Crozet Gazette April 2015 by The Crozet Gazette

INSIDE ODE TO CROZET page 3 NEW EAGLE page 5 BIG SHOW page 6 PIEDMONT STORE page 7

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SUGAR HOLLOW 5K page 12

New Brewery Coming Soon to Crozet

NOCTURNE page 13 COMMITMENT page 15 PETS OUTDOORS page 16 BALLERINAS pages 18 GARDEN WEEK page 19 FARM BUSINESS page 20 WELCOME, FLOWERS! page 21 MAN IN NATURE page 22 RED MAPLE page 24 35 YEARS OF FAIRS page 27 A DOCTOR’S REGRETS page 28 WARRIOR SPORTS page 30 BAD ROUNDUP page 31 LONELY AS A CLOUD page 32 CROSSWORD page 33 SINGERS BAND page 33 WOODCOCK CALLS page 35 SPRING WIND page 37

Jane Servine (left) and Alice Taylor of Crozet finished the Sugar Hollow Three Bridges 5k together on March 14. See story page 12.

Crozet Park Hosts Second Annual “Pitch-in @ the Park” April 25 By Kim Guenther President, Claudius Crozet Park Board Crozet Park will host its annual Pitch-in @ the Park event Saturday, April 25 from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. The event, which brings together volunteers and businesses from throughout the community, will allow the park to complete many of its current maintenance projects, which would otherwise be deferred due to lack of man-

power and funding. Fifteen projects are scheduled for completion. With a potential turnout of upwards of 100 volunteers, the Pitch-in event is an opportunity to engage local residents and businesses to work side-by-side to help maintain the park, a community-owned and operated park since 1957. Because of the success of its first iteration, the Pitch-in @ the Park event has brought offers of in-kind continued on page 37

Miller School’s Endurance Team is Premier High School Cycling Program in Virginia By Rebecca Schmitz becca@crozetgazette.com Stroll through the woods surrounding Miller School of Albemarle’s sprawling, 1,600-acre campus on any weekday afternoon and you’ll likely come across a sight you don’t often see while hiking: a group of athletes on mountain bikes expertly navigat-

Crozet’s emergence as a tourist entrepot will advance another step later this summer when Pro Re Nata Brewery opens in the former Moose Lodge on Rt. 250 close by the Interstate 64 interchange. Crozet dentist Dr. John Schoeb, joined by two other investors, bought the 3.2-acre Moose Lodge property, which has agricultural zoning, thinking it might work as a boarding kennel. But it turned out that use wouldn’t meet minimum sound distances. Then new state laws meant to stimulate farm enterprise came along. Now they are planting hops instead and transforming the lodge, which came into the world as a truck repair shop, into a small-scale brewery. “The name Pro Re Nata, or PRN, is a Latin term we use in medicine when we write prescriptions for pain medication,” explained Schoeb. “I would write it like this: Take one or two Percocet every six hours PRN dental pain. So it means ‘as needed.’ So come to the brewery ‘as needed’ for relief.” Word of the brewery has been creeping around and Schoeb said his patients have asked him about it. “People are ecstatic about it,” he said. “I have patients who were in the Moose Lodge and they are thrilled.” continued on page 11

ing the challenging 15-mile network of trails that snake up and down steep hills and uneven terrain. Leave the school grounds and venture down one of the many scenic roads nearby, and you might glimpse another group of young cyclists zipping by at lightning speed. Meet the members of the Endurance Team, Miller School’s continued on page 9

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an important utility project that has failed to include an importSend your letters to the editor to ant ingredient since its concepnews@crozetgazette.com. Letters will tion: constituent representation not be printed anonymously. by the elected state legislature. Ode to Crozet The concern about the route has burdened landowners and Crozet, Virginia conservation groups that argue that a much less intrusive route Sitting the backyard already exists and can be shared With the mountains close with Columbia gas. There are at hand less invasive paths through the I feel I’ve gone to Heaven much revered public lands and For this truly is God’s land. historical sites. If there had been real representation from elected Everyone knows everyone. state officials for the landownThe scenery is divine. ers, then this distrust of public I feel so very happy policy with the gas line would In this hometown of mine. not exist. Delegate Steve Landes said at O, Crozet, Virginia, a town hall meeting in Weyers Little mountain town so dear, Cave last January, “The areas I You are the jewel of small towns actually represent are not I’m so happy to be here. impacted [and] there’s limitation to what we can do.” He You have simply everything. added, “They’re not taking your There’s even an olive tree. land, they’re basically renting I feel so proud to say your land.” That you are home to me. I can understand the frustration of landowners with an Marie Shifflett unwanted, uninvited guest that Crozet wrecks their place and doesn’t leave. The issues for them are On the Pipeline real loss of property value and TheThird Atlantic Coast Pipeline is TLOT ThursdayAPRIL'15_Ad_CrozetGazette_Layout 1 3/15/15 8:49 Pagein. 1 land they invested theirAMlives

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They don’t believe they are fairly compensated for their losses. Public lands and conservation efforts are something I am very familiar with. I work on an authority that grants easements and contributes to Albemarle County’s future with pristine rural lands and farms. There are many people who have worked hard to see that the lands are protected and sustained for the future. Albemarle County can appreciate that the “Not in Our Back Yard” saying means the entire public lands, farms and rural countryside be given full respect. The best plan should be devised by all parties at stake. Not just the powerful utility company and the elected officials who secretly negotiate, but also the people who live here, the residents and landowners who honor and respect the heritage, land and the future of Virginia. Angela Lynn White Hall Candidate for the House of Delegates in the 25th District continued on page 34

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Brice Van de Castle was awarded his Eagle Scout rank at a Court of Honor held March 28 at Crozet United Methodist Church, which hosts Boy Scout Troop 79. Scoutmaster Gary Conley made the presentation before a large crowd of Scouts and family members. Virginia Delegate Steve Landes of Verona, who represents Crozet, was on hand to make congratulatory remarks, as was White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek. Landes presented Van de Castle with a Virginia state flag that had been flown over the state capitol in his honor. Mallek read a message of congratulations from the citizens of western Albemarle. Stonewall Jackson Area Council CEO James Milham was also present. Eagle Scouts in the audience were asked to stand and nine rose. Only five

percent of Boy Scouts achieve Eagle rank. Brice, the son of Drake and Teresa Van de Castle of Crozet, entered scouting as a Cub Scout in 2008 while at Crozet Elementary School. His mom was his den mother. He finished his requirements for Eagle rank in February, two months before his 18th birthday. His Eagle project was a playhouse for kids at Kingswood Preschool (which operates out of the church) to play in and it is now installed on the playground in the rear of the church. In remarks by his leaders reviewing his career, Van de Castle had to take some ribbing about learning to swim well enough to pass the Eagle standard—“he did an impression of an anchor,” said assistant scoutmaster Mark Adams--and memories of a camping trip to

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Piedmont Store If buildings could talk, the old Piedmont Store in White Hall would be surrounded by a crowd of eager listeners. By the mid19th century, the expanding neighborhood, as well as the traveling public, were already crossing its threshold to obtain needed wares. Piedmont was the biggest deal for miles around. A dozen or so years after its establishment, in the spring of 1862 Piedmont Store (located near the intersection of Sugar Hollow Road and Brown’s Gap Turnpike) found itself encompassed by a sea of armaments and soldiers resting all around its grounds. Stonewall Jackson’s Confederate troops had used Brown’s Gap Turnpike in a diversionary maneuver away from the Shenandoah Valley, en route to Mechums River Depot and then with a surprise move back into the Valley. Military activity had not been an uncommon sight around the store since the nearby Piedmont House was being used for the convalescence of Confederate soldiers formerly housed in Charlottesville. But the living drama of thousands upon thousands of muddy, exhausted troops, horses and accompanying supply wagons was a sight to behold. In its very earliest days, the crossroads vil-

Moormans River

The original historic Piedmont Store building at White Hall (formerly Moorman’s River P.O.), is thought to be the oldest store building extant in Albemarle County. The original 1850s store building sat on piers of handmade bricks. A later ware room addition was perched on carefully stacked rocks. [Photo by Phil James]

lage of White Hall in western Albemarle County had been identified by the names of various local stores or taverns. In 1799, Chapman White married into the local

After many decades of picking up his mail at old Piedmont Store, Sugar Hollow native/White Hall resident James Blackwell transitioned to the modern post office facilities at Clarence Jones’s “new” Piedmont Store. [Photo by Phil James]

Maupin family, a move that allowed him a portion of Maupin land on which to erect a Tavern Stand just east of the intersection of Garth Road and Brown’s Gap Turnpike. As traffic increased, White expanded his offerings to the traveling public. The stagecoach stop eventually adopted the name of White’s home and business. The village had sufficiently prospered by 1827 for the nation’s growing Post Office Department to assign an official designation. The most obvious local geographical feature, Moorman’s River, was chosen as the post’s identifier. That post office name was used until 1941 when its postmark was officially changed to White Hall (two words), VA. Moorman’s River Post Office moved around the village of White Hall as postmaster assignments were meted out by whichever political party was in charge. For at least one of those early reassignments, in 1885, it was relocated into Piedmont Store, where storekeeper Thomas E. Powers served his first four-year stint as postmaster. The P.O. returned to stay at old Piedmont in 1914 when Ernest L. Harris was running the business. Taswell P. Haden assumed the store and the post office job in 1930, followed by Clarence Jones in 1950. By the time Jones resigned as postmaster in 1977, the store business and post office were settled next door in the Jones family’s present

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Piedmont Store —continued from page 7

cinderblock building closer to Brown’s Gap Turnpike. Brothers Emory and Ellis Wyant were born in lower Sugar Hollow in 1911 and 1919, respectively. The round-trip of five miles from their house to Haden’s (Piedmont) Store usually was a welcome reprieve from chores and other country labors. “It was a big general store,” said Ellis. “You’d go up steps to go in. The Haden Store and Wyant’s Store were competitors at that time. You could buy a bag of feed from them. Whatever you needed in groceries. Spools of thread. Anything you needed back in those days.” “E.L. Harris ran it before Haden did,” said Emory. “The block house right across from it was where E.L. Harris lived. I remember when they built that house and when the Hadens moved there and took over the store. They had a son named Massie and a daughter. We used to go there and buy salt fish. I

remember salt fish.” Ellis added, “Cheese and crackers! You could sit on a barrel in front of the store and eat all the crackers you wanted to. “And their son Massie Haden used to ride a motorcycle when I was a kid. One of the real old ones. Later on he opened the Harley-Davidson shop in Charlottesville and I bought one from him. It was my first Harley.” “They would buy rabbits,” Emory continued. “All you had to do was just take the insides out and they would take and hang them up and dry them, and they would keep for ages like that. Sell rabbits for a quarter a piece. Some people said they used to sell squirrels, too. In the winter time it stayed cold and they would hang them up inside. Most anything you wanted, they had it.” Homer Sandridge, son of storekeeper Laurie K. Sandridge at Mountfair, also was familiar with the businesses at White Hall. “Piedmont Store was run by T.P. Haden early on in the thirties,” recalled Sandridge. “He had a daughter that was

Detail from the door of a security safe used by 19th century storekeeper Thomas E. Powers. While operating Piedmont Store in the late 19th century, Powers also served as Postmaster at Moorman’s River, VA, during 1885–1889 and 1893–1897. Powers’ heavy safe was a substantial deterrent to opportunistic yeggs passing through the Blue Ridge foothills. [Courtesy of Joe Jones. Photo by Phil James]

Piedmont Store sign from the 1950s era of store ownership by Clarence and Elizabeth Jones. [Courtesy of Joe Jones. Photo by Phil James]

about my age. I went to school with her and liked her very much. And she died real young. Haden ran the post office there and had a general store. The right-hand side of the building was kind of a ware room. When you run a general store you had to have a ware room because a lot of it is feed and bulk items: hundred pound [sacks] of salt, stone crocks.” Lifelong White Hall resident Dan Maupin looked across Brown’s Gap Turnpike from Piedmont Store. “They used to call this Cooper Shop Hill,” he said. “There was a cooper shop that made apple barrels right in that corner. We used to sleigh ride there, starting about where the shop was. I had a long sled

and we had a good steep hill to get started on. When the conditions were right I’ve ridden down over the hill into that hollow.” The corner at Piedmont Store truly has known all manner of sights and sounds—and changes—over the past two centuries. From tobacco-economy plantations powered by enslaved workers, to Civil War troop movements, a Confederate hospital, a C.C.C. encampment, and German WWII prisoners-of-war barracks, to mountainsides blanketed by apple and peach trees, to the youthful joys of memorable sleigh rides. Oh, the stories that would be told, if only buildings could talk.

