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CHESAPEAKE Style Water hasFast always been Times an important on part ofthe my life—as Rivers in swimming Editor, Publisher, Chief The mission of Chesapeake Style and boating. According to the family legend, someone held me under Cook & Bottle Washer is to serve and celebrate the the water when I was three. My mother, when I was 13, became the Janet Abbott Fast Chesapeake Bay Region and its leader of the Virginia’s first Mariner Girl Scout troop. Of course, earning Writers & Photographers people, past, present and future. badges required one to swim. On Saturdays we’d go to the Richmond Katherine Bavuso, Corinne Becker, Letters to the editor are welcome. YWCA. I was the only one in our troop in a Beginner’s swim class. I Mari Bonomi, Carol J. Bova, Joy The editor reserves the right to will always remember the feeling of trusting the water to hold me up, Brenda Burch, Joseph T. “Chip” edit all submissions for clarity, Buxton, III, E. C. Doleman, as I pushed off the side of the pool and floated to the other side! lousy spelling or any other From that point on, I passed course after course in the Red Cross Ellen Dugan, Ann Eichenmuller, Deborah Figg, RuthE Forrest, Bill reason that strikes her fancy. swim programs. Until Senior Lifesaving at Overhill Lake. In order Chesapeake Style is a priceless to take the class we had to swim half a mile—which I accomplished Graves, Pamela Hagy, Martha magazine published eight swimming the elementary backstroke the whole way! I failed the course M. Hall, Torrence Harman, Melissa Haydon, Wendy Hyde, times a year by Chesapeake Bay the first time, but was the best one in the class the second time. Larry Jenkins, Jr., Spike Knuth, From there I became a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. In college, Marketing. For delivery for one year, Tracy Lanum, Kenny Park, Don now JMU, students had to pass Beginner Swimming in order to graduate. please send your name, mailing Loop, Joe Phillips, Chelly Scala, address and a check or money Because of my fear of the water, I was able to empathize and teach girls (it Nancy Shelley, Gerhard Straub, order, for $24 for postage and was a woman’s college) who, by 18, had not learned to swim. Usually, if Charlene Talcott, Susan Williamson handling, to the address below. you haven’t learned to swim by that time, it’s due to a fear of the water. Ad Sales, Distribution Later we moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where I taught swimming Carol J. Bova, Susan Christopher, Chesapeake Style aka Water Safety. The local Red Cross chapter sent me to Aquatic School Willis Croxton, Deborah Figg, Bill P. O. Box 802 in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, where I became qualified to train Water Graves, Martha Hall, Florine Headley, Warsaw, VA 22572 Safety Instructors. Then they sent me to another Aquatic School in Jackie Ingram, Tracy Lanum, Joanne 804-333-0628 Northern Wisconsin, when I learned to teach (and later trained instructors) Nelson, Nancy Shelley, Marie Stone [email protected] handicapped swimming aka Adapted Aquatics. The caveat was that I start Proofreader www.chesapeakestyle.com and run swim programs for the local disabled children. Each day of the Marie Stone The opinions expressed in week we had classes for different disabilities—physically handicapped, Ad Composition, Graphics, Layout Chesapeake Style are those mildly mentally handicapped, blind, deaf, emotionally disturbed—with Janet Abbott Fast, Deborah Figg of contributing writers and college students helping every step of the way. The classes continue today. do not necessarily reflect the Next time, boating, in an 18’ red and white Century Tri- opinion of Chesapeake Style or Hull, a 1930, 34’ custom built Chesapeake Bay Deadrise its advertisers. Reproduction in cruiser and a 34’ Owens Brigantine Sportfisher Cruiser. whole or in part of any material About the cover~ in this publication without Edwin Columbus Barrack, better Captain Robin Routt’s menhaden permission is strictly prohibited. known as Junior Barrack in the boat and earned enough money ©2007-2018 All rights reserved Northern Neck, has spent the last six the first year to build a deadrise Chesapeake Style decades working as a commercial workboat. The waterman’s life was Chesapeake Bay Marketing. watermen and at 82 years of age, put on hold when he was drafted he still continues to do so. On most in the U.S. Army where he trained early summer mornings, you can as a M48 Patton tank driver. Upon find him making his way in his 14 the conclusion of his service, he foot McKee Craft to Morattico and returned home to purchase an acre Farnham Creeks to fish peeler traps of property on Mulberry Creek for the for his soft crabbing business located price of $500 and build a home where off of Mulberry Creek near the village he and his wife, Janet, have lived of Morattico. On his return, he works since 1961. Junior oystered in the a few crab pots closer to home. 1960’s and in the early 1970’s pound Junior has shed soft crabs since netted with partner W.W. Wilmer. the 1970’s. He says “when you Of all his seafood endeavors, see pollen, the crabs are getting soft crabbing is the one he ready to run so you better have says he loves the most. your traps in place and ready”. Photo by Larry Jenkins Jr. To see more Athena celebrates Sewing Month! 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WITH OUR NEW RUM RUNNER COCKTAIL! 4 September 2018 Gardening in Style~Garden Mums blooms. However, they are They are sun not hardy in our zone and lovers, preferring are only grown as annuals. morning sun over Garden mums were afternoon sun. hybridized in the other After frost has direction. They produce killed the plant, smaller blooms than florist clean the area of mums, but they are very debris and mulch hardy in our zone. They heavy. When can be planted in Spring the Spring thaw but generally are more comes, you will available in Fall and thus see green growth more often planted in coming from Fall. They are available the root. Garden in many colors including Mums need to be yellow, burgundy, plum, trimmed three white, bronze, pinks and times during the Day and the Fourth of July as the lavenders. They also have Spring and Summer in order to shape three trim times to make it easier to a range of sizes, shapes them and make them bushy and remember. Trim one fourth to one as well as bloom types. thick rather that spindly and leggy. By Nancy Shelley third of the plant at each trimming. There is literally a size and color to A very good mum grower once hen we think of With the Fourth of July trimming, blend with every landscape design. told me to use Mother's Day, Father's Fall, we think of shape the plant the way you want it to Mums should be very blue skies, be at bloom time. Do not trim again planted immediately crisp cool air after the Fourth of July as the plant after you purchase and mums. It's will begin to set its buds. Make sure them in fall. They hard to imagine a fall scene without they are watered well in dry times and W are short day plants mums, straw bales and corn shocks. fertilize with an all purpose fertilizer. which means they There are two basic kinds of mums, Because mums are very don't want more than florist mums and garden mums. Both inexpensive, many people simply twelve hours of light came from the same parent plant treat them as annuals and toss them per day. Do not plant but decades of hybridizing has taken at the end of the season. They do well under street lights or each in totally different directions. in pots also but don't winter over as other areas that are Florist mums were hybridized well as those planted in the ground. lit after dark. Mums to be huge beautiful single flowers Mums are truly low maintenance do not like wet feet suitable for cutting and using in and easy to grow. Mums the Word! so make sure you arrangements. There is absolutely no Deborah Figg photos. do not plant in low denying that the hybridizers were very areas that hold water. successful and have created gorgeous

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These electronic equipment that the Coast Guard distress signals only meet requires you to carry on your boat. the nighttime distress signal Depending on the size and type requirements. To solve this problem, of your vessel, the list includes both of the current manufacturers things like life jackets, throwable of these devices include a daytime flotation aids, fire extinguishers, distress flag. This is a large orange sound producing devices, and flag with a black square and various distress signaling devices circle on it. This is acceptable for daytime and nighttime use. If of properly disposing of them. boats. An electronic flare is nothing as a daytime distress signal. your boat is purely recreational, you Like me, I’m sure many of you keep more than a waterproof LED light So, with the electronic distress can satisfy that last requirement at least some of your expired flares that flashes the signal SOS and it light and the included flag, you are in with three handheld flares that as spares, and we’ll not discuss what does not have an expiration date, compliance with Coast Guard distress count for both daytime and often happens to the others, but the although you will have to replace signal requirements for daytime and CG sometimes the C or D size batteries annually. nighttime. Unfortunately, these are gets a little touchy The other cool thing about these only valid for recreational vessels, so about expired is that they run for hours instead if you run a commercial vessel, you flares on board, of minutes for a regular flare. still get to deal with regular flares. so keep them According to the Coast Guard, Next time I’m boarded, I’ll let you separate from “in order to be acceptable, all know if it all really passed muster! your current ones. electronic visual distress signals Be safe and see you on the water. During a must be legibly marked with the A Coast Guard approved nighttime routine inventory statement, ‘Night visual distress electronic distress signal, A Coast of the safety signal for boats complies with U.S. Guard approved daytime distress flag equipment on Coast Guard requirements in 46 CFR Gerhard Straub is master of Claud W. Somers 161.013. For emergency use only’, the skipjack Claud W. Somers I noticed that and must also be marked with the which is owned by the Reedville our flares had an manufacturer’s name, replacement Fishermen’s Museum. expiration date battery type and lamp size.” of August 2018. I Currently there are only two of thought I better these devices on the market from check the flares on my personal nighttime signaling devices. boats too, and guess what, August The frustrating part is that those 2018. At about $36 a set, this was flares are marked with an expiration going to hurt, and I really don’t like date that is 42 months after the date carrying around a whole locker full of manufacture. When you do buy of pyrotechnics on a boat—I guess flares, don’t assume those are brand that’s why we also have to carry fire new stock on the store shelves. Be extinguishers!