visitors not only of The works of other fine Ameri- that are very much the purview of Cura- tor F. Turner Reuter, Jr. “Turner is doing a fabulous job,” Rick emphasized. “His dedication and execuTiVe cHeF enthusiasm are unparalleled and fo- Award Winner WiLLiAm WALden’s cused.” inn – 2011” Without question, everyone on T $ the NSLM team, the board, the direc- 39 THRee couRSe Menu tors, the administrators and staff, de- excellen Conde NastST Johansens served sunday through saturday, closed tuesdays. serve immense credit for envisioning, now extended through Friday and saturday evenings until 6pm. funding, planning and bringing into ex- “Mo istence a truly exceptional new Ameri- can institution. leT’S do luncH Proof of the quality and caliber & Opentable.com 2011 Diner’s Choice Award of their vision and commitment extends monday - saturday (closed on tuesday) 11:30am - 2:00pm. Esther Bahk, M.D. Nandini Chhitwal, M.D. Jairo Torres, M.D. beyond the beautiful building to the Internal Medicine Rheumatology Ear, Nose & Throat opening exhibition, “Afield in America, Join uS FoR HunT counTRy Happy HouR 400 Years of Animal & Sporting Art, thursday, August 25, 2011 from 5:30-7:30. 1585-1985” that will debut October 11th, 2011. cocktails and complimentary canapés. Fauquier Health at Lake Manassas puts your needs first. Curator Reuter designed the Call today for opening exhibit to raise awareness of the And that’s why we give you the personal attention you importance of animal and sporting art as your appointment a reflection of American history and cul- deserve. We also give you access to the Internet and tural life. To include over one hundred 703-743-7300 works of fine art, the exhibition evolves refreshments at our Wi-Fi Café. 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Closed tuesdays Fauquier Health at Lake Manassas 703-743-7300 I believe that animal and sporting art are www.fauquierhealth.org inseparable,” Reuter emphasized. follow us on Located just 2.5 miles North of Middleburg. “The term ‘afield,’ is an adverb 36205 Snake Hill Road • MiddleBuRg, ViRginia 20117 that is very useful in this exhibition for both its primary and its secondary defi- A Visit Loudoun d estinA tion RestA u RAnt nitions: The primary definition… In, or www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 6 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 7 News of Note Fauquier Moves to Ban Heavyweight Truck Traffic Hunter Bayliss commercial trucks” on local roads The proposal, which would ban lane roads, many of which are in the Middleburg Town Council to to the Commonwealth Transporta- tractor trailers on Halfway Road residential and private farm areas. gain support for the proposal. The he Fauquier County Board tion Board (CTB) at the supervi- (Route 626), Zulla Road (Route Michael Motion, a major Town Council will hold a public of Supervisors has voted sors meeting on July 14. 709), Rectortown Road (Route force behind the proposal, has been meeting some time in the near fu- unanimously to recom- The next step will be a hear- 710) and Atoka Road (Route 713), pressuring the county for well over ture to address the issue of through mend a proposal to ban ing before the CTB, which will take arose from a petition last fall to ban a year about the bothersome truck truck traffic on Halfway Road T“heavyweight through traffic of steps to put the proposal into law. through truck traffic on small two- traffic. As the public hearing ap- (Route 626), which lies in both ju- proached, Mr. Motion sent out an risdictions. e-mail call to arms to those affected Though most of the com- in the neighborhood. “This is it: the munity welcomes the ban, their Art Show Featuring Tom Neel battle lines are being drawn,” he reasoning behind it ban is mixed. wrote, calling on concerned citi- Some residents place the blame on he Art Institute of Wash- collections extensively here, na- media arts, fashion and culinary zens to muster support and attend trucks that use the short cuts to by- ington – Northern Vir- tionally from coast to coast and arts professionals. the proposal’s public hearing. Mr. pass Route 81, Route 66, and other ginia hosts a solo show in many parts of Europe. It is “We are honored and de- Motion was keen to remind every- routes with truck weight scales, featuring renowned lo- rare for a collector to have just lighted to have Tom Neel’s work avoiding fees that the state uses cal landscape artist, Tom Neel. one of his paintings and nearly in our gallery – our students are one that “now is the time for ac- TThe show will run from July 21 half of the paintings Neel cre- looking forward to this show. We tion.” to upkeep roads. Others place the through August 28 with a por- ates are done as a special order are very touched by his generos- For many members of the blame on the route 17 truck ban. tion of the proceeds going to - commissioned work of art. ity toward the foundation which community, the ban will be a wel- Ms. Matheson said, “the problems The Education Foundation ben- Mr. Neel is a firm believer funds scholarships for many come relief. Mrs. Kit Hemion, a of these cut through routes only efiting student education. in giving back and is very gen- of our students,” says Gregg Rectortown resident, said: “though started when (Route) 17 became The fundraising event pro- erous with his donations. A por- Crowe, president of The Art In- I’m not as affected by the trucks as restricted by the residents in Paris.” vides an opportunity to purchase tion of the proceeds of this fun- stitute of Washington – Northern my neighbors, for the people who Whatever the cause, people some of Mr. Neel’s art work draising event will benefit The Virginia. live on Maidstone Road, this will living on the affected roads are ea- known for preserving the Pied- Education Foundation which is The Art Institute of Wash- gerly awaiting enactment, which mont region of Virginia through a non-profit tax-exempt founda- ington – Northern Virginia is make their lives a lot easier and qui- his landscape paintings. For well tion. The Foundation provides located at The Corporate Of- eter.” Other supporters of the ban, would not necessarily end all truck over 20 years the self-taught scholarships to students who fice Park at Dulles Town Center, such as Julie Martin Matheson, traffic. As one resident pointed out, artist has created paintings, be- attend Education Management 21000 Atlantic Blvd., Suite 100, were clear that “[through trucks] “Such a ban wouldn’t impair local coming one of the area’s most Corporation owned schools. The Dulles Va. For additional in- should not be allowed on these pre- trucks and deliveries such as hay commissioned and best known Art Institute is America’s Leader formation and hours please call cious and dangerous smaller cross and feed for the cattle and horses, landscape painters. His work can in Creative Education, providing 571-449-4400. roads.” but will be the first step toward re- be found in private and corporate an important source for design, The Fauquier County Board ducing the heavyweight traffic on of Supervisors recently approached our roads.” Historic Furr Farm Continued From Page 1 Learn How to Put any Union regiment on a single Reynolds from Mosby Heritage community. day in the entire Civil War. Area Association; Lester Schum- The Mosby Heritage Area Style in Your Garden Years after the war, a monu- acher, consultant on cavalry re- Association, under the leadership ment was erected in 1891 on enactments; Steve Hines and of Childs Burden, who is well Gracie Bayliss rector, producer, and actor, M. grounds donated by Dallas Furr, Stephen Nichols from Aldie Heri- known as an outstanding histo- Night Shyamalan; and the famed a veteran of Mosby’s Rangers. tage Association. rian, has ongoing programs that ward-winning gar- Lauder family (of Estee Lauder). Today, the battle site, the monu- These organizations are unequaled in scholarship and den designer and au- He has made multiple appear- ment, the stonewall, and the old have been very successful man- educational resourcefulness. thor Jon Carloftis [cq] ances on the Style Channel, Furr house are still there in full agers of large events and edu- Everyone involved in will lecture on “Put- The Home and Garden Channel view along Snickersville Turn- cational programs. The plans this project hopes the entire com- ting Style in the Garden” at the (HGTV), ABC’s Good Morning, AMiddleburg Community Center America, and Martha Stewart. pike. for the Furr Farm event include munities of Aldie, Middleburg On July 20, several a rededication of the roadside and Upperville will help pro- on Tuesday, September 13. The In 2010, Mr. Carloftis was community leaders met with the monument, a reenactment of the mote and support, not only the open-to-the-public event, spon- selected to design and install the Moores at the Rector House in cavalry battle, and interpretive Furr Farm event in 2013, but all sored by The Piedmont Garden Alltech Experience and the Ken- Atoka to form a committee, and and interactive activities that will the other events and activities re- Club, will begin at 11:00 am and tucky Experience gardens at the the group has begun planning the help the participants experience lated to the Sesquicentennial Cel- will be followed by a catered World Equestrian Games in Lex- event for June of 2013. The com- the 1863 history. ebrations, MHAA’s “Preservation box luncheon. ington, the Games’ first appear- mittee includes Henry Plaster and The Moores are confident through Education” programs, Mr. Carloftis, a Kentucky ance in the United States. In ad- Tom Christ from Snickersville in the committee’s leadership and the Snickersville Turnpike As- native, has been gardening for dition, he has designed gardens Turnpike Association; Childs look forward to helping present sociation and the Aldie Heritage more than 23 years. He began his for the UK Arboretum. Burden, Rich Gillespie and Judy a very historical occasion to the Association. gardening career in 1986 when Mr. Carloftis, and his cli- he became the owner of a popu- ents, have been honored with a lar home and garden store, the number of gardening awards. devine commerciaL, inc. Rockcastle River Trading Com- He was the recipient of a land- pany, on his family’s property in scaping design award from the devine donaLd W. devine President Livingston, Ky. Mr. Carloftis is Museum of the City of New 1 Loudoun street sW | Leesburg, va 20175 the sole designer of the gardens York City, his client, Nancy Bar- roPerties (703) 771.1918 oFFice that have been featured in BMW ron, received Lexington, Ken- P Magazine, Country Home, Gar- tucky’s DLC 2007 Landscape Don Devine 703.314.6384 | Donna Seeker 571.213.9571 | Karen Overhau 703.507.5448 | Boe Delashmutt 703.501.1913 den & Gun, Outdoor Rooms, and and Streetscape award, and his (703) 771.9095 fax | [email protected] Southern Living. commercial client, The Lofts at Weadon Farm, circa 1790 Lock Harbor Farm, circa 1804 In 1988, Mr. Carloftis Main & Rose, received Lexing- moved to New York City to start ton’s DLC 2008 Landscape and his new business, Fine Gardens. Streetscape Award. His first clients were noted art Mr. Carloftis is also the collectors Barbara and Eugene author of three books. His most Schwartz. As word of his talent recent is the Beautiful Gardens spread, so did the demand for his of Kentucky, where he shows a services. He became an expert in portrait of twenty-one private rooftop and small space garden- and public outdoor spaces. He ing. describes these gardens, some According to Mr. Car- his own designs, as being “as loftis, “Whether you have a distinguished as they are seduc- rooftop or balcony in the city, a tive.” Charming and rustic on the perfect setting of 104 acres, waterfront, deepwater. This estate small backyard in the suburbs, To attend the luncheon and 30 acres with a large fishing pond, stone walls, is in three conservation parcels with additional or 100 acres in the country, it’s lecture by Jon Carloftis, please that small space right outside send $65 to Piedmont Garden meadows and Catoctin Creek running through waterfront building rights, farm currently in the back door that everyone uses Club, P.O. Box 33, The Plains, the back of the property. This and the adjacent crops. Over 1/2 mile of waterfront with a dock, most.” VA 20198. The deadline for res- property of almost 9 acres with a guest house can two-story garage, barn/boat storage building Some of Mr. Carloftis’s ervations is Sept. 6. For more be purchased for $1.449. and other dependencies. recognizable clients are the ac- information, contact Margaret tors, Mike Myers, Julianne Littleton at (540) 687 – 6246 or 39666 Old Wheatland Road, Waterford 606 Beale’s Wharf Road, Mount Holly Moore, and Edward Norton; by email to: peidmontgarden- LO7350540 $1,049,000 WE7597449 $2,495,000 producer Jerry Bruckheimer and [email protected]. his wife Linda Bruckheimer; di- www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 8 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 9 News of Note Project Common Bond Unites Teens Whose Lives Middleburg’s Have Been Touched by Terrorism th Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Forum at Foxcroft eventy-seven teens from Holocaust Museum and the Institute Negotiation and Mediation Clinical nnuAl pscAle around the world who have of Peace. Program and incorporates a second 5 A u lost a family member to an Ms. Sears explained that, “For Harvard-designed program, the Dig- act of terrorism will form an these teenagers, the sudden, violent, nity Model by Donna Hicks of the international alliance called Proj- and public nature of their loss be- Weatherhead Center of International Sect Common Bond at Middleburg’s comes an overwhelming and defining Affairs. Foxcroft School from July 23rd characteristic of their lives. These The symposium is being de- through July 30th. kids feel different than most of their livered by a team of professionals, Created under the auspices of friends. Often, they are isolated and coordinated by Curriculum Director Tuesday’s Children, the premiere alone. Their experience is not some- and family therapist Monica Meehan non-profit organization serving the thing that’s easily shared with others. McNamara, which includes Stephan needs of the 9/11 community. The “At Common Bond, they feel Sonnenberg, a recent Lecturer on eight-day program, now in its fourth safe. They are suddenly shoulder- Law and a Clinical Instructor in the year, is changing the lives of young to-shoulder with other teens who Harvard Negotiation and Mediation people around the globe through a understand exactly what they have Clinical Program. curriculum that teaches peace-build- been through. Common Bond pro- Kathy Murphy, Director of ing, mediation and conflict resolution vides them with the opportunity to Project Common Bond and Tues- skills. take their personal tragedy and – with day’s Children’s teen programs, said, Tuesday’s Children created professional guidance from health “At Project Common Bond, we are Project Common Bond in 2007 in re- experts and professionals in conflict helping to build the next generation sponse to a request from 9/11 teens resolution – turn their tragedy into of teachers, doctors, business people, who wanted an opportunity to “give strength,” Sears added. lawyers, engineers, scientists, moth- back” through a larger, global ini- This year marks 19-year old ers and fathers. Each of our Project tiative. The 2011 Project Common Julie Griffin’s fourth year at Common Common Bond kids – no matter Bond participants will include young Bond. Julie, whose father was killed where they live – will have a better adults between the ages of 15 to 20 on September 11th, said, “I wouldn’t understanding of how to get by in a years old from the United States, miss Project Common Bond (PCB) very imperfect world and the tools to Israel, Palestine, Ireland, Northern for the world. I love all the people do it with.” Need a Dental Crown? Now you have a choice….. Ireland, Russia, Spain, Argentina and involved in PCB and the way I feel Ms. Murphy noted that Tues- Sri Lanka. there. For me, PCB is almost like day’s Children ensures that Project According to Terry Sears, Ex- therapy. Talking to other people who Common Bond is year-round expe- ecutive Director of Tuesday’s Chil- have lost someone through terrorism rience for the participants. Follow- dren, the goal of Project Common – just as I have – helps me to grow ing the week-long forum, Tuesday’s Bond is simple and achievable: to and be a stronger person.” Children organizes web-based sym- impact the lives of young people who Ms. Griffin also noted that posia, blogs, chats and events that have suffered a loss as a result of an she has built enduring friendships keeps the teens actively engaged in act of terrorism – and in doing so, through Common Bond. “Because the program. give them opportunities for healing of the last three years of camp, I have Ms. Murphy also thanked the and personal growth, as well as lead- been to Spain to visit friends from Foxcroft School for its generosity in ership skills so they can help others. 