C-VILLE Weekly | July 29 - August 4, 2020

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We’re still spending too much time at home, but that hasn’t stopped us from dreaming. And dreaming big. Imagine getting a free Lampo pizza every single day, FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Maybe you’d like to star in Tavola’s real-life version of the film Big Night (yes, there will be a timpano!). Or how about a private four-course meal for six, prepared by Dean Maupin and Gerry Newman, at the C&O (wine tasting included)? And then there’s the Pearl Island Café-catered garden party with Cultivate Charlottesville. These four items are available during the fourth week (August 5-11) of C-VILLE Serving Up Relief, a four-week fundraiser that continues through August 11 and benefits Cultivate Charlottesville’s launch of a food equity fund.

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TURKISH CELEBRATION AT SULTAN KEBAB There’s nazar (the evil eye), Turkish tea, and henna tattoos. And we’re just getting started when it comes to the traditions you’ll get the 411 on during a Sultan Kebab-hosted family-style dinner party for 30. The evening at Charlottesville’s only Turkish restaurant, where an entire wall is covered by a mural of the Middle Eastern country’s landmarks, will also feature a belly dancer and a history lesson on Turkish cuisine, plus you’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind memento of the night: a custom-made rug. You had us at baba ghanoush!

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Letter to the editor

25 NEWS 9 11 Reflections from those who helped sink the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

12 Conquering the Appalachian Trail, one step at a time.

13 Heyward Community Forest is a “most extraordinary” place.

15 Racial disparities in quality of mental health care.

CULTURE 17 19 The Works: RevArt ensures that creativity is everyone’s business.

20 Essay: The day that ACP doubt turned into joy.

21 Extra: Bird watching takes flight among area youth.

21 Extra: Local citizen scientist helps track climate change.

23 Sudoku 23 Crossword 24 Free Will Astrology

Q&A 25 How have you engaged with nature during the pandemic?

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There is an awful quote taken out of context at the start of the article, that states: “We also call ourselves the pussy posse,” says mixed-media artist and member Sri Kodakalla. “It’s a thing.”

I said it, but I said it immediately after talking about our five core members (Sam Gray, Ramona Martinez, Abigail Wilson, and Laura Lee Gulledge) who have been meeting fairly regularly to do FUCC planning. We, five, call ourselves the pussy posse. It is a thing, but it is representative of only these five members, not of FUCC as an organization.

This statement taken out of context gives the impression that FUCC is not welcome to non-pussy having feminists, which is the exact opposite of what FUCC strives to be (open to all female-identifying, non-binary, and genderqueer folks in the Charlottesville community). We're an intersectional organization and statements like this alienate a significant portion of our community.

We would appreciate, if you could please issue a correction to the online article and issue a correction in print in next week's issue.

Thank you, Sri Kodakalla

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Adam Huffman I suggest to everyone in the community that we band together in strict lockdown for the week of move-in and the week of classes starting. That we do our shopping and necessary errands and commit to strict quarantine for those two weeks at least.

Leena Rose Miller There's more traffic and parked cars on JPA, and other streets near campus. Some locals (including myself) think students are already moved in, or are moving in.

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Last month, I was lucky to be able to head for the hills with two old friends—we spent a long weekend hiking and camping on the Appalachian Trail in southwest Virginia.

We’re all amateur campers. From the top of a mountain, we marveled at a far-off hailstorm, only for it to sweep over us and soak us to the bone. One evening, we chatted with a grizzled, Gandalf-ish through-hiker named Woodstock, who gently mocked us for packing too much food.

At our campsite, we gathered enough twigs to make a small fire, celebrating each delicate flame as evidence of our imperfect survival capabilities.

Mostly, though, we just stared off into the distance. The blue hills on the horizon served as a much-needed reminder that, though our lives have shrunk to the size of our dwellings, the world outside is still huge and full of wonder.

The pandemic isn’t going anywhere any time soon, and getting outdoors is one of the safest activities available to us these days—so this week’s issue of C-VILLE is outdoorsthemed. There’s delightful wilderness to easily and safely explore in the area, even if you can’t slip away for a walk on the AT (page 13). There are also plenty of ways to get involved with local outdoors groups (page 25). And though the news has been bleak lately, environmental activists in the region scored a huge victory this month with the defeat of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (page 11 and 23).