—so I decided to bite sure to check the expiration date, the bullet and try something new. just like when buying milk at the The Coast Guard has recently grocery store, or you’ll be replacing allowed the use of electronic flares them even sooner. Of course, when to meet the nighttime distress they expire, you have the problem signaling requirement on recreational 6 September 2018 The Freeze Up~Part I There was a heave all that gear and the oysters in a wooden marine supply skiff we had. We soon found that was way too store there, heavy. My dad volunteered his old 66 Chevy near the main Pick Up. Towing the skiff and all our gear dock on the behind us, we went out onto the bay and got island. Fuel and to work. We were about a mile offshore. supplies were Everything went great and we caught quite a few on hand and bushels of oysters. Deciding we’d had enough for the watermen one day we loaded up and started back for shore. By Joe Phillips would always Two guys riding in the truck and the loaded skiff s I remember it. congregate there during the early towing along behind. The rest of us walk-stumbled This one particular year (’78 mornings or during times of bad weather. across the rough saltwater ice toward the shore. I think it was) the ice, moving This was one of those times. Suddenly the truck dug into the ice diving up the bay shifted sharp’s Island The men, unable to go out and tong for oysters, headlong into the frigid water. The guy on Lighthouse on her foundation. were all gathered around. There were benches and the passenger side was able to jump clear To Athis day, every trip I make up or down the chairs set up in the main part of the store, gallons of but the driver was trapped and started to bay, when I see that cockeyed lighthouse, I think coffee were drunk and a thick pall about those times. That was as cold as I have of cigarette smoke hung in the air. ever been before or since! The old men said It was then those old men started that nor wester (the relentless north west wind) with their stories, about how they was so cold, “it’a cut your eye winkers off! took their old Model T Fords out on Earlier that same winter , before the really hard the ice and pulled oyster dredges freeze, we hauled out dad’s boat to nail stainless so they could make a living. Of steel sheathing around her waterline to protect course, a least according to them, the wooden hull from ice. Sometimes I think the weather was much colder and back on nailing those nails into the grid laid out the ice much thicker than it is now. on the metal. The nails were too small to hold That’s all it took for us younger with gloved hands so we would work barehanded watermen—we couldn’t be out for a while and then have to stop and warm our done by those old men! Some of hands again. Those were some long cold days! the guys went out and found some Dad and I were returning to port one old junk cars that would still run. afternoon, breaking the thin windowpane They cut off doors and fenders in ice that had been forming. Let’s just say you order to reduce weight. Dredges, haven’t lived until you’ve tried breaking ice rope, chainsaws and axes appeared in a wooden boat. Of course by now you will and several crews were formed. have heard all the stories of boats being cut We set out to the nearest open or stove in after running through ice. oyster bar and went to work. It We were sitting in the warm cabin, next to wasn’t long before two Marine Police officers go down with the truck! He went up to his the kerosene heater. Suddenly a rat jumped off showed up to make us stop. Using a dredge— waist when one of the guys grabbed him by the stern of the boat and went skittering across hand scrape we called it—in these waters was the arm and yanked him up and out. the ice. I turned and asked dad “What is it they illegal! The officers announced from the beach All of us shed some of our clothes to try always say about rats leaving a sinking ship?” that we were to stop dredging immediately. to get him warmed up. We still had the skiff We laughed over that story for many years. We all knew these officers and they knew us, and all of our gear and the oysters. We slowly Later in the winter, the ice was about eighteen we all respected each other’s position. made our way back to shore pulling the skiff to twenty four inches thick all over the bay. The One of the guys asked, “Well, what if we don’t and all our gear. It was a tough, brutal few oyster business was brought to full stop. All of our stop?” The officers replied “Well I guess we’ll have hours until we made it back to the landing. wooden work boats and all the skipjacks were to arrest all of you.” Everyone laughed—there were After we sold the oysters and divvied up the ice bound and locked in the harbor , no wooden only two officers and about fifty or sixty of us! Of money, we all chipped in to pay dad for his truck, at boat could ever force her way through that! course they knew that we were only trying to make the end of the day I think we all cleared about four There was nothing we could do but a living. The next day the state made an emergency dollars! That was the end of my dredging on the ice. check on the boats every day, shovel the ruling that we could in fact continue dredging. Photos are newspaper clips from the Evening Sun snow out of the cargo hold, warm the The crew I was with didn’t take the time Metro ( Baltimore, Friday January 21, 1977). engines and thaw out the bilge pumps. to find a car—at first, we thought we could September 2018 7 If Churches Could Talk~They would say, Heart Matters By Torrence Harman and then finding themselves drawn heart center and let it offer its lens space.” I commented on it to the girl he airport was by a desire to get to know how this on the scene. Time stopped. serving as cashier. She just smiled. crammed. People God is at work in the world and The scene seemed to shift to slow I thought about my recent travels streamed along the their role as instruments in the motion as a young boy slipped out to New Mexico to sit at the feet of corridors of Terminal heart and hands of this God. of the crowd. I recognized him as a spiritual masters to find truth. I’m A in the Dallas/Fort Our time together was intense member of a family group also waiting sure God chuckled as I thought, WorthT airport. Heads bent forward, and invigorating. But as impressive for the plane to Richmond, but they “It’s as close as a post at the farm shoulders squared, eyes straight as our professional speakers were, I had left to find food. Confused, the stand just up the road.” I think I’ll ahead focused on their destination. found the power of the event in small boy looked around, pulled out his experiment some more with this Old, young, all colors, shapes pockets of time and connection, cell phone, his tether to his family, heart energy. Will you join me? and sizes they moved forward at in moments of conversation with and melted back into the crowd. The Rev. Torrence Harman is a speed not to be interrupted. someone sitting beside or behind Alarmed, I felt my heart gather the Priest-in-charge of Farnham I marveled, considering the me, in chance encounters triggered around him. A prayer formed Episcopal Church and St. John’s astounding diversity of God’s human synergistically by something as there, “Stay safe, stay safe!” A few Episcopal Church in Warsaw. experiment of peopling the world uncontrived as getting another cup minutes later his family returned passing before my eyes. The energy of coffee or stepping into an elevator and then the boy emerged again Chesapeake of the place was a weird combination or dropping into the last seat left at from the crowd, relief flooding of focused yet chaotic. I sat at Gate a table during a courtyard break. his face as well as my heart. Style A18, my boarding pass clutched in And in the times when a speaker A couple of days ago I dropped my hand, as I waited for updates called for silence and the room of five by Garner’s Farm Stand just up the Thanks on the plane, now delayed with hundred dropped into a heart, mind country road between Warsaw and mechanical issues, but which would and soul space where in that silence Montross. As I took my gatherings Local Businesses hopefully fly me and a couple of the message, “Be still and know” to the cashier’s table a hand made hundred others to Richmond. waited. Slowly but surely during that sign on a nearby post caught my eye. for Advertising It was my ticket home to my week, I began to sense an energy It read: “Please take responsibility little house on the Rappahannock that was heart centered, woven in for the energy you bring into this Locally River waiting to offer me peace a wisdom way that didn’t begin to and a familiar simple rhythm make sense of a world that appears after an exhilarating but to be getting crazier and crazier, but exhausting week of travel. a way that seemed to offer some I had spent that week in light as to how to live and move and Albuquerque, New Mexico, have being in such a world. It was at a symposium led by three energy work at a profound level. internationally known powerful Sitting at Gate A18 in the Dallas/ speaker/authors on issues of religion Fort Worth airport I remembered and spirituality, the core faculty for such moments. Inspired, I an organization known as The Center experimented. Gazing out at all the for Action and Contemplation (CAC). people frantically rushing by, I simply Thinking I was to be a part of a small dropped into that remembered group of less than two hundred participants, instead I found myself among more than five hundred. Java Jacks Café We were a mixed bag from all over the U. S. and even from around the world, by invitation from a God I Have You imagined having a sense of humor and a curiosity as to what would Had Your come out of such an experiment. The gathering included all ages, folks some churched some not, Jack Today? but all connected by their sense of 804-443-JACK (5225) some ultimate entity called God 504 S Church Lane revealed in the Christian tradition Tappahannock 8 September 2018 Style Spotlight~Fishermen’s Museum, A Surprising Cultural Center once bustling community is now a Museum’s team, comprised of a 15 inextricably linked to the history of quiet, peaceful hamlet where most member board, 28 committee chairs, the watermen, makes an appearance folks would say nothing happens. 