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New Duty Phone state’s discovery process. elaborate, nor is it my position to do pursued then and none are in the storefronts on main street, safety may be able to cover all or part n July Middleburg hired a new so. The town is being covered and works currently, Draisey said, and concerns, and a general lack of en- of those costs, as well as repairs Police Chief, installed its first As of July 21 citizens Fire and Rescue although it might not be the perfect “At no time had the residents of thusiasm for temporary structures to other at-risk 2-inch galvanized Police Department cellular of Middleburg can reach the situation, it is working for the short Middleburg been at risk” of any kind on the main street. piping, Semmes noted, with grant “duty-phone”, did its best to Middleburg Police officer current- According to reports in term.” funding from the Virginia Depart- Your charity. Your family. Your interests. Compartmentalized. deliver Police documents required ly on duty in the town directly by Leesburg Today, the entire comple- Operational and personal Other News Hot Water ment of Health. Iby the Commonwealth, and sud- phone. ment of “career fire-rescue person- tensions between volunteer and ca- And seemingly at odds. From a higher vantage point, your values, denly discovered that every ca- nel . . . left the Middleburg Fire Sta- reer fire and rescue staff fighters is Council also took steps to Record summer heat in and Billing your family, your interests and your money are entirely intertwined. reer professional serving with the The new “duty phone” is a tion -- and their work alongside the not unusual, according to Draisey. change its formal relationship around Middleburg added to the town’s volunteer fire-rescue staff cell phone, carried by whichever members of the Middleburg Volun- Who, for example, holds the higher with the independent Christmas in pressure on the Town Council and Part of the “unaccounted- Whether by design or by accident, they are all interconnected parts had “left” the local fire station. officer is officially “on duty to ad- teer Fire Department” on the night rank, a career or professional Lieu- Middleburg organization, denied Staff to find and fix the problems for water” may well be due to ac- dress the needs of the business of July 13. tenant? Who decides when, where a permit to erect a temporary cup- contributing to what is now being counting problems and not really of one portfolio—your life. We, of course, suggest that you live it by New Chief community.” As late as Monday, July 25, and what equipment is to be posi- cake and juice booth in front of identified as tens of thousands of be “missing” at all. Both Town design, using a process we call wealth planning. Long sought by acting Police the news still came as surprise to tioned? Noble House at 2 West Washington gallons of “unacounted-for water” Treasurer Debbie Wheeler and After a lengthy search and Chief Mike Prince, the number for many in the Town, In Middleburg those tensions Street, and heard welcome reports in (or out) of the Middleburg sys- Economic Development Manager interviews with at least three top the new phone is: 540-216-9787 MVFD Treasurer Paul have been exacerbated by on-again, of significant progress in the ongo- tem. Cindy Pearson are being trained We welcome your family to contact our office and learn more about candidates, the Middleburg Town The new phone should not Draisey, father of Chief Brad off-again construction of an expan- ing pursuit of tens of thousands of At the regular July meeting to run new software recently pur- our commitment to multi-generational wealth management or visit our Council hired former Fairfax City be used to replace 911 emergency Draisey, confirmed reports that the sion of the fire house, leaving as gallons of water deemed “missing” of the Middleburg Town Council on chased to upgrade the Town’s bill- Deputy Police Chief William Klugh calls, Acting Chief Prince noted. County had pulled its full-time paid many as a dozen fire and rescue from either the town’s pipes or its Bastille Day, July 14, Town Admin- ing system. According to Semmes, website at http://fa.morganstanleyindividual.com/ellisonellison/. as town’s new Chief of Police. All emergency calls still need career staff from the station around people to sleep and work around accounting systems. istrator Martha Semmes reported the new software itself may “flush A political science graduate to be made to 911, though, says 10:20 or 11:00 PM on the 13th, af- each other in a temporary double- that she was pursuing facts, fixes out and correct” errors that may of James Madison University and a Prince, one should feel free to fol- ter what Leesburg Today described wide trailer. Christmas in Middleburg and funding in three critical areas: have been embedded in the old sys- The CGE Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney graduate of the Federal Bureau of low up with a call to the duty phone as “a boil-over of simmering ten- Nor are tensions new to the leaks; billing errors; and inaccurate tem. Current records indicate that Investigation’s National Academy, if desired. sions between volunteer and career Middleburg force. Preliminary discussion were meters. much more water was purified and C. Greg Ellison, CIMA® Charles M. Ellison, CIMA® “Bill” Klugh was well known in fire-rescue personnel . . . .” Both In October of last year an held at the Middleburg Communi- pumped than were billed and paid First Vice President Financial Advisor Fairfax and beyond for his pioneer- New Requests for Documents personnel and at least one truck “investigation” of the Middleburg ty Center in July between a Town Leaks for by customers. ing work in the real-world applica- were redeployed to nearby Aldie staff had been set in motion by the Council liaison committee, chaired Wealth Advisor tion of the principles of “commu- Acting Police Chief Mike and Philomont. Chairman of Loudoun County’s by Council Member Kathy Jo Shea A major leak in what was de- Meters nity policing” Prince and Town Clerk Rhonda According to Draisey, the Fire & Rescue Commission, who and officers and volunteers of the scribed as “an old two-inch galva- 440 W. Jubal Early Drive, Suite 260 Klugh will be sworn in and North reported that they have, to County and MVFD immediately contacted the Middleburg depart- independent not-for profit corpora- nized metal line” in the Ridgeview Semmes is also working with Winchester, VA 22601 begin work officially on August 1. the best of their knowledge, com- informed Middleburg Mayor Betsy ment about “allegations” of mis- tion that funds and runs the event. area was discovered during an in- Ken Jaquay of Water Management On August 11 Council will pleted delivery of Police records Davis about the situation. conduct. Designed to improve cooper- spection by the Virginia Regional and a meter company to see which, 888-842-9595 host a public reception for the new requested by the Loudoun County Asked about the situation on At that time three firefight- ation between the Town and Christ- Water Authority. With two of three if any of the town’s meters need to [email protected] Chief in Town Hall, just prior to the Commonwealth’s Attorney. July 23, Middleburg Mayor Betsy ers were placed on administrative mas in Middleburg, task one for the bids in hand, repair is currently be repaired or replaced regular monthly meeting of Town All correspondence between Davis told the Eccentric, “This is leave, while the Fire & Rescue new committee appears to be reso- expected to cost the town from Council. former Chief Steve Webber and the an internal matter that they [are ad- Commission, the Loudoun County lution of an ongoing disagreement As the result of a recent re- Town Council, Town Staff, the Vir- dressing] and there has never been Fire & Rescue Department and the about whether or not there should organization of the Police Depart- ginia State Police, Jack Goehring, any loss of service to the town.” Loudoun County Sheriff’s Depart- be one or two “parades” on the day ment’s chain of command, Klugh the press, and any others, bearing on Asked whether or not the de- ment conducted formal inquiries. of the event. will report directly to Town Admin- the investigation and arrest, of the parture of the department’s entire During the course of that in- The Middleburg Business Fauquier Health istrator Martha Semmes, and will Editor-in-Chief of the Middleburg complement of staff did not consti- vestigation, five members of the de- Association is in the midst of poll- A Morgan Stanley Company work with Semmes, the Town At- Eccentric on November 30, 2010, tute a “loss of service,” the Mayor partment resigned: two who were ing to determine whether business Welcomes new Doctors torney, and Town Council to draft a had been subpoenaed by defense at- reiterated, “This is an internal mat- already on administrative leave owners prefer a morning “parade” new set of performance guidelines torney Edward MacMahon. Much, ter with the MVFD and Loudoun and three others who, according to of horses and hounds, followed by © 2011 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Member SIPC. NY CS 6613439 02/11 and general orders for the depart- if not all, the same evidence was re- County and I have been kept well Draisey, “resigned due to loyalty to a second parade with floats, bands, ment. quired to be delivered to the Com- informed and am comfortable with the Fire Chief.” marchers, and Santa later in the day . . . or a single parade, led by the horses and hounds. Proponents and defenders of both points of view appear to be in- From early planning to transigent. Those favoring two parades the first pool party, we pride contend that the combination of a Hunt Country ourselves on being the single point of morning and afternoon event keeps Ana Born, M.D. Lida Tabatabaeian, M.D. shoppers in town longer. contact for your home improvement. Those favoring a single pa- auquier Health is pleased to an- auquier Health recently welcomed rade disagree about the effect on nounce the addition of a new an endocrinologist to its family BOWA transforms houses into homes™ business, and further cite safety Ffamily medicine physician. Ana Fof healthcare providers. Lida Taba- ool uilders nC factors, Virginia DOT permit re- P B i . through the design and construction Born, M.D., has joined Drs. Diane tabaeian, M.D., is operating Fauquier quirements, and the time and physi- King and Kevin Tate at Fauquier Health Endocrinology, providing care 540.364.3609 www.huntcountrypools.com BEFORE of luxury renovations and additions. cal demands two parades impose on Health Family Practice at Bealeton to those with diabetes, metabolic syn- • volunteers as reasons for continu- As your single point of accountability (formerly Fauquier Medical Associ- drome, obesity, lipid disorders, osteo- your ing to have a single large event. ates). porosis, pituitary disease, adrenal dis- Renovate from the earliest stages of planning, Juice and Cupcakes As a family practice physi- ease, thyroid cancer, bone and mineral we execute and manage the entire cian, Dr. Born is passionate about diseases and hypogonadism. Personalizing the great outdoors In July Council denied a a variety of medical specialty areas, Being able to provide ongoing “ Lifestyle design and construction process and temporary zoning permit sought by including women’s health and pe- care was one of the main reasons Dr. for over 25 years! Autumn McCullough on behalf of diatrics. “Kids are wonderful,” Dr. Tabatabaeian chose endocrinology as your overall experience. So, when you Charles Carroll, to erect “a tempo- Born says. “Being able to treat them her specialty field. “Endocrinology is have a project of any size in mind, rary structure”, eight feet wide and always brings a smile to my face. something I’ve been drawn to since six feet deep in front of the Noble And women have a unique niche of my early days in medical school,” she call BOWA first. House at 2 West Washington Street, for the purpose of selling cupcakes their own, so I enjoy being able to says. “I like the science behind it; I and seasonal juices. help them with their particular needs also like that it requires a lot of patient Described as “similar” to the as well.” interaction.” temporary structure erected to sell Dr. Born also has a passion for Dr. Tabatabaeian’s holistic ap- German sausage and hot drinks dur- working with patients from varying proach to care will also fit nicely with ing the Christmas season, the stand, cultures. Her desire to work with Fauquier Health’s patient-centered according to Town Zoning Admin- immigrants stems from her early Planetree model of care. “I try to see istrator David Beniamino, would upbringing and educational pursuits. patients as a whole,” she explains. “I have met all the legal requirements Born and raised for a time in Puerto always apply the most up-to-date re- necessary for such a permit. Beniamino also noted that Rico, Dr. Born is fluent in Spanish. search to manage treatment, but the Carroll could have applied for a She’s also looking forward most appropriate plan for one individ- six-month permit under the Town’s to partnering with local families. “I ual may not work for another. That’s “itinerant vendor” ordinance, but love kids and I love adults. In order why I need to understand a patient’s “Simply Elegant” had agreed, instead, to apply for to treat both effectively, I prefer to comprehensive health condition.” a fifteen-day “temporary sales do it within the context of their lives, Diabetes is one of the most permit” which could be extended environments and families. That’s common diseases that affects the en- twice, for a total of 45 days. the reason I chose family medicine. docrine system, and Dr. Tabatabaeian Noting the wording of the By treating the whole family, I can says a holistic approach works really George Hodges-Fulton, CR town’s ordinance, which states that Vice President do a better job of treating the dis- well to treat the disease. “Diabetes is the Council “may” approve such ease process, which makes families a complicated, multi-factor disease. 