So get outside!—Ben Hitchcock

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IN BRIEF

Richmond arrests Protests continue in Richmond, and police continue to arrest people willy-nilly. This week, journalists for VCU’s student paper The Commonwealth Times, as well as two activists with Charlottesville ties and large social media followings, Molly Conger and Kristopher Goad, were among those detained on dubious grounds. Conger was held overnight, and after her release, tweeted that the police “are trying to break our spirits, but they’re only proving our point.”

Travelers grounded Charlottesville-based educational travel company WorldStrides, one of the larger employers in town, filed for bankruptcy last week. Meanwhile, some UVA students received mailers this week from the study abroad office, advertising future trips. That’s optimistic, as most nations have banned American travelers from entering.

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UVA made national news earlier in the spring when it unexpectedly denied two well-qualified Black faculty members tenure.

Now, the school is eating crow: last week, Dr. Paul Harris, an assistant professor of education, announced that the decision had been overturned, and his tenure case had been approved by provost Liz Magill.

The new bridge over Moores Creek plugs a gap in the Rivanna Trail.

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As the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise, Charlottesville and Albemarle County both decided on Monday to revert to certain Phase Two guidelines. Beginning August 1, masks will be mandatory in public, indoor capacity for restaurants will be capped at 50 percent, and gatherings of more than 50, excluding spontaneous demonstrations, will be prohibited.

eryday access to nature, projects like this support residents’ health, productivity, and prosperity.”

Photographs from the middle of the 20th century show that a wooden footbridge once crossed the creek near where the new bridge sits, but the woolen mill changed hands multiple times over the years, and the original bridge disappeared.

Because the pandemic has upended much of our regular forms of recreation, and made gathering indoors unsafe, the Rivanna Trail has had a significant increase in use in recent months. A trail counter from earlier in the spring noted that this year, the trail has seen around four times as much foot traffic as the same period last year.

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he Rivanna Trail has encircled Charlottesville for more than 20 years. Earlier this month, the trail became a little more complete, when a 140-foot-long pedestrian bridge was lowered into place over Moores Creek, closing one of the few remaining gaps in the trail’s 20-mile loop.

Local environmentalists expressed enthusiasm about the bridge, which was paid for by Albemarle County and the developers working on rehabbing the old woolen mill that overlooks the river.

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Pipeline voices Activists look back on a historic victory

By Ben Hitchcock

The fight is not over even though I won at home—I’m so lucky that I was one of the few that could win at home. My land out in Nelson is not going to be affected anymore.

Time to turn our eyes to the next one. We’re looking at the Mountain Valley Pipeline now.

It is not over, but we’re feeling darn good.

This is how it should work. If our country may turn to a true democracy one day, that’s what it’s all about. The people using their voice. If the majority don’t want it, it shouldn’t be there.

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n July 5, Dominion Energy abruptly canceled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, an $8 billion project that would have carried natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina. Environmental activists of all persuasions spent six years fighting the project before finally prevailing over the gigantic power corporation.

As the victory set in, C-VILLE caught up with some of central Virginia’s anti-pipeline activists, giving them a chance to reflect—and look ahead. The following interviews have been edited for length and clarity.

Ben Cunningham Ben Cunningham is the field director of the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative, a group that used technology and community volunteers to document the construction violations Dominion committed as they started building the pipeline.

John Laury John Laury is the secretary of Friends of Buckingham. He lives in Union Hill, a historically Black community in rural Buckingham County that would have been disrupted by the pipeline.

Where were you when you heard the news?

BC: I was about to bite into a really killer

C-VILLE: Where were you when you heard the news? What was that moment like?

JL: It was amazing to me. I have been pray-

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that there were other states dealing with similar issues that were detrimental to them as well. The pattern was in the areas of people of color, and the poor, lower income areas…When we raised awareness as to what was happening here in Union Hill, that made a difference.

It’s not just a Union Hill issue. It’s a people issue. And as one of the quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King tells us, if people are hurting anywhere in this world, it should be the concern of all of us.

Alice Clair Alice Clair is a local musician who grew up in Nelson County. Her childhood home is less than a mile from where the pipeline would have run.

What was your reaction to the news?

AC: I was screaming and crying. No exag-

geration, I was screaming and crying. Just, ultimate elation—and also relief. I always said it wasn’t going to happen. But for that to come true is a relief.