This heavy door allowed Piedmont’s storekeeper access between the store space and ware room. Prior to the addition of the storage room, covered outdoor steps led to an earthen cellar. [Photo by Phil James]

Follow Secrets of the Blue Ridge on Facebook! Phil James invites contact from those who would share recollections and old photographs of life along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Albemarle County. You may respond to him through his website: www.SecretsoftheBlueRidge.com or at P.O. Box 88, White Hall, VA 22987. Secrets of the Blue Ridge © 2003–2015 Phil James

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nationally recognized mountain biking, road racing, and distance running program. The team, which was founded by Dean of Faculty Peter Hufnagel five years ago, has had a tremendous impact on junior development cycling in Virginia. “When Miller School created the cycling team, one of our first tasks was to create an interscholastic race scene. We had an ‘if you build it they will come’ mentality,” Hufnagel said. “We knew that if we provided the infrastructure and arena for competition, schools and students around Virginia would decide to pursue mountain biking as an interscholastic sport. It would also provide Miller School athletes a competitive experience similar to traditional sports.” Miller School—a private boarding and day school for grades eight through twelve-founded the Virginia High School Mountain Bike Series. Its first race in 2011 had only 27 riders from four teams. This

APRIL 2015 spring, they expect about 200 riders from 15 teams. Last year, they worked with the National Interscholastic Cycling Association to create a second mountain bike race league. “In total, over the past five years, we have had roughly 300 student athletes compete in interscholastic mountain bike races,” Hufnagel said. “I expect there to be 600 riders at the races within the next few years. It’s a growing sport.” The Endurance Team is one of only a handful of high school cycling teams in the state. While cycling is growing in popularity, it has traditionally been a niche sport. Most high schools don’t have teams, so high-school cyclists tend to train independently, only getting together with their team members for competitions as trade teams, or teams made up of club members scattered around a broad region. Andy Guptill, head coach and director of the team, said this is what makes Miller School’s team stand out. “The beauty of this is that we have everyone training all together— we are true teammates,” Guptill said. Freshman Gus Myers, a

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He is being closely advised by a Charlottesville-area brewery on the art, science and business of brewing, but Schoeb said they preferred to stay in the background and he declined to name them, referring to them only as “well-known and very willing to help. They are overseeing production for quality.” He credited them with invaluable help in production design. “We’re going to be a ‘green’ brewery,” said Schoeb. PRN has a well and septic system. Beer production will go into a separate waste system and the used grains will go to farmers as stock feed. The brewery is expecting to produce 1,200 barrels of beer a year, or 2,400 kegs. It is limited to 15,000 barrels per year by law, he said. Schoeb said he expects to hire eight to 10 employees to start ,and he will split time between

APRIL 2015 his dental practice, Crozet Blue Ridge Dental, which is large, and the brewery. Twenty dumpster loads came out in the demolition of the exterior and interior of the 5,000 square-foot block shell, Schoeb said. “The structure is good and we kept the footprint. We’re just fixing it up,” he said. The new exterior will “play off the board-and-batten barn across the road. It will have a standing seam metal roof, too.” Inside, half of what was the Mooses’ dining room—and was previously the truck shop’s service floor—will become the brewery operation, a seven-barrel system with 14 stainless steel tanks, all being custom-made. High ceilings designed for trucks allow plenty of height for brewery vessels. The building is getting insulation (it had none) and the 15 large windows in the original construction, from the day when one hoped for a breeze to get cool, will be reinstalled.

The former Moose Lodge is under renovation. Below is a rendering of the new brewery design.

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Picking up on its history, two truck-size glass bay doors, like those on the Crozet firehouse, will be on the building’s front and rear walls. “The bonded area—the untaxed stage—will be fenced off,” said Schoeb. “It will be open so you can watch the brewing process. Our total seating will be 200.” The other half of high-ceilinged space will have tables, a spot for a small stage, and along the front wall, the highway side, there will be a L-shaped bar with 35 seats. Given Crozet’s affection for its history, the Moose Lodge’s road sign is coming inside and getting lit up to hang over it. They will start with six taps at the bar. “That’s six beers on day one,” said Schoeb. “We’re going for a higher-end look,” he said. “We want it to be ridiculously cool.” In the building’s remaining half, what had been a spacious

kitchen and lobby is now a large, bright seating area with panoramic views of the Blue Ridge, plus bathrooms and office space toward the rear. It can be closed off from the production area by large barn doors on tracks and will be available for private parties. Outside will be a large patio seating 50 and a fire pit with shrubbery screening off the road. The brewery won’t have a kitchen. It will have a food truck it owns and operates in the parking lot. Hops will be grown on the back of the property and along the 100-space parking lot. The rear will also have a large lawn for kids to run on. There is enough room to enlarge the brewery at some point. Schoeb said 15,000 cars a day presently pass the location, now sure to be another Crozet stop on the Brew Ridge Trail.

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Sugar Hollow Races Support Repairs to White Hall Community Center

Salad Dressing Do you buy commercial salad dressing? Why? Have you read the label? A really good vinaigrette is easy to make, less expensive than what you can purchase and can always be on hand. If you’ve planned well, you’ll be picking your first garden greens now or you can find them at the various farmers markets that reopen this month. I’ve had the good fortune to spend time in France, and their idea of the perfect salad is the same as mine: freshly picked mixed greens and a scant amount of perfect vinaigrette. You don’t need all the other

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Races down Sugar Hollow Road along the swiftly gurgling Moormans River in White Hall March 14 raised money to help renovate the White Hall Community Center. Finishing first in the 5K race was Jeremy Hutchinson-Krupak of Charlottesville with a time of 18:23. The first woman to finish was Erika Miller of Ashburn (she was visiting relatives in the area) with a time of 21:22. “The course is great. It doesn’t get any better than this for scenic, and it’s a flat, gradual course. And it helps the Ruritans,” said Hutchinson-Krupak. Winner of the 10K race, which included climbing the hill by the reservoir dam, was Michael Dubova of Crozet with a time of 36:27. Fastest among women in the race was Jennifer Hochrein of Charlottesville with a time of 42:37. “It’s a great course with nice people,” she said.

Morning race conditions were chilly and overcast, eminently suitable for running. Runners wore bright green T-shirts to stand out to occasional motorists. Charlottesville Track Club managed the race. The White Hall Ruritans are carrying out extensive repairs on the White Hall Community Center, which started out in the world as one of Episcopal Archbishop Frederick Neve’s mission churches. The building now has a new metal roof, a new porch to cover the front door, new plumbing and septic tank, and insulation, all totaling about $45,000. Replacement doors are needed and the kitchen still needs attention. The Ruritans hosted race runners at a pancake breakfast after the race that featured local maple syrup. The Ruritans’ annual plant sale will be held April 25 and 26 at the center.

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Guest violinists Mark Dorosheff and Monika Chamasyan lifted the Crozet Community Orchestra to a new strata when they performed in its spring concert March 22 at Crozet Baptist Church in Crozet. The concert was the CCO’s third since forming a year and a half ago. It now has 51 musicians involved under the leadership of music director Philip Clark. The program opened with Dorosheff, a classical virtuoso with the U.S. Air Force Strings, and the orchestra playing Mozart’s Rondo in C. Mozart would have been delighted. Next the orchestra played Sibelius’s intriguing Karelia Suite. Then Chamasyan followed with the scandalously beautiful Nocturne for Solo Violin and Chamber Orchestra, by Edouard Baghdasaryan. She compelled her listeners with longing. The singing of the strings was irresistible. It stunned the souls in the crowded sanctuary and balcony who for while it lasted heard a transcendental song. They could barely stop clapping when it was over and Chamasyan was obliged to come back out to accept the crowd’s love before

they would let things go on. Next came Gabriel Fauve’s Pavane, performed by the orchestra alone. Then Dorosheff and Chamasyan combined for Pablo de Sarasate’s Navarra. Their performance was impeccable. The orchestra concluded the program with Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, ending the concert on a triumphal note. Chamasyan credited Clark with writing an arrangement of the Nocturne for the orchestra, which she said allowed Bagdasaryan’s virtually unknown music to be exposed. Chamasyan is a champion for composers of the Soviet period who she thinks are undiscovered and unappreciated. She said there other “amazing” Baghdasaryan pieces that should be performed. She said she would come back to Crozet to do it. She and Dorosheff are married. Many thanks to Clark and to the orchestra for providing Crozet with music that sets such a high standard. CCO president Denise Murray announced the creation of the Crozet Community Singers, likely to be another ornament of the Crozet music scene.

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After finishing a recent trail race, I was sitting with some good friends at the finish line soaking up a beautiful spring day, sharing stories, and enjoying the accomplishment. Sitting with us was a living legend in the global running community, Dr. David Horton. Dr. Horton’s list of incredible athletic accomplishments is huge and impressive. He has run over 160 ultramarathons, from 31 to 100+ miles, winning many of them. He once held the speed record for the fastest running of the entire Appalachian Trail (2,200 miles in 52 days). Then he went and set the Pacific Crest Trail record (2,700 miles in 66 days). He has also run across the entire country in the Trans-America road race, placing third overall. Needless to say, Dr. Horton is quite the accomplished runner and I feel quite privileged to call him a friend. I had a good race that day, but was sharing some of my prerace anxieties with Dr. Horton. I have been racing well over the past year, and with success comes some expectations—both internal and external. These can be tough to handle at times. “You’ve got an identity crisis,” said the wise Dr. Horton. “You think your identity is based on your performance, but it’s not. Your identity as a runner comes from your training. You’ve got to put in the work.” I’ve been thinking about that statement ever since and how it not only applies to racing, but to so many other avenues of life. How often do we measure our worth by what we produce? Is our worth based on our ability to run a certain distance or time? Is it based on our weight? Is it based on our production at work, or on our parenting skills? The answer, emphatically, is NO! Finding self-worth can be

tough for some people. But the answer for that is so simple. We have worth, simply because we are. You were born, you have affected people’s lives, and you will continue to affect people’s lives, so you matter immensely. Sometimes we need to be reminded of that. Finding one’s identity is perhaps another thing all together. At the tender age of 60, Dr. Horton was still running long distances, but one day felt a sharp pain in his knee. Long story short, he suffered multiple meniscal tears, which quickly led to arthritis and abruptly ended his running career. Dr. Horton confided in me that he really struggled with his identity when he could no longer run. He had a lifetime of accomplishments that were now officially in the past. Did he lose his identity when he lost the ability to run? What was he to do now? Dr. Horton realized that his identity was simply changing. He has taught exercise physiology and a running class at Liberty University for decades and has helped foster a fit and healthy lifestyle in hundreds of students over those years. He directs three ultramarathon races each year and is always present at several others, encouraging people to give their all, to be amazing, and to overcome obstacles. I’m not sure there is another human being in this state who has affected more runners in a more positive, life-changing way than Dr. Horton. Does he still have identity and self-worth now that he can’t run? The point of this column is NOT to say “hey, don’t worry about exercising, you’re fine without it!” It’s more to point out that sometimes we need to stop, take a step back, and think about why we do what we do regarding our fitness.