540-687-6771 permits, Council decided that it was not “required” to approve Carroll’s. healthier.” Many social, economical, cultural, Though a minority of Council Fauquier Health Family Prac- environmental and genetic factors esign uild voiced objections to the fairness of tice at Bealeton is located at 6200 contribute to the disease, and these d & B Design & Construction n Renovations & Additions n Purchase Consultations www.bowa.com the decision, a large majority voted Station Drive in Bealeton. The phy- factors cannot be overlooked.” no, citing concerns about unwar- sicians may be reached at 540-439- Dr. Tabatabaeian may be Pas ountains aterFalls atios ranted competition with existing 8100. reached at 540-316-5940. s • F • W • P www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 12 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 13 Editor’s Desk Fiddling While Earth Burns Hedgehogs and the Debt Another Volunteer Purple Blue Notes Daniel Morrow Bruce Smart ed, with the caveat, that dogged opinion of a significant number of and eventually to water and ing infrared rays are imped- fuels – coal, oil and natural disaster within a generation. loyalty and intellectual consisten- equally bright and equally well- Victory food shortages, mass migra- ed by so-called greenhouse gas. Recent years have been The US is the leading cause Over the weekend an old cy, in my experience, have always meaning economists, will be di- Those who have been tions, violence, and social gasses (GHGs) in the atmo- the hottest on record, and of creating the problem, friend and I were discussing an been less reliable measures of a sastrous effect. paying any attention to upheaval. sphere, the most influential temperatures are headed and is doing precious little economist who, he said, truly man’s convictions than a look at Those who may not be Hats off once more to do just that. Washington these days In a way you can’t being carbon dioxide (CO2) higher, even if emissions about it. Understanding the believes that refusing to raise the their real-world effects on others. sure, but are never in doubt, love to the members of the know that the 2012 election blame Congress; we voters and methane. The more of are stabilized, because the threat is not new. Some 22 country’s debt limit was not only False perceptions all too to cite the ancient epigram, “The Middleburg Library Patiently (and is now the principal concern are not pushing them on the those in the atmosphere, the oceans warm slowly, de- years ago Purple had an a risk worth taking, but not a real often trump reality, especially fox knows many things, but the Advisory Board for sometimes appropri- of Congress and our two issue, and we have many hotter the Earth’s surface laying the final effect of office next to Dr. Robert risk at all. when what is (or was) “real” only hedgehog knows one big thing.” what can only be de- ately impatiently) major parties, Republicans excuses, such as: must become to force out today’s GHG concentration Repetto, a PhD economist And, given that expert becomes evident after damage is Playing the hedgehog, scribed as a triumph of working with and and Democrats. Sure, they “It isn’t really happen- enough heat to bring about for decades. at the World Resources In- opinions on the matter differ, he done. whether religious, political, social may claim the battle is/was asked, how could one fault men One doesn’t roll the dice, I or intellectual, is not only prickly, good taste, good will, through the Town ing.” balance. This trend is acceler- stitute. Bob was writing a and women who stand by their argued, when the downside risk of but disproportionately dangerous. and iron determina- of Middleburg, the about raising the Debt Limit, “The scientists are di- There are also other ated by global population paper on Climate Change. principles, vote their convictions, being wrong is outrageously high. Though sometime one gets tion to make a good Middleburg Commu- an absolute necessity so the vided.” conditions affecting global growth from 2 billion in His solution: put a tax on and refuse to betray the trust of Perhaps a failure to raise the lucky, as a general rule, I prefer idea not only work, but nity Center, the County nation doesn’t default on its “It’s a plot of the Left.” temperature and climate the 1920s to 7 billion to- carbon emissions, and use those who sent them to places like debt ceiling will, indeed, have no foxes, and their eternally optimis- work well. Library Board of Trust- bills, but it is really about “We can’t afford to do – varying solar activity, day, their impact greatly the proceeds to reduce the Washington to govern on their be- real effect on the fundamentals of tic view that it is better to know ees, the County Library making the other Party look anything about it.” And the and cyclical changes in the multiplied by the industri- Social Security tax, a tax on half? our economy. many things and do one’s best to The Middleburg Professional Staff, the bad, about ego, power, and most irresponsible of all: shape of the Earth’s orbit, alization of China, India employment. His reasoning: One should honor, he said, Whatever those realities choose among them than to know branch of the Loudoun County financial, legal, the future of the Obama Ad- “It won’t happen until but these have less impact, and Southeast Asia. For ex- “Tax the ‘bads’ (CO2 emis- their steadfast convictions, their may be, I would argue that a only one thing and have no real County Public Library and construction staff, ministration. No one is pay- after I’m gone.” and cannot explain what we ample, in 1930s the world sions), and lower the tax on loyalty to their principles, and wrong guess about them will have choices at all. is the system’s small- and the Board of Su- ing much attention to devel- The facts are clear and are seeing – melting gla- burned about 4 million bar- the ‘goods’ (employment).” their respect for both their mentors a profound and negative effect oping thoughtful answers to and those who elected them. on our national and international est. Originally de- pervisors (not to men- stark. The Earth is habitable ciers and arctic sea ice, ris- rels of oil per day. Today’s To some, Bob’s con- Admirable traits, I conced- credit rating . . . with what, in the signed to be twice it’s tion all the appropriate the basic problems that face because ultraviolet light ing sea levels, and bleach- figure is about 80 million cerns seemed unconven- current size, the build- sub-committees and our nation (listed in last from the sun penetrates ing of coral reefs. barrels. Another example: tional – after all, he played ing is almost literally boards associated with month’s column) and per- the atmosphere and warms The concentration of China now burns almost shortstop lefthanded on our bursting at the seams, the aforementioned) . . haps our civilization. The the earth’s surface. That CO2 in the atmosphere half of the coal the world softball team. tions are common since the serving not only as a . the committee draft- most important of these, warmed surface radiates has risen steadily from a consumes today, China’s Seriously, think about June 28, 2009 military coup, Letter traditional public li- ed, revised, and gained long term, and the one re- heat back into space in the pre-industrial level of 280 use up 77% in just seven asking the next candidate especially in this region. On To Whom It May of the Virginia Forage brary, but as a library full approval of all the ceiving essentially no seri- form of infrared rays; oth- parts per million (ppm) to years. On a per capita basis, who wants your money June 9, 2011, 89 year old Jose Concern: and Grasslands Council, in the 21st century stakeholders involved ous attention, is the matter erwise the Earth would heat 385 ppm today. The causes however, the US remains what s/he would do about Luis Rodriguez was burned My name is Peter O. Assistant Director of the sense of the word: li- for an extraordinary of carbon emissions, which up far beyond a habitable include deforestation, but the largest emitter of CO2. climate. Or do they all plan alive in the home he shared Hitchen and I own Tilton John Marshall Soil and brary, social center, formal agreement that cause global warming, lead- temperature. But the escap- mostly the burning of fossil Clearly we are on a to keep fiddling? with his family in the agrar- Enterprises, a small exca- Water Conservation Board teaching resource, will allow the Advisory ing to climate disruption, runaway train headed for ian community 28 de Mayo, vating company in Mar- and a board member of temporary office, and Board to raise the mon- a community that borders To- shall. I support Michael the Fauquier County Farm ongoing steward of an ey, design, and build coa, but is located in Trujillo, Webert for Delegate in the Bureau Board. ever-expanding, ever- the long-sought addi- Hypocrisy Colon. A group of 40 police redrawn 18th District. I He is a true Virginia more accessible, ever tion to the Middleburg Tom Pratt worried about my safety be- with many young children are described as a militarized as- for the use of small farmers, so attacked the community with trust and support him as a gentleman, an avid sup- more complex intellec- Library. cause it would have caused an now essentially homeless. sault on a civilian community, Rigores community members tear gas and burned homes. A friend, business associate porter of fox hunting and tual trust. I was present as a human international incident had one July 1, 2011 a group of not an eviction. Because no moved onto the land with the community member is report- and local leader. Michael steeplechase racing and a The project is far rights observer when this hap- of us been injured or killed. 18 U.S. and Canadian citizens previous notice was given to verbal consent of the title hold- ed to have warned the security Webert is the best candi- great steward of the land. Given the demands from complete. More pened on July 1, 2011 in Rig- The police of Tocoa cannot visited the community of Rig- the community, local human er who hoped to be paid for the forces not to burn the houses date because he has deep Knowing the meticulous of the more heav- money must be raised, ores.... survive a bright, internation- ores, Tocoa, Cortes (as part of rights activists and community land by the Agrarian Reform since an elderly man had been roots in the 18th District, way he operates Locust ily populated eastern permits and approvals Honduras is a nearly al spotlight turned on by too a delegation with the Alliance leaders discussed the legality Institute. The farmers had pe- unable to leave quickly during and as a farmer, small Hill Farms I have com- parts of the County and granted, designers and lawless country where one can much attention. for Global Justice and Rights of the action with the police. titioned for years asking that the rapid assault. The police re- businessman, fisherman plete faith that Michael what appeared to be a contractors hired, and hire a hit man for as little as We did stop the eviction. Action) to learn about the vio- The eviction is illegal not the agrarian reform program sponded to his pleas by beating and hunter, like most of will serve the best inter- never-ending, ongo- the work done on time, USD200. I urge you to contact But we were not there on June lent and illegal eviction. only because of the violence be applied to this land, but re- him. the district, he shares our ests of the entire 18th Dis- ing, recession-driven on target and on bud- one or more of the organiza- 26th to save the village from At approximately 9 a.m., with which it was carried out cently it was targeted by Afri- The U.S. and Canada as interests. trict in a fiscally respon- budget crunch, it had get. tions listed at the conclusion of destruction. July 1st, while the group was but also because, although ju- can palm oil producers as an well as the OAS have recog- Representing us in sible, transparent, and long been clear that this article to express concern Spanish-speaking read- hearing testimonies about the dicial orders (basically just a attractive investment property. nized the present government the House of Delegates common sense manner. the only way to expand The entire com- about the human rights abuses ers who would like information previous weeks’ attack, a group complaint) had been issued, no They expanded in the area which seems to turn a blind eye will require hard work and Michael is a champion the library was to raise munity, and all those taking place on a daily basis in about how to go to Honduras of 40 security forces, princi- judge was present, and there with contracts to sell palm oil to these atrocities. Michael is no stranger to of the traditions and val- the funds to do so pri- outside Middleburg Honduras. as an observer, please email pally the police special forces had not been any investigation to diesel bio-fuel companies, Rights Action is extreme- that. As general manag- ues of our District and I vately. served by the our little The farmers who were me C/O Middleburg Eccentric, COBRA unit, interrupted the by the Public Ministry into the thus the reason for the violent ly concerned that once the hu- er of Locust Hill Farms, urge everyone to join me gem of library, should evicted said the only way to mbecc.com. proceedings. With guns drawn, conditions that ensured legiti- and illegal eviction of the farm- man rights observation mission a 3,500 acre beef cattle in voting for Michael We- A special subcom- stand behind the Ad- stop the illegal evictions and On June 26 300 police police approached us and the mate land rights to the families ers. Palm oil company security is no longer present, the com- and hay operation, he bert on Tuesday, August mittee of the Advisory visory Board, support burning of villages is to create with bulldozers invaded the community members with the who had lived on and farmed forces that appear to act as munity will suffer further vio- goes to work before dawn 23, 2011. Board, including Denis its work, and contrib- a force of international observ- town of Rigores Tocoa, Cortes, intention of evicting them from the land for 11 years. para-militaries are blamed for lence. seven days a week. He Cotter, Jeff Baldwin, ute the funds needed ers on a semi-permanent and burned two schools, a church the community center where According to agrarian re- dozens of killings in the region Please write the President, was nominated Conserva- Sincerely, Marc Leepson, and to finish a job so far so rotating basis in the trouble and most of the homes of the they had taken refuge after the form legislation in Honduras, over the past two years, eight in your Representative or Senator tion Farmer of the Year Mike Morency set out well done. spots. 150 families also killing many attack on their land. land that has lain fallow can be Tocoa over the past month. to address this situation. in Fauquier County last Peter O. Hitchen As the actions of the po- of their animals. 