Crozet Gazette July 2013 by The Crozet Gazette

INSIDE CROZET USA DAY page 2 DESK JOB page 5 SCHOOLS FOR BOOKS page 6 GOUDA CHICKEN page 8

JULY 2013 VOL. 8, NO. 2

County Suggests Tightening Critical Slopes Rules

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CCAC Focuses on Rt. 250 Safety

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Crozet’s First Youth Triathlon Thirty elementary and middle school-aged children participated in the first annual Crozet Triathlon June 15 at Claudius Crozet Park, sponsored by The Field School. Kids ages six to 10 swam 100 meters, rode a bicycle two miles and ran one-half mile. Kids ages 11 to 14 swam 200 meters, rode for four miles and ran one mile. The winners were Evan Sposato (middle school boys), Teryn Ratcliffe (middle school girls), Colin Wegner (elementary school boys) and Alison Sposato (elementary school girls). Photo courtesy Todd Barnett.

Archeologists Disappointed as Afton Structures Remain Unexplained A team of student archeologists led by University of Maryland anthropology professor Stephen Brighton spent June carefully excavating around stone platform structures above the old track bed leading to the original Blue Ridge Tunnel but found nothing that would tie them to the shanties Irish tunnel builders are known to have built in the vicinity. “Basically, there’s no cultural material here,” said Brighton, a specialist in archeological sites related to the Irish diaspora after the potato famine of the late 1840s. Some 1,500 immigrant Irishmen, many with families, worked on the tunnel from 1850 to its opening in 1858. Slave laborers hired from area farms were also employed. “There’s no nails, no ceramics. Nothing,” said Brighton. “The only evidence is the stacked stones. It’s impossible naturally. Somebody put these here sometime, but I don’t know who.”

Brighton, who last year organized a summer archeological project that investigated a cluster of old stone buildings on what is now Pollak Vineyards in Greenwood—that very likely are the legacy of the tunnel builders—investigated mysterious structures off Stage Coach Road in Afton during the winter. He returned with a six-person team in May to dig around two stone platforms discovered on the mountain slope above the tracks. He conjectured that they might be there to support the shanties that diaries and other documents from the period of the tunnel construction describe as the homes of Irish workers. Brighton said that Augusta County historian Nancy Sorrell was aware of the documents and when she visited the site to examine the platforms, she determined that they are unlike any agricultural structures typical of this area. This raised the possibility, just as was found at

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Albemarle County planners proposed that rules protecting critical slopes from being disturbed in designated growth areas such as Crozet be made stricter at a general meeting of the county’s community advisory councils in Charlottesville May 19. Critical slopes are defined as those that rise steeper than one foot in four, or at an angle of 25 degrees or more. The regulations are intended to reduce hillside erosion and siltation in streams and reservoirs. Disturbance of a critical slope requires special permission from the county. County special planning projects chief Bill Fritz said that since the rule was established, most requests for a waiver have been granted, effectively nullifying the rule. He suggested that vulnerable slopes be ranked in a two-tier system, one class called “preserved” and the other called “managed.” The change would apply only within growth areas

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To the Editor Crozet USA Day We are writing again this year to ask for your enthusiastic support of our small town tradition—our annual Crozet Independence Day parade, celebration, and fireworks show on Saturday, July 6. Last year our small-town parade and celebration were literally blown away by the derecho, destroying the stage, tents, vendors’ tents, and a Park pavilion! We all suffered losses as a result of the storm, but the community of Crozet pulled together, neighbors helping neighbors, and many volunteers are now renewing their commitments to make this year’s event “the best ever” Crozet Independence Day Celebration. The fun starts on Saturday, with a

parade down Crozet Avenue beginning at 4 p.m. This year, the Richmond Shriners ACCA minipatrol cars will join the parade with their entertaining precision driving down Crozet Avenue! Mr. Carroll Conley will serve as the parade’s Grand Marshal this year. We’ll follow the parade to Crozet Park to watch the annual “grudge match” softball game between the Peachtree Little League coaches and the Crozet volunteer firemen. There will be kiddie rides and amusements, including bounce and play inflatables. There’ll also be great music by two local bands, Second Draw and Rockfish Gap, as well as traditional Fourth of July fare, including pork barbeque, hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, ice cream, and sno cones. Starr Hill Brewery and Well Hung Vineyards will be

on-hand for you to enjoy their products as well. Pam Garrison and Vinny Kice from HitKicker 99.7 will MC the event and will help us announce our 50/50 and prize raffle drawings. The fireworks show is set for 9:30 p.m., when it will be dark enough, but not so late that youngsters can’t stay up. Bring a lawn chair if you want to be comfortable as you watch events. Look for updates about the parade and celebration at the Crozet Community Association’s website: CrozetCommunity.org The celebration is a combined effort by Crozet’s civic organizations who have teamed up to put on the Crozet Independence Day Celebration, a task that in the past fell solely to the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department, which for many

years sponsored the celebration as a fundraiser. Joining the CVFD in sharing the burden now are the Crozet Community Association, Claudius Crozet Park (which is community-owned and led by volunteers), the Crozet Lions Club, the White Hall Ruritans, the Peachtree League, the Crozet Community Advisory Council, and the Crozet Board of Trade, as well as many local churches and citizen volunteers. Donations are being sought to pay for the fireworks and event expenses. Cars entering the park will be asked to make a suggested parking donation of $5 per car and a various raffles will also be held throughout the evening. This event involves a lot of donated time from a lot of individuals and groups, but it can’t happen continued on page 16

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New Library Centerpiece Taking Shape in Crozet Workshop When the volunteers who make up the Build Crozet Library fundraising committee first got going, it occurred to them that the new library’s circulation desk, which will be the prominent centerpiece of the space, should be built by a local craftsman and with local woods. Crozet custom furniture-maker Dan Hunt got the call and he’s using a distinctive type of maple wood that was harvested in Nelson County. Crozet library staffers got their first look at the desk recently when its skeletal frame was assembled in Hunt’s workshop for a test mockup. “They were surprised at how big it is and how much room it has,” said Hunt. “It’s going to be beautiful.” The 24-foot-long desk has an eyelash-like curve to it, with a handicapped-accessible counter at one end.

“There’s a lot of electronics and cables that have to go in it,” explained Hunt. It is being made in five sections, each curved. The central section, a sort of keystone, will house a cash drawer. The countertop will be Corian, a durable, synthetic, non-porous material that can be sanded to remove scratches and that can only be installed by certified technicians. The front panels will be laminated veneers that Hunt is building up himself in order to form the proper curve. Across the front of the desk will be the skyline of the Blue Ridge Mountains as seen from Crozet. Photos of the mountains were taken and then connected into a pattern that conveys the line of the ridge. The Ambrosia Maple Hunt is using to represent the mountains, the lower part of the front, will be thicker and thus stick out in relief from the upper, paler

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sections of the front, also made from maple, that represent the sky. “Ambrosia maple has interesting multicolor streaks—reds, grays and browns—in the wood,” explained Hunt, who suggested to the BCL that the desk use ambrosia maple. “The darker section will match the rest of the library cabinetry.” The desk was designed by architects at Grimm and Parker, designers of the building itself. When

