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85 Fortunes Point Inside the gates of Wintergreen is a 28-acre estate with a mountain cabin overlooking a spring-fed lake and meadows. With hiking trails and a stone patio, it’s a private resort within a resort! The original home, built in 2006, includes a great room, gourmet kitchen with heart pine floors, cathedral ceilings, exposed beams, stone wall, wood stove, custom cabinets and granite counters. This opens to a porch overlooking the lake. A 2014 addition includes a master suite with fireplace, luxurious bath and a den/4th BR. $1,299,000

1089 Beech Grove Road Own a charming home in Beech Grove, situated on 2.27 acres with mountain views, mature landscaping and a private back yard. The main residence has 3 BR, and 2.5 BA with a stone fireplace, gourmet kitchen and tile floors. The great room has a cathedral ceiling and opens to a covered area. A shop building in the back of the property has a 2 BR, 1 BA apartment. The shop has plenty of storage space. Minutes to breweries, cideries, Wintergreen Resort, the Farmers Market and shopping and services in Nellysford. This is a real gem! $349,000

1910 Cambells Mountain Road Log cabin with wrought iron accents and authentic chinking nestled beside GW National Forest. With exquisite wood details and vaulted ceiling, this home includes central air, heat pump, storm windows and hot water on demand. Large bedroom, spacious bath and loft that sleeps up to 6. The 9.22-acre lot offers lush woods and a babbling brook. Easy access to the Tye River, Wintergreen, the Blue Ridge Parkway and the AT. Enjoy winter mountain views and cascading colors in the fall. A one-of-a-kind retreat! $299,000

271 Hager Lane This 3 BR, 3 BA home is nestled on 11.41 acres. The main level has a great room with a fireplace and a wall of windows. The kitchen has tiled floors with radiant heat and granite countertops. Hardwood floors in the living area. The guest bath has been remodeled. The master suite is on the upper floor with a balcony and a large sitting area/loft. The master bath has been redone. The walk-out basement has a large living area, full bath and the laundry. Adjoining 55 acres available. $349,000

2960 Beech Grove Road This classic cabin is sited on 37 acres overlooking the South Fork Rockfish River. The cabin has 2 BR and 1BA. The acreage is accessible via an old road to the ridge, and there’s soil work indicating that there’s a good building site overlooking the valley. Make this your private hunting and camping preserve. This is the property you've been waiting for! $299,000

370 Piney Mountain Lane Modern farm with 50 acres in Shipman. This quality-built cape cod home has 3,900 square feet including 4 BR and 3.5 BA. There is a 5-acre lake along with a fenced pasture, pole barn with enclosed hay storage, and equipment buildings. $549,000

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945 Diamond Hill Enjoy the mountain views and watching the activity on the ski slopes from this renovated 2BR, 2BA ski-front unit! This is a fabulous location for the ski-focused buyer looking to be in the heart of the action. Open floor plan with a wood-burning fireplace in the living room. Upgraded with stainless steel appliances, granite counters, new furnishings, and a fully tiled master shower. Minimal steps! Excellent rental! $259,900

36 Knoll Lane Renovated 3 BR, 2 BA cottage Tucked behind the Rodes Farm stables/barn in a setting adjacent to pool, tennis courts, and lake. Amenities are free to access as a Wintergreen property owner. There are Rodes Farm association perks that include yard maintenance and trash removal. The interior welcomes you with a bright, open flow with vaulted ceilings and makes a perfect entertaining space with kitchen open to dining and great room with fireplace, wood floors, and lots of windows. First floor has master and guestroom. Loft makes great third bedroom, studio or office. $245,000

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on the cover Photo credit: Stephanie Gross A woman models a gown designed and sewn by Rose Valentino. Photo taken at Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books in Lovingston. Story starts on page 10.