250 volunteers, and 700 members, at the popular November Oyster The Reedville Fishermen’s Museum has turned what could have been a shows how wrong you can be! sleepy little tourist spot into a vibrant The Museum is comprised of cultural center for Reedville. Currently several holdings—the Walker House, celebrating the Museum’s 30 year the oldest house in Reedville, the anniversary, the team is working to Covington Building, housing the bring 30 events to Reedville in 2018 main Museum galleries and gift in their 30 for 30 commemoration. shop, the Pendleton Building, “That’s actually not a difficult containing the Model and Boat task,” Lee told me, “since we already Shops, the Pavilion, an open covered promote many events throughout facility for picnicking, boat displays, the year.” The Museum sponsors and concerts, the Butler House, lectures, workshops, educational used for administrative offices and exhibits, tours, and special events library, and the dock, where the that keep the residents of Reedville Museum’s fleet is moored. On the and countless visitors entertained. grounds is a fascinating display Dedicated to keeping alive the By Martha M. Hall of the John Smith, a reproduction history of watermen and their ike something out of of Captain Smith’s 1608 boat. contributions to the area, the an historical novel, Lee Langston-Harrison, a 42 Museum has two boats which are Reedville’s central year veteran in the field of museum listed on the National Registry of Roast. A huge fundraiser for the street is lined on both management and curation, has been Historic Places—the Claud Somers, a Museum, the Oyster Roast features sides with lovely, Director at the Museum for about skipjack, and the Elva C, a deadrise. the tasty bivalve, raw or roasted, as VictorianL homes, almost all of 18 months. Coming to the Reedville Both boats are docked in Cockrell’s well as barbeque, chicken wings, which have waterfront backyards. project from directorships at a Creek behind the Museum and clam chowder, hot dogs, beer, Main Street in Reedville is a narrow number of historical galleries, Lee make regular cruises each month. wine, soft drinks, and music in an spit of land bounded on both sides brings a wealth of experience and Lee shared that on the second all you can eat event for $50. by water: Cockrell’s Creek flows understanding about a museum’s and fourth Fridays from April The Oyster Roast is preceded from on both sides, and eventually purpose in a community. through October, the Elva C cruise 9 to 2 by the Winter Market Crafts empties into the Chesapeake Bay. “We are stewards of collections,” is followed by an event called Sale down the street at Festival Founded in 1874 by New England Lee told me. “Our purpose is Cocktails on the Creek. From 5:30 Halle, site of many of the Museum’s sea captain Elijah Reed, Reedville at not only to preserve the past, p.m. until 7 p.m., the galleries of workshops and lectures. The Halle, one point was a very wealthy town, but also to encourage people to the Museum are transformed into once the Reedville High School, home to a profitable menhaden learn and share in our history a neighborhood block party. became a part of the Museum fishing enterprise. The fishing in an ongoing, positive way.” “Everyone brings their own drinks in 2009, and has expanded the industry is still supported by the With help from Lee and Janet and a snack to share. We set up two Museum’s ability to host a number Omega Protein Corporation, but the Ridgely, the office manager, the eight foot long tables either in the of occasions for the community, gallery or under the Pavilion, and from weddings to nonprofit events. there is always an amazing amount “Our mission,” Lee said, “is to 20th Distinctive Bazaar - Irvington Methodist Church of food. It’s a great way to visit with make the Museum a cultural center, The Premier Event in the Northern Neck neighbors or make new friends.” and to make everyone welcome.” October 6th, 2018 - 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Museum also sponsors Cool For 30 years, the Reedville Fishing Cafe Features  Vegetable Beef Soup, Chicken Salad Music~Hot Nights, three outdoor Museum has been doing just that. concerts during the summer months Located at 504 Main Street, Cash & Checks Only - (No Credit Cards) that feature, for the low price of $10 the Museum has a lively website, • We Have One Of A Kind Gifts • Gift Baskets • Hostess Gifts • Theme Trees • Wreaths per person, a variety of bands under www.rfmuseum.org, which • Children’s Books w/Animals • Bakery Booth the Pavilion. Attendees are invited gives hours of operation and a • Affordable Upscale Gifts to bring their own picnic suppers Calendar of upcoming events. and drinks, but the museum also has Reach the office at 804-453-6529, Our Bazaar Is Like Walking Into A Gift Shop wine, beer, and snacks for purchase. and follow them on Facebook. Tithe 25%: Food Bank, Scholarships, Animal Welfare, Free Health Clinic The iconic oyster, whose history is Martha Hall photos. September 2018 9 Hunter Education Course Delivers Safety the exception shooting distances for turkey more. If you’d like to be added to of a key part hunting, using buckshot and slugs the email list for notifications about missing for deer hunting, and understanding future events send your contact that makes shotgun chokes and shot patterns. information to Officer Nevel at them inert. Students shot either a 12, 20, [email protected]. Lunch was or 28 gauge shotgun using each All VDGIF sponsored hunter provided at type of ammunition. The range education courses are free to no charge was conducted by VDGIF certified the public*. Hunter education is courtesy Range Safety Officers who led mandatory for 12–15 year olds of Anna’s everyone through the activity, and first time hunters. Proof of Pizza and including several students who completion of a hunter education WalMart in were at a range for the first time. course is required in order to obtain Kilmarnock. The class, promoted as a Women a license. For more information on By Wendy Hyde Then students and Youth Hunter Education Course, the Department of Game and Inland new hybrid style moved off site to an afternoon of included 1/3 women, 1/3 youth, Fisheries visit www.dgif.virginia.gov/. hunter education field exercises. Half of the students and several adult men. Officer Nevel *In person classes are always class was held on donned blaze orange vests and and the local instructors are making free; online only courses Saturday, August 4, at carried the inert firearms from an effort to bring new programs have associated costs. the Upper Lancaster the classroom to practice their and workshops to the Richmond Wendy Hyde is a volunteer Master VolunteerA Fire Department. The handling skills on a walking trail set County area to encourage more Hunter Education instructor three faceted Virginia Department of up to recreate hunting scenarios. youth and women to participate with the VDGIF and a resident Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) Instructors challenged them in hunting and fishing activities. of Richmond County. course was taught by certified on how to develop and maintain Events may include special Nerine Woodard photo. volunteer instructors who were relationships with landowners, decide fishing days, live fire classes, game assisted by local Conservation Police ethical issues, safely use a tree stand processing, cooking instruction and Officer Amanda Nevel and VDGIF and Fall Arrest System (harness), Region 1 Recreational Education cross fences, determine safe shooting Coordinator Bryan Branch. zones of fire, plan a hunt, and how The class began with discussion to evaluate a situation to determine and interactive videos covering if it is safe to shoot. Respect for firearm safety and basic hunting other hunters, landowners, wildlife, knowledge along with a hands on non hunters and responsibility as exercise in which every student an individual was emphasized. demonstrated safe gun handling The other half of the students skills. The blaze orange firearms used had the opportunity to shoot in the classroom were specially made shotguns provided by the VDGIF. for VDGIF by Mossberg to look and Range discussion included feel just like a working model—with appropriate ammunition and