CROZETgazette It is very easy to get discouraged by comparing ourselves to others or by comparing ourselves to our past selves. Or by putting so much emphasis on our race times, the number of push-ups we can do, or our physique and/or weight. It is okay to challenge ourselves with these things, but they do not identify us or change our worth as people. When we get back to fitness, we are setting an example of a healthy lifestyle for our children, our spouses, our friends and our families. We are tossing out physical barriers to life’s incredible experiences like hiking to a mountain summit, or completing a previously impossible challenge. We are improving our mental and physical health, so that we can give more of ourselves to those that we love. These things enable us to improve our identity, both internally and externally. Just like Dr. Horton said, “Your identity as a runner comes from your training.” Your identity in life comes from… real life—the day in and day

APRIL 2015 out. The better we are equipped to handle that, the better our identity and the better our feeling of self-worth. By making fitness a priority again in your life, you will be a better you and the measures of that—work performance, parenting skills, etc.— will improve as a result. Everyone could use a little more motivation when it comes to returning to fitness, but it is also important to avoid discouragement, which can seem to lurk around every corner if we are paying attention to the wrong things. Dr. Horton is someone I admire deeply. His accomplishments are very impressive and amazing, but currently, none of those things impact our friendship. It is our relationship and personal interaction that matters today. Yet I know he is a better person for all he has done, for in his commitment to fitness and his overcoming of obstacles he has grown his identity, and through his relationships with others, he has created great worth.

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Green Olive Tree Restocks for Spring The Green Olive Tree Christian thrift shop in Crozet, run entirely on volunteer labor, shut down for a week in March to shift out cold-weather clothing—which since has been sent on to missions—declutter, and restock the store with fresh wares and a sense of spring optimism. Easter decorations now line the display shelves at the front door. Some locked-out customers who looked in at the vacant racks and shelves grew alarmed and wrongly concluded the

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school for handicapped children. The current owners eliminated all institutional vestiges and returned the home to its former glory. The gardens have enjoyed a renaissance as well. Hedges of ancient American boxwood are now flanked by lush perennial beds, mixed borders, flowering shrubs, specimen trees, and a pool with a view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Verulam Farm, at 99 Bloomfield Road, sits atop a knoll at the foot of Ragged Mountain, commanding a breathtaking view of the Blue Ridge. The manor home dates to 1939 and was designed by Marshall Wells, who is known for his use of intricate moldings, high quality local materials, including Rockingham slate roofs and reclaimed “beehive” brick, and the blending of indoor and outdoor spaces. Of note is the heavy iron garden gate that he acquired from the White House when it was

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replaced with a taller one during World War II. Wells worked with landscape architect Charles Gillette to design the gardens. Breezeways and brick paths through understated classical gardens befit the Georgian Revival house. The current owner has spent more than a decade restoring the home and gardens to their original splendor and has added a two-tiered vegetable garden, a small heritage orchard, and a

nut walk leading to the woods. Adjacent to the equestrian facilities, a 100-year-old barn has been restored for use as a wedding and public-event venue. Foxhaven, at 286 Foxhaven Farm, a sprawling 200-acre farm just outside the western city limits of Charlottesville, was acquired by the University of Virginia Foundation in 2012. Henderson and Jane Heyward bought the property in 1949, and over the ensuing decades Jane lovingly established gardens and trails throughout the property, and nurtured an eclectic mix of plant life. An avid lifelong gardener and member of the Albemarle Garden Club, she collected specimens of trees, shrubs and plants from friends and from her travels to create woodland gardens, perennial beds, a cottage garden, and shaded pathways bordered with bulbs and flowers. Something was always in bloom. Her hope was that her home and grounds could be an arboretum or botanical garden and she established a trust for the renovation of the garden. For more information, visit www.vagardenweek.org.

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“Anne’s Bible Study”, a Western Ablemarle ladies’ ecumenical bible study group, is hosting Jay Temple, of Advancing Native Missions, to speak on his work with indigenous missions around the world. Contact the Tabor office for more info.

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This month’s featured artist is Nancy Jane Dodge. Her work is mostly oil on canvas and primarily focused on botanicals. Nancy lives and works in Charlottesville.

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Easy to learn self-help energy tools for emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual balance and well-being. $25 fee. Octavia Alliss, EEM Clinical Practitioner/Teacher, 434-996-3199.

Crozet Community Handbell Choir Spring Concert Wednesday, April 29 • 7 p.m.

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Favoring Farm Enterprise? Problems with the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors have led to statewide legislation that tries to limit local regulation on local farm enterprise throughout the Commonwealth. The law forbids local governments from regulating farm activity related to “agri-tourism” purposes unless there is a substantial impact on neighbors. If it is true, as news stories report, that Fauquier wanted farmer Martha Boneta to get a special permit for a 10-yearold’s birthday party, then maybe they needed this law in Fauquier. Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors has already considered what they can and need to do to regulate in support of the new state law with the goal of imposing few restrictions and still allowing neighbors’ concerns to be considered. According to White Hall Supervisor Ann Mallek, the intent is to let farms, vineyards and breweries continue to develop related enterprises, with minimal local government interference. It has been up to the counties, however, to write ordinances that will define the broadly worded terms in the state law. For example, the state law forbids local regulations if there is “no substantial impact” on “public welfare.” It was up to the Albemarle Board to decide the main limits that define “substantial impact.” Albemarle decided to: • limit traffic to 50 vehicle trips a day; • limit events drawing more than 200 people a day; • require qualified agri-tourism farms to include at least 21 acres; and, ultimately, to consider whether agriculture is a legitimate use of the property. The state law is actually an amendment to the Virginia Right to Farm Law and, essentially, it allows farms to add supplemental commercial endeavors to their farms, “value-added” goods, so long as the revenues from these sales are not more

than 50 percent of the total farm revenues. Protected activities are “the conduct of agri-tourism activities, the sale of [farm or forest] products or related items, the preparation or sale of goods that otherwise comply with state law, and other customary activities.” The agri-tourism law has to be read alongside many other Virginia laws, but the following examples will sketch in rough outlines. What enterprise may a farmer add without having to ask for approval, get zoning clearance or a special use permit from the Board of Supervisors? Would the farmer be permitted to open a race car track? No, because car racing is not related to the agricultural activities at the farm, though you might be surprised to read this if you drive on White Hall Road. The added activity has to be related to agricultural operation and subordinate to the agricultural products. On the other hand, if you were training horses to race, and you had your own racetrack, you might sell tickets (forget betting), so long as ticket sales did not exceed 50 percent of horse training fees. Could a framer sell local crafts at an orchard? Yes. Farms can have some incidental items for sale, but revenues must remain less than 50 percent of produce sales. If a farm is processing apples grown on site into cider, the county may not regulate. If the Ruritans use Henley apples to bake apple pies for fund-raising, those can be sold at “The Shed,” the Henleys’ fruit stand, along with complementary goods like sunbonnets, aprons and whistles made from apple wood. Could a farmer hold a dance at a vineyard? Maybe. Vineyards are already regulated (and protected) by a state law passed in 2007. Noise restrictions must be the same as those imposed on all enterprises throughout the county, but even an acrosscontinued on page 23

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Welcome the Spring Ephemerals By Elena Day elena@crozetgazette.com April, with its weather surprises, has been termed “the cruelest month.” It is also the beginning of the spring flower display that will peak in May. The goal for this flower gardener is to have ever-present bloom and lots of it. Unfortunately, I’ve never had success with the regal tulips, Thomas Jefferson’s “favorite and most successful flower, ” which begin their show later in April. I cannot stop the squirrels from digging up the bulbs and eating them. I recommend planting such bulbs as snowdrops, which begin blooming in January, and the lovely yellow winter aconites, which bloom in February (Winter aconites bloomed in March this year). Both snowdrops and especially winter aconites naturalize readily in lawns. In the United States expanses of lawns can be so boring, more so in the winter months. The aconites make the honey bees

happy on those warmer late winter days. Purple and white crocuses and the peacock blue Chionodaxa or “glory of the snow” bloom next and these, too, naturalize and spread in lawns. In shadier areas under trees a choice plant is the Lenten rose or Hellebores orientalis, which might flower as early as February. More hellebore hybrids are marketed because of the rising popularity of this genus. I established my hellebores, both white and pink-flowered, by digging up tiny seedlings from established colonies of friends. It took a couple years to get a blooming plant but it beat spending $15 to $20 at a nursery. Currently I seek to add maroon-flowering hellebores. The Hellebores foetida or stinking hellebore (it does have an unpleasant odor) has clusters of green flowers and is taller than the H. orientalis. H. foetida looks great in a bouquet with

daffodils or a red amaryllis bloom. April is the month for spring ephemerals, plantings of which can bring great delight to one’s backyard. Ephemerals are woodland plants that appear briefly, bloom, reproduce and then disappear, often within two months or less. I’m most fond of Mertensia virginica, the Virginia bluebell. Locally, the Rivanna River’s banks are blue with bluebells in April. Virginia bluebells do well in moist woods and dappled shade but will grow in full sun. Other ephemerals that bring diversity into the shadier landscape include blue woodland phlox, Trout lilies, May apples, the very overlooked Virginia waterleaf, trilliums and Dutchman’s breeches. The flowers of the last resemble upside down pantaloons that are slightly inflated. Keep in mind that it takes seven years for Trout lilies seeds to flower. I cannot stop this ode to early spring plants without mentioning “Old Sulphur Yellow” prim-

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roses. These 17th century British hybrids are believed to have been grown in American gardens since colonial times. I was given a clump 15 or so years ago from the garden of a friend whose grandmother had planted them down Scottsville way. Every few years individual plants clump themselves up into a colony. The flowers are yellow and stand high above the foliage. Jane Heyward’s garden at Foxhaven Farm, now owned by U.Va. (the property lies just west of the Fontaine Research Park), is on the Garden Week continued on page 27