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thepublishers As of this morning, we have had more than 67 inches of rain on the farm. To put it in perspective, filling up a pool with that amount of rain would put me under water. Tommy would be bobbing around on his tippy toes. “How many more weeks until Christmas?” the kids are beginning to ask. Dearest children, can we please get through Halloween first? As I write, a big brown truck is on its way to deliver this year’s costumes: Adam is being Steve from Minecraft again but we had to re-order the head. In contrast, it was obvious Peyton had been planning her costume for a long time. “I want to be a Vampicorn!” For those of you who don’t know what that is – I had to take a wild guess when she told me about it – it is a blood-sucking unicorn. “I can wear a lady vampire costume and I’ve got a horn and rainbow tail from my birthday,” she explained. “Gothic Vampiress Costume, Size large.” Add to cart. The poor kids always want us to dress up but we both cannot stand putting on costumes. Though I do have an idea this year that may work:

Yanny and Laurel. You will swear we are different people until we swap bodies. It will be amazing. The truth is, if it weren’t for our height, our clothes would be darn near interchangeable. Down to the spandex. It’s my fault for introducing Tommy to that material but he needed something on his cold weather runs. Actually, up until the cold snap signaling fall, he had outgrown the stretchy stuff (it does get hot in the summer) and traded in his bottoms for ranger panties. Don’t know what they are? Look it up (Hint: They come in handy when you’re swimming in more than 67 inches of rain). Plus, it can’t be any scarier than a headless Minecraft Steve or a Vampicorn. Enjoy! Yvette and Tommy Stafford

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basicnecessities By Kay Pfaltz www.basicnecessities.com www.kaypfaltz.com Wine Tasting Terms, Tannin Take a sip of wine with heavy tannins, and you’ll likely pucker up and feel like you just licked chalk. But that very same bottle may evolve into wonder with time in your cellar, like the gangly, surly teenager who morphed before your very eyes into a poised and gracious adult. This month it’s all about the tannin. Tannin is a naturally occurring polyphenol found in plants, and polyphenols (flavonoids, lignans and such) are the highly antimicrobial and antiviral antioxidants beneficial to health. Tannin is found in tea, grapes, pomegranates, barley, nuts, chocolate, rhubarb, quince, cinnamon, clove, legumes and in many berries. And while the terms tannin and tannic acid are often used interchangeably, they differ slightly, so we’ll stick simply with “tannin.” In wine there are two kinds of tannin. The first, which you perceive on the front of the tongue or roof of the mouth, comes from the grapes: skins, stems, pips (seeds.) The second comes from the oak, or the barrel. The more contact these elements

have with the wine, the more tannic it will be. Tannin relates more to texture than to flavor; it’s what makes a wine seem dry—the chalky sensation in your mouth. But if you want to be correct, don’t say “dry” since that relates to degrees of sweetness. Say “tannic” instead. Or you can speak in terms of smooth tannins versus harsh tannins, firm or grippy tannins. A common myth is that tannin is found only in red wines. True, reds have much higher tannin levels, but all wines have tannins. Grapes high in tannin include: Tannat (whose very name means tannin), Cabernet Sauvignon, Nebbiolo, Petit Verdot and Mourvèdre. Those lower in tannins include: Pinot Noir, Gamay, Barbera and Dolcetto. A young, tannic wine will taste harsh, astringent, or tight, but a wine high in tannins will be a wine that has the better aging potential. When you age a left bank Bordeaux or a Barolo, the tannins mellow over time, and the wine gains a beautiful complexity and sublimity it wouldn’t, or couldn’t, obtain without the tannins and aging process. No time for cellaring? There are

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A Life in Design An alarm beeps. A baby mews. Rose Valentino takes a bag of fortified breast milk and with nurse-like precision attaches it to a nasal gastric feeding tube that runs through the medical pump to her infant’s stomach. Her premature son, Koa James, came home this week and this routine happens- in addition to regular feedings- every three hours, around the clock. Born seven weeks early, he’ll need these extra feedings until he’s strong enough to consistently feed on his own. Once full, the tiny warm bundle snuggles into the crook of his mother’s elbow and sleeps. His little leg with its two-inch long foot and baby peas for toes dangles over her forearm. Izzy the dog takes a couple of sniffs, determines that all is well, then nestles into her cushion on the floor. “I think about how much time I used to spend time in the studio, just creating,” she laughs softly, stroking Koa’s head. “I know that time will come again.” For Rose, designing and sewing clothing is an art and a livelihood. Also the mother of a meandering four-year old, her days are long. And busy. She rises at six, fixes breakfast, sees Tye on the bus to pre- kindergarten, works through the day, and hopes to fall into bed by 11:00. Not to mention the round-the-clock feedings. She loves the boys and their energy. But like a true artist, her work is a meditation for her. “When I don’t get to do it, I kind of suffer.” continued on page 12