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Style Spotlight~William Alpacas, Surprisingly Sweet, Decadently Soft parts of the body are given Eventually their teeth wear down, different classifications, and all preventing them from gaining the material collected from the adequate nutrition from their diet. farms in the co-op is gathered Alpacas are surprisingly intelligent together into 800 pound bales, and can even learn tricks. Alpaca sorted by color and grade. shows include an obstacle course This allows the farmers to portion, and one of Robert’s animals, create better, more uniform Valentino, is particularly adept, products, by combining the fibers always bringing home award ribbons. of different animals together. Robert also pointed out a 21 year Thus, while yarn can be created old female who seemed to be in from a specific animal, most perfect health as she strolled from the of their products are made field into the barn. “We got her from from a conglomeration of another farm and she was nearly 300 alpacas from multiple farms. pounds, with rolls of fat hanging off Robert loves teaching others her body. We soon figured out why. about alpacas, and he runs Alpacas have a special alarm call they regular herd health days on use to warn each other of predators By Katherine Bavuso llamas descend from guanacos and his farm, designed obert Hughes has been were used to carry heavy loads. to teach others how to raising alpacas for Alpaca fiber is decadently soft, yet properly care for alpacas, 17 years now, tucked durable, creating luxurious products including trimming away in the woods off of exceptional quality. Unlike sheep’s nails, giving shots, and of King William road. wool, alpaca fiber is hypo allergenic performing parasite “ThereR was a steep learning curve in and not prickly or itchy to wear. analysis. He helps other the beginning, but alpacas are great “Initially, our fiber was hand spun, alpaca farms get started animals, and we’ve helped develop however, it takes a dozen spinners to and often has school a knowledgeable community and a supply one weaver,” Robert shared. or church groups tour system over the years that makes it He formed a co-op with other alpaca his farm to learn more much easier now,” Robert explained. farmers throughout the region and about the beautiful, Contrary to popular belief, alpacas helped repurpose 11 wool mills friendly animals. are not a type of llama, though both that were previously abandoned. Alpacas are gentle, are from the camelid family. Both “Sheep wool contains lanolin, shy creatures whose only were domesticated in South America which keeps it on the spool. Alpaca defense is to run. “When I by the Incas over 5000 years ago fleeces are much cleaner, but the first started, neighborhood dogs, pets and other dangers. When we would from completely different animals. lack of oil makes it difficult to spin. It allowed to run loose, would gather bring the daily food ration into the Alpacas came from vicuna and were will get everywhere, filling the air in together and terrorize my herd. barn, she would sound out the alarm prized for their soft fleece, whereas the mill if you’re not careful. So we Alpacas will run until they encounter that would send all the other alpacas learned to coat the alpaca fibers in a fence and then stop, but the dogs fleeing into the field, allowing her to water soluble wax prior to spinning, to went over, under, and around the sit and munch to her heart’s content.” keep them smoothly on the spindle.” fence to chase and attack them. Check out their website www. The other benefit of the co- We got a guard llama, and it was kwalpacas.com to learn more, op is the fiber bank. Alpacas are the best money we ever spent,” purchase available items, and see sheared once a year, at roughly the Robert shared. “Llamas are about a schedule of upcoming farmers' same time. “I used to shear them 450 pounds and will kick. Their neck markets and festivals where they in March, but then we had snow in skin is so thick the vet has to use a showcase their sweet animals and April,” Robert confided. “Now I wait leather punch to deliver a shot. If a luxurious products. Follow them on until April to make sure we’re past dog gets inside the fence, the llama Facebook, King William Alpacas. all the cold snaps. The alpacas are defends itself and the herd. Dogs Katherine Bavuso photos. usually really happy to have their rarely come around here anymore.” heavy winter coats removed then.” Alpacas are generally 100-200 The fleeces removed from various pounds and live about 20 years. September 2018 11 Trusts vs Wills By Joseph T. “Chip” Buxton III* allows for much faster, more efficient consequences than Wills. For are private contracts and difficult hat is a revocable distributions to your beneficiaries. example, there can be specific to challenge by a disgruntled heir. living trust? • A trust contains provisions for provisions to deal with distributions • Trusts can offer additional A revocable managing your affairs if you become to minors, children, disabled benefits and protection of your living trust is a incapacitated, a Will does not. A beneficiaries, spousal remarriage, assets by continuing to hold contract that can Will is only effective at your death; creditor claims, beneficiaries’ them in trust beyond your serveW as a substitute for a Last Will it does nothing at all while you are divorces, etc., many of which would death for you descendants in and Testament. You name a Trustee to still living and cannot help you be missing in a simple Will or perpetuity. Attempting to do manage your assets (usually yourself) avoid a court ordered guardianship would require court supervision. this with a Will opens the risk of during your lifetime, and a Successor or conservatorship proceedings. • If you own real estate in more extending probate indefinitely. Trustee to manage your assets if • Trusts are far easier to amend or than one state, with a Will your • Assets left in trust for your you become incapacitated, and to otherwise change, typically requiring executor(s) will have to initiate children or other beneficiaries distribute those assets according to just your signature, or even just your ancillary probate proceedings can be protected from the your instructions after your death. initials, to make changes. Minor in each state in which you own beneficiary’s creditors, their spouses Why would I want a revocable changes can be made in your own property. This can be quite costly. in a divorce, disqualification for living trust if I already have a Will? handwriting on the document itself. If out of state land is deeded to a Medicaid and death taxes. A trust offers numerous Wills in Virginia require the signatures trust, this step is unnecessary. *Certified Elder Law Attorney benefits over a Will: of two witnesses, a Notary Public, and • Trusts are more difficult to • Assets held in a trust are not a sworn affidavit for all changes. You contest than Wills. Statutes governing subject to the court-supervised cannot make any changes to your Wills usually set forth various probate process. Wills, with a few printed Will by hand, and you should methods by which a Will can be exceptions, almost always need to never write on your original Will. contested, Since probate is a matter of be probated with the Clerk of Court. • Trusts contain more provisions public record, it is easier for potential The trust is private and typically to deal with unanticipated challengers to come forward. Trust Chesapeake Style Magazine

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King crustaceans, fish, frogs, aquatic and of the rail “skinny as a rail.” rails nest in eastern terrestrial insects, seeds, grains— family.M It is similar to the clapper Unlike its cousin United States from especially rice in some areas—and rail but more reddish in color. the clapper rail, the southern Canada, wild berries and small fruits. Many ornithologists believe they king rail generally south to the Gulf The young reach adult size in are subspecies of the same bird. inhabits freshwater Coast and east about 60 days and can fly within nine The much smaller Virginia rail or maybe brackish to the Atlantic. weeks. At this time they are darker has a similar color pattern. The sexes water marshes Nesting occurs colored than the adults. Rails are are alike in color although the male or adjacent grass from March to not strong fliers and when they flush is a bit larger. The breast, belly and and grain fields. September. A they do so with legs dangling. They sides of the neck is reddish-brown, Only rarely will nest is a grass are capable of swimming, diving, while the flanks are barred with dark it be found in lined depression and quite adept at running over brown and white. The back is a tawny salt marshes of reeds, grasses, and through the marsh vegetation. olive marked with black feathers except during leaves, and stalks King rails move south starting in edged in lighter brown, and the eye migration or on in a tussock of August and September and winter brow and throat are brownish white its wintering grounds. grasses, or tall vegetation just above along the Atlantic as far north as and a dark brown crown. The bill is Its calls are similar to the clapper the water line. Often it has an arch New Jersey and along the Gulf long, yellow-orange in color with a rail; a deep, slow, “check-check- of grasses over the nest. Ten or more Coast. They are becoming scarcer, black tip. Its wings are relatively short check-check,” usually uttered at dawn eggs are laid pale buffy colored especially inland, due to habitat loss and rounded. An interesting ability or at twilight. Their spring migrations with sparse brown markings Original art by Carl “Spike” Knuth. the rail has is to compress its body are mainly along the Atlantic Coast Both sexes will incubate the