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Pollak farm site, that the platforms were made with techniques typical of Irish building. Buildings investigated at Pollak showed customary Irish design. But, with the dig over, Brighton discounted that possibility at the new dig. “There’s uniform topsoil from the surface down. That tells me that at one point this was all exposed and then filled in later,” he said. One platform is about seven feet wide and the other nearby is about 12 feet wide. The carefully dug pits reveal very large slabs of stone that are under a shallow layer of soil about six inches deep. Brighton speculated that the structures may have been built to protect the tracks below—or possibly other structures—from rock slides. He said it’s also possible that the shanties simply sat on the platforms and did not anchor in the soil, in which case they could have decayed without leaving traces. “But we should have found

something somewhere,” he said. They did find one small ceramic piece from the 19th century and another small glass bottle from the same era, but neither is positive evidence of the Irish shacks. “The idea was to locate the shanties,” he explained. “They aren’t on maps and there are no directions for finding them [in historical documents]. But we know they are between here and the tunnel.” There is an existing spring above the platforms and the water supply encouraged Brighton to think that the platforms might relate to the shanties. “[The site] has fresh water and it’s between the tunnel and Stage Coach Road. And no one has seen platforms like this before. “Housing for transient labor would have been built a little ways away from the tunnel to protect it from the blasting. The workers didn’t get to decide where to live. Most railroad labor was at a location from three to six months. They would not spend more than year in one place. There’s not much left that tells you that they lived there. “So the dig is inconclusive,”

The dig team included, from left, Western Albemarle High School student Amanda Morrison, William and Mary graduate student Amanda Johnson, and University of Maryland students Danielle Buffa and Samantha Schwartz

Brighton said. “I can’t say what the platforms were used for.” Amanda Johnson, a Ph.D. student in archeology at the College of William and Mary, was Brighton’s top assistant at the dig and also worked on last summer’s dig at Pollak. Brighton he said he’s encouraging her to return this winter to scout other sites along the slope that may also relate to the Irish as disser-

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Local Elementary Schools Raise $3,472 for New Crozet Library Fund drives at Crozet and Brownsville Elementary Scools raised $3,472.37 for the Build Crozet Library campaign. A schoolwide effort at Crozet Elementary, led by the Leadership Club, with the assistance of teachers Katherine Hamel and Anne James, raised $1,285.40 from the student body, staff and families. Crozet Elementary will have a gold leaf commemorating their effort on the giving tree wall in the new library’s entrance hall. Brownsville Elementary School’s “Pennies for Pages=Bucks for Books” drive raised $2,186.97. Brownsville PTO president Joanne Meier presented a check to BCL

chairman Bill Schrader and Crozet librarian Rhonda Johnson at an end-of-school event June 6. Meier designed a fundraising drive that minimized competition between classes or grades and tried to unite the school toward its goal, which, originally, was to raise $1,000 to earn one leaf on the library’s Giving Tree. “During the first week of Pennies for Pages, Brownsville students voted for their favorite dance song,” explained Meier. “They got to choose between Party Rock Anthem and Scream & Shout (the clean version!). We played snippets of each song on our announcements for two mornings and the kids brought

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Brownsville PTO president Joanne Meier presented a check to BCL chairman Bill Schrader and Crozet librarian Rhonda Johnson at an end-of-school event June 6.

in coins to vote during lunch. PTO volunteers facilitated coin collection by rolling a cart through the cafeteria for collection.” Party Rock Anthem brought in $376.20, and Scream & Shout brought in $347.13. “Once we knew the winning song,” Meier said, “willing Brownsville teachers formed two dance teams, ‘BEE Dazzled Dancers’ and ‘Vote for Us.’ Each team choreographed a dance to Party Rock Anthem and they were filmed performing it one day after school. Nine teachers and a custodian were dancers. Brownsville principal India Haun allowed the videos to be shown school-wide one afternoon just before dismissal. It

was a huge hit with the kids. They voted during the next two days during lunch.” Votes for dancers brought in $580 and a win for the BEE Dazzled Dancers. “At that point, money from the songs, the dances and family donations brought us just $292 away from our revised goal, a second gold leaf,” said Meier. “We had a ‘last ditch day’ where we just asked kids to help us wrap it up by bringing in any spare coins at their house.” United Bank graciously covered CoinStar fees (just over $110) so all the coins would not have to be counted. The final total was $2,186.97. continued on page 34

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Two chicken breasts from Free Union Grass Farm 8 oz. gouda cheese from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery 4 strips of bacon from Double H Farm ½ cup olive oil ¼ cup wine vinegar 1 tsp dried or 2 T fresh basil ¼ tsp salt Prepare a marinade by mixing the oil, vinegar, basil and salt. Cut the chicken breasts into longitudinal slices, about half an inch thick. Place in a ziplock bag with the marinade for a minimum of three hours or up to 24 hours in the refrigerator. Lay the bacon on a plate, place a chicken slice and then a 2 oz. slice

Monastery in Crozet and bacon from Double H Farm in nearby Nelson County. The Free Union Grass Farm and the Monastery have both been profiled in these pages. Note to the editor: suggest you get in touch with Double H! Monastery cheese makes a great gift, and when I sent a wheel to my friend Paula at Christmas, she returned the favor with this recipe, which she claims received the ‘husband seal of approval.’ Picture yourself on your back porch with a glass of White Hall Vineyards Chardonnay, a salad from your own garden greens, and the entreé below. of cheese on top of the bacon. Roll together and secure with a toothpick. Bake at 350° F for 30 minutes or more depending on the thickness of the chicken breast.

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Crozet’s 4th of July— The Pinnacle of Summer! Boy, oh boy, for those good ol’ days when the excitement generated by summertime and the Fourth of July in Crozet nearly rivaled Christmas morning itself! Within a few decades of the village’s establishment, Crozet’s progressive business leadership had made the small town enticing to outsiders, attracting not only the business-oriented but the vacationer as well. Full-page newspaper promotions shouted the name of the village and its amenities to readers far and wide. Established farmers within a reasonable buckboard ride’s distance from the depot welcomed the business traveler and, for a modest fee, provided food and lodging. Advertisements brought queries from afar, and summer vacationers began to arrive. Hayrides were pleasant pastimes for those early visiting city-dwellers. Richmond’s Times-Dispatch newspaper reported in July 1906 — Crozet, VA: “...large wagons will meet the afternoon trains at Crozet and carry the lawn party guests to a frolic. There is a rumor of a large hotel being erected here in the near future. This will be a much desired addition to our town, as the number of boarders is larger this year than ever before, and our people have been forced to turn many away.” The local fruit industry was booming by 1910, and the prosperity it brought showed in the new Goodall Building on the corner of the public Square. That modern brick edifice housed a drug

The steam-powered Case traction engine belonging to Bill Sprouse was a crowd favorite for many years at the Crozet parade. Like the circus calliope, its multi-toned whistles could be heard for miles, heralding good times for all. [Photo by Ray P. “Pete” McCauley]

store and hardware store, along with Ellis Harris’s Crozet Hotel. Harris’s new hostelry joined Jim Ellison’s nearby Liberty Hall Hotel in welcoming an ever-increasing flow of visitors. That July, Charlottesville’s Daily Progress newspaper carried a note from Crozet, stating that, “The summer girls are very much in evidence in our town now.” The year 1910 also saw the organization of a volunteer fire company in Crozet. Its initial membership included many business leaders from the community. To raise needed funds to support its work, business contributions were supplemented by “ice cream festivals, socials, lawn parties and entertainments.” Crozet’s Volunteer Fire Department was reorganized in 1920, and soon thereafter This miniature Monticello Dairy truck was driven by Jimmy Lamb during the 1962 th began to concentrate its Crozet Firemen’s 4 of July parade. Ed Mason, costumed in clown garb, followed closely behind as they passed the Crozet Pool Room. [Photo by Hugh Strickler] fundraising efforts by stag-

ing a Fourth of July celebration complete with food, games, amusement rides, baseball contests and fireworks. The opening of Crozet’s new public high school in 1925 led to CVFD establishing the tradition of setting up its main fundraiser on the school’s expansive grounds. The annual cause quickly grew into western Albemarle’s most anticipated social event. “Fourth of July in Crozet during the mid to late ’40s was a magical time,” recalled Grant continued on page 12

Richmond Times newspaper, July 1893. Martha (Woodson) Wayland, wife of Crozet’s first railroad station agent Abram Wayland, had adapted their Pleasant Green home to receive boarders, and had been listed as such in C&O publications as early as 1881. Vacationers from Richmond and Tidewater, Virginia, arrived via train at Crozet to “summer” for a month or more.