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Carbon Dioxide: The Essential Pollutant (Part Five) Do we possess the wherewithal to alter the earth’s climate? Does our management of the natural world influence weather on a global scale? Could human-influenced climate change have happened before the Industrial Revolution set in motion our voracious use of coal, oil and natural gas that has dramatically increased carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere? New research and scholarship is prompting some scientists to think so. Here is an inkling into this fascinating and intriguing new theory: people were responsible for the Little Ice Age, the extraordinarily cold weather pattern in the Northern Hemisphere that lasted for several hundred years. Some date the beginning of the Little Ice Age as early as 1300, immediately following the Medieval Warm Period. At the height of the Little Ice Age—between 1600 and 1850—salty and brackish water froze over in winter. Swedes could walk across Baltic Sea ice to Denmark. New Yorkers could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island. Glaciers expanded and farms were lost to encroaching ice. The growing season was reduced by several weeks. These unforgiving climatic conditions often led to widespread crop failure and famine. Most climatologists attribute one or more non-biological reasons for the Little Ice Age. These include a prolonged decrease in solar output, persistent changes in ocean currents or heightened volcanic activity. A new picture is emerging that points toward human impact on the ecosystems of the New World as the principal culprit. I will explain. When Europeans first arrived in the Americas, they did not encounter a largely untouched, virgin wilderness as is often portrayed in our history textbooks. Scientists and historians increasingly recognize that many forest ecosystems in the New World

were profoundly shaped and altered by indigenous peoples. In some parts of North America, more forested land exists today than existed 500 years ago. Using fire every one to three years, Native Americans cleared substantial areas of North America’s eastern forests from Nova Scotia to Florida. To make the land more amenable for hunting, agriculture and building villages, Indians set fires. English colonist Edward Johnson wrote that the forests were as open and spacious as “our Parkes in England.” Here in Virginia, Monacan and Powatan Indians thinned and cleared much of the woodlands of coastal Virginia. Burning and clearing of jungle forests by indigenous peoples occurred on a large scale in Central and South America as well. Continuous human intervention was required to maintain these fire-induced, non-natural grasslands, savannahs, thinned forests and arable spaces. When Hernán Cortés arrived in the Valley of Mexico in 1519, he and his fellow Spaniards encountered one of the world’s greatest and most populous capitals, Tenochtitlan, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Of the estimated 50 million or more people living throughout the Americas at that time—reliable population data are scant and estimates vary widely— roughly half lived within the 200,000 square miles of the Aztec realm that greeted Cortés. By the time the Pilgrims anchored the Mayflower, a century later, at Provincetown Harbor on November 11, 1620, the Aztec and surrounding Indian population had fallen by a staggering 97 percent, from 25 million to 730,000! This loss of human life was so great that three centuries elapsed before human population in this region reached pre-Columbian levels. Depopulation was not a phenomenon restricted to colonial Mexico. Collapse of many indigenous populations and

culture occurred throughout the Americas. Why? Contagious diseases, inadvertently imported by European immigrants, were the principal culprits for this genocide. Smallpox, measles, influenza, pneumonic and bubonic plagues, and malaria—a disease associated with malignant (mal) air (aria)—introduced by the slave trade from Africa, killed nine out of every ten Native Americans. Having no acquired immunities to these Eurasian and African pathogens, indigenous peoples disproportionately succumbed to these foreign bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases in horrific, pandemic proportions. This human tragedy, in turn, impacted the earth’s climate. A century after the Italian explorer, Cristoforo Colombo, set sail on the evening of August 3, 1492, from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera, the world was to experience the brunt of the Little Ice Age. What possible connection is there between the huge loss of human life and the earth’s climate? In 2003, Dr. William F. Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist and now Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, published a novel connection. He suggested that as Native Americans rapidly died off, Indian societies could no longer manage the land as they had been doing for centuries. Widespread burning of forest, underbrush and grasslands ceased. This greatly curtailed the flow of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere originating from routine, human-induced forest and brush fires in North, South and Central America. Concurrently, as open areas returned to forest, large quantities of carbon dioxide were removed from the air by vigorously growing trees and shrubs. The combined effects of decreased burning and increased biomass production reduced levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on a global scale. The reduction of this greenhouse gas led to the severity of the Little Ice Age. I highlight this novel explanation for climate change for two reasons. First, climate science is

extremely complex and incompletely understood. Despite our wealth of knowledge, theories and computer models, no solid consensus exists regarding what made the planet cooler and then warmer again during the Little Ice Age. Even greater debate and uncertainty surrounds the role agriculture and forest management played in exacerbating or ameliorating climate change in the preindustrial world. If we don’t understand the recent past, with what assurance can we predict the future? Second, cutting age research is showing evermore clearly the significant connections between plant life and climate change. A study published in the January 2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is a case in point. Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Center for Atmospheric Research report that tropical forests around the world are growing faster and absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a rate far higher than previously thought. Prior to this study, most scientists believed that rainforests were poorly absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the air. What this comprehensive, multi-faceted study shows is that tropical rainforests are responding strongly to the CO2 fertilization effect. They are absorbing 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year; an amount greater than that absorbed by boreal and temperate forests combined. Lead author David Schimel says: “This is good news, because uptake in northern forests may already be slowing, while tropical forests may continue to take up carbon for many years.” In conclusion, carbon dioxide occupies an essential position in the chemistry of life. To label CO2 only as a hazardous air pollutant is like saying water only causes floods. Both water and carbon dioxide are much more vital and versatile than that. As we devise economic, regulatory and technological fixes to atmospheric carbon pollution, we would be well advised to factor in the deep connections between agriculture, land management, CO2 and the climate.

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Ramsey’s Draft in Augusta County, where fish guts ended up in some Scout’s tents. The case is mysterious, but apparently linked to Van de Castle’s first success as a fisherman. But there were also highlights, such as his 79-mile trek at Philmont Scout Ranch, the Boy Scouts’ national adventure base in New Mexico, a service trip to Honduras through his church, and his volunteer efforts on housing projects in West Virginia and North Carolina. His next goal is training to be an Emergency Medical Technician, Adams noted, and he already has a “bug-out bag” ready at his home in case of emergency. Assistant scoutmaster Hu Shaffer called the playhouse a “a beautiful job. This is professional-quality work.” Van de Castle had to raise the $765 needed for materials (he actually built it for slightly less), and then, joined by volunteer help, he devoted about 220 hours to construction. The playhouse does not contain any pressure-treated wood and because its size prevents a grown person from working from the interior, it was “pre-fabbed” and the sections bolted together once they were inside the playground fence. Van de Castle had to answer questions about what he had learned about leadership—cultivation of leadership ability is a goal of the rank—and he produced a 56-page report on the

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the-board noise reduction law might not make all neighboring porch-sitters happy. New farm breweries and new vineyards still have to get a zoning clearance from the county for parties, and so that amounts to indirect noise regulation. That means new party site owners need a conversation with the county staff about where to place the band, how to park traffic, when to close down. This is not regulation of decibels, but disregarding the county staff’s advice “might”

APRIL 2015 subject. “Another beautiful job,” said Shaffer. “I took responsibility for all my mistakes,” Van de Castle said, “and I forgave all the mistakes by my helpers. I learned you need to make sacrifices and roll with the punches.” The rank demands a slew of merit badges to achieve its other goals of demonstrating outdoor skills and exemplifying service. Some of the badges are mandatory. “Brice has met these requirements with distinction,” said Conley, “and he has never backed down from challenge.” Van de Castle’s mother pined his Eagle badge on him and he in turn placed pins on his mother’s and father’s lapels. He was presented with a binder containing congratulatory letters from the state’s political leaders, including the governor and senators, and national scout leaders. Scout leader Scott Lang, himself an Eagle, spoke on Scout honor, explaining the symbolism of the Eagle badge. Van de Castle was reminded that he is expected to stand up for what’s right, to be loyal to his family and community, to do a “good turn” daily, and to protect the weak. “Wear your award with humility,” said Lang. “I challenge you to enter the Eagle brotherhood and continue it with honor and sacrifice.” The nine other Eagle Scouts present reaffirmed their Eagle Promise as Van de Castle made his. His life is to be an example to his community. “Carry a torch,” said Lang. result in a denial of the special use permit. County Senior Planner Amanda Burbage said that this shift in regulatory focus has had little impact so far. People are not aware of the change or are still deciding whether to react to it. She and Zoning Administrator Amelia McCully can give more thorough answers to specific questions about new farm projects. They can be reached at (434) 296-5832, or there is a helpful “FAQ” called Agricultural Operations FAQ’s on Albemarle.org. under Community Development, “hot topics.”

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Red Maple…or red maple? I was helping my nephew out with the landscape at his new house when I commented on a Red Maple the contractor had planted in his back yard. My sister, something of a gardener, chimed in, “That’s not a red maple!” So who was right? In a way, both of us, again reinforcing the perils of using common names when referring to a plant. To me, Red Maple means Acer rubrum, a large tree native to eastern North America. To my sister, it meant one of the Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) cultivars with burgundy-colored foliage. The “real” Red Maple, Acer rubrum grows from southern Canada down to south Florida and west to east Texas. An extremely adaptable tree, it can be found from swamps to dry ridge tops and everywhere in between, although in different regions it may prefer certain habitats. As anyone who has lived near one would know, Red Maples are prolific seeders, a medium-sized tree producing about one million seeds per year. (Luckily for the rest of the world, most of these don’t survive to maturity.) Adaptability, along with its reproductive abilities, means the Red Maple is the most common tree in the U.S, according to the United States Forest Service. And Red Maple numbers are still on the increase. There are many more today compared to colonial times; fire suppression has favored them over oaks and pines. Shade-tolerant Red Maple seedlings will limp along in the forest understory for a few years, waiting for their big break.

When an opening occurs in the canopy, the lucky ones will take advantage of the sunlight and leap into action, often growing up to two feet per year. Mature Red Maples can reach 60’ to 80’ in height, but are not typically the giants of the forest. Although their cousins the Sugar Maples (A. saccharum) are known for producing sugary sap and the resultant maple syrup, Red Maples also produce a sap that can yield a tasty product. However, once the Red Maple buds emerge, the sap takes on a disagreeable flavor, and the short sap season comes to an end. Although many might think of daffodils or forsythia as harbingers of spring, Red Maples could easily claim the title. Spring has been tardy this year, but for the last few weeks you’ve probably noticed a red haze along the highways and at the edge of the woods. Many parts of the Red Maple are red— twigs, buds, flowers and fruits. (And what about the leaves in the autumn? Maybe, maybe not. More about that in bit.) Red Maples are one of the first trees to flower in the spring, perhaps even opening during a warm spell in February. The red flowers will first appear, followed by the reddish twowinged “helicopter” fruits or samaras. Even the leaves may have a reddish cast when they first flush. But what about in the fall? Many Red Maples, especially those native to the South, show yellow coloration in the fall. In fact, I’ve seen trees that just go a dingy brown in some years. So if a kind neighbor offers you some seedlings off a local Red Maple, be aware that while they may grow just fine, fall coloring may disappoint. For the most

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Red Maple blossoms in early spring

part, you’d be better off seeking out a named cultivar from a garden center, most of which are primarily selected for autumn coloration. One of the old standbys is October Glory, which has been around since 1961. The fall color is an intense red or brilliant orange and may not show up until November in our latitudes. In fact, the fall coloration can be affected by early freezes. Autumn Radiance has a dense, oval-rounded form with fluorescent red tones in fall. For a tree with a moderately columnar form, try ‘Brandywine,’ with red fall color that turns brilliant purple-red with the shorter days. Redpointe, also known as ‘Frank, Jr.’, has a good branching pattern and glossy dark green leaves that go bright red in the fall. It showed good heat adaptability in Georgia, so Virginia summers should not be a problem. ‘Sun Valley’ sports red coloration that may then progress to red-purple or peachorange-red; it’s known for excellent color in the South. Finally, Summer Sensation (‘Katiecole’) was actually selected for glossy bright red new growth in spring