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One requires span of more than 40 years and I ride be commissioned to paint, I spend “There?”, he said. a fair amount of time just enjoying There - happened to be a guest rtists draw inspiration from some level skill only, the other - vision. every month of the year. Most often Alex Cudaback wherever they can and Think about this, what makes the beginning “quietly” at dawn, watching it. I think this gives me some of the room window on second floor of his the lack of empathy and commonsense guess what? kissed your first crush and you knew you as “speedy”) resolution looks more and certainly much of this has to pyramids so amazing is that they appear the light of the rising sun move across owner’s perspective, but I also feel Rappahannock home and there, we displayed by the NFL’s owners is beyond They wanted more. hadn’t gotten it quite right. The players more unlikely. The NBA simply wants to do with the direction of their to be bigger than man’s capabilities at the land, experiencing both the light strongly that it is part of my roll as an found the most spectacular view of Old hey say art imitates life, that comprehension. So, like pigs too long at a trough, (boohoo…) were hurt by the fumbling make sure that, like all other businesses creative passion. I have a passion for that time. This is why one needs to look acting upon it and my placement within artist. Riding though the countryside Rag along with their lovely gardens. I cultural tastes and trends serve as A “league” that generates over the owners got greedier and greedier, gotcha! play pulled off by the owners in a capitalist society, every one of its Alandscape painting and as inspiration, deeper into the belief and vision behind it. Yesterday I took a carefree 250 mile has most interestingly taught me to look think he was surprised, as it was likely a looking glass for what’s really $9 billion a year, a cabal with only 32 until finally it was too much. They blew (what, me worry?) and everybody members is profitable. I also have a passion for motorcycling. it all and not just at the presumed skill ride that covered at least 50 different at any land in front of me from many the last place he would have thought to going on in a given society at a paying members, should at least be able up their league and tried to take their ball danced around and acted put upon and Sounds like a traditional capitalist You might be saying now, “I’m missing set. Inspiration is the depth of creativity roads, a few new, others now like old more angles than how it so conveniently enjoy the their property, but he loved it given time. to sign off an agreement they don’t have home. “disrespected” and “hoodwinked.” model, right? No? Oh…. Well. That’s appears in front of me. This makes and that’s the view I painted. If only I TCertain people, Oscar Wilde to preemptively blow up years before Except now, unlike in 1987, the All love of a good hoodwinking what the owners there want. the connection”, well please read along. and it’s also the ultimate motivator. friends. I covered the Blue Ridge from I have always believed that it Think about their inspiration. so many different angles, past creeks me look deeper for the assets of my was working with architects. included, like to say that life imitates art. its expiration. But that’s exactly what owners realized that consumers (you aside, it was petty playground behavior, And they want to do it by rolling took more than just practice to grow at Getting back to my two and rivers, general stores, small towns representation. As it often happens, I But yes, believe it or not, I Those people are perverse. the NFL owners did in this case and it’s and me) and resellers (TV) probably a lot of finger pointing and tattle-taling player salaries back by 50% or so. my craft. As they say, practice doesn’t wheeled inspiration. With riding in the and magnificent vistas, that my mind am enthusiastically sharing new ways feel motorcycling has been both an But enough of the peccadilloes of exactly why all the hand-wringing and wouldn’t stand for paying full freight by a bunch of grown men making very Including the salaries of those players make perfect, perfect practice does. But Piedmont, you are in a constant state was in a constant state of composing, for owners to see the place they call inspiration and enhanced my ability to mid-19th-century Irish literary titans…. teeth-gnashing that’s taken place over for replacement players. And as actual grown up money. They had to wait until who’ve already signed contracts. I also feel there is creative practice and of a changing landscape as it moves formatting, absorbing color, watching home. visually explore. If you’re a creative Art does imitate life, and the past four months has gone on. The revenue-generating dates started popping the 11th hour, or at least 11th hour as far Those contracts, by the way, then there is inspirational practice too. around you and because of the focus light, and creating paintings “virtually” A recent example of this was type, find enjoyable and unique ways professional sports today is as much owners were apparently so unhappy with up on the calendar (Did you know that as revenue-generation is concerned, and that were signed off on by the owners The difference between needed to ride, your eyes are always through the constant inspiration. with a customer shared his thoughts to be inspired! As well, if you own a part of the cultural landscape as any the piece of the pie they saw themselves one week of PRE-season NFL football really, is there really any other 11th hour too, but they all get very touchy when creativity and being inspired to create, scanning. As important, unlike a car a I believe this type of inspiration, for a commission I would be painting. beautiful land, be inspired to look at it gallery opening or theatre premier. So giving to the players every year that they generates around $250 million for the that matters, but they got it done. anyone points out they might have spent can be thought of like this; any creative motorcycle allows a full range of vision “simply observing”, is healthy for artistic He walked with me as I was on the in different ways. It is certainly one of to see the owners and players in two of simply had to throw the whole thing in league? Have you ever seen an NFL It would have been too incredibly themselves into this hole. exercise can be like building a house, from road to sky, without obstruction, growth. Imagine if as a photographer, move, always asking questions and the greatest luxuries of your limited time the largest grossing sports enterprises the trash and start all over. pre-season game? They should pay you stupid not to. But I’m sure they’ll pass those cost whereas being inspired to create, is like which in many respects can feel like you got so wrapped up in the creative looking beyond my position. I asked upon it. essentially seeing who can hold their Never you mind that it was the to watch that dreck!) the owners started Nobody, not one single person savings on to you, the paying basketball having the passion to designing a home. flying. Thus, for me riding adds another photographic process, that you only how long they had lived in the house, breath the longest is, while absurd, hardly biggest pie the American sporting public getting more and more nervous. on the face of the planet, could have consumer…. Inspiration is where ideas flourish. With dimension of viewing a landscape, one looked at things through the viewfinder. we talked about the builder, we spoke Live An Artful Life, Tom surprising. had ever seen. Did I mention nine billion Maybe they had overplayed their been sympathetic to a group of adults I’m sure we’ll have plenty of landscape painting, creating could be that is dynamic and ever changing. It can easily happen, as looking through about the cows he owned and finally I www.thomasneel.com The case of the NFL lockout (and dollars? Never you mind that, really, for hands. that committed such spectacularly chances to talk more about the NBA’s as simple as an interpretation of what This gives a unique perspective for the viewfinder can be like being ina never forget it was a lockout and not a the players anyway, it was more like an Maybe you really can’t make silk selfish, misguided, fallacious, deluded, suicide watch over the coming months. one sees or it could much deeper, as an everything around you and a very world of its own. There’s something to strike), resolved by the time you read $8 billion pie because the owners got to purses out of tin ears. ill-advised, unexplainable, mass Right now, I know just what I interpretation of what one feels or one’s three dimensional understanding of it. be said for balancing observation both Pink Box Celebrates 20th Anniversary this, is the silliest of all. At a time when magically skim a billion off the top before Maybe the players weren’t going professional suicide. need. place on earth. I prefer the latter of the Inspiring, to say the least. inside and outside the box. the national unemployment rate hovers the accountants got to get involved. So of to blink first after all. (Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill….) Now where is that trusty tack stubbornly above 9%, at a time when the real pie, the nine billion dollar pie, the As my two-year-old likes to say, The NBA lockout is less hammer…?. The pretty pale pink build- The Chronicle of the Horse. Next people are gladly earning less so they players were only entitled to $4.8 billion. oops. misguided, if only marginally so, but the Alex can be reached at ing that welcomes and assists visi- it was a dress shop call The Pink can be sure they earn anything at all, The owners were saving themselves a So the situation resolved itself, parties involved seem so far apart that a [email protected] tors to Middleburg has a long and Box, owned by Silvie Hulbert – little more than half-a-billion dollars, but clumsily, as always, like the first time you speedy (yes, the NFL’s 4-monther counts storied history. Recently, when Bundles Murdoch’s Grandmother. THE MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER friends and supporters gathered to The boxes that were used were thank the docents for their many pink with green Ribbon!” hours of volunteer time and to cel- “Eventually the office was A Tropical for Summer A 501c(3) non-profit organization 300 West Washington Street ebrate the service they provide for Wilson Horse Transportation The Plant Lady Call (540) 687– 6373 or email PO Box 265 the community, Darlene Kirk ex- Company run by Chub Lee, Pun- Karen Rexrode [email protected] Middleburg, VA 20118-0265 plained the history of the charming kin Lee’s uncle. sia and colocasia are commonly known you will see the large tuberous roots, building. “The building then became as taro or elephant’s ear (often referred cut off the foliage and let the roots dry. I An interesting and accurate the Middleburg Visitor’s Center garden needs depth and one of to as elephant ears). Of the black leafed leave them out in the sun for a day. Once reflection of the evolution of the reclaiming its earlier name as suit- the best ways to achieve that aroids, only colocasia offers such a wide dry, coat them in 8 parts vermiculite to 2 Village of Middleburg, the Pink ably descriptive of its exterior ap- is with dark foliaged plants. variety. This comes as a big surprise parts sulfur (shake in a bag to coat). Set Box history includes many promi- pearance and its history! The darker leaves give great when there are only 6 species, verses the roots out to dry again and then put until May to replant. You want a warm nent families and community In 1985 Mayor Loyal Mc- dimension, receding visually, they cre- more than 70 in alocasia. The blackness them in a bag to bring indoors for the soil. Every tuber will sprout and grow, Aate shadows where there may not be of their leaves is truly amazing with leaf winter months. Check occasionally for and love the heat. Those beautiful black The Board of Directors of the Middleburg Community members today. Millian of Middleburg and a group “This small early 19th cen- of citizens who had a vision of ex- any. For summer I find the large leafed surfaces that can be glossy (like black any that are soft and remove. leaves of summer. Center sincerely thanks all the volunteers and sponsors tury Federal style brick building ploring the history of Middleburg, colocasia a must. I have grown them in patent leather) or matte. Every year we Come spring it’s best to wait who made our July 4th celebration and fireworks so pots filled with water as well as in the see new hybrids and I plant as many as has had many names and served formed the Historic Review Com- my black garden will allow. My current successful. The Community Center fireworks display in many uses,” explained Kirk. “ mittee, and that initiative led to garden, planted in soil. Tropical plants “For years, it was the law the establishment of The Pink Box with large leaves, the foliage rotates favorites are C. ‘Hilo Bay’ and c. illus- Middleburg is now the third largest in all of Loudoun office of Levin Powell’s grandson Visitor Center. The Mayor be- horizontally with the slightest breeze, tris, the latter a species with black, matte County! We had a spectacular show providing family Humphrey. It later became known came a volunteer, Fritz Hutchison, sometimes startling the gardener as they finish leaves and green viens. Colocasia appear to be someone waving. ‘Hilo Bay’ is a giant and some of my entertainment to more than 400+ people, keeping us as the “Bishop’s Cottage after gun- a council member joined, also Jim leaves are 24” long and 18” wide. Each Community-Strong! smith John Bishop who owned it Burton, who is our County Super- Our summer months are very after the Civil War,” she continued. visor,” Kirk concluded. hot, a perfect place for tropical plants. leaf is super glossy and handsome. “In the 20th century, it served “We are indeed a dedicated Growth rate is shocking, especially from For all of their pros, there are Special Thanks Sponsors as the office of The Middleburg group of volunteers who appreci- July to September, and more so if you some cons. Namely the issue of winter Akre Capital Management water often. Think tropical rain pattern. storage. In fall, once temperatures drop Chronicle a weekly newspaper ate the natural beauty and interest- to 40 degrees, you will have to either dig Event Chairperson - Joey Snider Allen Studio’s – Mr. Howard Allen of the sports horse world that has ing history of Middleburg,” added Every year I plant a black leafed garden, been published in Middleburg Mary Greenwood.” the colocasia hold prime spots. Mem- the plant up and bring it inside or dig it Mrs. Magalen Bryant since 1937 and is now know as bers of the family araceae, they are ar- up and prepare to store the tuber or root. Middleburg Police Department Mr. & Mrs. John H. Cheatham oids, sharing relatives such as caladium, With my limited indoor space, I store Diversified Education Systems, Inc. philodendron and alocasia. Both aloca- the tubers. Once you dig up the plant, Middleburg Volunteer Fire Department & Duchessa Ladies Auxiliary Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eliot Grenadine Ties Mr. & Mrs. C. Russell Fletcher richly textured • all time classics American Legion Post #295 Focus Wealth Management, Ltd. 9 handsome colors The Hoerner Planning Group perfecT To coordinaTe Loudoun County Sheriff’s K-9 unit Journeyman Saddlers wiTh your paTTerned sporT coaTs! & “Bronco” Mr. & Mrs. Trowbridge Littleton Middleburg Bank Shelia Johnson & Salamander Hospitality - Middleburg Country Inn Fireworks Site Middleburg Eccentric Middleburg Orthopaedics Volunteers Middleburg Physical Therapy Middleburg Tack Exchange Teri Domanski & Boy Scout Troop #2950 Middleburg Trust Ms. Bundles Murdock Marie Feil & Cub Scout Pack # 1737 Mrs. Nicole Perry & Mr. Andrew Stifler Mr. & Mrs. Ken Reid Middleburg Elementary School Lucy S. Rhame Thomas & Talbot Real Estate Joey and Kristi Snider Woodville Hall Capital, LLC Col. John Zugschwert

