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The Blackburn Murder the First Major Battle of the Civil War Daniel Morrow Earlier, Massie Handed His Hymnal to Her Condition Printed using recycled fiber Tropical for Summer Page 15 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 histor- ic 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 or- ganizations 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- cult undertaking. PERMIT NO 029 NO PERMIT BURKE, VA BURKE, POSTAL CUSTOMER POSTAL US POSTAGE PAID POSTAGE US ECRWSS Editor’s Desk: Page 12 • Friends for Life: Page 30 7/28/11 Thursday by homes in Request PRST STD PRST Page 2 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Middleburg Eccentric • July 28, 2011 ~ August 25, 2011 Page 3 Atoka Conservation Exchange News of Note IDDLEBURG P.O. Box 1768 M Specializing in land easements to serve Middleburg, VA 20118 clients’ conservation and financial objectives 540-687-3200 Legendary Bruce Sundlun Dies Peacefully fax 866-705-7643 EAL STATE www.mbecc.com R E [email protected] ruce Sundlun, the are the facts of life.” after junior year for private mans would fight back and Charlie Westbrook 703-447-9505 fiery Rhode Island Asked if he had any Tabor Academy in Marion, there’d be some gunfire, Quietly Serving Our Clients Since 1943 www.atokaconservation.com governor, World regrets, Sundlun said: “Not Mass. He entered Williams but we’d do more damage Cover Photo War II hero and the really, that I can think of. I College in September 1938, to them than they’d do to us by Dee Dee Hubbard owner who gave Middle- don’t have any enemies that and when Hitler invaded ’cause we knew every rock Bburg’s Salamander Farm its I know of. And it wouldn’t Poland a year later, Sund- and tree.” Editor In Chief name, has died at 91. 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