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Crozet Fourth —continued from page 11 Tomlin. “There was no TV in the area and trips to Charlottesville or Waynesboro were rare. This was a big event for the town and area. Money raised that day by the Crozet Volunteer Firemen was used all year for necessary expenses. Exciting events held at the Crozet High School were baseball games [where] the morning game pitted the Kent family against any challengers, bingo, greasy pig chase, greased pole (with money at the top), and Huckly Buck.” Beginning in July 1959, following the official opening of Claudius Crozet Park in October 1958, the Crozet Firemen’s Fourth of July celebration moved to that newly-popular location across the tracks. As good as memories recall the past 4th o’ July celebrations, in a more perfect world they could have been even better. A most unfortunate fact of social life closely associated with but not solely limited to the South were the Jim Crow laws and associated forms of Jim Crow “etiquette,” enacted from the 1870s through the 1960s. In Crozet, as elsewhere, many forms of social “mixing” between whites and African Americans were prohibited, especially on otherwise public property governed by the enacted laws of the land. Socially excluded from certain public events and venues, the local African-American community established the Crozet Community Center on private property just off of Route 240, east of the village. With oversight by the leadership of Union Mission Baptist Church, youth and adults enjoyed a unique place for fellowship and recreation. Special events there included picnics, reunions, birthday gatherings,

Following its opening in 1925, Crozet High School became the go-to place for large civic gatherings. Pete McCauley, then a rising junior at CHS, captured this view of cars parked on the school’s south side during the 1946 Crozet Firemen’s Carnival.

or even a spirited sandlot baseball contest hosted by the mighty Crozet All-Stars baseball team. Holiday events such as Crozet’s “4th” were, nevertheless, opportunities for relaxed interaction with coworkers, extended family members and seldom-seen neighbors. It was the one time of the year when you could expect to see those faces that were familiar only because you saw them in that one place year after year. The old folks huddled together or sat in small groups, simultaneously talking and watching the myriad of activities taking place all around. Youngsters ran to and fro, energized by the electric atmosphere, and safely watched over by every parent on the grounds. The aroma of cotton candy and other delights blended with the chants of amusement barkers and excited participants to create that sense of place embedded in hearts and memories. The wise young person began preparations early for an event like the 4th o’ July carnival. A quantity of nickels and dimes would be needed to play the games with hopes of winning a prize, or to ride with friends on the merrygo-’round, Ferris wheel or ponies. Allowances were saved or more diligently budgeted; neighbors were solicited for day labor; little Summertime in Crozet has always included time set aside for a picnic with red wagons appeared along the roadsides, pulled by young entrepreneurs family and friends of all ages. [Courtesy of Frances Walker Hill]

with high hopes of finding cast-off pop bottles which they could redeem for 2¢ each at a grocery store or gas station. Seldom did it cross those young minds that their youthful labor was being exchanged for the ultimate good of their community; that it required everyone’s available nickels and dimes and dollar bills to fund a piece of fireman’s safety gear or upgraded equipment; that the coin which they tossed away in hopes of winning a stuffed animal, trinket or dish might be returned to them some day in the form of a life rescued or the treasured possessions of a neighbor saved from harm. Seems that, when you look at it that way, it really did end up being kind of like Christmas morning itself, except that it happened in July.

The host firemen and their auxiliary offered food items as part of fund-raising efforts. Some frugal families opted instead for picnic meals at their vehicle. [Courtesy of Crozet Print Shop]

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and not change rules governing rural development. In preserved areas, “nothing would be allowed,” Fritz said. In managed areas, “some things could be done.” Preserved areas typically relate to nearby water features, he said. In Crozet, most of the affected slopes are in the eastern half of the growth area, along streams that feed the Lickinghole Basin, which was built to prevent runoff from development in Crozet from reaching the Rivanna reservoir. Critical slopes that are disturbed by buildings or roads are required to be “blended in with the existing terrain,” Fritz said. “The aim is to eliminate even steeper slopes from being created by cuts and fill and to result in a more natural-looking hillside.” The change would not affect exempt activities such as roads, water and sewer lines, walking or biking trails, the placement of gardens, sheds or patios, or the first house built on a county-approved lot. Fritz said the tiered system should also reduce the county’s expense in reviewing waiver applications. “Through the ordinance [proposal], we’re trying to preserve the areas identified in master plans that need to be preserved according to the community,” said county planner Elaine Echols. In the suggested tiers, preserved slopes could be disturbed if the applicant got a variance, but a variance is the highest and toughest level of exception to get and would involve proving that the situation affects no other properties and that a “hardship” exists that makes the property unusable without the variance. Financial reasons would not constitute a hardship, said county community development director Mark Graham. Managed areas could be disturbed after getting a waiver and planners asked advisory councils to think about what the criteria for granting a waiver should be. The most likely outcome of the change would be that preserved slopes really would stay undisturbed. “In the last 50 years we have been reluctant to say that any area is unsuitable for development, even though it may be very vertical,” observed White Hall District

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Supervisor Ann Mallek. She called for limited exemptions for waivers. Crozet Community Advisory Council members were supportive of the idea. “We want the areas that are supposed to be preserved to actually be preserved,” said Meg West. In the Crozet Growth Area, which comprises 2,914 acres, there are 178 acres of critical slopes. Some 148 acres, 83 percent, would be designated as preserved and 30 acres would fall in the managed category. In other business, the CCAC reviewed a resolution it drafted at its May meeting regarding safety concerns on Rt. 250 following two pedestrian deaths in two years near the Blue Ridge Shopping Center. Former CCAC member Kelly Strickland attended the meeting to call for a report from a highway engineer that would take a look at traffic and pedestrian improvements on the stretch of the highway from the Mechums River trestle to the Interstate 64 interchange. He wanted the county to hire the work to be done before the Crozet Master Plan goes through its next required review in 2015. CCAC members learned that Virginia Department of Transportation’s Charlottesville-area administrator, Joel DeNuncio, is moving to Old Trail and decided to invite him to a CCAC meeting to get a professional view of the issues. Changes desired by the CCAC included dedicated left turn lanes at the Clover Lawn/Blue Ridge Shopping Center entrances, a place for pedestrians who are crossing Rt. 250 there to stand safely (such as a median platform), a walking path along the north side of the road from Old Trail to Clover Lawn, and a reduced speed limit of 35 miles per hour. In other news, Mallek told the CCAC that the Crozet Avenue Streetscape project will go out for bids by contractors at the end of July and that a fence along the railroad tracks in The Square, a condition that CSX railroad made as part of its agreement to cede a claim to ownership of the parking lot there, will be built “soon.” Build Crozet Library fundraising committee chair Bill Schrader told the CCAC that the effort has now raised $830,000. The new library’s grand opening is tentatively set for September 28, he said.

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Grace Estate Winery Opens at Mount Juliet Farm in White Hall Mount Juliet Farm in White Hall has been raising grapes for local and state winemakers for years and has now opened Grace Estate Winery, selling wines with its own label, under the leadership of Jake Busching. Grace Estate held its grand opening in early June and is offering tastings of its eight wines in a converted former hay barn. Busching was raised on a beef cattle farm in northern Minnesota, but “it’s too cold and too dark there,” he said, and in the 1990s he found his way to Charlottesville and through chance became the farm manager at Jefferson Vineyards in 1997. There he got introduced to winemaking under Chris Hill, the Virginia’s noted vineyard consultant. “They say that Chris Hill is the godfather of Virginia vineyards and Gabriele Rausse is the godfather of Virginia wine,” Busching said, recalling his first mentors. “It

dawned on me when I was talking to [local wine expert] Michael Shaps that the future of Virginia wine was happening then. We realized we can make really good red and white wines here. I could see it agriculturally. This works for me and speaks to my spirit. I get it and I’m lucky to have found it.” Busching worked for several area wineries and in 2003 started with the then-new Pollak Vineyard in Greenwood. “That was my first real brainchild. They wanted to do something that made sense to me and that’s where I really learned winemaking, under the guidance of Michael Shaps.” John Grace, of W.R. Grace & Company, the chemical manufacturing corporation, is the owner of Mount Juliet Farm and hence the name of the winery. “He wants it to be sustainable as a long-term business,” said Busching. “Sustainability, to me, is a farm that can keep going.