Middleburg Community Center Board of Directors Virginia Jenkins, Tim Clites, Daphne Cheatham, Bob Eliot, Jim Herbert, Nick Jenkins, Trowbridge Littleton, Bundles Murdock, Jan Neuharth, Jamie Pearson, Marie Piskorz, 16 South Madison Street • Middleburg, Virginia Sally Fletcher, Robin Cavanagh-Bechtold, Joey Snider, Del Wilson, Nicole Wyatt, 540-687-5633 Nicole Perry, John Zugschwert, Mary Jo Jackson, Magalen Bryant, Mrs. Tyson Gilpin www.highcliffeclothiers.com • [email protected] www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 16 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 17 Food•Drink•Inns Services The Middleburg Eccentric Restaurants Architcts Electricians Plumbing

Embrey electric Service, llc Back Street Residential and Hunt Country Guide Handmade Coming Commercial Cafe Marshmellos Electrical Services & Great Sandwiches Catering Hot Chocolate Licensed and Insured Soon! Serving Lunch and Dinner Monday - Saturday Coffee Serving 4 East Federal Street • Middleburg, VA 20117 Hours: Western Loudoun 540-687-3122 • [email protected] Mon-Sat 7:30-5 & Fauquier Counties Sun 9-5 Catering Office 540-687-3154 2 E. Federal Street RON EMBREY Weddings · Receptions · Anniversaries · Parties 540-687-8635 Cell: 703-606-0372 Tailgates · Luncheons · Special Occasions Office: 540-554-8706 Wine Tasting Audio Video Heating & Cooling Printing MIDDLEBURG PRINTERS Your Hometown Professionals Letterheads • Envelopes Business Cards • Brochures Audio Video Solutions Coming Invitations • Informals • Multi Room Sound Systems Booklets • Flyers • Coming Home Theater Rooms Copy Services • Flat Screen TV Mounting Digital Black & White • Laser Color • Universal Remote Controls Soon! Direct from Computer • Wireless Networking 540-687-5710 • Fax 540-687-3821 • Soon! Cell Phone Repeaters [email protected] Serving Hunt Country The Piedmont Building • 5 E. Federal St. 540-687-5117 Middleburg, Virginia Accommodations Contractors Lawn Maintenance Tree Service EMBREY’S Coming A CONSERVE VIRGINIA CORPORATION TREE SERVICE We’ll go Out on a Limb to Please! Coming Antique Home Tree Removal Stump Grinding Renovation Brush Clearing Cabling Soon! Restoration Coming Timming Tree &Shrub Care Photo by Teresa Thomas Soon! Pruning Lot Clearing Remodeling Storm Damage Commonwealth of Virginia Class A Contractor, Insured Free Estimates E. RON POSTON Soon! Fully Insured & lIcensed Tel. 540-687-4636 • Middleburg, VA resIdentIal & commercIal Business Directory & Calendar of Events [email protected] 540.687.6796 Shopping Equestrian Fitness Finance Real Estate Apparel Flowers Gold & Silver Leather Repair Horse Shows Fitness & Training Mortgages Real Estate Firms “This is my favorite word