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Her interest in design began as a child when she compiled pages of her drawings into entire albums. Ice skating costumes in particular appealed to her she says, “because as a family we watched the winter Olympics and they were just so sparkly and fabulous.” Later she began taking apart articles of clothing to see how they were made. “I messed around enough to get the idea that you have to create space for a body.” But it wasn’t until she attended Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Craft and Material Studies that she took on the challenge of transforming her two-dimensional sketches to threedimensional creations that were actually wearable. College was experiment time for Rose. She studied ceramics, tried her hand at metal-smithing, glass-blowing print-making and painting. On the side, she began to upcycle thrift shop items with artful additions. She found a pair of platform shoes and carved designs into the wood heels with a wood-burning tool. “I re-covered the tops with an awesome piece of faux-skin fabric,” she says, “and sold them at a Richmond shop called Urban Artifacts.” While in Richmond, she worked at the fabric shop, Les Fabriques, where, ever confident, she took on clients, learning the skills to take her designs from the sketch pad to the customer. “It was tough,” she remembers. “It was back to the drawing board every time because you’re working with a different body, a unique design and a new fabric. It took a number of years to get that body of knowledge both in the craft and customer service to be able to say to someone ‘this may not be the best choice for you.’

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“Any job is like that – there’s a learning curve,” she says. “I had to figure out what was really important and I had to convince people that I’d done the work to get to this point and I really do know what I’m talking about.”

These days Rose lets her work – and her enthusiastic clients – do the talking for her. Her website (rosalbacouture.com) features glowing brides in their Rosalba creations. A click on the Custom Bridal tab unveils the marriage of her natural talent with years of practice - you won’t find these dresses on Pinterest - alongside a writing skill that rivals her design expertise:

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[For Holly, we] chose a sumptuous doublefaced silk satin for the body with an overlay on the bodice of silk organza which I would hand pleat, horizontally. Subtle but important details emerged as we built and fit: the slight sweetheart line of the bodice top, the band of satin that became the frame along the top. The red beads that became faux ‘buttons’ on the back and the red silk band peeking out from the hem were the final touch–unplanned but just what the gown needed.

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Melinda Smale of Nellysford is fitted for a garment by Rosalba Valentino, with fabric purchased in Africa.

Rose indulges her fascination with re-styling. “There’s something about gathering things, finding interesting pieces and collaging them together. Maybe something damaged that still has beauty, ” she says. “If these fabrics could talk!” She enjoys the challenge of making old things useful again, elevating them, creating new stories for them. Like the nightgowns for sale in Home Remedies and Mercantile in the town of Lovingston. She salvages a hand-crocheted antique medallion, adds couple of rows of rescued lace to the bottom of yards of organic handkerchief-weight linen, then gathers the top with a long ribbon that streams down the front. Each is a one-of-a-kind gossamer gown worthy of Downton Abbey. continued on page 16

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Much of her collection of fabrics and notions comes from clients, and this gets to the heart of why she works so well as a collaborator. They bring her a bit of lace that belonged to their grandmother, a family christening gown or perhaps their mother’s wedding dress that would never fit or is in desperate need of updating, and they get down to work. When Cathy Coyle (who knows a thing or two about weddings through her Nelson County business Willow Branch Flowers) approached Rose about her own wedding dress, she provided an idea about the basic shape and style she had dreamed about, as well as the fabric for the body of the dress. “I also mentioned to her that I have a collection of small pieces of vintage fabric,” Cathy said, “ many of them with floral designs.” To her delight, Rose cut flowers and leaves from the fabric and appliquéd them to the front of the dress, cascading down like a garden bower. “The dress fit perfectly,” she said, “and is a wearable work of art.” With Baby Koa home now, Rose finds her creative time in the 2-hour segments that fall between feedings. Unfazed, she accommodates to this new schedule by styling accessories. She displays a belt she just completed, an elegant sash of burgundy suede overlain with vintage lace, studded with white and gun-metal gray pearls, rhinestones and embroidered flowers- -a creation befitting a Russian princess. The rumble of tires on the gravel road outside her home signals the approaching school bus. She puts down the sash, picks up the baby and she’s up and off to welcome her four-year old back home, Izzy trotting alongside. Later – much later – after the boys are in bed, she’ll sort through her collection, pick up her needle and let inspiration take her. BRL