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They did a massive amount of damage. They take a bite from a cluster and then the cluster rots. Plus, they just eat a lot of grapes. The fence paid for itself in two years. Raccoons are also a lot of trouble and we hunt them hard in season. We also have trouble with groundhogs, foxes and turkeys eating grapes.” Busching is now on the board of the Monticello Wine Trail, which is trying to define and promote local wines. “We’re where Napa Valley [California] was. We have good soils. We need to keep good wine here and promote it.” Busching is most pleased with the success of area Viognier and Chardonnary vines –“They have an amazing track record”—and among the reds, the Merlot, Petit Verdot and Tannat, a grape used to make port. The farm is producing about four tons of grapes per acre, or about 220 to 250 tons per year total,

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depending on rainfall. That translates into about 16,000 cases of wine. In 2012, Grace Estate produced 2,800 cases, he said. “Virginia is 20 percent short of the grapes it needs to meet Virginia state demand for Virginia wines,” Busching said. “So we’re all planting like crazy and we won’t catch up for 15 years. “From our vineyard’s perspective, I don’t want to plant more for a couple of years. I’ve got to get my vines established. I’m not going to ramp up wine production. I want to sell 95 percent of my wine at the winery.” The wines he’s most pleased with are the Viognier, Chardonnay, Tannat and Cabernet Sauvignon.

He also likes a wine he calls “3,” a three-way collaboration he has made in the last two years with Matthieu Finot at King Family Vineyards in Crozet and Emily Pelton at Veritas Vineyard and Winery in Afton. Each brings two barrels of grapes to the project and takes home four cases of wine. “It’s a cult wine that sells out fast,” Busching said. “We’re working collectively and sharing information as friends and trying to do things for our growing region. “I didn’t understand wine until I started growing grapes. I’m not a grand connoisseur of wine, but I love all of it now. And that has led me into food. Now I’m starting to understand cooking and we have a large garden going here. “My push on it is to get people to understand that it’s farming. It’s part of the whole local food movement.” Busching said the tasting room will move to the estate’s main house soon and that a new tasting room will be built among a cluster of old barns where an old dairy barn once stood. “I want to maintain the farm

appearance of the vineyard. Tractors will be in view. I don’t want it to look like a resort.” The tasting room is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tastings are $5.

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Genetically Modified Food Pressures Are Growing [ by elena day • elena@crozetgazette.com \ Genetically modified and engineered food crops are just rolling off the chemists’ lab benches and agribusiness testing fields for approval these days. And now the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated and funded in 1970 during the Nixon Administration to protect the public’s health and our environment, is proposing to raise the allowable amounts of glyphosate in many fruits and vegetables. Glyphosate is the chemical in Monsanto’s weed-killer Roundup. It has been in use since the mid-1970s. With the introduction of GM/GE crops resistant to glyphosate/ Roundup, its use has been increasing. As its use increases, so does weed resistance. Currently there are 14 varieties of Roundup-resistant “superweeds.” As superweeds flourish, Monsanto encourages increasing Roundup applications and also adding a cocktail of other pesticides. More glyphosate residue is therefore likely on numerous vegetables we eat including carrots, sweet potatoes and even sunflower and flax seeds. Increasingly, studies in Europe and the U.S. link glyphosate to food allergies, reproductive and digestive disorders, and autism. In a position paper issued in May 2009, the American Academy of

Environmental Medicine (which has been around since 1965) urged the application of the “Precautionary Principle” in regard to GM/GE crops. “When an activity raises threats to the environment or human health, precautionary measures should be taken, even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context, the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof [of the safety of the activity].” The Precautionary Principle has been the primary regulatory tool of the European Union since 1998. The U.S. is the only developed country in the world that does not require disclosure of whether foods contain GM/GE modified ingredients. In the same position paper the AAEM also urges medical doctors to educate their patients, the medical community and the general public to avoid GM/GE foods. The GM/GE industry led by Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and Dupont has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby for relaxed regulations and, unfortunately for the public, they get results. EPA wants to raise glyphosate residue limits because Roundup-using agribusinesses need to spray more Roundup on those pesky resistant weeds. (Unfortunately, the public comment period regarding residue ended July 1, 2013.)

The Bill Gates Foundation is heavily supportive of GM/GE crops. Recently Pope Benedict XVI issued a statement that GM/GE foods are the answer to world hunger. A 2009 Wikileaks memo from U.S. Vatican diplomat Christopher Sandrolini highlighted the close association of the U.S. government and chemical agriculture. The document indicated that lobbying efforts by the U.S. embassy would result in rendering the science and safety of GMOs a nonissue for the Vatican and thereby result in a big boost for GM/GE crops among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. Fortunately, a caveat exists that the papacy cannot force bishops to endorse this biotechnology if their opposition has to do with concerns over wrongfully protecting corporations that hold seed patents versus feeding the hungry. Pope Francis has yet to weigh in on the GM/GE issue. His own country, Argentina, is heavily invested in GM/GE soybeans. Health issues, including an epidemic in childhood cancers due to increased spraying of Roundup and other pesticides to kill superweeds, abound. Small farmers have lost land to large agribusiness concerns and hunger and malnutrition are significant in a country that once produced 10 times as much food as the population required. Argentina concluded a trade deal with China this past June to export Roundup Ready soybeans and corn. One can predict increasing deforestation, more corporate land ownership and of course, even more superweeds to be sprayed. Environmental activist Vandana

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The View From 307 A wise man lives as long as he ought, not as long as he can. — Seneca Greetings from God’s waiting room, also known as south Florida, where I am currently on vacation. It is a vision of the demographic time bomb ticking in this country. Due to great advances in medical care the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population is those over 85 years old and it seems like they are all here in the building I am staying in. Why would anyone go to Florida in the summer? Well, I am cheap for one thing, and so is Florida in the off-season. It is also a lot easier to get a restaurant table in South Beach in July than in January. But mostly it is to avoid the onslaught of the new interns who are currently invading my hospital: hopeful, eager, idealistic, patient-killing machines. Don’t worry, though, dear readers, that is why we have attending physician supervisors. Just not this one. I have been resting and rejuvenating far from the stresses of the ER, but as you know my work seems to find me wherever I go, never more so than when I am among the superannuated denizens of this part of the world. As I got off the elevator yesterday, for example, I passed five paramedics with all their gear and a stretcher getting into the elevator I had just vacated. Ambulance attendants are such common citizens in my world that I scarcely gave it a thought, but the lobby was abuzz with questions and speculation. Mike, the doorman, was presiding over the conclave of the concerned elderly residents gathered in the lobby. In buildings like this, the

doormen know everything, and Mike was no exception. “It’s the guy in 307. He’s terminal; brain cancer or sumpin,” Mike informed us in his heavy New York accent, so common in South Florida. “They moved in about a year ago, nice apartment. Got a view of the pool and the ocean. It’s a shame really. “Just got sick about two months ago. I dunno, some kinda tumor or sumpin. They been takin’ him back and forth to the hospice place. Takin’ him to the hospice place right now. I think he’s really dyin’ this time.” The conclave cluck-clucked in sympathy; such a shame. Well, at least he is going to hospice, they murmured approvingly. “Why does it take five guys and all that gear to move him to hospice?” my wife asked me. I pointed to the city fire-rescue ambulance that was in the driveway, blocking in our car. “He’s not going to hospice,” I told her. “That is a 911 response ambulance. They only transport to the ER. He is going to the ER.” “Why? What will they do for him there?” “What we do.” Since our car was blocked-in by the ambulance, we had a seat in the shade in front of the building. We had no really pressing engagement and it was one of those beautiful tropical afternoons with high puffy clouds and impossibly blue skies. There was something akin to a Zen relaxation taking over me. Being stuck in an EMS medical event with no role to play whatsoever was a weird and liberating feeling. After about a half hour the medics bustled out of the building. The patient now had an IV in place, continued on page 31