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If my family and I wanted to he is rightfully proud of, and relationship with those go out to eat or to a movie together, throughout the current building, he encounters in his I’d have to drive separately, in case I there are reminders of the hard business. “We are here to got called to go to work. I’ve missed work that went into building the help people, to care about out on a lot of my children’s activities, Welch heritage of family support them during a tough time, and I have missed spending time and community involvement. and to help them think with them when they were younger.” Adding to that heritage, Paul is through what things need I pointed out that the emotional proud of the fact that in a profession to be done.” Paul keeps in toll must be hard the forefront of his mind as well. “You not only the expressed encounter people desires of the bereaved, when they are, for but also their current and the most part, at future financial situation. the worst time of By Martha M. Hall “We see folks at a time their life. What do he Japanese writer, when they may not be thinking of you do with all the Haruki Murakami, anything but their immediate loss, grief that you take said, “Death is not and the decisions they want to make on yourself?” He the opposite of life, may not be the best ones. It’s our smiled and said but a part of it.” This job to think for the family, not just “Even though I sayingT became clear to me when I in the moment, but down the road. don’t see them spent some time with Paul Welch, For example, I may have an as often as I’d director and general manager elderly woman who must bury her like, my family of the Welch Funeral Home. husband. While he was alive, they is my sanctuary, I had approached my interview had two sources of income. With and I put my with a little trepidation, since the his death, that shrinks to one check, energy into supporting them traditionally filled by men, he now purpose of a Spotlight interview and it makes no sense to allow her to when I get home. It helps.” has both a licensed Funeral Director is to showcase a business and, as arrange a funeral that will burden her Paul knows the value of supporting and a licensed funeral service I said to Paul, “Your business is financially for years to come. I try to family, as he comes from a long line of Intern who are women. “I think death. How am I going to make folks advise her to be reasonable in what Welches who have worked to build a this diversity of staff strengthens want to come to your business?” she wants to do, and it’s important to life in the community since the 1700s our ongoing mission,” Paul said. A kind and soft spoken man, Paul me to feel that I have made her more when his ever so great grandfather Designed to make difficult times did not hesitate in his answer. “My comfortable about her decisions.” came to Northumberland County more comfortable, the underlying business is not death,” he said. “My Being a Funeral Director is not an as a riverboat captain and farmer. continuity of a caring tradition easy job, and as Paul points out, it’s Later, his grandson, John William lends a sense of security during Welch, apprenticed at Mr. Fallin’s life’s rough patches. While holding Mosaic Consignment & Gifts, LLC mercantile business at Coan’s Wharf, on to a sense of the past, the Welch 153 Northumberland Hwy., Callao and in 1903, bought Downings Funeral Home also embraces General Store in Richmond County. the future, and underscores the 804-529-1030 In 1915, he opened his first tomato feeling that “Death is not the [email protected] cannery on his adjoining farm which opposite of life, but a part of it.” operated until 1969 and included The Welch Funeral Home is three generations of Welches. In located at 10300 Richmond Road Mosaic Consignments is committed to the late 1950s, Paul’s father, John W. and can be reached at 804-333-3770 offering quality items for consignment Welch II became interested in the or by email: welchfuneralhomeva@ sale. We have a large collection of funeral business, and in 1966, opened va.metrocast.net. Find them on beautiful furniture, accessories and home the Welch Funeral Home in Montross. Facebook at Welch Funeral Home. décor, jewelry and much more. Also, In 1998, Paul joined his father Martha Hall photos. distributor of Made in Virginia Items September 2018 15 Books in Style~The Lies We Are reader so involved, it’s hard fashioned handwriting that her father whose work has been featured in All to put the book down. The found in her late mother’s Bible. Cilla at Sea, Chesapeake Style, Chesapeake mystery in The Lies We Are believes the pages may have some Bay, and Motorhome magazines. is laid out in the opening connection to her father’s family She has published several pages, but the unwinding of history, lost when he was orphaned poems and short stories and co- the tale carries you through as a small child. Sandi recognizes written a musical, All Good Gifts, to the reveal at the end. the writing from a picture of an open based on an O. Henry short story. The Lies We Are is the story journal owned by one of her recent A former Maryland educator, of two linked mysteries that clients from an old Southern family. she received the Washington involve pages torn from a The events in the book are so Post's Agnes Meyer Award for Civil War diary, a Northern realistic, they could be happening just Excellence. Ann is a certified diver, Neck Virginia waterfront across the river in the next county. private pilot, and something of deal that threatens eagle The people are as familiar as those an adventurer who counts sailing nesting sites, and how at the local market, the marina or her boat to the Bahamas with Sandi Beck finds herself the college fundraiser. The depth husband Eric and their children in the middle of all of it. of understanding shown in the as her favorite accomplishment. Sandi Beck, introduced characters’ motivations, fears and The Lies We Are is available in Ann’s first novel, Kind pain are remarkable. Sandi Beck’s in ebook and paperback Lies, has made a career of reactions as a young widow are shown at Amazon.com. helping people solve their in a low key and sensitive manner. problems. It is her way of My favorite line in the book is, filling the cracks in her soul “These are the lies we tell ourselves, Franklin’s Sewing left after the death of her but they are not as dangerous as Quilting Supplies husband three years earlier the ones we don’t tell, the lies we when she was 32. But in The are.” Altogether, this is a well crafted The Lies We Are By Lies We Are, 150 years have book that I highly recommend Ann Eichenmuller concealed secrets powerful people to everyone who enjoys a good Review by Carol J. Bova don’t want revealed now and her mystery with a great ending. nce again, Ann discoveries will put Sandi’s life at risk. 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Of course, it’s the fish up front something more akin to riding in They’re never who get to choose the restaurant. an airplane that’s about to crash or still, always But, they have to expend more taking a nose dive to simulate zero ebbing one way energy to get there. Meanwhile, their gravity. That’s exactly what a German By Ellen Dugan or another. friends in the back of the school zoologist did when he tested his fish. ome are safer than Small fish instinctively assess the coast along and conserve their On test day he flew with them on others. Like the ones in benefits and trade offs of locations energy for a possible emergency. the plane, and as it nose dived, he the middle, away from within their school, then hedge their At first glance these backsliders observed that the hapless eight who the edge. Or maybe the bets accordingly, asking themselves— might look lazy, but some experts got sick “completely lost their sense second or third row How’s my energy level? Metabolic believe that all fish just naturally of balance, behaving like humans fromS the front. It all depends. The fitness? Do I need to swim faster? try to hide behind each other. who get seasick.” This translates only certainty for small fish is that Slower? Eat more? Eat less? Breathe Maybe it’s because most of them into “spinning around, doing the ocean is an endless expanse easier? Rest? Mate? Watch where can’t swim backwards, or they’re fine somersaults, and generally acting of hungry predators always in I’m going? Stop for a minute? with breathing less oxygen. Those in confused.” But, they did not vomit. search of a seafood restaurant. These are life and death choices, the center of a school, where oxygen And, we don’t really know if their For fish, finding the best position and it’s not really clear if a fish levels can drop by 25 percent, will reactions were simply resentment at in school is a balancing act between even knows what it’s doing when generally reposition themselves having to return their tray tables to as the school moves along. an upright position or an aversion Do fish ever get thirsty or seasick to being assigned the middle seat. in school? Well, if they live in fresh water, they don’t actually drink water—although they do take water in through their gills and skin. 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Doesn’t that beach look a and enjoy my morning coffee in lot closer than it did last night? It peace—as long as I remember is then that you realize the boat is to tie it off before I drop it. definitely not rocking. Somehow, To learn more about the overnight, you have managed to Chesapeake Bay Soft Mud Anchor move a hundred yards closer to shore, Tests, go to the Fortress website: where you are now firmly aground. http://fortressanchors.com/ We’ve never had an anchor wpcontent/uploads/2014/11/ fail once in more than 30 years Chespeake-Bay-Anchor- of sailing, though there was one Test-Aug.2014.pdf. unfortunate incident on a 22 foot or Danforth type anchors and plow Twelve anchors, both spade and Ann Eichenmuller photo at Catalina when I threw out the anchor anchors. Bay boaters will argue plow designs, were tested in five Churn Creek anchorage. but forgot to secure it around the vociferously over which style of different zones. A special tensiometer Ann Eichenmuller is a marine cleat first. I’m sure my face was a anchor has the best holding in measured the torque on the line and travel writer whose latest sight to see as I watched the end our typically muddy bottoms. throughout the duration of each test. nautical mystery novel, The Lies of the rope fly through the air. We have always used a Danforth The results were conclusive. Fluke We Are, is available on Amazon We have, however, seen some and have never had an issue—at style designs outperformed others in in paperback and Kindle. harrowing mishaps involving least as long as it was attached to crowded anchorages, and more the boat. But is there any evidence, than once we’ve had to rouse a besides anecdotal, as to which style nearby captain from his bed to digs in and holds better in our area? tell him he was drifting toward us. There is. An independent study While some problems are clearly was sponsored by Fortress in operator error—anchoring too close 2014. It was completed using the to other boats, letting out too much R/V Rachel Carson, owned by the Family Owned and Operated anchor rode—others are a result University of Maryland Center for of anchors that fail to set properly Environmental Science, and overseen 804-761-2412 or hold in high winds or waves. by Chuck Hawley, a former vice Open 9 a.m.-7 p.m. 7 days/week The two main types of anchors president of West Marine who serves used with cruising boats are fluke as a marine industry consultant. 22645 Kings Hwy, Warsaw