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We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of perhaps the most recognizable car on Nelson’s 151, Lisa Davis’ “Echo mobile,” which has just rolled up to the parking lot of one of its happy places, Blue Mountain Brewery. And judging by the sticker job on Lisa’s ride, she’s hit every boozery and festival in this neck of the Blue Ridge. “I’ve had people ask to buy this,” she tells me from the driver’s seat of the 2000 Toyota Echo purchased used in 2003. “I had someone from Stoney Creek want to buy this because he had one that ran 500,000 miles.” She turns the ignition key to show me the odometer reading: 312,034. In spite of the driver-side visor being held up by a fish lure (genius!), Lisa’s black Echo – a unicorn in the sub compact car world that’s amassed a cultlike following – still has some life left. And it’s been a good life. 15 years ago Lisa was hitting a bunch of music festivals. She was on the exit ramp to one of the first Bonaroos when someone rear-ended and totaled her Nissan Sentra. When she got back home from the festival, she

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started researching a new ride and settled on the Echo, which Toyota no longer makes. “I bought it because it was rated the most dependable car.” Aside from that, the stickered-up sedan has become a Rockfish Valley icon as it’s logged thousands of miles – an average of 18,000 a year – zooming up and down Route 151. A food and beverage industry vet, Lisa used to work at Devils Backbone before transitioning to a sales manager position at a Charlottesville t-shirt company. In many ways, she’s been behind the wheel of the Brew Ridge Trail awakening. But after getting rear ended a few months ago (it wasn’t the first time), Lisa took it as a sign to start searching for a new dependable ride: a Jeep Patriot. As for Echo Mobile? She’s giving it away to a local who could use a dependable car, even if it means it may only chug along for another year. Lisa likes to think of it as a local adoption. “The good thing is it will be in the county so we’ll all see each other.” A Full Nelson cheers to that. BRL

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106 Oak Lane 512 Hunters Point

2077 Stone Ridge Condos

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3216 North Ridge Condos

2046 Stone Ridge Condos

This building lot offers resort-style w/unparalleled 1 BR, 2 Full BA within North Ridge Condo w/spacious w/luxurious granite, & loads of natural light. Open One level 3BR/3BA spacious condo overlooking golf course Like-new mountain homeliving w/luxurious granite Like-new ndo in the Mountain Remarkable oversized elevated lot located at the privacy && loads serenity! Benefits of Stoney Creek Great living incl deck & great seasonal views of the Blue Ridge Mtns & w/seasonal blue ridge views. Recent renovations - wood of natural light. Vaulted Room floor plan: Vaulted Great Room connects to the kitchen(bar ely remodeled! Close end of a quiet cul-de-sac street in Stoney Creek. proximity to amenities of Wintergreen Resort +dining golf, tennis, Devils Knob Golf Course. Rented in the Resort Homes & floors throughout & updated baths, new kitchen appl. Next connects seamlessly to the kitchen, room, & seating), dining room, & expansive deck to enjoy Winterdining to shopping. 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67 Squirrel Tree Lane