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Restoration Restaurant Opens in Old Trail Clubhouse What began as a lunch and snack cafe in the Old Trail Golf Clubhouse has been renovated and expanded into a restaurant that hopes to become one of Crozet’s favorite family spots. Restoration opened May 1 after the space had been closed for a couple of months for remodeling. Chef Rick Ridge will manage the restaurant on behalf of his partners Kelley Tripp and Andrew Watson, who also run Mellow Mushroom and Boylan Heights restaurants in Charlottesville. About three years ago the group got involved in running food operations at golf courses—they handle Spring Creek Golf Course in Zion Crossroads and Greene Hill Country Club in Stanardsville—and were approached about taking on Old Trail, Ridge said. “It’s a perfect opportunity for us because we can serve the golf customer plus develop a restaurant that serves the whole community,” he

said. “We chose the name because comfort food with family and friends is restorative. “Ideally, people will realize this is a neighborhood spot. You can drop in and eat on the patio. We had a great turnout right away. We definitely want to be year-round and not seasonal. We want it to stand on its own.” Australian wormy chestnut wood floors were installed throughout most of the restaurant, including the large windowed room known as the pavilion, which can seat 100. The remodeled main dining room, which seats about 60, is separated

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by windowed track doors from the bar seating area. The dining room has gray, wainscoted walls, farmstyle tables, and new old-fashionedlooking tile floors, giving it a pub feel. Golfers can also come to a snack bar window in the kitchen wall for service. The new design is by Jeanette Andamasauris Interior Design.

“It has a classic and a modern feel,” said Ridge. “It makes the spaces convertible. We can have receptions and retreats or similar events. Designing it has been a collaboration among friends so it’s been meaningful for us.” Ridge said they would like to improve lighting in the parking lot

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If Something Seems Wrong, It Might Be “Scout” is a 10year-old Retriever mix who both ruined and made my day recently. For a 10-year-old, Scout has maintained a high activity level and has had no significant health problems. Scout also lives the good life. His owners are a wonderful couple in their mid-forties with no children—except Scout. He is their child in every way. They are also incredibly in tune to Scout’s normal behavior and brought him in simply because he didn’t eat breakfast that morning and seemed a bit lethargic. That may not seem like a reason to pack the dog in the car and bring him to the vet, but Scout never misses a meal and every day for as long as they can remember he wakes up in a wonderful mood, so excited that it’s a brand new day. These can be tough cases right off the bat because this could either be an over-worried owner with a normal dog, or there is a real problem. How we wish pets could just talk. I have learned to always listen to owners’ concerns because they truly are the experts about their pet’s normal behavior. When I walked into the exam room, I could tell Scout was not quite himself. He usually jumps on me in excitement, but that day just managed a smile and a tail wag before plopping back down on the floor. His heart rate and breathing were a little faster than normal, and he seemed a little pale. When I palpated his abdomen (felt his belly), I became a little more concerned. I thought I could feel some fluid in his belly, but it was subtle because he was tense. Telling the owners as much, I recommended a quick ultrasound of the abdomen. It took about five seconds in ultrasound to confirm what I feared. Scout had a large tumor in his spleen that was bleeding into his abdomen. Bleeding splenic masses (tumors of the spleen) are very common causes of disease and death in older dogs and usually have no clinical

signs associated with them until things become urgent. The spleen is a large, red, tongue-shaped organ located in the middle of the abdomen that serves many functions relating to the blood and immune system. The spleen helps in red blood cell storage and production, removes old and damaged red blood cells, and also acts as a large lymph node for the immune system. In humans, our spleen is about the size of our fist. In a 60-pound dog, it’s about a foot in length. Unfortunately, after many years of life, the spleen is a common site for tumors to develop—some benign, some cancerous. Initially there are no outward clinical signs. Dogs won’t tell us about some minor discomfort in their belly, and there is simply no way we can confidently feel even a baseball-sized mass in the spleen. There is simply too much other stuff in the abdomen. As the tumor grows in this highly vascular organ (the spleen gets a lot of blood supply), it becomes more disorganized and eventually the blood vessels can spontaneously burst. Sometimes this happens within the inside of the spleen and the mass grows larger, filling with blood and blood clots while still contained within the spleen capsule. Eventually though, the spleen will burst and this is when blood starts freely pouring into the abdomen. These dogs can go from normal to collapse in an hour. They become very weak, pale, and start having labored breathing. Bleeding splenic tumors are so common that we can often predict them just from the classic phone calls: “My older retriever was fine this morning, but when I came home he can barely walk, his belly looks swollen, and he’s having a hard time breathing.” Scout ruined my day because I had about a million things going on at the moment and I knew that everything else had to be put on hold or Scout wouldn’t be around too much longer. First came the difficult decision with the owners. “We need to do surgery immediately, or your continued on page 25

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Water: Life’s Elixir (Part Three) Water is the most important substance of life. To live, we must take it into our bodies; to thrive, we must lose it. To be alive, water must flow through us like a stream. Water is our body’s principal chemical component, representing roughly 60 percent of our total body weight and three-fourths of the weight of our brains. Every physiological function and process that goes on within us depends on water. Our bodies must have water to digest our food, to carry out the myriad biochemical reactions that occur in our cells, and water is necessary to rid ourselves of toxins and waste. We need water within us to regulate body temperature, lubricate joints, moisten tissues, and carry nutrients and oxygen throughout our bodies. The list goes on and on. Because we lose water constantly, if our intake is too low, over time, we will become dehydrated. (If we feel thirsty, we’re already a little dehydrated.) Not only our bodies but our minds will become stressed. For good health and proper bodily function, we must consume sufficient water to make up for losses that naturally occur through breathing, perspiration and excretion. How much water does a healthy adult living in a temperate climate typically need each day? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has determined that adequate fluid intake is around 90 ounces for women and 125 ounces for men. These guidelines are for total fluid intake. Roughly three-fourths of our total water intake comes from drinking water and other beverages. Assuming this estimate is an accurate reflection of our diet, IOM recommendations correspond to a daily fluid intake of about 8 cups for women and 12 cups for men. Food provides the rest of our total intake of water. For example, consuming fruits and vegetables,

which contain copious amounts of water in proportion to their weight, provides hydration. To illustrate this, here are water content levels for some popular fresh fruits and vegetables: broccoli, cabbage, eggplant, lettuce, radishes, strawberries, tomatoes, watermelon and zucchini (92-95 percent); apples, apricots, blueberries, cherries, grapes, peaches, plums and raspberries (8188%). Carrots (87%), peas and potatoes (both 79%) are among the least moist fresh vegetables; bananas (74%) are among the driest fresh fruits. Water not only flows through us, it often stops along the way, biochemically transformed into new compounds. Its constituent atoms—hydrogen and oxygen—are used as raw materials by the fabricating machinery of life in the making of new substances. For example, during digestion, with the help of enzymes, protein is broken apart (hydrolyzed) by water into its constituent amino acids. As this happens, the atoms of water are incorporated into the structure of the freed amino acids that were formerly bound together. In all of nature, water’s most important role as a raw material occurs during photosynthesis. Green plants capture energy from the sun to split apart water, freeing hydrogen atoms from their bonds with oxygen. These reactive hydrogens are used in conjunction with carbon dioxide obtained from the atmosphere to synthesize sugars. Only the hydrogens of water are used in this process. Oxygen is given off as a by-product, released to the atmosphere as a gas. With every breath we take, the life-giving oxygen we draw into our lungs was once part of water (the O in H2O)! And as is so often the case in nature, these biological processes are cyclical. Unlike HumptyDumpty, water can be put back together again. Much of the very same water-derived oxygen that we breathe eventually is transformed back into water by our bodies. For