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One example was to have a lot more flooding. land elevation labelling an outfall channel as Put Wind driven water moving is higher than In Creek and including the capacity through the new double four foot the lower of ditches section of Main that haven’t Street near the existed for a funeral home. decade or two. The recent This caused Mathews Main engineers to Street Drainage overestimate the Enhancement acres of drainage project was that would be supposed to channeled to help alleviate Put In Creek flooding. Why and Main then would Street and led water back up to a decision to on the street to install multiple such an extent? new oversized The 2011 pipes—at a By Carol J. Bova application much greater esidents posted for funding from the Virginia expense. But Facebook accounts Department of Transportation with so much of flooding on Main (VDOT) Enhancement Program said, more pipe Street in Mathews after “A concurrent drainage study being capacity than heavy rains in July. One conducted by VDOT will inform the Main Street describedR trying to get home from design elements needed to address needed, the water should have by seven foot box culverts on work with the water up to the bottom the significant drainage problems drained away faster, not slower. Church Street will keep the water of her car door. Another posted a experienced along Main Street.” Why didn’t it work that way? backed up and rising on Main Street One point the 2010 study raised because the water will have no way was the inadequate number and out while the creek level is high. size of inlets to allow storm water Perhaps the county should to reach the new pipes. The study consider requesting bids for recommended adding more permanent “High Water Ahead” inlets in the first phase of the signs on Main Street, because as Main Street project. That didn’t it is, that’s what we can expect happen. Adding inlets became from VDOT’s project that was a part of Phase 2—which is not supposed to alleviate flooding. scheduled and may not happen. Carol J. Bova is the author of In 2018, as in 2010, there is only Drowning a County—When one curb inlet near Buckley Hall Urban Myths Destroy Rural road and one 30-inch new inlet 900 Drainage, available at Amazon. feet downhill to let rainwater reach Carol J. Bova photos. the big new pipes on Main Street. Other new inlets further up the street are uphill, so they can’t help. The July flooding drained a few hours after the rain stopped— but that wouldn’t be the case if September 2018 19 Tidewater & Timber~Fall Season Action By Chelly Scala rockfish. Check out the or gold. Some grasses and partially submerged he waters of the Lower Potomac and spoons also have trees can hold white perch, striped Northern Neck have Chesapeake Bay waters choices of red, bass, and puppy drums. Those plenty to offer for fall for schools of bait fish. yellow or chartreuse who fish from kayaks in the upper season angling. As Bluefish and stripers green accents. reaches of tributaries that have more summer ends and are usually chasing Planers work freshnet than brackish water may find studentsT head back to school, let these schools. Also great to vary bait largemouth bass, blue and channel them relieve the hustle and bustle by watch for diving birds depths. When catfish and even chain pickerel. winding down with some of the best and bait fish splashing deployed properly For Maryland waters, information fishing time of the year. Give them on the surface. This tangles can be can be obtained by calling 877- wonderful memories to share. As could mean mackerel, avoided. Put the 620-8DNR (8367) or visiting the long as hurricanes stay off our course, bluefish or stripers are lighter planers website at, www.eregulations.com/ wind directions and speeds can be in the area feeding. out first, keeping maryland/fishing/. For Potomac River more predictable this time of the year. Catch the mackerel these outboard. Commission (PRFC) waters visit their While the water is still warm, and blues before Another option is to website at http://prfc.us/fishing_ some of my favorite fall fishing is these fish head down use inline trolling potomac.html or contact them by for flounder and croaker. Cut strips and out of the bay. weights in place of phone at 800-266-3904 or 804-224- of spot are great baits for catching A fall trolling rig consists of planers smaller planers on outboard lines. 7148. Information on Virginia’s flounder and fish bites work wonders in sizes #1 or #2 or 4 to 6 ounce inline Fish the deeper, heavier planers Marine Waters of the Chesapeake for croaker. Also, cut strips of squid trolling weights in front of 20 to 25 feet inside the smaller planers, directly Bay and Tributaries can be found at work for both flounder and croaker of 30 pound weight monofilament behind the stern of the boat. https://webapps.mrc.virginia.gov/ and may even tempt red drum. with lures such as Clarks, Drones, Casting into breaking fish with public/reports/swrecfishingrules. When trolling is preferred, small Crippled Alewives or Tony Stingsilvers, Hopkins or Diamond php or by calling (757) 247-2200. September is still a great time to Accetta spoons, to imitate bait fish. Jigs are other great options. Creeks Scala photo. pursue Spanish mackerel, blues and Color suggestions include chrome and quiet backwaters with tidewater

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When he let them pick out the thread and what especially with design they want, fish or crabs. “I and then I do it for tell them to take them. Everyone asks the material and how long it takes. open it up. If you’re That depends how satisfied that you big it is, whether like the material, it’s a close pattern you’re going to like or further apart.” the project when it’s “My advice if done. I tell them to you’ve never made take their time and a quilt before is to find what they like.” make a simple one Her store is a first, then gradually place where folks work on harder ones. By Carol J. Bova drop in “because sometimes, you You don’t have to itsy Clarke loves to just have to get a fabric fix and come jump right into a talk to people who in and look at all the patterns. I passed away in 2004, Ritsy had a quilt. Start with something easy like drop into Franklin’s want people to come in and see me. building with a lot of empty space. a wall hanging until you learn how. I Sewing in Haynesville, They don’t have to buy, just come She knew sewing machine parts, had a lady come in several years ago and her store offers see what I have.” And customers but didn’t know anything about who’d never made a quilt before and a lot to talk about! She has fabric R do that. She’s welcomed folks who sewing and quilting supplies. showed her a pattern called ‘Yellow and quilting supplies, patterns, never walked in the door before and Friends made suggestions and sales Brick Road.’ She picked out material sewing notions, embroidery patterns even had people on vacations from representatives came down, and she liked, and it was really beautiful.” and floss and many other items. California and Canada pull in when that’s how she got started. She said, The store sells the Gracie quilting “I believe in keeping a good they see the Franklin’s Sewing sign. “When you have a business, you set up. The frame comes in different variety and sell all types of material. 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WarsawFest/Oktoberfest with Mrs. Pat Pugh as Grand refrain from parking on Main Street, Hamilton Marshal!—Don't forget Parade Blvd, Belleville, and Pine Street to avoid hindering Entries are accepted on the emergency vehicles, shuttles, or the parade. day of the event beginning Handmade crafts vendors, jewelry craftsmen, at 9:30 at the new Northern artists, and local exhibitors to suit all tastes Neck Electric Cooperative and interests will fill the park. Vendors in the Facility on Hamilton Blvd! Food Court will have hamburgers, fried chicken Unlimited Kids Zone and fish, barbecue, oysters, french fries, hush Advance Sale Wristbands will puppies and leave room for funnel cakes, kettle be available at Family Fun corn, and snow cones! The Warsaw Rotary Night on Friday for $10 and Club’s Beer Garden will be open starting at at the Chamber Tent. The noon and will offer golden beverages and Kids Zone is for all ages and selections of wine from General’s Ridge. By Carol J. Bova includes Several Slides and Saturday evening, Warsaw Rotary Club presents he Warsaw Rotary Club joined Bounce Houses. In addition, we have a Mechanical Oktoberfest from 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. HonkyTonk forces again with the Warsaw Bull, the Bungee Run, and two carnival rides Heroes are headlining for the night and don’t Richmond County Chamber called the Wrecking Ball and the Rock ‘n Roll. forget the food vendors! There will also be beer of Commerce to present the Our DJ will add to the atmosphere after the and wine for sale. Tickets are on sale now! exciting dual event of WarsawFest Baby & Beauty Pageant, and awards for the Advance Sale Tickets are $10 and Tickets at the andT Oktoberfest, October 12th and 13th. Car & Truck Show and Parade winners will Gate are $15. Tickets available at any Union, The 2018 WarsawFest celebration on Main be presented after the Parade. The Earl Cox & PCB or VCB Banks or at CuddleBugs in Warsaw Street starts with Family Fun Night, Friday, from the New Creations band take the stage from For more information, visit www. 6 to 8 p.m. in the Town Park. The Main Event 1 to 4 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs to enjoy wrccoc.com, facebook.com/wrcchamber/ continues on Saturday, from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. their inspiring and amazing local music. or leave a message at 804-313-2252. Oktoberfest adds to the fun from 5 to 10 p.m.! Because Main Street will be closed from St. Carrie Anthony Photography Photo. Family Fun Night offers food, music, John’s to Ridgeway on face painting, and the movie, Monsters Saturday from 8 a.m. Inc., hosted by Warsaw Richmond County until 4 p.m., parking Main Street Program! Entry is Free! is at Rappahannock Saturday’s lively schedule starts with the Community College. State Farm Car & Truck show registration Bay Transit has at 8 a.m.—preregister online or the day of graciously provided a at the hosting Warsaw United Methodist shuttle beginning at 8 Church. All cars and trucks entered are a.m. It will run regularly automatically a part of the Fireman’s Parade. from the RCC parking Opening ceremonies begin at 8:45. The Baby & lot to the front of the Beauty Pageant starts at 9, and by 10, the vendors Verizon building until and Kids Rides will be ready for business. The 4 p.m. WarsawFest asks Fireman’s Parade down Main Street starts at Noon everyone to please Visit the Reedville Fishermen's Museum where history of Northern Neck Watermen comes alive Walk our dock, inspect our boats, visit our museum galleries Take home memories of your trip from our gift shop Visit the 1875 Walker House and learn how Reedville's early residents lived For a complete listing of our activities and events go to www.rfmuseum.org