You’re a musician. You wrote some songs about the pipeline. What role do you think music played in the effort over the last six years?

Robin and Linda [Williams] are songwriters in Middlesex County, and they wrote “We Don’t Want Your Pipeline.” And that has become a classic for us in Virginia, and maybe across the U.S., fighting pipelines.

When I was in high school, Dominion would set up information sessions for the public in our gym. We would go in and be protesting in my high school, people would bring their guitars and play that song.

I think music, it motivates in every kind of way. If you can get a bunch of people together singing a song, that’s a great way to energize people towards a common good.

Can music help translate this victory into something even bigger?

I had friends travel out to fight against the Keystone and the DAPL pipelines. There’s been so much music that’s come out of that.

Not only using old folk songs of protest, but making new ones.

Can the win against the ACP set an example for activists fighting other projects?

We’ve got, now, an example that we can win, against the largest political contributor to both parties in our state, arguably the most powerful corporation in our state, and one of the most powerful utilities in the country.

There are countless injustices around the world. I believe in starting where we live— it’s what we’re most familiar with, where we can be most powerful, and where we can effect the most change.

“Death by a thousand cuts—we all believe that’s what it took.”

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From where I live now, I was raised across the road. I would be the third generation raised on that 52 acres. We grew greens, and always a garden every year. Fruit trees. That generation believed in raising their food, preparing in summer for the winter.

I enjoyed the four seasons. I enjoyed the people and the natural earth. Spent a long time in the woods. Ate a lot of fruit off the trees the other generation had planted.

We depend on an underground water source, we have wells, that’s the source of water for our home.

As we spoke on panels in different areas of the state—some out of state—we realized

Dominion began clearing trees to make way for the pipeline in 2018, but have now abandoned the project.

We would never claim that this was all one group or all one strategy’s effort. Death by a thousand cuts—we all believe that’s what it took. It’s gone from Supreme Court hearings and all sorts of different legal battles, to people [protesting] in the trees trying to stop this and other pipelines, to science-and-technology-monitoring programs like ours, as well as strategies like political pressure. Really, community organizing is the bottom line. …The story of environmental work in this country is the project never dies, people get burnt out, and so on. So I’ve just been plugging away at it, as have hundreds and maybe a thousand other people in various different ways.

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Can you describe your home in Union Hill a little bit? What role do you think Union Hill played in the victory against the pipeline?

What was the final straw for Dominion?

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ing about this. We have been in the struggle for—working on our sixth year. Really, I was elated. I felt the load was lifted off of me.

But at the same time I wasn’t sure that what I heard was true.

Then my mind began to reflect back, to one of the Board of Supervisors meetings two years back, when our pastor Paul Wilson spoke. Dominion was in control at the time.

He gave the example of David and Goliath. David, a little shepherd boy, with smooth stones and a slingshot, going against Goliath and all of his weaponry. But David was going in the name of God, and Goliath was going on his strength.

We were always talked to as if this was a done deal. We were even told, “you’re wasting your time. You can’t go against Dominion.” This is what we were against.

sandwich at 3:12pm on Sunday when my intern with my Pipeline CSI program, Virginia Paschal, texted me, all capital letters, CONGRATULATIONS!…Then she sent me a link to an article about it. Then I spent the next half hour just crying in joy and disbelief.

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illions of people hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail annually. Thousands take to the trail in Charlottesville’s own Blue Ridge backyard. But only a few hundred ambitious adventurers make the full 2,190-mile trek between Georgia and Maine.

Last year, longtime Charlottesville resident Jesse Smyth completed the arduous journey.

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I’ve been hiking pretty much my whole life.

I lived in Charlottesville since I was 2 until college, and did a lot of the day hikes around Charlottesville, everything from Ragged Mountain and Sugar Hollow to Humpback Rocks and Shenandoah National Park. My favorite day hike is Bearfence Mountain. It’s a fun rock scramble and has some nice views.

My first backpacking trip was when I was around 10, in the Adirondacks. The next year, that’s when I decided I was going to hike the AT, Georgia to Maine. I’m 24 now and finished my hike last year. I started on March 15 and finished August 14—right in the middle in terms of speed. I wasn’t trying to rush. At first I wanted to take my time and do eight to 12 miles per day, but I didn’t keep that up. We did a 14-mile day by day four. There were a couple stretches where

Jesse Smyth celebrated completing the entire 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail last year when she summited Mount Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine.

we didn’t take a zero—a full rest day—for 20-some days. We were just going.