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tional students, from places as far away as Hong Kong, Brazil, and the Czech Republic. “Europe is the hotbed of cycling,” said Guptill. “Talk to any aspiring cyclist, and the bar they want to reach is to race in Europe. It’s amazing and a testament to our program that students from Europe want to come here.” While some foreign students discover the Endurance Team through web searches for scholastic biking programs, others encounter the team competing at large U.S. races. Their interest is sparked when they realize the Endurance Team competes as a school, and is not a traditional biking team. In addition, USA Cycling, the governing body for the sport, recommends Miller when parents of international students contact it while researching schools with fully-supported cycling programs. Miller School’s picturesque landscape and ideal training conditions also play a large part in attracting elite international athletes. Leo Yip, a junior from Hong Kong who is one of the top road racers on the team, didn’t start out intending to study abroad. But after visiting Miller School three years ago during its annual summer bike camp, he changed his mind. “I went there with only a little intention to study abroad, but after a quick tour of the campus, Miller had a very positive first impression on me… Training in Virginia for me is key to my future and current success in the sport of cycling. Cycling isn’t a sport where you go to any gym and shoot a ball for hours or swim at a pool. Cycling requires what I would say is never enough space… but in Virginia, you can ride routes you never rode before, going anywhere, everywhere. I come from a megacity, there is literally not enough space to cycle. I can ride laps around my city and still not be done with training.” The access to top-notch coaches and the camaraderie among teammates was part of what drew Marcio Oliveira, a junior from Brazil. One of the team’s top road racers, he is working toward representing

Brazil at the World Championships in Richmond this September. “The Endurance Team was the main reason for me to leave my home in Brazil to come to live in Virginia,” Oliveira said. “Here at Miller School we have our coaches whenever we need them.” And that coaching staff is impressive. Guptill, who also teaches World Geography, is a former professional cyclist who has competed in some of the world’s top races. He began riding bikes at 13, went pro in mountain biking at age 18, and transitioned into road racing in college. Hufnagel--who was head coach for the first two years until hiring Guptill as director in 2012, and still serves as an assistant coach—has experience in many professional-level events and is a triathlete who competes at an elite level. His wife, Andrea Dvorak, also helps with the team. She is one of the world’s top professional cyclists, with a breathtaking list of athletic achievements, including winning the collegiate triathlon national championships in 2001. She is now a team captain on a professional International Cycling Union team. Assistant Coach Phillip Robb is also an elite rider, and was twice crowned Hillclimb Champion for the state of Virginia for his performance climbing the challenging Wintergreen Ascent. The only requirements for joining the Endurance Team are a commitment to learning and a deep desire to pursue the sport. Some students who join have limited biking experience, but, nonetheless, are dedicated to growing as cyclists. “We are both cultivating the next generation of Pro Tour riders and introducing and entirely new group of students to the sport of cycling,” Hufnagel said. “Whether one of our elite riders is winning a national championship or one of our JV riders is finishing his or her first mountain bike race, the program is having a remarkable impact on the sport of cycling and the lives of student athletes.” Many team members have won college cycling scholarships, and some have even turned pro. Athletes start out on the JV team, and most begin with mountain biking, moving on to

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road racing as they gain skills and experience. Team members are also required to run cross country. Guptill explains that distance running provides good cross training, and helps build strength and endurance. The team practices for 90 minutes every afternoon, and most weekends are spent competing. “The Southeast is the hotbed for cycling,” Guptill said, so they usually don’t have to travel farther than Northern Virginia or Richmond. But at times during the heart of their season, which lasts from late March through late September, they travel to races as far away as upstate New York or Vermont. The coaches prepare individualized training plans for each athlete, and during the summer, they train at home and meet up for races. This summer, for example, they’ll meet in Quebec for the international stage race Tour de l’Abitibi, one of the most prestigious junior cycling events in the world. Road races range from 20 miles to 85-90 miles, and may involve several consecutive days of riding. Mountain bike races are typically 12 to 20 miles long, and involve navigating obstacles such as narrow bridges, rocky paths, sharp switchbacks, and leg-burning climbs. The athletes know the trails around the Miller School well— after all, they are the ones who built and developed them. Following Miller School’s philosophy of “Mind, Hands, and Heart,” which encourages community service and hands-on learning in addition to academics, the team has spent hours clearing brush, raking leaves, and constructing obstacles.

“They are building their own arena to compete, train, and ride on,” Guptill said. “It’s not just a path through the woods. It makes the kids want to test their limits.” Local bike enthusiasts, impressed with the team’s efforts, have also reached out to help, and one even donated a compact excavator to help with trail clearing. The team’s hard work has also benefitted the school as a whole, as well as the local biking community: “These trails have provided a venue for mountain bike camps, daily practices, and general recreation for students and faculty,” Hufnagel said. Team members acquire more than just racing skills when they join. “The students learn firsthand how to work on, repair, and service their own bikes,” Guptill said. These hands-on skills are essential for serious cyclists, who may need to perform impromptu bike repairs while deep into a ride on a trail or back road. Some students have become so adept that they work at bike shops during the summer. Team members need not miss a day of training, even when the weather turns nasty. They just hop on indoor training bikes, which are bolted to the spacious building where they store their bikes and equipment. The bright, airy space, with dusty hardwood floors and exposed brick walls, also serves as a gathering place for the team and helps foster camaraderie. It was once an abandoned storage building filled with old jars of leaking roofing tar and an assortment of other debris, until Guptill and Hufnagel transformed it through months of sanding, painting, and cleaning into an ideal space for the team to meet, practice, and repair and maintain their bikes. The team has a number of exciting upcoming races on campus, and Guptill encourages the community to come cheer on the team (see sidebar). Miller School also hosts the popular summer Cutaway Bike Camp, which is open to cyclists ages six to 18 and affords campers the opportunity to ride and experience some of the best trails in the state. The camp also organizes youth mountain bike teams that practice weekly in the spring and fall and are open

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The Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival Celebrates 35 Years By Kim Guenther President, Claudius Crozet Park Board Crozet Park will mark the Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival’s 35th year anniversary hosting the festival May 9 and 10. What started as a small festival in Greenwood morphed into a Mother’s Day Arts and Crafts show hosted by the Park and from there a bi-annual park tradition. In 1982, admission to the festival was $1.50 (50 cents for children). The event featured 72 artists across 14 different media types. Food at the festival included an “old fashioned steer roast” and entertainment included strolling musician James Bailey, the Rye Cove Cloggers from Clinchport, the Court Square and Morris Dancers and the Dogwood Chorus. The entire 1982 A&C Festival brochure can be found online at: http://crozetfestival. com/festival-history/ Today’s festival has grown into one of Virginia’s premier arts and crafts shows, attracting artists from as far as Maine and Florida. Both the May and October festivals see upwards of 6,000 attendees in a single weekend. They enjoy well over 100 different artist exhibits and entertainment that is as diverse as the many food choices. Although the event has grown through the years, one fact remains the same. Community-owned and operated, the park relies on the festivals as its primary source of revenue. Proceeds from the twiceyearly festival provide funds for park maintenance, business costs like insurance, and ongo-

ing development. This year alone, the park will spend over $40,000 on maintenance and business overhead costs. The park also expects to pay off the remaining $50,000 of the loan that helped finance the pool dome. The way that our entire community comes together to support the park and this important event is unchanged over the years. “The Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival has benefited the Crozet community for 35 years, helping provide the necessary funding to support the park’s recreational opportunities for all age groups at this end of the county as well as Augusta and Nelson counties,” said long-time park board member Jo Ann Perkins. “The Gator Swim Team has provided opportunities for children to excel in swimming over the years and many college scholarships and other benefits have been awarded to Crozet children for their swimming talents and also for the leadership they learned through organized sport. These experiences for our children are as important as their attendance in our neighborhood schools with superior academic standards. What if there was no park, pool, athletic fields, or place to walk? This is something I personally would not want to see happen, nor should the rest of the community. Each of us should be sure that we contribute to the health and well-being of the park in every way that is needed.” Consider participating in this year’s festival as a sponsor, an attendee or volunteer. Information can be found at www.crozetartsandcrafts.com.

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It looks like spring is finally here. Just as my lawn is freshening up so, too, are my interns beginning to freshen up. No longer scared little lambs, they have gained competence, confidence and some cockiness. They challenge me in ways that would have been unthinkable back in June. This is a good thing. It marks progress for them and keeps me sharp and sometimes amused. Paradoxically, my senior residents are humble and tractable. They are constantly picking my brain for treatment strategies with an urgency that tells me that they recognize that in a few short months they will be on their own. When I was a senior resident I received some advice that proved prophetic. I was told by my favorite attending that two things would surely happen in my first year out of residency. One, I would kill somebody, and two, I would piss off a prominent member of the hospital staff. Very likely the two events would be related. It took all of three months for this prediction to prove true. While knowing that this was so commonplace as to be pre-

dictable helped me cope a bit, beyond that I received no training in coping with the unique stress that comes with the practice of clinical medicine, the stress of knowing that your mistakes can harm others. A recent phone call from a former resident dealing with a tough case of his own reminded me that we really need to do better in teaching future doctors how to work through these universal but little discussed tragic moments. To that end (and with the author’s permission) I share an edited exchange with another former resident. Hi, Dr. Reiser! I hope all is well at UVA and with the Reiser crew. I miss UVA and Charlottesville a lot— I had no idea how nostalgic I would be for residency and everyone in the ED. I’m writing because I’m having a lot of trouble processing a case where I missed a posterior circulation stroke.* I wanted to ask you how you deal with making mistakes. I’m discovering a pattern of every few months, learning about a bad outcome, or a mistake without any associated bad outcome, and I spend a few days or a week feeling absolutely awful. I feel tremendous guilt; I replay the case over

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CROZETgazette and over in my head, read through the chart and think about what I should have done differently, and sometimes talk it over with colleagues. I know many of the mistakes I make in these early years are because of limited experience, but I imagine I will always make mistakes, no matter how careful I am and how much experience I gain. At times I feel like this amount of responsibility is too much for me. Why did I choose a profession where the stakes are so high? I could have been a massage therapist or a track coach and helped people just as much—without the potential for so much loss and grief. I am not sure I want to feel this much guilt every few months for the rest of my life. It makes me angry and irritable with the kids, and it feels terrible. Yes, I learn a lot from every case like this, but I wonder if it is worth it. I probably shouldn’t be surprised that these issues are all coming together now, halfway through my first year out of residency. The learning curve is steep, and I’m sure I’ll remember some of these cases forever. I am curious to hear how you have learned to process these kinds of cases over the years. I’m making work sound like a huge bummer, but it’s actually been great, for many reasons. Thanks for reading, Dr. Reiser. Give my love to Bernie and your kids. *Editor’s note: The brain has several sources of blood flow. One of those sources, the posterior circulation, runs up the back of the neck and supplies both the cerebellum—responsible for all balance and coordination, and the brainstem— responsible for breathing and consciousness. Strokes in this posterior circulation are rare and can be both subtle to diagnose initially and ultimately devastating with high degrees of disability and high rates of mortality. Dear Young Doctor, The issues you bring up are profound. How profound? I missed a posterior circulation stroke, too, that I still think about. When did I miss it? 1991. You wonder if it is worth it, the potential for so much loss and grief, the stakes so high all