S Rein duPont Studio in the whole world!” U N obel T z Personalized Fitness R N Monté Coming U S T

Coming Fitness Classes Offered: M ielseN • July 27th, Wed. Night Hunter, 6pm- N O R T Judge Jane Nordstrom Cardio Pilates Studio Cycling

BUY G • August 6th Hunter Horse, 9am- Soon! Yoga Zumba A hoes G E FrasNchetti boNd~VaNeli Judge Dee Dee Schumate Customized Pesonal Training Classic Apparel & Accessories ekluNd liNeNs~sebago Soon! GOLD & SILVER • August 13th Hunter Pony, 9am- www.reindupont.com crockodile haNdbags Judge Louise Cotulla 13 W. Federal St. • August 21: Sunday Jumper Show, 9am- All Classes Taught by Certified Instructors (540) 454-3355 Judge TBA THOMAS AND TALBOT 100 east washington street Middleburg, VA 22 East Washington Street, 2nd Floor 540-687-8200 • Sept. 10th Hunter Pony, 9am- HOLLY HOOPES REAL ESTATE 540.687.8898 ast ashiNgtoN t 540-687-3380 Middleburg, VA Call me! 540-338-2223 • Mobile: 703-409-2600 19 e W s . Judge Diana Cappelanti Middleburg, Virginia [email protected] • Sept. 17th Hunter Horse, 9am- 703.409.3882 [email protected] Judge Bill Moroney Galleries Gourmet Goodies Home & Garden Veterinarians Middleburg, BoardingVA 20118 • Office: 540-687-5255 Health Financial Advisors Realtors

Contemporary Your unique and exclusive Coming Women’s resource for Coming Clothing the best value in home Coming Handmade Coming Coming & Marshmellos furnishings. Soon! Accessories Coming Coming Soon! Great Sandwiches Soon! at Soon! Dorothy Suggs Soon! 102 W. Washington St. Hot Chocolate Great Marketing Specialist Middleburg, VA Soon! Coffee Soon! Prices 540-687-5748 phone: 703-280-8210 www.betseyshop.com 2 E. Federal Street • Middleburg 540-687-8635 cell:703-459-5490 Books Accomodations Gifts Pets Calendar of Events for advertising information call 540.687.3200 Great Summer Yard Sale Middleburg’s Upscale Middleburg 4th Annual Yard Sale Middleburg Piedmont Child Care Middleburg Farmers Market Business & Professional Methodist Church Association Rt. 50 Upperville Coming (corner Washington Every Saturday August Mixer Saturday, July 30th • 7:00 AM Come in and cool off! and Pendelton Streets) Through the Clothing sold for $2 per bag We have lots of hot new Coming at the ables are $10.00 and must be Saturday, August 6th books for every reader. Soon! end of October National Sporting reserved by Wednesday, July 27, Special orders, discount program, 8:00 AM -1 :00PM Addtional sale tables Behind the Library & Museum 2011. All proceeds from table author signings, book clubs & more. August 9th sales will benefit PCCC, a non- Hours: Mon~Sat 10 to 6, Sun 12 to 5 Soon! availble for $20 August Middleburg For more info call: 5:30 to 7:30 profit organization. 8 East Federal St., Middleburg, VA 5th, 6th, 7th Community Center 540-592-3908 540-687-7016 687-5439 or 687-6492 [email protected] www.mbecc.com Page 18 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 19 Faces & Places Middleburg Humane Foundation Gala Ayrshire Farm, Uppervile, VA -June 25, 2011 Photos by Dee Dee Hubbard

Hurst K Groves, Barbara Sharp, Linda Stuntz, Linda Dodderidge & Phil Dodderide

Christorpher Kent, Anne & Philip Marstiller

Charles, Tanya & Liz Washington, Wally Lunceford and Terry Cotton

Peter & Kathy Durand, Lisa & Zohar Ben-Dov,, Hilleary bogley and David Braun

! e Ack Carolyn Shortt, Steve Harkabus, Hilleary Bogley, Jean Loonam W B and Rose Rogers Are Model & Janet & Jack Love Joann Swifte, Laura & Larry clark Kathy Durand, Lisa Ben-Dov, Christopher Kent and Hilleary Bogley Sales Office

Open Sat/Sun & HolidayS 12 pm - 5 pm STEEPLECHASE RUN Jack Love, Hilleary Bogley, Janet McKim, Liz Washington and Luxury Living in the Heart of Horse Country David Braun uilder ays losing osts Rt. 50 West to Middleburg Baker Johnson & Jackie Shelby B P $7,000 C C to Right on North Jay St., 2 for a imited ime nly l t o blocks to Model Home on Right - 111 N. Jay St. From $479,900 • 19 10 Estate Town Homes Left Sales and Marketing by • 3 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths The Matt Shepard Group Keller Williams Realty • Gourmet Kitchens 703 403-4003 • 3 Finished Levels 703 786-4111 www.CityToSeaRealEstate.com • 1 & 2 Car Garages • Stone & Hardy Plank Siding

Visit our website for Homesites, Floor Plan & Features: www.BatalHomes.com Kim Young, Valerie, Susan & Norm Styer Pat Reid & Friend www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 20 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 21 Faces & Places Pink Box Celebrates 20th Anniversay Middleburg, VA -June 21, 2011 GGeett tthhee BBiizz BBuuzzzz!! Photos by Dee Dee Hubbard

The Middleburg Business and Professional Association invites you to our August Mixer

Tuesday, August 9 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Hosted by National Sporting Library and Museum 102 The Plains Road

Please RSVP by email to: We’ll have a 10-minute Biz Buzz info @visitmiddleburgva.com to bring you up-to-date

Non-members will be charged $5.00.