Spectacular 2 BR, 2 BA condo in Vistas w/sweeping e design 3 BR golf front. Panoramic year round views from this custom home on Just in Time!!! Upgraded Ski Chalet, a short walk to the Awesome view from this 2 BR 2 bath condo w/updated Perfect building lot on Monocan #9 fairway at Stoney Creek views of mountains & valleys. Updates incl. granite ustom glass & window Wintergreen Mountain! Unique Frank Lloyd Wright inslopes & turnkey furnished! Picturesque views from your Golf Course at Wintergreen! mountain views & to kitchen & tasteful furnishings. Open floor plan w/lots of & appl. Great socialLevel floorlot, plan w/kitchen open y areas, 1 w/FP. Seasonal spired design, over 3600 sq.ft. fin. Multiple decks + screened master BR, LR, & expansive deck. Designed with convelight. Wood burning FP. Walk to golf and tennis. Short walk scenery living at the end of a cul-de-sac. Privacyburning & accessibility to & dining areas. Wood FP. Across ley & Devils Knob GC. porch. Great room w/cathedral ceiling, 6 FP(4 BR & 2 FR). nience in mind; 1st floor has 2 BRs & 2 full baths + loft area to ski, the aquatics center, fitness center and Trillium Fndn. all central Va. Minutes to breweries & wineries short drive from Devils Knob Tennis & Golf +centers. Walk ress. Stainless appl. in Large kitchen: cherry cabinets, gas Thermadore cooktop, upstairs - sleeps many or doubles as a playroom! Call Tim Enjoy spectacular sunrises and star gaze from your deck at to Chville, Lynchburg, Waynesboro & Staunton. $64,900 to Wintergarden Spa & Fitness Center. $229,000. wine cooler. $299,000. 1596 Vistas 1596 Vistas 1596 Condo Vistas Condo Condo 23 Devils 1023 Devils Knob 1023 Devils Loop Knob Loop Knob Loop(434)962-0226 (577331) Zero Condos Refrigerator - great for entertaining. driveCrawfords Craig (540)416-8498 (555213) night. Call Lauri Powell, (540)718-14701596 (580757) Sherwood 205Level Crawfords 205 205 Edge Crawfords Edge Edge 67 Squirrel 67 Squirrel Tree 67 Squirrel Lane Tree L Vistas 1596 Vistas Condos 1596Sub Vistas Condos Contact Brian Chase 94 www.goWintergreen.com Windthistle 94 Windthistle 94 Court Windthistle Court Court at 434-566-1293 Call or Gavin Spectacular Spectacular 2 BR, Spectacular 2 BA 2 BR, condo 2 BA 2 BR, incondo Vistas 2 BAincondo w/sweeping Vistasinw/sweeping Vistas w/sweeping & parking. Call Steve Marianella, (434)566-1293 (581012) mporary y Contemporary farmhouse farmhouse design farmhouse 3design BR golf 3design BR front. golf 3 BR front. golf front. 434-296-9860 Panoramic year Panoramic round year views round year from views round this from views custom this from custom home thison custom home Just onhome in Time!!! Just on in Upgraded Time!!! Just in Upgraded Time!!! Ski Chalet, Upgraded Ski Chalet, a short Ski Awesome Awesome view from Awesome viewthis from 2view BR this from 2 2bath BR thiscondo 2 2bath BRw/updated condo 2 bath w/updated condoPanoramic w/updated 33) Perfect (570077) building Perfect building lot Perfect on Monocan building lot on Monocan lot #9 fairway on Monocan #9 at fairway Stoney #9 at fairway Creek StoneyatCreek Stoney Creek

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1261 Crawfords Climb This 5 BR, 4 BA custom home rests atop Crawfords Climb & boasts exceptional privacy & overlooks Stoney Creek. A dramatic wall of windows allows abundant light while gracious decks offer enjoyment of panoramic views. This private heaven includes an extra lot!

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1640 Overlook Condos Looking for an immaculate 2 BR, 2 BA condo with minimal steps, is close to everything, and boasts some of the finest mountain & valley views at Wintergreen? This is it! Recently updated, easy one level living with an abundance of natural light & a spacious deck.

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price per sq ft $136.62, DOM 144, median DOM 78. Positive strides were achieved except for median and average selling prices. However, average price per sq ft increased. More condos sold (18% increase) and this may have played a role in reducing the median and average prices. Condos are often smaller and typically sell for less than detached homes. The 2018 Q1-Q3 sold median for detached homes was $300,000 compared to $137,500 for condos. Properties took 6% fewer days to sell when comparing the median DOM. Inventory has also been dwindling. There are currently 241 properties for sale at an average price per sq ft of $163.09 compared to 251 this time last year at a price per sq ft of $166.52. The current asking price per sq ft is 19% higher than the sold price per sq ft; I often refer to this difference as the gap between “wish for” pricing and true market value. If you plan to sell, make sure that you

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Landen Day aims his lens at his Pop-Pop’s 1966 Chevy Imapla SS. A full time student at Rockfish River Elementary School, photography is this 3rd grader’s side hustle. For a peek at what he’s been shooting, visit his Facebook page, Landen Day. He will also be with his Nana November 17 at the Afton Christian School Fall Bazaar located at the Rockfish Valley Rescue Squad.