504 Main Street, Reedville, Virginia 804-453-6529 30 September 2018 Writers In Style~My Three “R”s By Susan Williamson wanted us to fix it—an expensive am fortunate in what I will and often losing proposition. call the Indian summer of Horse and freelance writing my life to be able to indulge careers don’t provide a pension. in three of my lifelong But my “r”s bring enjoyment passions: reading, writing and a few extra dollars. andI riding. Local people know me Chris Babson photo of as a writer and so they are a little Susan on Zoomtown. confused when I talk about spending Susan Williamson is a former a week teaching riding lessons. So, newspaper editor, educator, extension they assume I said, “Writing lessons.” agent and riding instructor. She is I could do that, too, perhaps, and the author of two novels, Desert Tail I have taught college biology to and Dead on the Trail, with a third students who could not write a novel, Tangled Tail and a children’s coherent sentence, but I digress. book, The Riding Lesson, due out Having grown up on a horse farm in October. She is a contributor to and owned horses for most of my life, Next Door Neighbors and Tidewater I am very familiar with things equine. Women. She is a board member I am also an animal science major, of Chesapeake Bay Writers and a so incorporating horses into my pipes. Been there, done that. had the opportunity to show a member of the Virginia Writers Club, writing was a logical move. My novels Here in my Tidewater existence I pleasure driving horse belonging to Winston-Salem Writers and the include horses and horse people, work very part time for a woman who our North Carolina horse friends. American Saddlebred Association of because you write what you know. has competitive driving horses in The mare’s best act is as a harness Virginia. She lives in Williamsburg I don’t actually have the Charles City County. She competes horse—showing, not racing—and with her husband and Labradoodle. opportunity to ride all that often, in dressage, cross country and none of the family members enjoys but I do plenty of horsing around. obstacle courses—CDE stands for driving. As they try to find the mare I substitute teach riding lessons at competitive driving events with a new home, my husband has the Chesapeake a large American Saddlebred barn both horses and ponies and she also fun of showing a pretty black horse. in Winston-Salem, NC because teaches people how to drive a horse But getting back to the writing one of my good friends is the head to a cart. Non horse people often aspect of my life, I have found my best Style instructor and I used to work with her. forget that there is a whole aspect of sales occur at horse events. Horse When I go to teach, I can sneak horsemanship that does not involve people enjoy reading stories which Thanks Local in a few rides on lesson horses. riding. Like riding, it is harder than include horses. I have also written an I very much enjoy my time, but it looks, but can be great fun. e-book, How to Buy Your First Horse, Businesses also know that at the end of the Although for many years we because when we operated our own week, I’m homeward bound and owned, trained and competed with boarding, lesson and training barn, for Advertising not responsible for sick horses, our own horses in the show world, potential customers would contact hay procurement and frozen water both riding and driving, we are now us after they had purchased the Locally horseless. This summer, my husband wrong horse for their purpose and Ficklin Bryant UPHOLSTERY Serving the Northern Neck Since 1980 A Diamond Marriage Household and patio furniture Cushions, cornices, Symbol® Pendant Boat seats and repairs makes a perfect Pick up and delivery available anniversary gift [email protected] 804-693-3434 11975 Richmond Rd www.vashtisjewelry.com Warsaw, Va 22572 Edgehill Town Center 804-333-3343 or 313-7303 6734 Main Street Gloucester, Va September 2018 31 Brain Injury~How the Brain Works and blood pressure. The brain sequencing of information. They support your stem can keep a person clinically ability to connect new information with prior alive when all other aspects of knowledge and to express thoughts in an organized, that person’s self are gone. sequential way. Damage to this part of your brain Moving up, we come to the might cause you to forget the words to your favorite Cerebellum. The cerebellum songs, forget how to operate household equipment, controls balance and coordination, or have difficulty following everyday conversations. enabling us to develop the motor Damage to any of these parts can have an effect skills to play sports, ride a bike, or on how someone feels, moves, thinks, and interacts drive a car. Damage to this part with others. Brain injury victims seldom have just of the brain would affect your one effect—it’s usually a combination. It is easy to ability to dance, walk a straight see how any of these effects could present problems line, or wait tables in a restaurant. for a person at work, at home, or in the community. In the back of the skull is the For more information on brain injury, contact Occipital Lobe which controls the Brain Injury Association of Virginia at 800- vision. Damage to this part of the 444-6443 or at www.biav.net. The Northern Neck brain would affect your ability to Brain Injury Support Group meets on the second see, or recognize what you see. Tuesday of each month at the Bay Transit building Your ability to watch movies, play in Warsaw from 10:30-12:00. All are welcome! video games, or enjoy fireworks would be compromised. TheParietal Lobe is close to the top of the skull and interprets sensations such as heat, cold, touch, and pain. It helps us to Chesapeake Style Magazine recognize the position By Martha M. Hall of the he brain controls everything body in relation to other we think, feel, do, or say. In objects, and recognize computer terms, the brain is size, shape, and color. the motherboard. Only a little Damage to this part of smaller than the skull, the brain the brain might prevent is dividedT into two halves and several lobes, you from knowing that which operate together but do different things. you are on fire, and The left and right sides of the brain are called parallel parking would hemispheres, and they have different strengths. be a real challenge. The left side of the brain is responsible for our TheFrontal Lobe verbal, logical, and analytical abilities. The right helps us control our side of our brain is responsible for our ability emotions and impulses, to be creative, flexible, and good at visual and helps us plan, make good intuitive information. The brain is designed to decisions, and multi task. function flawlessly, balancing logic and creativity. Damage to this part of A brain injury can disrupt this fine balance, the brain might make you depending on the cause, location, and severity feel out of control, make of the injury. If we study the function of the it impossible to balance brain, a look at the different parts and what your checkbook, or learn they control gives us insight into why a brain from consequences. injury might affect us the way it does. TheTemporal Lobes Let’s start at the base of the skull where the control speech, language, Brain Stem is located. The brain stem controls memory, hearing, our life force functions: heartbeat, breathing, and organization and 32 September 2018 Take a Bathe By RuthE Forrest BA CMT BCTMB reduced. As well as increased the intention to bathe in nature. Lean up against an elder tree to ant to know a feelings of happiness, the practice The fantastic Japanese formal feel the healing energy it exudes. happiness secret has also been linked to lower blood gardens are world renowned. Grounding is an intentional practice from a world pressure levels. Beyond the fact that Flower arranging is considered an that plugs us back into the natural superpower? it’s very relaxing, one theory is that art, and a lifetime skill to master. rhythm of Earth’s frequency. It’s The Japanese trees release aromatic compounds We’re a bit more relaxed, happy stress busting, even if practiced for practiceW the art of Shinrin-yoku, or called phytoncides. Scientists think just to get the lawn mowed before a few minutes on your lunch break. forest-bathing. Forest bathing is the inhaling these compounds curbs afternoon thundershowers! So kick off those work shoes and act of spending time in nature soaking the production of stress hormones. And though you will find old put your dogs right in the dirt! up the sights, sounds and smells Bodies are hard wired to spend formal gardens, we tend to favor The important thing to remember of the outdoors. They take time to time in nature to be healthy. the eclectic arrangements of our while forest bathing is to do nothing appreciate the contrasting colors of With cooler temperatures, autumn natural environment. The sight of but observing and experiencing. leaves, sky, water and earth. Breathing on the Northern Neck is a great time sea grasses waving in the wind on Listen to your inner dialog, then in the sounds of the natural world, for forest bathing. Many natural the long expanse of marsh quivering step back from your thoughts listening to earthy scents, immersing areas here await your presence, in unison with its own microclimate and slip into observer mode. The yourself in the healing energy of whether biking, hiking, or kayaking. calm our spirits. Our back yards fact that you are observing your mother Gaia fosters inner heaven. So get out! Visit award winning contain a parade of happiness thoughts proves that you are not Studies show after 20 minutes of State Parks, the scenic shorelines, or invoking natural visitors viewed from your thoughts—you are the one Forest bathing levels of the stress our rustic backwater marshes. Go an old easy chair parked on a porch. observing your thought stream. hormone cortisol are significantly with no agenda or time limits, just Visiting the same area throughout Reconnecting with your observer the year can add to your Shinrin-yoku self automatically lowers stress. experience. Mindfully noting each Simply replaying the memory of a seasonal change is enlightening. forest bathing experience measurably Listen to the sounds of the corn reduces cortisol levels. Take time, Natural Food & Holistic Supplements rustling as it dries in browning fields, sit quietly for a while and bathe in for Dogs & Cats hear the silence after the harvest. the essence of this season. 