APRIL 2015 the time. Yes, it is worth it and I would not have missed it for the world. Here’s why. What we do, if we do it right is sacred. Being present, being an experienced guide, through the most profound human events, birth, death, loss, grief, suffering, pain, saving the occasional life, grinds us down, chipping away so much superfluity, and elevating us to the level of nearly priestly. But it is hard. No one else sees what we see. The first year out is the steepest learning curve after intern year. You will get better. I almost never wake up at three in the morning anymore with the sudden insight that I should have ruled out a deadly pulmonary embolus (a blood clot in the lung) in the patient I instead sent home. But I still do make mistakes. Not many, but it is unavoidable. Good medical decision-making is a science built on probabilities and so error is necessarily built in to the science. The only mistakes that haunt me are the ones I make through lack of care. By care, I mean caring about the patient. I am not a saint, no one can care about 30 to 50 strangers a day, day in day out, and so I do the best I can. I do several things that keep me refreshed and resilient, able to go back and help others. 1) Limit my hours. I am not very good at this. 2) Having limited my hours, fill the time off with meaningful or just plain fun things. Kid time is great because it is both. I was the only father on my kids’ field trips, a bonus of our crazy ER schedule. Adjusting to them being grown and gone has been a real struggle for me. Just ask Bernie. 3) Go to church. It forces me to sit still for an hour a week and contemplate. After all, religion also deals with birth, death, suffering, pain, loss, etc. The parallels are striking. 4) Reflective writing crystallizes in attention the parts of our practice that are sublime, and the parts that are absurd. I strongly suggest it. I have included one of my recent columns below which sort of gets at what you are asking. So, write. 5) Show and tell people that

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Freeman Rebels Outlast Warriors Western Albemarle’s varsity boy’s lacrosse hosted the powerful 5A Douglass S. Freeman Rebels (Richmond) March 27 for their home opener. After a 21-1 drubbing of Salem the previous Friday in Salem, Freeman posed a much bigger challenge for the Warriors. The Rebels are an experienced bunch (12 seniors) led by John Woolley and Evan Tyler. Western came out of the gates firing and jumped out to a 3-0 lead, just three minutes and 42 seconds into the game. Junior Jack Loffredo won the opening faceoff for the Warriors and quickly scored on an assist from senior Taylor Godine. Two minutes later senior Clark Sipe found the net off of a Sumner Corbett (senior) assist and Corbett then scored another quick one, unassisted to give Western the lead. It looked as though the Warriors had caught the Rebels off guard with their fast pace on offense but the Rebels countered and proceeded to score five consecutive goals to take a two-goal lead. Woolley scored three of the goals in a span of one minute and 34 seconds as the Rebels stole momentum from the Warriors. Each team tallied one more goal in the quarter as junior Luke Reilly scored unassisted for Western with just 39 seconds to go, cutting Freeman’s lead to 5-4 at the end of the first period. Freeman scored just 35 seconds into the second quarter on an unassisted Tyler goal before both defenses settled in. For nearly eight minutes neither team scored, but the quarter ended on a flurry of activity as the teams traded goals in the last three and a half minutes. Sipe scored for Western on a Luke Reilly assist with 3:37 on the clock. The Rebels’ Ford Hendrix scored 37 seconds later on a Woolley assist to stretch the lead back to two before the Warriors’ Nick Crissey scored with a Jack Loffredo assist.

Freeman closed out the scoring in the quarter when Tyler found the net for the third time, and the Rebels led 8-6 going into the break. The third quarter proved to be the difference in the game. Freeman outscored the Warriors 5 to 2 in the period with a balanced attack that saw four different Rebels score. For the Warriors, Corbett scored his second of the game and senior Oliver Herndon scored when he won a clean faceoff and raced down the middle of the field to score unassisted. But the Rebels took momentum and a big 13-8 lead into the fourth quarter. Western regrouped and started the quarter fast, scoring two goals in roughly one minute to cut the Rebel lead to three. Thirty-five seconds in, sophomore Ryan Ingram scored on Godine’s second assist and Loffredo followed that up with his second goal on a Corbett assist. The Rebels slowed the pace down a bit and went back up by four when Tyler scored again, unassisted, to squelch the Warrior surge. Corbett added two more goals for the Warriors and Tyler scored his fourth for Freeman as the Rebels held on for the 15-12 win. Western had to finish the game without two of its leaders. Reilly left the game with what appeared to be concussion symptoms in the second quarter and Crissey exited in the third quarter with a leg injury. Junior Carter Elliot was also absent for the night. Without these three, the Warrior attack was somewhat limited in the second half, but adjustments by Head Coach Alex Whitten and his staff kept the Warriors in the game. The Warriors play their next game Saturday, April 11, at Western at 2 p.m., when they will host northern Virginia powerhouse Lake Braddock. Other Sports News Varsity girls soccer got off to a

hot start with two shutout wins. The Warriors blanked Orange County High School 11-0 in a game that Western underclassmen dominated. Freshmen Caitlin Harvey and Elizabeth Fabiano each scored three goals, while fellow freshman Jane Romness scored twice. Sophomores Nicole Heon, Emma Ratcliff and Nell Fountain each scored one goal. In the home opener March 27 the Warriors hosted Collegiate (Richmond) and won 4-0. Again, underclassmen led the way as Fabiano scored two more goals to bring her season total to five in just two games. Freshman Shannon Moore scored one goal and junior Caroline Riordan scored as well. Varsity baseball also started its 2015 campaign in strong fashion, reeling off four straight wins. The Warriors shut out Fort Defiance 7-0 and Orange

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to all youth cyclists in the state. “Last year, over 110 cyclists were involved with the camps and/or the teams,” Guptill said. Clearly, Miller’s Endurance Team is making a difference, not just in the Virginia Junior Cycling community as a whole, but also for the individual students on the team. “Practice at the end of each day is definitely a highlight of the average school day. I can’t imagine Miller without the Endurance Team, as it plays a large role in the community,” Gus Myers said. Leo Yip shares his sentiments: “Overall, Miller has helped me not only drastically improve my physical and mental performance in cycling competitively, it has risen the bar of my own expectations. Living and riding with other juniors just like me who want to be better, mentally drives me to be better at cycling and academically.”

County 10-0, and then handily defeated Spotswood, 13-5, and Eastern View (Culpeper), 11-3. Senior Josh Casteen and junior Sam Hearn each got two wins on the mound for the Warriors. Casteen pitched shutouts against Fort Defiance and Orange County. Junior Henry Kreinbaum has been the leader at the plate with nine RBI and four extra base hits (one home run, two triples, one double). Senior Steve Mangrum has four RBI, one double and one triple, and Casteen has four RBI and a double. Senior Dylan Weiss, junior Chris Hughes and freshman Derek Domecq have also made significant contributions at the plate. Weiss has two triples and two RBI in four games. Domecq has four RBI and a double, and infielder Chris Hughes has added three RBI. The Warriors have outscored their opponents 41-8 in four games!

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WHO Says Roundup is “Probably” Cancer-causing By Elena Day elena@crozetgazette.com I was gratified to read the article in the New York Times March 27 about the findings of the World Health Organization regarding Monsanto’s Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Roundup was “invented” in 1974 and within the last 15 years its use has skyrocketed with the development of crops that are genetically modified to be resistant to Roundup. In 2012, 280 million pounds of Roundup was used on our foodstuffs, including corn, soybeans, rapeseed (canola), and sugar beets. A couple of weeks ago the World Health Organization in The Lancet Oncology, a respected British medical journal, classified Roundup/glyphosate a “probable carcinogen.” It cited evidence that glyphosate can cause non-Hodgkins lymphoma in humans. Of course, Monsanto is screaming foul and wants a retraction. The usual corporate shills, including Patrick Moore (“there is no evidence of global warming, nuclear energy is great, and I was a founder of Greenpeace many years ago” ) are out there insisting on the safety of Roundup/glyphosate. A French TV host interviewing Patrick Moore asked him to drink a glass since Moore insisted it was safe and persons attempting suicide regularly fail when they do so by drinking Roundup/glyphosate. Moore refused. If so certain of its safety one wonders why is it that

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you like or love them. We don’t do this enough. It is good that you are struggling with this. Many don’t. It has been suggested that a certain sociopathy can be adaptive in doctors. While that is true, it is not who you are. I can’t wait to see you. In the meantime keep the letters flowing and call anytime. Love, Robert

Monsanto opposes labeling of genetically modified foods resistant to and heavily sprayed with Roundup/glyphosate? How silly to ask. It’s a matter of corporate profits and the heck with human health. Apparently, it has come to light in recent days that in 1985 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classified Roundup/glyphosate as a Class C carcinogen. A Class C carcinogen implies suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential. In 1991, after Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lawyer, started working for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the EPA reversed the decision. The FDA classified GMO’s as “substantially equivalent” to non-GMO foods and “Generally Recognized as Safe.” This classification exempts them from any pre-market safety testing. And Monsanto wants to keep it that way. In recent days Kansas House Republican Mike Pompeo has reintroduced what has been dubbed the DARK Act, the “Denying Americans the Right-to-Know” Act. The bill would prevent states from adopting their own Genetically Engineered/ Modified labeling laws as well as prevent the FDA from requiring companies to label GE/GM ingredients. It would continue a failed 14-year “voluntary” labeling policy. No companies have voluntarily labeled GMO’s in 14 years. Cancer, ugh, scary. I’m all for finding a cure for cancer and I ran for the cure until my knees couldn’t take it any more. I believe in cancer cure research

but I also believe in society’s responsibility to identify and limit cancerous pollutants in the environment. Cancers can be decreased if we limited and/ or eliminated chemicals like Roundup/glyphosate until/ unless there was certitude of their safety. There is a precautionary principle that prevails in the European Union, but not in the United States. It states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or environment and no scientific consensus exists regarding the policy, the burden of proof falls on the proponents of that activity. Elements of the principle include taking precautions in the face of scientific uncertainty, exploring alternatives to possibly harmful actions and placing the burden of proof on proponents of an activity rather than on victims of the activity. Lastly, democratic processes must be implemented to carry out and enforce the principle, which includes the public right to informed consent. Pompeo calls his bill “The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act.” The bill gives the sole authority to the FDA to require mandatory labeling only if GE/GM foods are ever found to be unsafe or materially different from non-GE/GM foods. If Congress passes this bill Monsanto and the other chemical giants will be assured that independent scientific study will never be authorized or funded. State laws enacted to label GE/GM foods will be void.

Oh, Dr. Reiser, thank you so, so much. I am convinced, in this moment, that I should keep going. I’ll see how I feel after my next overnight, but for now, you fortified me :) Thank goodness we get better at what we do. I still get very nervous before every shift, and my heart races every time I see a kid pop up on the track board. My current daily level of adrenaline is not sustainable. Maybe it is peaking. I’ll keep coming back to this message to remind myself why

we do what we do. I have to get back to reading your Annals, too. They’re the best. :) I will keep writing with questions, if you don’t mind. Thank you again. Young Doctor This correspondence was years ago. This physician is now one of the most balanced practitioners I know. We do get better at what we do. And we are not alone.