On the trail I had a few different trail families, or tramilies. I had been with a group for the first 300-some miles, the first couple states, and then there was a norovirus outbreak, which is common on the trail. Norovirus doesn’t get killed by hand sanitizer, and it spreads easily. I was in this group, and they all got sick, but I did my first 20-mile day and outran it. Only two of that tramily ever caught up again.

Most hikers on the AT get trail names.

My tramilies gave me two trail names. The first was Double Stuff, because I started out carrying two puffy coats, and the second was Fumbles, because I dropped things a lot, particularly my water filters.

For the last part of the trail, one of the women I was hiking with had the idea for all of us to take a summit picture on Mount Katahdin in animal onesies. We initially pushed back a bit, but in the end it was a great idea. She asked her boyfriend to buy them all, and he sent them to us the day before we summited. We got our normal pic first, then we got a group pic. I was a kangaroo.

On the aftermath I’m still in touch with some of the people I met on the trail. In my final tramily, there were seven or eight of us. We still have an active group chat. I preferred company to hiking alone. I had about five days completely by myself and decided that wasn’t for me.

Last year, there was a murder on the trail about 150 miles south of me in Virginia.

While it shook the trail community, it didn’t ruin my hike, but it increased my awareness of my surroundings. The vast majority of the people I met were really cool. There was only one time I felt uncomfortable about someone I ran into on the trail, but I was able to add a few miles and hike into town.

I definitely would recommend a thruhike to others. I don’t know that I would do the same one. I was pretty tired right when I finished and thought that there was no way I would do a five-month hike again.

Now that I am a year out, I have started to think that maybe the Pacific Crest Trail wouldn’t be so crazy after all.

“I’m still in touch with some of the people I met on the trail. In my final tramily, there were seven or eight of us. We still have an active group chat.” JESSE SMYTH

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The city’s newest wilderness Right outside town, community forest will offer a wild escape

By Erika Howsare

The Heyward Community Forest, near Ragged Mountain, is full of beautiful spots to explore.

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prickly pear cactus grows alongside lichens, mosses, and stunted trees. The CUH report stresses the rarity of this habitat—with less than 20 sizable, healthy examples known worldwide—and calls this habitat type “the crown jewel of ecosystems in our region.”

These barrens are found next to xeric woodlands, also locally rare, with widelyspaced trees over shrubs like huckleberry and blueberry. Trails will skirt around these remarkable habitats, offering visual access from a spur trail while protecting the preserve from the impacts of human traffic.

Floyd and Gensic are both excited about the potential for this property to host environmental education, given its easy accessibility from UVA and every primary and secondary school in town. “It’s pretty special because of its proximity to the urban core,” says Floyd. “It’s a resource for the citizens of Charlottesville to come and reboot, and there’s a lot to learn in the Ragged Mountains. Every time we look, we see something new.”

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The ground cover is dominated by [rocky] outcrops that are dome-shaped and flat. It’s just the most extraordinary forest.

most people realize, and what he calls a “riproaring stream” that he hopes will be closely approached by the new trails. “This stream reaches a steep gradient on the east side of the property, so there’s falls and slides and a geologic element that really fills the air with sound and smells and everything associated with a mountain stream,” he says.

Along the creek is evidence of human activity from the past—remnants of drylaid stone buildings. “What we’ve come to understand is the families that lived in the Ragged Mountains had very little access to resources and they made do with what they had on their land,” Floyd says. “That produced an architectural signature that is unique in this area, possibly unique to the Raggeds.”

Finally, there’s a combination of habitat types the CUH identified as unusual enough to merit protection as a preserve within the community forest. One is an environment known as a Piedmont mafic barren, which features exposed bedrock on which native

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dome-shaped and flat. It’s just the most extraordinary forest.”

Associated with these rocky places are occasional old-growth trees—not especially huge ones, stunted by the shallow soil, but up to 300 years old, spared by the loggers of previous generations precisely because they were small and gnarled.