Patricia Burns, Jamie Pearson and Buncles Murdock

Frankline Payne, Andy Bergener, Page Dimos and Mary Kay garwood

Robin Keys & Mary Kay Garwood MIDDLEBURG ACADEMY invites you to an Open House Manley Johnson and Marguerite Taylor Manley Johnson and Sheila Sisk Ken Reid June 23, July 21, August 4 and August 18 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm ALL ROADS LEAD TO WAKEFIELD

Mark Metzger, Robin Cavanaugh and Lisa Patterson Open House

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 9 a.m. RSVP: www.wakefi eldschool.org/openhouse We invite you to visit our college preparatory or (540) 253-7600 high school and discover an exceptional educational experience. To RSVP, please WAKEFIELD SCHOOL contact the Offi ce of Admission at: 4439 OLD TAVERN ROAD 540.687.5581 P.O. BOX 107 THE PLAINS, VA 20198

Darlene Kirk 35321 Notre Dame Lane I Middleburg, VA 20117 I 540.687.5581 I www.middleburgacademy.org Ron Poston, Fritz Hutcheson and Reggie Dawson BUS SERVICE AVAILABLE

www.mbecc.com WAK_07_MiddleburgEccentric_ad_SIGN_07142011_r2.indd 1 www.mbecc.com7/12/2011 12:12:36 PM Page 22 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 23 Faces & Places The 92nd annual Warrenton Pony Show Warrenton, VA -June 29th thru July 3rd Photos by Teresa Ramsay

Katie Petronelli - Young Entry Champion Rachel Tanio - showing in the Childrens Med. Hunter Trinity Hammerschmidt- showing Local Sm. Pony Catherine Newman Danielle DeRisio Riding “Mr McGregor” Oliver Brown and Betsee Parker with “Rainbow Reflection”

Ainsley Treptpw riding “The Impressionist” Zan Martin Dillon & “Saratoga” Sue Bopp winning class on “Chawton” Chiara Parlagreco, Adult Am. Owner Champion on Jack Stern & Mrs. Mullen Michelle Trufant, Jenny Scrull, Chiara Parlagreco, “Lord Ashley” Denice Perry and Bucky Reynolds Look as Young as You Feel! 540.687.3123 NEW DDF Hunt Country Counseling, llC SUMMER SALE JULIEN’S REVOLVE (Male or Female) ShoeS $10 to $75 A Touch of Europe in Middleburg 400X Kathryn L. Vieweg, lPC teeS Starting at $15 Polish Away ® DeSigner Clothing 75% off (Developers of Pro-Activ Have Now Addressed Aging) Counseling Individuals, Groups, Skins Imperfections! You control 80% of Adolescents, Adults & Seniors Preview starts Continued Page 16 your skin’s destiny! Depression, Anxiety, Monday aug, 1st 22 E. Washington Street Four Regimens: Bereavement, Relationships Middleburg, VA UNBLEMISH • REVERSE sidewalk sale European Market Café Restaurant 540.687.8050 SOOTHE • ANTI-AGE Evening and Saturday Appointments Available & Sandwicherie & Wine Bar aug. 5, 6, 7 Avoid expensive surgery & Magellan, Aetna, BCBS-Anthem,Carefirst,NCPPO, EAPS, Tailgate Catering Daily Specials painfull injections. Mastercard & Visa accepted 10 to 5 Many Wines & Beers Extensive Wine List 13 E. Washington Street Satisfaction guaranteed. 13 E. Washington TULLY Cheeses, Baked Goods Catering (540) 287-8844 Middleburg, VA Middleburg, VA Call Debbie Bankert, Executive Consultant 14 South Madison RECTOR 3 West Washington Street • Middleburg, VA 20117 540-364-3639 ~ Cell:703-475-6347 1760 Reston Prky, Suite 212 540.687.5858 Open Daily 11 to 9, Closed Thursdays 540-687-8050 Middleburg, VA 20118 Reston, VA 20190

obel ielseN idewalk ale Aug. 11th Deadline N N s s for Aug. 25th Issue 50% to 75% offeNtire store! ug 540.687.3200 a NNshoes. 1@5,mac .6,com 7 100 east washington street ~ 540.687.8898 www.middleburgeccentric.com 19 east washi NgtoN st.~ 540-687-8200 www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Twilight Polo 2011 Middleburg Eccentric copy.pdf 1 4/20/11 9:40 PM Page 24 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 25 Faces & Places National Sporting Museum Sneak Preview MAY21ST OPENING NIGHT Stop In for Middleburg, VA July 21 2011 ~ Photos by Dee Dee Hubbard Something Yummy !

Tencha Gilpin, Jimmy Hatcher and Jacqueline Ohr- Bill Sittman, Anne & Philip Marstiller strom

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Gates’ Open at 6:30 pm $30 per Carload Mello Out 5089 Old Tavern Road, The Plains VA 2 East Federal St. (540) 253-5000 Middleburg, VA www.greatmeadow.org 540.687.8635 7:30 am to 5 pm Mon. thru Sat. DESIGN DONATED BY TIM KENNEY MARKETING 10 am to 5 pm Sun. www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 26 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 27 Village Green Maggie Bryant Named Conservationist of the Year Chandler Van Voorhis talk about conservation and the under conservation easement, Foundation, sat on numerous Waldo Emerson once wrote, future. Not one to mince her helped save 68,000 acres in other conservation boards and “the creation of a thousand for- agalen “Maggie” O. words, Maggie says “do rather Louisiana and protect 125,000 received the prestigious Chev- est is in one acorn.” To this end, Bryant, a resident of than talk.” And do she has done. acres in Paraguay. ron Conservation Award. her greatest legacy may not be Fauquier County for Maggie was one of the first In classical Maggie fash- Like a great oak three her touch on the land but rather nearly 50 years, was residents of Fauquier County to ion she says, “start or follow.” whose canopy provides per- that on the human heart. For it recently awarded the Land Trust place her land under permanent And start she has. spective, whose trunk is weight- is through heart and passion, we Mof Virginia’s Conservationist of conservation easement, con- Maggie has been at the ed in principle, whose roots achieve great things. the Year award for 2011. serving more than 1,000 acres. forefront of the conservation tap the fertility of new ideas, By investing in people, On a hot summer evening, But she did not stop there. She movement for several decades. Maggie invests in the future by she compounds conservation. I had the chance to sit down placed all 17,000 acres of Tara She has served as Chairperson investing in people. She inher- with Maggie on her porch to Wildlife in Vicksburg, MS, of National Fish and Wildlife ently understands what Ralph Local Conservationists Honored he Land Trust of Vir- made the “most significant con- The Bazacos decided to pleased the land would be pro- 25-acre parcel in 2000. Three ginia honored Doukénie tribution to protecting natural, place their land under easement tected in perpetuity, but also years later, she placed a second Winery owners George cultural and open space values.” to provide permanent protection that the family could continue easement, on an additional 215 and Nichola Bazaco; In March 2010, the Baza- for its open space, agricultural its vineyard operations. acres. The farm’s open mead- Talbot Farm owner Virginia cos placed their nearly 500-acre and environmental resources. Virginia “Ginny” Friend, owland and stream, visible to TFriend; and longtime conserva- Windham farm north of Hills- The easement also served to received the 2011 LTV Steward the east of Rt. 662 as one ap- tionist Magalen “Maggie” O. boro under a Land Trust Con- protect the northern flank of of the Year award for her metic- proaches Waterford from the Bryant for their work in helping servation Easement, the second- the Hillsboro and surrounding ulous care of Talbot Farm just south, have been carefully pro- preserve Virginia’s rural land- largest easement ever recorded countryside east of the Blue south of Waterford. The award tected by Friend, along with the scape. with LTV. Located on the east- Ridge from development. is given to a Virginia landowner main house, farm buildings and Dr. George and Nichola ern side of Short Hill Mountain, At the time of the ease- who employs best management forested area. Friend, particu- Bazaco were presented with the the property is visible for more ment donation in 2010, George practices in preserving their larly, has sought over the years 2011 LTV Landowner of the than a mile and a half along Bazaco said he and his wife property and, in complying with to return the stream bank areas Year award for their commit- Mountain Road/Rt. 690, a Vir- had bought the property in the the conditions of the easement, of her property to good health, ment to preserve “one of North- ginia Scenic Byway. hopes of living and working in exemplifies the concept of an working with several environ- ern Loudoun County’s most With 360 acres the prop- northern Loudoun and one day ideal steward of the land. mental groups. She has worked spectacular properties.” The erty includes 170 acres of prime passing the land on to the next Friend was one of the closely with LTV staff members award is presented to a Virginia farmland and 135 woodland generation. Noting he and his first landowners in the state to to ensure the riparian areas are landowner who, by donating a acres that stretch to the crest of wife had “loved this land from place her property under ease- adequately protected. conservation easement to LTV Short Hill just north of Hills- the moment we saw it,” Bazaco ment through the then-fledgling during the previous year, has boro. said the couple was particularly LTV, starting with an initial Green Business Challenge Adds Competitors ore than 50 local • Lansdowne Resort • Total Equine Veterinary is online at: www.loudoun. a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at Rehau in businesses and or- • Metron Aviation, Inc. Associates gov/greenbusinesschallenge or Leesburg. Local businesses are ganizations have • Neustar www.locogreenbiz.org. The invited to attend to learn more signed up for the • Nova Medical & Urgent Dewberry became the 50th deadline to register and submit about the Green Business Chal- 2011 Loudoun County Green Care Center business to sign up for the Chal- a scorecard is August 30, 2011. lenge and how to fill out the MBusiness Challenge, which is • Paciulli, Simmons & As- lenge following the most recent Winners will be announced at Scorecard. designed to encourage partici- sociates Loudoun Green Business Chal- the Gala Event on October 27, More information is avail- pating businesses to increase • RAM Consulting, RCare lenge Summer Coffee Series 2011. able online at www.loudoun. operational efficiency and re- Solutions Division event. The next Coffee Series gov/greenbusinesschallenge duce their overall carbon foot- • Rockwell Collins More information on reg- event will be held Wednesday, and www.locogreenbiz.org. print. • Solar Odyssey, Inc. istration and the rating system August 24, 2011, from 8:00 The Green Business Chal- lenge is a partnership between the Loudoun County Govern- ment and the Loudoun Cham- ber of Commerce to encourage Loudoun businesses to adopt environmentally sound business practices. Businesses are ranked for their environmental practices through a Green Business Challenge Scorecard. Actions taken by businesses participating in the 2011 Challenge may include conduct- ing office-wide energy audits, having employees turn off lights and computers when not in use, purchasing recycled paper products, and adopting formal tele- work policies. Newest participants in the 2011 Challenge are: • Blake Landscapes, Inc. • Brambleton Group L.L.C. • Catoctin Creek Distilling Company, LLC • Con-Serv Industries • Dewberry • Dulles Area Association of REALTORS • eXp Realty • GeoConcepts Engineer- ing, Inc. • Image Matters LLC • Inova Loudoun Hospital • J. R. Snider, Ltd. www.mbecc.com www.mbecc.com Page 28 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 29 Village Green Loudoun Drinking Water – Yay or Yuck? Waterworld Richard A. Engberg only four incorporated towns drinkable water. abdominal infections (we may rine and in the county not supplied by So how does Fairfax Wa- call it something else.) Other ozone here does Loudoun Loudoun Water, the others be- ter treat the water it furnishes substances that may find their to kill Water, the larg- ing Leesburg, Purcellville, and Loudoun Water and why is it way into water include radio- the mi- est drinking wa- Lovettsville. treated? Let’s answer these active contaminants, and pes- croorganisms that might have ter supplier in So where does Loudoun questions in reverse order. ticides or other organic chemi- made it through the filtration Loudoun County, obtain its Water get its water? Two Remember that water cals. Finally, sediment picked process. The finished water Wwater, how it is treated before sources, actually, intakes in is the universal solvent. As up by water can be the cause of is tested daily for microorgan- being distributed to customers, the Potomac River and Goose it moves overland or resides turbidity (cloudiness.) isms. Yay! and how we can be confident Creek, or, more accurately, underground it continually is Yuck! We’re drinking These techniques have we are getting the best product Goose Creek Reservoir. How- dissolving minerals and other this stuff? But wait! We’re been developed over many possible? ever, Loudoun Water’s primary natural material as well as less not, we’re really not. Fairfax years and are in use in one form First, a confession. I do function is water distribution. desirable material resulting Water uses a five step treatment or another by every water sys- Middleburg - Privacy abounds in this custom Paris - Only $835K for this stunning southerly Delaplane - Wine & Hunt Country! A beautiful Purcellville - REDUCED. A truly stunning 55.5BA not live in Middleburg. In- In reality, its drinking water from human and animal activ- process that involves chemical tem in the U. S. that uses sup- stone & brick Colonial on nearly 6 acres. 6 bed- valley view in conservation easement. Any 10,000sf colonial mansion for you on a cul-de- estate home on 13 acres in prestigious eques- stead, I live in an area of comes from Fairfax County. ity. Naturally occurring inor- coagulation, flocculation, sedi- plies derived from surface wa- rooms, 7.5 bathrooms, 2-story great room, angle of the home or its huge deck on 22 acres sac with an attached indoor lap pool, a wrap- trian community. Fully upgraded with dramatic Loudoun County whose water Loudoun Water purchases ganic substances can be things mentation, filtration, and disin- ter sources. As a career “water sunroom, gourmet kitchen with morning room, provides views of other properties in conserva- around deck and separate offices over the 3 car details. Interior upgrades include 10-foot ceil- is supplied by Loudoun Water. fully treated water through like salts and metals, but these fection. So what do these big guy,” I feel confident that ev- au pair or office suite has separate entrance, tion easement. Set back from the road, it will garage. Only the finest of finishes for the very ings, 8-foot cased doorways, built-in bookcases In fact, Loudoun Water pro- fairly complicated contrac- substances can also occur as a words actually mean? The first ery time I draw a glass of water main level library or master bedroom. Huge provide peace & tranquility for years to come. best! From almost every room are extraordi- and large UV/heat-treated windows. Located vides drinking water to more tual agreements from Fairfax result of human activity – think three simply are processes that from my kitchen sink, it is as finished walk-out basement. 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Main ture 15th Fairway, overlooking the Potomac versus the envi- Cunningham, author of the nated in linear feet, wetland foresters. sense House has state-of-the-art kitchen, 3000 bottle River! A Chef's dream kitchen opens to casual ronment. We are book The Restoration Econ- credits are denominated in Because restoration is for the wine cellar, great room leading to patio and dining, 2-story family room, library/guest suite, conditioned to believe one omy divided the US economy acres. Buyers of these cred- capital intensive, a regional land and infinity pool, wrap-around screened porch and upper lounge overlooks family room, master Wmust choose between the two. into three sections --- resto- its are usually infrastructure firm called Restore Capital the wallet, landowners are loggia connecting 3-car garage to home. 4-level bedroom fills entire wing with river views off