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“This one here with his scoliosis ...” she says, motioning to Landen, who’s traded in his school pack for the camera backpack he’s unzipping, “… going back and forth to Rochester, we have never missed a trip. I think that’s where the bond came from. We’re just two peas in a pod.” Landen was born with an abnormal curvature of the spine but thankfully, doctors caught it quickly. But those early years meant many, many trips to Rochester, New York to treat his condition. “I go to New York,” Landen explains to me when we have a private moment. “Sometimes my mom and dad and my Pop-Pop take me. We have to travel West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.” As a family, they’ve logged hundreds of miles over the years to get Landen’s back straightened. And for Robin, that may be how her bond with Landen began to form. Even with handheld screens and devices, long road trips involve a lot of looking out the window. “He will say, ‘Nana, look at that.’ … and I’ll say ‘Look at that mountain range or look at the windmills for energy along Route 15.’ And when I noticed that he started picking out stuff, and then I’m like, okay, ‘Would you like to learn to take pictures with me?’” Though Landen was born with a bum spine, there was nothing wrong with his eyes or his heart, with how he saw and felt the world. And as he gives me a tour of the backyards that connect to his — this is land that has been parceled up to family members over the years — there’s no telling how old this little boy’s soul is. “My great grandma and great grandma used to live here and when they passed away, we had to fix this part right here …” Landen tells me, pointing to the deck railing, his Nikon hanging from his neck. “I have my great grandpa’s radio. And I’ve got all kinds of pictures of him … “ The boy speaks of those possessions like another might speak of a treasured baseball card collection.

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“When they passed away we started to clean out the house. When they passed away I didn’t do much. The only thing I [did] was take pictures and find some stuff with my Nana.” He would “find some stuff with Nana.” Like the blooming bush behind the brick rancher. Click. Or the birds lined up on the roof line. Click. Zoom. Click. And the old 1966 Chevy Impala SS on blocks, a rusty relic once driven by Landen’s Pop-Pop. Now, it’s another cool thing Landen can aim his lens at. Puttering around the yard with a camera is how this 3rd grader has been processing the events in his life. “What is it about taking pictures that you like so much?” I ask him. “Well, I don’t know. I’m still learning.” Nana nods, admitting that she too is still quite the amateur. Even so, she and her grandson have started selling prints of pictures they take together on road trips. “Do you know where Purple Cow is?” Landen asks me with the slightest of little boy lisps. The place is over near Waynesboro. “Sometimes we sell over there. And sometimes we sell it at the fire house. And now it’s me and Nana’s first time selling at Bold Rock.” He snaps off the lid of a plastic storage box. “My picture right here is a blue jay on a stick! My other one is this red, orange, yellow flower …” And then he pulls out a picture he and Nana took along the Blue Ridge Parkway, one of their many Saturday photography road trip destinations. “We like to get lost. Well, me, not so good,” he says. “He just started going on trips with me,” Robin adds. “We get in the truck, pack our lunch, pack all of our camera gear, tripods, our coats, flashlights, water and I ask him where he wants to go and he says, ‘Parkway,’ … I drive, he navigates.” There’s the time they crept along too deep down a fire trail in the National Forest and topped a ridge, only to accidentally end up in West Virginia.

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“I feel scared when we get lost,” Landen sheepishly admits. “I feel like we might not find our way home.” But if anyone can find their way back home it is Nana, the grandma behind the wheel of Bus 16, who is more than a bus driver. “When I see a sunrise, I say, ‘Look kids, at the sunrise!’ Or if I see a deer or anything. A bear. I tell the kids about it and they will say, ‘Stop, Nana!’” She’ll hit the breaks and let the kids with cameras get off the bus to snap pictures. “If they want to do it, I’m going to do it for them.” Because one day Landen will trade his lisp and the wayward bend in his spine for clear words and a strong back. Too big to ride Bus 16 but never too old for a road trip, he’ll help his precious Nana into his car and get lost with her again. BRL

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It’s a quiet walk from Newtown Historic District on West Beverley Street to the center of downtown Staunton. Morning sunlight is glinting off of Victorian windows and turning last night’s spider webs into shimmering wisps of lace on the boxwoods.