example, with the help of O2, water is created when carbohydrates and fats are fully metabolized. Even in the absence of life, water is full of activity, constantly rearranging itself. Its static formula, H2O, gives the impression that each and every water molecule is a stable entity; that once formed, in the absence of outside forces, these atoms are forever connected. This most definitely is not the case. Hydrogen atoms (H+) carrying a positive charge rapidly and constantly jump back and forth between adjacent water molecules. At room temperature, the H+ (proton) exchange rate between neighboring molecules is exceedingly fast, about 1000 times per second! This proton-swapping process is a bit reminiscent of the game of musical chairs, played however at warp speed. Imagine the oxygens within every water molecule as the

chairs. The protons then are like the players, standing up, moving about, and then sitting down on a different oxygen chair as the music starts and stops. The frequency of “atom trading” that occurs in 8 ounces of water—there are about 8 x 10^24 (that’s 8 followed by 24 zeros) molecules of water in 8 ounces—is astronomical, roughly 8 billion billion billion times every second. Of course this is all happening on a scale way too small and far too fast for us to see; and in pure water, no net changes result. But this does not mean there are not important consequences to this extravagant behavior of water, even upon life itself. In a future article, I will examine just how vital this aspect of water is. The more fully we understand this amazing substance, the more deeply we can be thankful for a cold glass of water on a hot summer’s day. Water truly is the river of life.

Beat the Bugs This Summer As happy as I am to have the warm, summer months in full swing, I had somehow forgotten about my least favorite part this fun time of year… BUGS! This month I have a few tips to help keep you and your house as bugfree as possible. • Fly Trap: When your swatter just won’t cut it, make your own fly trap! Your kids can help with this project, too. Start with a plastic drink container—I like the standard bottled-water size. Use scissors to cut off the top section, where the bottle starts to taper. Then invert the cut piece, putting the mouth-opening down into the bottle almost like a funnel. With a strong tape, seal the edges of the two pieces together. Then mix up a simple syrup of equal parts sugar and water and pour into the bottle. Flies will fly in to get the sugar, but can’t get back out. • Ant Trap: Make a paste with Borax, sugar and water. Spread

the paste onto thin strips of cardboard and leave them out in your problem areas, keeping them out of reach of children and pets. Replace when the paste dries out. • Homemade Bug Spray: In a clean spray bottle, mix 1 cup water with 1 cup white or cider vinegar. Add 30-50 drops of essential oils. Good oil choices include Citronella, clove, lemongrass, rosemary, tea tree, eucalyptus, cedar, lavender, mint, or cinnamon. Pick your favorites at a health food store and try them out. • Deer Tick Repellant: In a small, clean travel-bottle, mix 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 Tablespoon aloe vera gel, 25 drops lavender or rose geranium oil, and shake vigorously. Apply small amounts of your repellant to your ankles before heading out. Now, go enjoy your summer activities without the pests!

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dog is going to die. Unfortunately, this may be a cancer that has already spread to other parts of his body and he may only live a few more months even if he survives surgery. On the other hand, this may be a benign tumor that has ruptured, and as long as he survives surgery, he will have a good prognosis. Unfortunately there is no way I can tell until after surgery once we get the biopsy report back. Additionally, this surgery and the aftercare are fairly expensive and your dog is old and has lost blood…” I admit this is a tough sell. Risky surgery. High expense. Potentially poor prognosis. Older dog. However, the majority of dogs survive surgery and many go on to live for many more years. Scout’s owners quickly decided they wanted to try surgery. Scout’s “mom” had a worried smile that turned to tears as she told me, “We don’t have any children. Scout is our

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and around the patio, which seats 50 and which Ridge praised as a good spot for families because children can range on the wide lawn extending from it still in view of their parents. The menu includes local products such as Crozet monastery cheese and a variety of beers from the four local breweries on tap. “We have the major beers in bottles,” said Ridge. “We mix a solid selection of local beers. They outsell everything. Folks really respond to those here. We want to grow local relationships. We’re going to roll out a cocktail list that will show that.” The wine list likewise features local wines. They also use maple syrup from Highland County and ice cream from Homestead Creamery in Franklin County. “We’re trying to exceed people’s expectations for what they’re going to get here. You get a real, juicy burger with organic Angus beef,” said Ridge. “We’ve centered the menu around comfort food. What makes it comfort food is the context you get it in. The food is what we are obsessed about. The food is familiar but we differentiate it in the details.

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child. Please take good care of him.” Fortunately I have removed so many spleens I have lost count. Scout was surprisingly stable under anesthesia, although it is always unnerving when we open the abdomen and large amounts of blood come pouring out. Scout’s spleen was the size of a soccer ball, irregular and oozing blood. I quickly clamped and cut the splenic vessels and rolled the huge tumor off the table into a container our tech was holding. It weighed 8 pounds! After inspecting Scout’s abdomen for any signs of cancer or bleeding, we closed him up. Scout’s danger was not over yet. Many dogs can develop dangerous heart arrhythmias or fatal bleeding after surgery despite fluids and blood transfusions. Scout, however, was not that dog. After several hours of sleep, he was remarkably stable and alert. As our day neared an end, I got him out of his cage to walk up front and see his relieved owners. Scout pulled me the entire way and proceeded to eat a biscuit in the lobby. Scout had made my day. It’s all made from scratch. It’s all about what’s in your food. It’s worth the effort and it’s good for you.” The menu features favorites such as chicken and waffles, barbequed salmon, and shrimp and grits. Restoration makes its own bacon and French fries. They make a bacon jam to add to their burgers. Ridge is joined by chef William Lunsford in the kitchen. “We’re getting lots of encouragement,” Ridge said. “The first night we opened, the thing that set my heart at ease was that everything on the menu got ordered. The menu doesn’t have any black sheep. That was deeply satisfying. “We thought about what the Crozet community and what people here would want. It’s priced fairly and the quality is up there where you want to come back.” Restoration is open for lunch every day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and serves dinner on Fridays and Saturdays from 5 to 10 p.m. and on Sundays from 5 to 9 p.m. “We’re working on quality and training, so we’ve limited our hours until we’re ready. We’ll add Thursday dinner soon.” The restaurant is comfortable with large groups and takes reservations, Ridge said.