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The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (tra la) by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com

Daffodils are one of the earliest and most welcome signs of spring. Perhaps nowhere is their cheerful beauty captured more memorably than in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Commonly known as “Daffodils,” this is one of the most beloved, and most often anthologized, poems in the English language. Wordsworth’s daffodils seem to embody the joy we all feel as the days lengthen, the weather warms, and the earth returns to life. What makes this poem such a perfect gem? First and foremost is its simplicity. This is one of Wordsworth’s most straightforward and accessible poems. The poet describes a remarkable sight he encountered on a walk around Glencoyne Bay, in Ullswater in the English Lake District, in April of 1802—an experience that left an indelible impression on his memory. Yet beneath the surface, the poem’s meaning is far more complex than first appears. The opening line, “I wandered lonely as a cloud, evokes a feeling we can all appreciate, of solitude, free time, and a certain dreaminess associated with clouds. The simile is unusual, casting our thoughts skyward, where individual puffy clouds often form in isolation of one another and “float… o’er vales (valleys) and hills.” We are floating along with him, lost in quiet thought, when the suddenness and surprise of the sight is deftly conveyed with “all at once….” The ababcc rhyme scheme, followed through each of the four stanzas, is anything but simple, and the word choice is so perfect as to seem effortless, while in fact exhibiting much careful thought and revision. The second outstanding feature of this poem is its layered meanings. What the poet sees is first described as a “crowd”—a word usually used to refer to people, beginning his repeated personification of the flowers. Tossed by the wind, they are “fluttering and dancing,” like butterflies or young couples at a ball. But immediately the poet redefines “crowd” to the more powerful “host,” a word with multiple meanings and connotations. A host can refer to the person who welcomes us to a party; to the heavenly host of angels referred to in Scripture, especially at Christ’s birth; or even obliquely to the communion wafer, representing Christ’s body and our connection with God. With the brilliant choice of this one word, the poet elevates his personal experience on the hills of Ulswater to the level of spiritual revelation. The poet emphasizes the vast number of the flowers (ten thousand at least), and again lifts our thoughts to the heavens

when he compares their ephemeral beauty to the more permanent, ethereal stars in the Milky Way. In line 15, he turns his attention inward, to the psychological effect this sight has had on him. “A poet could not be but gay”—a word denoting, in 1804 when this was written, joyful or delighted—“in such a jocund company,” again comparing the flowers to a group of laughing, dancing youths. In this moment of epiphany, the poet’s loneliness and isolation are erased, and he is able to reconnect with the unity of creation. The healing power of nature restored his soul and, as Andrew McCulloch explains in his brilliant essay in the English Review (19.3, 2009), made him (and us) “see and feel the pulse of the infinite beating just beneath the skin of the world.” Although scholars have since learned from her diary that his sister Dorothy accompanied him on this walk, we can now see why Wordsworth made the conscious choice to portray the walk as a lonely one, to create a contrast to the welcome companionship of the daffodil host. He does not realize at the time, however, the “wealth” these golden blooms truly provided. Through a sort of alchemy, they have been permanently stored, like true gold, his mind and emotions, causing a profound change in his relationship to the natural world. McCulloch highlights this “moment of discovery, where we pass from the objective world to its inner meaning,” noting that “where the actual breeze can only make the flowers flutter, the animating breeze of the poet’s imagination can make them dance.” It is only upon looking back, in the final stanza, that the poet realizes the profound effect this event had on him. The joy he felt in beholding the daffodils that long ago April day, he confirms, often returns to him. The golden flowers “flash upon that inward eye/ that is the bliss of solitude”—i.e., the poet’s transformed and transforming imagination. When this happens, his heart once again “dances with the daffodils” (alliteration making the words dance along with them). We now recognize that this is the cosmic dance, through which the poet becomes one with the spirit of nature as he did on that day. This stanza introduces a new psychological dimension to the poem, reminding us of the importance of memory to the human psyche. Last but not least among the features that elevate this poem above the rest is its lyricism. The poem’s lilting rhythm and musical sound effects allow us to experience the beauty and elation of the moment with the poet. In the stanza just discussed, for example, the repetition of “l” sounds (called consonance) in lonely, cloud, float, hills, and all has a gently soothing effect. The echo of the “o” sound (asso-

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 nance) in “a hOst of gOlden daffOdils” is pleasing to both ear and eye, and as memorable as the sight was to the poet. Carefully orchestrated sound effects such as these characterize the entire poem. The second and third stanzas convey the enlivening effect this rare sight had on the poet with the more explosive g, k, and t sounds, as in glee and glance; twinkle, milky, sparkling, and jocund; and ten, tossing, and sprightly. The poem’s unobtrusive, yet consistent iambic pentameter carries us along on a smooth ride toward beauty and understanding. William Wordsworth is considered one of the founders of English Romanticism. His publication, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, to which he added a seminal Preface in the 1800 edition, marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement, which flowered in literature, art, and music throughout Europe and America over the next 50 years. Other major Romantic poets include Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Coleridge. The Preface set forth Wordsworth’s poetic principles, describing poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” In what may be seen as a reaction to the more formal, rational, neoclassical poetry of the 18th century continued on page 35

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Swing Dance Shakes Off the Chill of Late Winter The fifth annual Crozet Swing Dance fundraiser was held at the Field School in Crozet March 14, so called “Pi day” because the date coincided with the value of pi, 3.1415, and raised $1,200 for the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department and the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad. Once again the Salute to Swing band and their singers were terrific, and the turnout and the dancing were good. Playing on the theme, the dance also included a pie-making contest, which was won by Robin Eaton for her lemon chess pie and Cindy Gast for her rhubarb pie. They were each awarded a bottle of wine from

King Family Vineyards in Crozet. Swing dance instructors Jessica and Taylor Moore taught a lesson in basic moves for an hour before the dance started. They got several couples launched on the floor when the band started up with three hours of gems from the American Songbook. The Crozet Community Association and White Hall District Supervisor Ann Mallek and her husband Leo, who leads the 16-piece band, hosted the event. The Crozet Lions Club provided the refreshments table. Every dollar raised went to the volunteer services.

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Dear Crozet, The Crozet Community Association (CCA) thanks the community for their support and participation in the fifth annual Crozet Swing Dance on March 14 at the Field School. Because of your generous support we raised almost $1,200 for the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department (CVFD) and the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad (WARS). There are many who deserve thanks and recognition for their contributions to the success of this event. Prime among them is the whole Salute To Swing band and their band leader, Leo Mallek, who generously donated their time and amazing talents to make the dance possible. We also wish to thank our supervisor extraordinaire, Ann Mallek, who helped coordinate the event, donated several items as well as her time setting up, running the event, and announcing the raffle winners. Thank you. A special thanks to the Crozet Lions Club, and their members who donated the water and soft drinks and then spent the evening serving them. We also want to especially thank Kim Connolly, who worked all Saturday morning setting up tables, stringing lights, and generally transforming the space into a wonderful place for listening and dancing to the music and then returned to help at the event. And thank you to Lisa Goehler and Ron Gaykema who stayed to the end to help clean up and put away all the tables and chairs. Speaking of dancing, a special thank you to Taylor Moore of Terry Dean’s Blue Light Ballroom and his dance partner,

Jessica Moore, who provided a free dance lesson to us all. New and old dancers alike appreciated their instruction. Also a thank you to Starr Hill Brewery for its donation of a raffle item and their wonderful beer. You’ve generously supported this event for all five years. And of course, the event wouldn’t have been complete without all the delicious pies that were brought to the event. Thank you! A special thank you to Todd Barnett and the Field School, for their donation of the use of the space and their tables and chairs. Without this donation and Salute To Swing’s generosity, we would not have raised a penny for CVFD, and WARS. Thank you. We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge the generous support of the Crozet Gazette in running a full page ad in its February issue, and a special thank you to Allie Marshall Pesch of AMP Design for designing our Swing Dance poster for free. Thank you. Most of all, we thank you, our generous fellow Crozetians, for your attendance and support. We are looking forward to next year’s event with you! One of the wonderful privileges of living in Crozet is how freely and generously so many give of their time, talents, and resources to make this event a success. If I’ve omitted anyone, I apologize; know that your donation was appreciated even though I failed to acknowledge it. Thank you, each and every one. Signed, Crozet Community Association Tim F. Jost Tolson, President CrozetCommunity.org

Crozet Community Orchestra Begins New Concert Cycle; Seeking Musicians The Crozet Community Orchestra will start a new concert cycle April 1 and has openings for string players and violinists with experience. Did you play in school or college? Have you been away from your instrument for a while? The CCO is a fun, diverse group of

local musicians offering a safe, non-competitive environment to support you on your journey back. Rehearsals are on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5804 Tabor Street, Crozet. A concert will be performed on Sunday,

June 7, under the music direction of Philip Clark. For more information or to sign up, please contact Denise Murray at murrden@gmail. com, or call 434-987-5517. Visit us on Facebook at www. facebook.com/Crozet CommunityOrchestra.

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Wildlife Dependent upon People L a s t month, on a day that was —according to the calendar—about two weeks before the beginning of spring, I listened to the sounds of its impending arrival. Wood Frogs had been calling vociferously all day from my artificial ponds and a lone Spring Peeper had occasionally joined in. But what really made an impression on me was the number of woodcocks I had heard calling in the morning darkness before the Sun rose. I was taking my usual walk along a nearby road and was thrilled to hear at least seven of these birds in my area. A woodcock is a rather strange-looking bird with a long beak and plump body. It nests from Virginia northwards, but then needs to move southwards with the seasons—generally speaking. One relatively snowless winter, I did hear a woodcock calling every month from November to May in a nearby field, but that is unusual. Birders visit fields to listen for returning woodcocks at this time of the year, particularly fields that contain damp soil conditions that allow the birds to feed. A woodcock’s long beak is used to probe the soil for earthworms and other invertebrates. The population of woodcocks has been in decline since the 1960s. Their diminishing numbers are said to be due to loss of habitat because of development and also forest maturation. The reason we now have more forests composed of older trees is because we are still suffering the fallout from years ago when the huge outcry against clear-cutting left people thinking that cutting forests is a bad thing to do. The result has been a loss of habitat for the many kinds of wildlife that absolutely depend upon the shrubby and wild

grass-and-flower-filled landscape that comprises a regenerating forest landscape. The American Woodcock and other birds, such as the Ruffed Grouse, simply cannot reproduce without the appropriate habitat provided by a young forest. But when people view the world with a very narrow perspective, and they insist that their perspective guide the management of most public (and often private) land, the end result is typically disastrous for the environment as a whole. Additionally, based upon my own local observations, another very serious problem for the woodcock and other birds of field and edge habitat is the default modification of the landscape that occurs in conjunction with people building houses in fields. Instead of maintaining mostly field habitat around their new home, the owners more commonly turn the acreage into lawn, which very few species of wildlife can utilize. Or, if they keep it looking like a field, it is cut far too often to be of much use to wildlife. As evidenced by my predawn walk that early-March day, fields are vital to our American Woodcock. Although most of the woodcocks I heard that morning were performing their aerial mating display to impress females in farm fields, one woodcock was making use of a wonderfully overgrown “yard.” And since I’ve also heard a woodcock here in previous years, the acreage is obviously being managed well for this type of bird. The yard consists of about five acres (I would guess), which has neither been turned into a lawn nor kept cut throughout the growing, and mating, season. The folks who moved into the house on that property several years ago made the decision to manage the land in a naturefriendly manner and have done so continuously.