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I’m trying to see this world through Harry Potter spectacles. Well, okay, they’re prescription Ray Bans, but I’m about to enter a realm built on the foundation of millions of imaginations, created by one. One Joanne Rowling. It is said good things come to those who wait. Rowling was waiting for a late train traveling from Manchester to London in 1990 when she conceived the glimmer of the Harry Potter tale. Seven years later J.K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Clear the tracks. The Potter series has sold over 500 million copies translated into 80 languages. The entire franchise is estimated to be worth at least 25 billion US dollars. Those franchise rights are fastidiously guarded as Staunton event originator, Sarah Lynch, can attest. Warner Brothers contacted her to be certain her brainchild, “Queen City Mischief and Magic” a celebration of all things Harry Potter, was copyright infringement free. It would take a force greater than Hollywood to slow Sarah Lynch down as her wizardry comes from her heart. It began when she picked up the original book and started reading to her first-grade son, Henry. Mother and son were enthralled.

Lynch says, “There are so many Golden Rules embedded in the books.” She subscribes especially to the dictums of acceptance, tolerance, and the notion that all souls are capable of benevolent sorcery. A clear case of the pot calling the cauldron black. The Rowling/Harry Potter series is devoured by the young and the mature alike. The older reader embraces the rite of passage while the younger might read, and reread, the embedded labyrinth of paths to maturity. Fielding an inquiry as to the revenue significance to Staunton, Lynch simply shares a story, “A retailer came into my restaurant (Baja Bean) after the festival and told me they had had doubts they would be able to stay in business until Christmas. This one weekend made it possible for them to cover the rent and buy inventory – possible to stay in business. I cried all day.”

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The future of the event? Sarah envisions a smaller, tighter footprint concentrating activities. For a woman who can conjure mermaids and mermen, actual merpeople lolling about in pools of water there really can be no boundaries. The city of Staunton has maintained a population of around 25,000 for the past 100 years. For the last weekend in September of 2018 city authorities braced to receive an anticipated influx of over 10,000 visitors. One of the founders of the event tells me there are this weekend visitors from Australia, Great Britain, and lands as remote as Tennessee. Staunton Police Officer Nuffer comments, “This is one of the best crowds. I worked this last year too. We have never had a second of trouble, everybody is just as nice as can be.” The crisp of this Saturday morning has invigorated a circle of boys brandishing wands and spouting spirited incantations. An appreciative adult sphere has gathered round them. There it is. The mischief. The magic. And what this observer had not counted on: the devotion. Dare say, this may be bigger than Christmas morning for many of the participants. A prim woman in a pink suit daintily holding a china teacup portrays the character of Dolores Umbridge. She says, “Harry Potter is a lovely place to go in your imagination.”

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The day is warming and a familiar voice behind me says hello. It’s my neighbor, Leah, with her daughter, Sophie, riding on her back sporting a toile tutu and ballet slippers. We walk a few blocks together and the scene begins to blur. Sophie is of this place. That she’s dressed as a sugarplum is entirely appropriate, but then she is every Saturday morning when she goes for her lesson. Staunton has the blood type to host and energize this event. There’s no separating Staunton’s dreamy reality from what is being visited upon the “Queen City” this weekend. Leah and Sophie turn off into a flowering garden behind the R.R. Smith Center to paint “magic dragon eggs”. A group of visitors pause consulting their maps, a 16-page guide provided free by The Staunton News Leader. It includes a whimsical centerfold map detailing the location of activities and businesses transformed for the event.

Voted #1 Salon in Beech Grove The group decides to forgo dragon eggs and head to what is normally The Wine Cellar, but for the weekend has covered its painted sign with a banner declaring it “Liverwort’s Libations”. There shopkeepers Nancy and Penny are selling bottles of butter beer. Penny, an owl enthusiast, has Mary Baldwin University’s collection of stuffed owls on display. Hogwart-robed, repp-tied, Harry Potters clutch their fuzzy stuffed owls and gaze at the real ones in wonder. I meet up with some friends on a downtown stoop. Put a couple of antique dealers and a graphic designer together with license to create and the “next year we could . . .” ideas are flowing. Joey has a carved cane he is openly pointing at people as he puts spells on them. For three days out of the year this is perfectly acceptable behavior in Staunton. I find myself feeling warm and fuzzy about this little city that welcomes imaginative dreamers with open arms, both residents and visitors. Conveniently, Staunton has a restored train station built in 1902. Visitors wait with palpable enthusiasm as the train (the nearby marshaled Buckingham Branch Line) pulls into the station and The Harry and The Hagrid of the festival disembark. Cameras are clicking as fast as Hagrid’s heels. All of Sarah Lynch’s humility cannot undo the obvious. Crafting this event is a tremendous undertaking fueled by dedication. With Sarah conducting, Staunton can expect that magical train to arrive on time every year. BRL