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old Chihuahua/Dachshund mix. seeking an active home with other four-legged friends. She seeks a mom or dad or family Got Mice? dog friends He is house trained with a companion dog who is willing and is very social with other dogs. to share treats & playtime. Feline Mice-Patrol Officers as well. Elliot needs a home with Albert P. Clark heartedly delighted with a new Looking for employment with housing included ! lots of exercise & no cats! puppy tumbling through the door, Blackberry is a 8-10 yr. old ife is cyclical. The sea- or happily ensuring that flowers gorgeous Saddlebred who was sons come and go. The brightened the storefront, Judith Patricia is a very social & healthy trees are bountiful be- brought a contagious good mood recently rescued. Now a healthy female Emu who is in need of a fore the leaves fall. The and an uplifting attitude with her loving boy, who is looking to be every time she worked. home. Patricia was a stray who garden sings with bees and but- your horse's companion, or your Lterflies before the winter brings Alas, the time has finally was recently rescued. She would new project horse! silence. It’s just the way of the come when Judith really is going like to live with another Emu or world. But sometimes, it’s a tough to stop filling in. It helps that she other livestock on a farm. pill to swallow. has promised to step in if there’s June and July marked two an urgent need, visit frequent- Mattie is a 4 yr old Beagle mix passages for me. One is very se- ly, and remain a “friend of the who is intelligent & just the right rious and the other far less so, Wagg”. She may not be on duty, Napoleon A very laid back 4 size. Her desire is to be the but both have left me with an at- but she’ll definitely be close by, yr old Beagle is looking for a titude that’s a little more winter and that’s comforting. We are so center of attention so she couch to call his very own. His than summer. And both involve grateful for the innumerable con- reserves the right to be the same family in Middleburg – tributions she made to the store’s interests include dogs, cats, selective of her dog friends. a family that is very important to success, but more importantly, we food, kids and ear rubs. my people’s shop, Wylie Wagg. feel privileged to have enjoyed The first and most distress- her company on a regular basis. Pebbles & Annie ing is the sudden passing of a be- So the summer has been Socks A small stocky 1 yr old Pebbles an 8 yr old Shetland loved canine friend, Ranger Ple- a bit melancholy in some ways, Dachshund mix seeks a quiet scow. Ranger was a dog among but it has made me think about Pony mare gave birth to home with another companion dogs – the epitome of grace, beau- something important: appreciat- Annie on 3/25/11. Annie will ing the present. Things are always dog. His pastimes include play- ty and strength. Rumor had it that be med.–lg. pony when she Middleburg Humane, along with all other shelters have many there might have been a drop or changing, and today may be one ing with his buds, chasing two of wolf in him. If we’re talk- of the best days of our lives. The grows up since her daddy wonderful/healthy and loving kitties that need homes. butterflies & snacking! ing about legendary “old-soul- people, pets and situations that was a horse! They need a ness” and spirit, he might as well bring us happiness are to be sa- very experienced home to If you have room in your heart, home, garage or barn have been all wolf. He was big in vored, because the one constant continue their daily training. body, but his heart was the big- is change. Rather than getting too please save a life & adopt a kitten or adult kitty. gest part of him by far. He filled gloomy about this, I’m resolving Middleburg Humane Foundation a room and made everyone in it to remember to enjoy the “now”. HOW YOU CAN HELP : feel just a little more special to be I’m determined to take note more Luther is a 3-4 month P.O. Box 1238 Middleburg VA 20118 sharing his space. He could be a often when things seem especially old Lab Corgi mix in search Donate canned and dry cat food [email protected] (540) 364-3272 clown just as easily as he could be perfect. Spending too much time of a stay-at-home or works a compassionate protector – and in the past or future is a sure way For info on adoptions & programs: he knew exactly when to call on of squandering amazing moments. -from-home parent. For Adopt a cat or kitten. Ask about our buddy program either talent. To look into his eyes Yes, it’s 357 degrees and I entertainment he likes to www.middleburghumane.com was to know that dogs have depth can’t go outside and I’m hot and play, eat, lick & snuggle. Spay/neuter your feline friends that people just cannot imagine. thirsty and restless and I’m “hang- Those who knew him know that dogging” it to the point that it’s he will never really be gone be- almost comical … but I think it’s cause he will be as vivid in memo- time to snap back to appreciative ry as he was in life. Ranger, it was mode. The truth is that life is full an honor to know you. of passages, both heartbreaking The other sad news is not of and heartwarming. If today is free the same ilk as the passing of a of heartbreak, it’s a gift and one friend. It’s just that we won’t be to be relished regardless of poor seeing quite as much of a friend weather, frustrations or inconve- as we would like. Judith Plescow, niences. It’s a lesson for all of us, Battle of 1st Manassas; Talk and Tour Ranger’s mom, has long been an two-legged and four. important fixture at my people’s Talk, Friday, July 29 shop. Several years ago, she kind- Albert, a Jack Russell Ter- Music Room of the Peard Building, The Hill School, Middleburg, Virginia ly offered to “fill in” for a couple rier, is Chairman of the Board of of months. Well, months turned Wylie Wagg, a shop for dogs, cats, 6:00 p.m. -- Wine & Cheese Reception followed by talk and book signing into years, and we all got very and their people, in Middleburg, Tickets: $60 for MHAA members, $75 for non-members spoiled. Judith brought a spe- Fairfax, Falls Church and Arling- cial brand of enthusiasm into our ton. Tour, Saturday, July 30 midst. Whether she was whole- Manassas National Battlefield, Manassas, Virginia 8:00 a.m. -- Arrive at Atoka for coffee and donuts 8:30 a.m. -- Bus leaves for the Manassas National Battlefield 9:15 a.m. -- Begin tour of the battlefield stopping at sites that are significant to the Battle of 1st Manassas (Bull Run), stop at the Visitor Center and a boxed lunch. 3:30 p.m. -- Return to Atoka , LLC ld eadow John Hennessy, chief historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, will AO CONSERVEM VIRGINIA CORPORATION RESTORATION • REMODELING • RENOVATION speak on the Battle of 1st Manassas (Bull Run) on Friday, July 29 at the Hill School in Middleburg, Vir- ginia, followed on Saturday, July 30 by a guided tour of the actions of the Battle of 1st Manassas (Bull Stall Barns WE LOVE OLD HOUSES Run) at the Manassas National Battlefield.

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