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The woodcock singing from, and displaying above, their field is testament to their management-style success. In my opinion, these folks are so admirable that they deserve an award. Instead, Albemarle County and Commonwealth of Virginia officials bestow upon them the very highest land valuation (and tax bill) possible for private property—residential—for helping wildlife and the environment as a whole. As often as local politicians purport to be conservation-minded, it’s difficult to understand why they don’t push for Richmond legislators to change tax laws so people who are truly conservation-minded aren’t penalized for doing what, in actuality, everyone should be doing with their properties. No one requires a huge lawn. This aesthetic concept should be considered archaic and a relic of a time when mankind wasn’t taking up every bit of available space on the planet. It may have been acceptable years ago to

waste land, but it shouldn’t be tolerated nowadays. Any lawn that is larger than what will be utilized for everyday entertaining represents a wasted resource. Land is supposed to be productive. It should be growing food (whether for people or other organisms) or providing shelter and nesting sites for animals. This is the reason that every bit of usable land sprouts seedlings that people call “weeds.” Mother Nature is trying to provide for her critters. Anyone who gardens and anyone who owns land should think about their actions upon the environment as a whole. And if you are fortunate enough to own a fair bit of land, you should consider emulating my neighbors who’ve managed to attract a woodcock to their property for a few years now. Make no mistake about it: The future of our wildlife is going to be determined by how people choose to manage their yards.

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still remember with delight our dear, deceased friend Dexter Whitehead, U.Va. Physics Department Chair, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and artist extraordinaire, reciting this poem in its entirety, from memory, to a group of friends in a living room nigh on 25 years ago. We were so impressed! He loved the poem and its daffodils so much that his wife, Lois, planted a host of them in their own front yard, which bloom to this day on St. George Ave. Vida brevis, ars longa, Hippocrates reminds us. Life—both ours and the daffodils’— is short, but art (and memory) lasts longer. Here we are, uplifted by Wordsworth’s immortal lines more than 200 years after he wrote them!

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enlightenment, Romanticism emphasized emotion, spirituality, the healing power of nature, the use of everyday language, and the importance of the individual imagination. Wordsworth’s most famous poems, including “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” and the autobiographical, book-length “Prelude,” are masterpieces of poetic imagination and psychological introspection. He became Britain’s poet laureate in 1843. Speaking of memories… I

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D.W. Sandridge, Jr., 1929 - 2015 D. W. Sandridge, Jr. 85, of Waynesboro, passed away on Wednesday, March 25, at Avante of Waynesboro. He was born in Crozet on December 22, 1929, son of the late Dabney William Sandridge, Sr. and Josephine Coleman Sandridge. D.W. was a businessman who was an active member of the Crozet community. He was a member of the Crozet United Methodist Church and was a past president and lifetime member of the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department. D.W. operated the Western Auto Store and the Sandridge A & H Store in Crozet. He enjoyed talking to his many friends in the community and loved sharing a good story. D. W. was devoted to his family and will be missed by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Ella K. Sandridge; children, Ralph W. Sandridge

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The Winds of Spring March and April are known for kite flying and lots of wind. That is certainly true here and the reason is vertical mixing of higher momentum air aloft. If that makes no sense to you, then good. You are normal. We will try to explain. For starters, wind blows because of differences in pressure. Mother Nature tries to even things out so wind always blows from high pressure to low pressure. This happens every time you open a door and feel the air rushing either in or out. In the atmosphere, winds get complicated by friction with the ground and rotation of the earth. Fortunately, much of this can be calculated by complex mathematical forecast models

which now do a very nice job of analyzing and forecasting wind. In the upper atmosphere, rivers of air flow smooth and fast and free of friction and interference. The closer you get to the ground, the more the flow is distorted by terrain. Friction and temperature differences of the surface make winds at the ground much more complex. One way that we can get high winds here is to have an unstable atmosphere that can bring high winds from the upper atmosphere to the surface. In the winter, winds aloft are usually strong but the atmosphere is often stable so the high winds stay above us. In the summer, the atmosphere is often unsta-

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The park will also receive product support from Yancey Mills Lumber, which will provide several tons of free mulch, and Blue Ridge Builders Supply, which will discount pricing. Other projects for the day include painting, landscaping, carpentry, and general cleanup activities. Of course the day wouldn’t be complete without a marquee project. These are those unique but grueling projects that require volunteer courage and fortitude to tackle! Last year, that project was painting nearly a half-mile of fencing around the soccer field in April. In September teams painted a similar run of fence along Park Road as part of the United Way Day of Caring. This year’s marquee project will be just as challenging: removing almost three tons of sand from the pool filters and replacing it with three tons of new, clean sand. This one project will take all day with 12 hardy volunteers who can shovel (and shovel, and shovel). Please join us. Lunch is provided to all who sign-up to volunteer at: www.crozetpark.org/ volunteering.

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assistance from local companies. This year, the arborist firm Arboristry Associates is bringing 13 staff members and donating approximately $7,000 of muchneeded tree work throughout the park. Eric Fowler, Master Arborist with Arboristry, approached the park earlier this year to discuss a tree-trimming project on the upper baseball field. But after several visits, Arboristry Associates decided to increase the scope of work significantly. They plan to remove many diseased and dangerous trees on the south end of the pavilions, trim many of the existing trees around the baseball fields and festival grounds and provide several educational workshops throughout the day. The trees removed will be cut up into 18- to 36-inch lengths and made available to the public for firewood (pick-up is Sunday, April 26). Arboristry will also plant a few new trees donated by the Waynesboro Garden Center in celebration of Earth Week and Arbor Day and offer several tree-related workshops throughout the day.

ble, but the winds aloft are generally much weaker. Spring afternoons often combine an unstable atmosphere with high winds aloft and the combination yields plenty of wind. The spring winds often follow the sun. At night and early morning, the atmosphere is stable and the winds light. But, as the sun heats the ground, the atmosphere destabilizes and faster winds from above reach the surface, leading to those kite flying spring afternoons. In the fall, the sun is much weaker, the

atmosphere more stable, and the winds much lighter. March Recap… March came in like a lion and left like a lamb just the way it is supposed to. On the first of the month, freezing rain fell and the temperature averaged just 26. On the last day, we jumped to a high of 74 and the grass was growing! Overall, the month was colder than normal but wildly variable, like March usually is. Temperatures ranged from 7 to 79.

Starr Hill’s April Cheers for Charity Supports Dog Park Claudius Crozet Park (CCP) will partner with Starr Hill Brewery for a month-long “Pints for Pups” fundraiser as part of Starr Hill’s Cheers for Charity program. For each pint sold in the Starr Hill Taproom in Crozet during April, Starr Hill will donate a dollar towards development of the Crozet Dog Park. A kick-off event will be held at the taproom Friday, April 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. The event will include a brief overview of the project. The Crozet Dog Park will be

a one-acre, fenced-in area adjoining the park where dogs can run off-leash. The land, identified and provided by Albemarle County Parks and Recreation, is ideally suited with hardwood trees, water, and several established trails for easy access to and from the park. Crozet Park is working to raise the $28,000 still needed to build the dog park. The Starr Hill patio is pupfriendly—feel free to bring your furry friend.

Crozet Community Chorus Forming A community chorus is forming in Crozet! If you like singing a variety of music—classical, folk, world, gospel, etc.—join the Crozet Community Chorus under the direction of Katherine “KaeRenae” Mitchell, director of the Virginia Women’s Chorus at the University of Virginia. Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. beginning May 13 at Tabor Presbyterian Church (5804 Tabor Street in Crozet).

There will be a gentle and brief audition to determine range. Sight singing is not crucial, but a sensitive ear and good intonation are essential. A prepared musical selection is not necessary. Auditions will take place May 5 and 6 at Tabor Church from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information and to schedule a time to meet with KaeRenae, contact Denise Murray at murrden@gmail. com, or call 434-987-5517.

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CROZETgazette

APRIL 2015

Add yours for as little as $45 a month! Call 434-249-4211 or email ads@crozetgazette.com

MATT ROBB Phone: 434.531.6060 Fax: 888.251.3406 EMail: matt@robbconstruction.com 8803 Dick Woods Road Afton, VA 22920

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CROZET This charming country classic is loaded with character. 4 BR, 2 baths. Original floors, high-efficiency gas furnace with central air. Deck and large garage, wood stove in living room. Great location on road to Mint Springs Park. $213,000

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McAllister Painting Licensed and Insured Over 20 Years Experience - Free Estimates All aspects of painting Interior and Exterior Gutter Cleaning & Power Washing “No job too small”

Call Todd at 434-960-4775 LOCALLY OWNED

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CJ’s Taxicab Ride Away 434-566-5063 T/A Yellow Taxicab Service (434) 295-4131

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MASONRY, CARPENTRY & LANDSCAPE WORK

Class “A” Contractor Looking for Small Projects UVa Architecture Graduate Specializing in:

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Serving Crozet and Western Albemarle County

DOWN COUNTRY LANE, 1 mile from downtown Crozet, you will find this lovely Cape Cod. 4 BRs, 2 1/2 baths, finished walk out basement, 1st floor master with skylights, hardwood floors, brick fireplace in living room, large garage, great backyard with patio and water garden. Qualifies for 100% financing.

$209,000.

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Stonework, dry-laid or mortared Hardscape, including brick paths Small Additions or Remodeling Planting, Maintenance, and Drip Irrigation Systems OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE

References Available

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General Contractor (434) 823-9009 pgrady@nexet.net

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17 YEAR OLD TWIN GIRLS available to babysit, Udog walk and pet BING & EXPERT HOME R T PL M E sit. OZEBoth drive and are Red R C Cross Certificated. Contact 434-465-9019. Become a CAREGiver: Make a difference in a senior’s life! It takes a special person to be a Home Instead Senior Care CAREGiver, not a special degree. We are always looking for people who are dependable and compassionate to join our team. No experience necessary! Paid on-going training is provided. We provide services such as companionship, meal preparation, transportation, and personal care. Must be 21 years of age and consent to pre-employment State and national background checks and drug screenings. Please call 434.979.4663 with any questions or fill out an application online atwww. homeinstead.com/532. COMMUNITY WIDE YARD SALE in OLD TRAIL, Crozet. Visit all of Old Trail’s neighborhoods for individual home owners’ sales on: indoor furniture and decor, lawn and garden, books, clothes, and toys. No early birds please. Saturday, May 16 from 8 a.m. to noon. Old Trail Community, Crozet. Just off Route 250 across from Western Albemarle High School. CROZET YMCA NOW HIRING lifeguards, concessions, swim instructors, group exercise instructors, & trainers. Contact 434205-4380.

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PROPERTY FOR SALE by owner on Jones Mill Rd. 5+ acres, 2 development rights, one bedroom house with garage, $269,000. Write to: P.O. Box 231, Ivy, VA 22945.

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Licensed & Insured Contractor Since 1964 Plumbing, Electrical, Painting, Carpentry, Floors, Walls, Kitchens, Baths, Etc. We Also Buy Old Coins and Paper Money

SATURDAY • MAY 9, 2015 Mint Springs Valley Park • Crozet, VA • 8:00 A.M.

Come experience the beautiful trails of Mint Springs Valley Park at the second annual Crozet Running Trail 5K! Enjoy a great morning at the park as this challenging course winds up and down the mountain trails and finishes at the Pavilion at the upper lake. Who will be King and Queen of the Mountain? Prizes will be awarded for the top three overall male and female finishers, and men’s and women’s age group finishers for 12 and under, masters (40-49), and supermasters (50+). Kids and families are encouraged to enter! Walkers and hikers welcome! New this year—team competition! Register teams of 4 runners for bragging rights and team prizes! Scored by fastest combined score of all 4 runners

For more information and to register go to www.crozetrunning.com/trail5K or register in person at Crozet Running. Registration is just $5 and all proceeds benefit Crozet Trails Crew

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