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COMMUNITY BREAKFAST Start: Nov. 3, 2018 8:30 am End: Nov. 3, 2018 10:30 am Venue: Rockfish Valley Community Center Contact: 434-361-0100 Address: 190 Rockfish Lane, Afton, VA, 22920 (NELSON)

APPLE CIDER MAKING DEMONSTRATION Start: Nov. 17, 2018 9:00 am End: Nov. 17, 2018 5:00 pm Venue: Saunders Brothers Farm Market Contact: 434-277-5455 Address: 2717 Tye Brook Highway, Piney River, VA, 22964 (NELSON)

APPLE BUTTER MAKING Start: Nov. 3, 2018 9:00 am End: Nov. 3, 2018 5:00 pm Venue: Saunders Brothers Farm Market Contact: 434-277-5455 Address: 2717 Tye Brook Highway, Piney River, VA, 22964 (NELSON)

NOVEMBER 10 SATURDAY VIRGINIA DISTILLERY COMPANY’S 3RD ANNIVERSARY Start: Nov. 10, 2018 11:00 am End: Nov. 10, 2018 6:00 pm Venue: Virginia Distillery Company Contact: 434-285-2900 Address: 299 Eades Lane, Lovingston, VA, 22949 (NELSON) ROCKFISH NIGHTS Start: Nov. 10, 2018 6:00 pm End: Nov. 10, 2018 10:00 pm Venue: Rockfish Valley Community Center Contact: 434-361-0100 Address: 190 Rockfish Lane, Afton, VA, 22920 (NELSON)

NOVEMBER 11 SUNDAY FALL FESTIVAL AND OPEN HOUSE Start: Nov. 11, 2018 12:00 pm End: Nov. 11, 2018 6:00 pm Venue: Montfair Resort Farm Contact: 434-823-5202 Address: 2500 Bezaleel Dr, Crozet, VA 22932 (ALBEMARLE) ROCKFISH NIGHTS Start: Nov. 10, 2018 6:00 pm End: Nov. 10, 2018 10:00 pm Venue: Rockfish Valley Community Center Contact: 434-361-0100 Address: 190 Rockfish Lane, Afton, VA, 22920 (NELSON)

NOVEMBER 24 SATURDAY CHRISTMAS TREE FARM OPENS Start: Nov. 24, 2018 9:00 am End: Nov. 24, 2018 5:00 pm Venue: Saunders Brothers Farm Market Contact: 434-277-5455 Address: 2717 Tye Brook Highway, Piney River, VA, 22964 (NELSON)

DECEMBER 1 SATURDAY COMMUNITY BREAKFAST Start: Dec. 1, 2018 8:30 am End: Dec. 1, 2018 10:30 am Venue: Rockfish Valley Community Center Contact: 434-361-0100 Address: 190 Rockfish Lane, Afton, VA, 22920 (NELSON) WREATHS AND CHRISTMAS TREES Start: Dec. 1, 2018 9:00 am End: Dec. 1, 2018 5:00 pm Venue: Saunders Brothers Farm Market Contact: 434-277-5455 Address: 2717 Tye Brook Highway, Piney River, VA, 22964 (NELSON) 2018 CONCEALED DARKNESS RELEASE PARTY AND PIG ROAST Start: Dec. 1, 2018 10:00 am End: Dec. 1, 2018 8:00 pm Venue: Blue Mountain Barrel House Contact: 434-263-4002 Address: 495 Cooperative Way, Arrington, VA, 22922 (NELSON)

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NOVEMBER 16 FRIDAY WE ARE THANKFUL SQUARE DANCE Start: Nov. 16, 2018 7:30 pm End: Nov. 16, 2018 10:00 pm Venue: Rockfish River Elementary School Contact: 434-361-1830 Address: 200 Chapel Hollow Road, Afton, VA, 22920 (NELSON)

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