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Gale Gives Crozet’s Young Softball Talent a Chance to Play What started a year ago as five little girls from Crozet who wanted to play softball has evolved into 28 girls, six coaches and two full teams. After reading an email sent to some local moms asking if there was any interest in forming a Crozet team, Kimberly Gale told her then-15year-old daughter Ashley about the little girls without a coach. “I’ll do it,” Ashley volunteered. Until that day, Ashley Gale had been a softball player, but never a coach. She started in a local recreation league at age eight and eventually played travel ball with the Crozet-based “Redbirds” team. “There is a need for rec league softball in Crozet,” said Gale. “I had noticed a sharp decline in the number of girls coming up from the recreation leagues in the past few years. It seemed like the girls who had the resources to play travel ball were the only ones excelling in the sport,” she said. Western Albemarle High School has gone from two teams, varsity and junior varsity, to only

one team and barely enough players to field that team, she said. “It is because there has not been a feeder program,” Gale said. Gale now coaches for the Jefferson Area Girls Softball League, also known as JAGS, which is affiliated with Little League in Charlottesville. She is responsible for coaching the age 9-10 Crozet team. She stepped in to coach the fledging team last spring. “I wanted to bring girls’ softball to Crozet at an entry level. I wanted to teach them how much fun the sport can be and part of that fun is getting girls from the same school playing together from a young age.” Once the team had a coach, word spread fast and finding enough girls to fill the first team in 2012 was easy. Gale remembers naming that team, which was sponsored by Denise Ramey Realty. “I wanted to give our team a meaningful name, one that would give the team purpose. So I decided on the Crozet Little Warriors in hopes that one

Ashley Gale and the Crozet Little Warriors softball team

day these girls will be playing for my high school team.” The “Crozet Little Warriors” love having Gale to look up to and a powerful bond that has formed between Gale and the girls over the past two years. “The girls look up to her as a mentor in a way that they probably wouldn’t look up to a parent-coach,” said Kimberly Gale. Sarah Tesoriere’s daughter Bella is

a part of the Crozet Little Warriors. “Ashley is a leader and a positive role model for these girls,” said Tesoriere. “The team, players and parents alike adore her. She leads by example, teaching the girls about character, sportsmanship and the fundamentals of the game.” The JAGS league, which began in 2010, allowed Crozet to form teams

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Saving the Bay, Part Two: The Solution—Changing Minds, Changing Lawns, and Changing Landscape To address the deleterious effects of local runoff on the Chesapeake Bay, Charlottesville has instituted a fee system, which Albemarle County may soon emulate. The City will charge citizens for the amount of impervious surface area on their developed properties. “Impervious surface area” is defined as “any surface coverings that do not absorb water, including roads, roofs, and parking lots.” In other words, Charlottesville officials are making people pay for the impact of structures they require. Although you can and should limit the size of your dwelling, you do need a place to live. That means you probably also need a “road” (driveway) or a parking lot (if you live in an apartment) to access your dwelling, so you are being asked to pay a fee on necessities. Because there is not much an individual can do to avoid needing these particular impervious surfaces, it does seem a bit immoral to assess a fee on them as if anyone has much choice. (The same is true for food— commodities such as meat, dairy, vegetables, and fruits—should never be taxed.) However, because lawns are optional and highly detrimental in many ways to our environment in addition to contributing to storm water runoff, there would be absolutely nothing unjust about assessing a fee on the amount of lawn area on a property. There is now a legitimate and compelling reason for government to encourage, via the power of taxation, the creation of more natural, and thus more environmentally friendly, landscapes that would not only make land in the Bay watershed more permeable, but also perfectly functional without the use of pesticides and excessive amounts of

fertilizer. What government should be doing is allowing a minimum square footage of lawn around the house and charging a fee for the amount of lawn area beyond that amount. The reality is that most lawns see little, if any, use and the only reason that most people have lawns is simply because it’s the accepted form of landscaping in our society. A lawn could—and should—be replaced by whatever combination of flowers, wild grasses, vines, shrubs, and trees a landowner enjoys seeing. The idea that a lawn with a few plants here and there will function without problems is an idea born of ignorance. There absolutely must be a variety of plants to support a variety of organisms because the critters are the ones that keep the environment functioning properly. For example, the animal activity that takes place in a nature-friendly garden is responsible for helping it to retain even heavy rain. A natural area with large numbers of plants of different heights comprises a vast multilayered canopy that must have all surfaces dampened before a drop of rain even reaches the soil. When a droplet does hit the ground, the soil will accept it because of the innumerable kinds of invertebrates living within the soil, aerating it with their activities. Additionally, most mammals either dig for food, tunnel through the soil, or make their homes underground, allowing water to enter the earth through the holes that they make. Yet the unnatural landscape dominated by lawn that supports very little wildlife is favored by development covenants and city and county officials even though it is doomed to being problem-prone from the getgo. People, including government officials, must change their minds about what our immediate environ-

ment should look like. Abolishing “weed” ordinances and instituting a lawn tax would definitely be a start in the right direction. When I’ve spoken with government officials about why they seem obsessed with limiting the height of grass and other plants in yards, the word “vermin” always comes up. Again, this is a display of the ignorance in society about our natural world. The word “vermin” is typically used as an excuse for people to kill particular animals that they fear or view as competitors, such as foxes, coyotes, rats, mice, and even hawks. Right here in Albemarle County in the 1980s, hawks were shot and killed illegally as “vermin” on billionaire John Kluge’s estate. Coyotes are being killed nowadays with the approval of the Game Department, even though they offer a better way to keep deer populations in check than waiting for disease to take its toll (the means of last resort for Mother Nature when other population-control methods have failed). It’s time for people to accept the fact that the consequence of eliminating predators is dealing with overpopulations of their prey. While government officials worry that mice and rats will be a problem if they allow citizens to create meadows around their homes, these animals are legendary for their abundance in big cities where there are no meadows—and few, if any, predators. In Albemarle County, many suburban neighborhoods are governed by covenants that severely restrict the kind of landscaping that is allowed. People who live in these areas are going to have to decide whether they want to rescind the covenants so people can landscape in a more intelligent manner and not pay a tax, or whether they want to keep covenants in place and pay for the “privilege” of harming the Chesapeake Bay. In the rural areas of Albemarle, supervisors must make a case to our state legislators to change laws to allow supervisors to give tax breaks to everyone who creates a naturefriendly landscape. Right now, only owners of large properties get huge breaks on real estate taxes—even though they aren’t usually doing a thing to help the environment or the Bay to be healthy! People who grow grapes (please

Collecting water at downspouts helps to keep water on a property, but the amount is miniscule compared to what a naturefriendly landscape retains. Photo: Marlene A. Condon.

note that wine is not a necessity) pollute the landscape with pesticides throughout the growing season. People who raise horses (again, not a necessity) tend to maintain a landscape that is every bit as manicured as a suburban lawn—and every bit as detrimental to our environment. Some people own large tracts of open area that, if they can line up a farmer to cut hay, will get a tax break even though it would be far better for that land to be maintained in a natural state for the benefit of our wildlife. We are losing numerous species of birds and other critters that need fields in which to reproduce—not a cut field that is, for all intents and purposes, just another, albeit larger, lawn. These animals have value, providing services that keep the environment in and beyond the field functioning properly. It makes sense to give farmers a break on land assessments because they are feeding the rest of us. (However, even they should maintain some habitat for wildlife. Unfortunately, now days even farmers do away with natural areas.) But what is the justification for allowing a break to owners of large tracts of forest? What is a 20-acre forest doing that a one-acre forest isn’t? In point of fact, the one-acre forest protected from yet further development within an otherwise environmentally degraded subdivision is going to do far more to help that

CROZET gazette environment to function better than twenty contiguous acres elsewhere. These regulations are not only senseless, they are also grossly discriminatory to most of the citizens in the county who pay far more in taxes on small pieces of property than do those who own much larger parcels. The sad truth is that people refuse to recognize the true cost to our environment of maintaining unnatural landscapes. And, while wellintentioned, taxpayer-subsidized rain barrels and rain gardens are not sufficient to solve our problems. What we need is an extreme makeover of our developed landscape. Otherwise, there can be no saving of the Chesapeake Bay.

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The Hottest Day of the Year Take a guess: Which is normally the hottest time of year? Is it June 21 when the sun is strongest? Or is it July 4 when the fireworks light up the sky? Or is it July 18 when the heat has built up all summer? If you answered July 18, you are correct. The sun is highest in the sky and strongest on the summer solstice, usually on June 21. But for the next month, we continue to heat up more than we cool off. Eventually, as the sun angle lowers, we begin to lose more heat than we are adding and the temperature cools after July 18. This lag between the stronger sun and the highest temperatures plays out every day, too. The strongest sun occurs at high noon but the afternoon high temperature doesn’t usually happen until 5 p.m. in the summer. With earlier sunset, winter highs tend to occur around 2 p.m. On July 18, our average high is 88

and the average low is 67. Then it’s all downhill until January 18 averages just 45 and 27. June Recap June was the fifth consecutive month with cooler than normal temperatures. The hottest was just 90 on the 12th and 28th. But rain was the real story. Crozet picked up 4.76” of rain in just five days early in the month and just when things started to dry out, another 3.30” fell on June 17. The monthly total of 8.57” was not a record but it does guarantee that the reservoirs won’t run low this summer.