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remaining 2 Tbsp. of bacon seasoning with salt and pepper. the better, you don't want the fats to fat and cook mushrooms Serve in a shallow bowl garnished melt. Make a well in the center and until they stop releasing with Fried Sage Leaves. pour in the chilled buttermilk. Stir liquid. Add remaining 2 Fried Sage Leaves just until the dough comes together. Tbsp. butter and the leeks. 1/4. c. olive oil The dough will be very sticky. Shake the pan to stir and 1 bunch fresh sage leaves (about 30), Turn dough onto floured surface, cook until the cut ends of the washed and pinched off the stems at dust top with flour and gently fold leeks begin to soften, about the base of the leaf dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. 5 minutes. Add the wine and Coarse Kosher salt Press into a 1-inch thick round. Cut simmer until only enough Heat olive oil in a small skillet out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, liquid remains to coat the over medium-high heat. Fry 6-8 being sure to push straight down bottom of the pan (aka “au leaves at a time until crisp, about 5 through the dough. Place biscuits sec”). Remove from heat. seconds. Remove to drain on paper on baking sheet so that they just After the first hour of towels and sprinkle immediately touch. Reform scrap dough, working braising turn the thighs over with coarse kosher salt. it as little as possible and continue and add the mushrooms, Alton Brown’s Southern Biscuits cutting. (Biscuits from the second leeks and reduced wine. 2 c. flour pass will not be quite as light as Cover and return to the oven 4 tsp. baking powder those from the first, but hey, that's for another 45 minutes to 1 1/4 tsp. baking soda life.) Bake until biscuits are tall and add 2 Tbsp. butter and the garlic and hour, or until a meat fork can 3/4 tsp. salt light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes. cook 1-2 minutes until aromatic. be inserted easily into the thickest 2 Tbsp. butter Biscuit recipe: www.foodnetwork. Add the chicken stock, bring to a part of the meat. Remove thighs from 2 Tbsp. shortening com/recipes/alton-brown/ medium boil and cook until reduced the sauce and cool just until they 1 c. buttermilk, chilled southern-biscuits-recipe-2041990 to 2 cups, about 10 minutes. Remove can be handled. Remove meat from Preheat oven to 450°. In a large All recipes included in this column from heat, strain and pour over the bones and pull into bite-size pieces, mixing bowl, combine flour, baking are original by Wendy Hyde unless thighs. Cover and bake for 1 hour. removing any remaining silverskin powder, baking soda and salt. Using otherwise noted. She can be contacted While thighs cook, heat a large or gristle from between meat your fingertips, rub butter and at [email protected]. sauté pan over medium-high, add sections. Return meat to sauce and shortening into dry ingredients until Wendy Hyde photos. heat through, tasting and adjusting mixture looks like crumbs. The faster Poetry in Style~ Fifty Years By E. C. Doleman How many dawns brought a copper sky How many sunsets passed hand in hand Eighteen thousand risings of the sun Lifting the heart and charming the eye In concert as a marching band Eighteen thousand life-full days are done Stirring the breeze and sailors' souls As bright new stars for wishing by Each slipped into the womb of night To set their courses to unseen goals Spread across an indigo sky To bear again a new dawn's light How many dawns in great flame arose Together two hearts can bring to mind How many dawns were a golden band Clouds in serried ranks of blazing coals The tally of days of every kind The world a ring on the wedding hand A warning when the coals turn gray Which dawns surprised the most with joy Blooms honey sweet and diamond dewed That ashes bring a storm filled day Which days seemed like the siege of Troy And as the day with love renewed How many sunsets passed all unseen Now one heart rests silent in the grave How many dawns came bleak as stone By eyes too busy in fields of green The other beats weeping in the nave Icy as fear, as bleached as bone Minds engrossed with mundane affairs Yet dawns of hope continue on When weeping winds and bitter air Hearts entwined with worries and cares The years of love still built upon Moan invitations to despair For the tomb of Time is but a Womb Each Sunset bears a Dawn's new bloom The powers of love never end To such force even Time doth bend 38 September 2018 Serving with Southern Style by Deborah Shrimp Scampi Zoodles for Two (from 1 lemon) lemon zest, lemon juice, and A delicious garlic shrimp and 1/8 tsp hot red pepper flakes red pepper flakes. Toss well to lemon dish over zucchini noodles In a large nonstick pan, melt combine and serve immediately. is an Easy low-carb dish that takes the butter and 1 teaspoon olive oil Makes 2 servings. 6 less than 20 minutes! It’s also gluten- over medium heat. Add the garlic shrimp, half the noodles. free, paleo, Whole30 and keto! and saute for 1 minute. Add 2 medium zucchini, about 7 oz each the shrimp, kosher salt, and 1/2 tbsp unsalted butter (or olive oil the pepper and saute until for Whole30) the shrimp have just turned 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil, divided pink, about 5 minutes, 4 minced garlic cloves, divided stirring often. Set aside. 12 large peeled and deveined shrimp Add the remaining oil and Zoodles instead of Noodles! (about 6.5 oz) garlic to the skillet, cook 30 Here is a great link on the kosher salt, to taste seconds then add the zucchini web that explains zoodles and freshly ground black pepper noodles, kosher salt and pepper. all the different veggies you 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley leaves Cook 2 minutes, stirring. can use for a healthier dish! 1/2 tsp fresh grated lemon zest Remove from the heat, 3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice add the shrimp, parsley, Served up with Love in Style by Melissa nutmeg, pumpkin pie 5 medium russet inch thick. Using a large sauce pot, spice, cinnamon, sugar potatoes toss the potatoes, onion, garlic, and salt to a medium 2 C fresh Kale, chicken broth, and water in together bowl and whisk to chopped and cook on medium heat until the combine. In a separate 1 C heavy whipping potatoes are cooked through. Add the large bowl, add your cream sausage, bacon, red pepper flakes, egg and buttermilk and 1 quart water and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer, whisk to combine. Now 2 14 ounce cans of low stirring occasionally, for another 10 add the egg mixture sodium chicken broth minutes. When the potatoes start into the flour mixture 1/2 white onion, diced breaking apart into smaller bite sized and whisk to combine. 3 tbsp minced garlic pieces, turn the heat to low and add Slice the apples into 2 tsp red pepper flakes in the kale and heavy cream. Let Here are a couple cool weather 1/4-inch-thick rounds. 1/2 tsp Salt the soup heat through and serve favorites to get you all fired up for fall. Using a circle cookie 1/2 tsp Pepper immediately with garlic bread. Grab your blanket and fuzzy socks, cutter, cut each apple Preheat oven to Served Up With Love, is full of simple, you will be warm and cozy in no time. slice into rings. Now use a smaller 300 degrees. Using a no fuss meals that Fried Apple Rings cookie cutter cut out the center, baking sheet, crumble will bring smiles all 3-4 large Gala apples discarding the center core. Add 3-4 the sausage and around the table oil, for frying inches of canola oil to a large heavy- place into the oven at dinner time or 1 cup all purpose flour bottomed pan set over medium and cook for about any time of the day. 1/4 tsp baking powder heat. Line a tray with paper towels. 6-10 minutes or until Stop on by www. 1/4 tsp salt Once the oil is popping begin you no longer see servedupwithlove. 1/2 tsp cinnamon by dipping each apple slice in the pink. Drain fat and com and see what’s 1/2 tsp. nutmeg batter, shaking off any excess then grease off using paper gracing our table. 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice place it into the oil. Flip over the towels. Using a skillet, Disclosure: I use 2 tbsp. sugar apple slices occasionally so that cook up the bacon to many recipe sources 1 cup buttermilk they brown on all sides evenly your liking. Place onto to share recipes with 1 large egg with tongs. Place the apple rings paper towels to drain you. The recipes Cinnamon sugar topping: on the paper towel lined tray. the grease. Chop shared here are not 1/2 cup sugar Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup bacon and set aside. 100% my own. 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 lb Italian sausage Slice the potatoes Add your flour, baking powder, 7 bacon slices, chopped between about 1/4

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