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Pink Ribbon Polo at King Family Vineyards The Pink Ribbon Polo Classic, an annual fundraiser in its ninth year, benefitting the Virginia Breast Care Foundation and the Every Woman’s Life program, was held June 16 at King Family Vineyard in Crozet. Team Flow defeated Team Manchester Capital 10 to 7. Last year the event raised $50,000 to fight breast cancer. Event organizers said they had doubled the number of sponsors for 2013 and are hoping to have raised even more when this year’s numbers are finalized.

starting with the spring 2012 season. JAGS president Michael Kane and Crozet team manager Kimberly Gale secured field time in Crozet for all practices and home games played throughout the seasons. “Being able to play in Crozet makes a big difference to parents in our area when they sign their kids up to play sports” said Kimberly Gale. This year the 9-10 Crozet team (made up entirely of Brownsville students) was able to practice after school across the street at WAHS. The age 7-8 Crozet team practiced on the field behind Crozet Elementary School. The Crozet Little Warriors’ home games (the season has 12 games) were played on Sunday afternoons at the WAHS varsity softball field. Charlottesville teams are coming to Crozet every week to play.

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“The fundraiser was a huge success,” Meier said. “One student brought in her entire penny collection, a group of third-grade BEEs sold lemonade and cookies and then

Eleven of the original 14 girls who played on the first team in 2012 returned for the second season. All but one moved up to the next level, 9-10, and Gale had to form two teams for the 2013 season. “We passed out 1,000 flyers to the three local elementary schools and Henley,” she said. They held three registration nights in January and 26 girls signed up. Three new coaches agreed to take on a second team. Coaches Larry Miles, Julie Smith and Susan Cohen took on the 7-8 level players and fielded a team that made Crozet proud. Coaches Mike Mills, Todd Foster and Lee Gale assisted Ashley Gale with the 9-10 level team. New teams will be formed as needed in order to allow every interested girl in Crozet to play softball, Gale said. If you are interested in playing or coaching girls’ softball in Crozet, send an email to: AeGale@ aol.com or JAGSLLinfo@gmail. com. donated the money, and a kindergartner shared coins she got from the tooth fairy. The whole school is more excited than ever about the new library, and I think they feel a real sense of ownership knowing that they helped buy books to fill the shelves!”

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Literary Virginia

by Clover Carroll | clover@crozetgazette.com

I confess: I’m a two-timer, a book club polygamist. Although I regret missing the Crozet Library Book Group’s discussion of The Echo Maker by Richard Ford Monday, July 8 while I am on vacation, my reading habit has been admirably sustained with Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather, which I just finished reading for my other book club of old Ivy friends. While Cather is best known for her western novels such as O Pioneers! (1913) (also an upcoming Crozet Library Book Group selection), My Antonia (1918), and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which I reviewed here in 2010, she was actually born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, west of Winchester. In 1883, when Cather was nine, her family followed the lure of westward migration to settle in Red Cloud, Nebraska where, fascinated with the sweeping landscape and grueling pioneer lifestyle of the Great Plains, she set her most famous novels. Although written in the modern era, her beautifully written and meticulously researched historical novels celebrate, and to some extent romanticize, the past. A master storyteller, Cather gives us insight into daily life during bygone eras while holding our interest with inventive plots, realistic dialogue, and fully developed characters—especially strong, independent heroines who afford us a feminist perspective on the past. Her clear, graceful prose and her vivid descriptions are a pleasure to read. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours and is recognized as one of the leading American novelists of the 20th century. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, published in 1940, is Cather’s last novel and the only one set in Virginia. Based on family stories, this is a relatively short, accessible, but nuanced book about rural Southern ante-bellum life, especially as it impacted women. Cather takes great care to document 19th century backcountry life, describing work methods, cooking, travel, dress, and social

JULY 2013 customs in meticulous detail. As the novel opens in 1856, we meet Sapphira Colbert, daughter of a well-to-do Loudoun County family, who has married “beneath” her and moved with her new husband Henry to the Mill Farm, a large property she inherited in Back Creek near Winchester. Although neither Henry nor their new neighbors believe in slavery, Sapphira brings with her around twenty slaves, among them her own ladies’ maid Till, whose daughter Nancy was conceived with a visiting white painter from Baltimore. Sapphira, who is unable to walk due to swelling in her legs and feet, is confined to a wheelchair. Thus the stage is set for the main action of the book. It is not surprising that Sapphira, who rules the household with an iron hand, becomes jealous of Till’s mulatto daughter, called “yaller gal” by the other slaves, who has grown into a beautiful young woman. Henry, portrayed as a dutiful and upright man, highly values Nancy’s careful attention to his needs as she maintains the mill house, but views her more as a daughter than as the intimate rival that Sapphira imagines. When she proposes to Henry that they sell Nancy, he won’t hear of it, citing Till’s family’s longstanding loyalty to their own. Determined to “find some other way,” Sapphira invites a rakish, ne’er-do-well nephew to visit. True to form, Martin is strongly attracted to the lovely slave girl and tries repeatedly to molest her. To me, this theme of the complete and appalling vulnerability of slave women, especially attractive ones, to the whimsical desires of plantation men is the lesson of the book. Knowing that if she is raped she herself will be blamed and her life ruined, in desperation Nancy appeals to Sapphira’s widowed daughter, Rachel Blake, who has strong abolitionist sympathies. Through clandestine arrangements and Henry’s financial help, Rachel helps Nancy to escape via the Underground Railroad and to make her way to freedom in Canada. This causes a rift with her mother that seems irreparable. The best kind of book is hard to put down, in part because a compelling plot propels the narrative forward, but also because the world created by the author is so fully-formed and vivid that we

don’t want to leave it. This book succeeds in the first instance, but is not completely successful in the second. Critics have faulted Cather with softening the hardships and violence of slave life; Till and others are treated at part of the family and, when freed late in the book, seem reluctant to leave. Others argue that Cather defies typical plantation stereotypes by portraying a plantation largely run by a woman, and by preventing the rape from happening. I found her chilling and realistic portrayal of Nancy’s powerlessness alone to be heart-rending. Cather takes care to include a full rendition of the middle passage in the story of Old Jezebel’s kidnapping and enslavement in Africa. The problem may arise from the fact that Cather was both writing a loving reminiscence of her childhood home as well as exploring a dark period in her family’s history as slaveholders. Like Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), and other novels set before the Civil War, the novel makes liberal use of the terms darky and the n-word, which may be why it is seldom read in schools today. Otherwise, it would make an appealing middle- or highschool choice, with its threatened, teenaged protagonist and dangerous escape. Lulled into omniscience throughout the book by a third-person narrator, we are pulled up short by a sudden epilogue told in the first person by a child of five years old, witness to events that take place 25 years later. It finally dawns on us as we plow confusedly forward that this child is none other than the author herself, suddenly become a character in her own novel. Through the child Cather’s eyes, we share in the joy and wonder of Nancy’s safe return and reunion with her mother and her rescuer. Here we learn how Nancy’s escape had become the stuff of family legend: “Ever since I could remember anything, I had heard about Nancy.” Through this intimate gesture by the then-famous author, we learn that this and other family stories had been told by older relatives and servants around the kitchen table while sharing “women’s work” such as quilting and knitting. Although the exact relation of Cather to her characters is left vague, it is assumed that the character of Sapphira was based on her great-grandmother.

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