The property also includes small stretches of grassland, which Floyd points out were once a lot more widespread in Virginia than

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ust a quick drive from the most urban sections of Charlottesville is a unique wild environment—acres of boulder forests, sunny woodlands where blueberries grow, and a creek with architectural ruins along its banks. It’s all part of a 144-acre property called the Heyward Community Forest, snugged against the Ragged Mountain Reservoir. The city acquired the land last November, and once trails are completed, it will offer a set of new adventures to local hikers.

“It feels like Shenandoah National Park out there, but you don’t have to drive 20 miles to get to it,” says Chris Gensic, the city’s parks and trails planner. He first became aware that the property was for sale about five years ago when he spotted a real estate sign while helping to rebuild Ragged Mountain trails after the expansion of the reservoir. “We thought it would be nice,” he remembers, “if that could be purchased as an adjacent property to Ragged Mountain”—already a favorite outdoor escape for city dwellers.

Along with the Piedmont Environmental Council, Gensic approached the landowner, a member of the Heyward family, the clan that had already donated the nearby Foxhaven Farm property to UVA. Through a community forest grant from the USDA, written

by Gensic, the city secured about $600,000— roughly half the appraised value of the property—and the owner agreed to donate the rest of the value.

“Chris is a bulldog,” says Devin Floyd, of the Center for Urban Habitats, which completed a natural resource inventory on the property in February. “He’ll have a vision and just keep going until he figures out how to do it.” In this case, the Heyward Community Forest became part of a sweeping swath of public land straddling I-64 and anchored by the reservoir—a place for solitary hikers and birders, naturalists, state ecologists, and schoolkids alike.

“There’s a big educational component to this,” says Gensic. Eventually he’d like to see a pavilion on the property for school groups to use, but the more immediate goal is to create trails. CUH’s survey work found a number of special features on the property that the trail design will showcase and protect.

Floyd emphasizes that the Ragged Mountains are a special environment—a higheraltitude terrain, rising from surrounding plains, where the underlying geology makes for strong biodiversity. At the Heyward property, his team cataloged plant and animal species, mapping the different habitat types that form a patchwork over the property. The CUH report declares this forest “uncommonly rich and varied.” Asked what’s notable about it, Floyd first mentions an unusually large collection of rock outcrops north of Reservoir Road.

“We find patches of that,” he says, “but we don’t find 20 acres of that. The ground cover is dominated by outcrops that are

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Region Ten isn’t the only social service provider in Charlottesville that’ has demonstrated racial bias. An independent 2019 report on the city’s foster care system showed that Black and multiracial children were referred to child welfare services at a higher rate than white children, and that “some racial groups compared to others” experienced “less favorable outcomes” once within the system.

Instead of relying on exsiting social service institutions, Anderson—alongside local advocacy nonprofit Partner for Mental Health—plans to create a working group of peers, professionals, and other stakeholders from diverse backgrounds “to reimagine mental health without police intervention.”

The group will seek to understand the community’s needs and listen to the stories of “our

“There was a gap in racial empathy.”

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most marginalized people who have engaged with our police while in mental distress,” she says. It will also study other mobile crisis units in other places and provide recommendations to City Council. The group hopes that starting from scratch will allow the new agency to focus on its work, without having to fight against biases in established institutions.

In recent years, Region Ten has created a team to lead its equity efforts, which plans to provide implicit racial bias training, among other goals and initiatives. It’s also looking to hire and retain more diverse staff.

“Region Ten recognizes that this is a longterm and multi-faceted commitment,” adds Jennings. “We will continue to press forward.”

While Anderson is in support of expanding additional behaviorial health services through defunding the police, she believes Region Ten and other existing social service systems need to fix their “implicit biases” before recieving more money. “You can’t throw a band-aid on something that’s more like a gaping wound,” she says.

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ince the violent arrest of an unhoused man on the Downtown Mall earlier this month, Defund Cville Police— along with numerous other activists and community members—have continued to call for the creation of a local mobile crisis unit, which would respond to emergency calls that the police are not equipped to handle.

Lori Wood, director of emergency and short term stabilization services at Region Ten Community Service Board, has expressed public support for the creation of such a unit, which she says could answer some calls related to mental health or substance abuse.

But radically shifting the city’s budget will not bring an end to systemic racism and oppression, specifically within mental health services, warns Black mental health advocate Myra Anderson.

“It’s moving money from one system that has historically and systemically not treated Black people right, [to] another system that has the same legacy,” says Anderson about Region Ten, a public agency—funded by local, state, and federal dollars—providing mental health, intellectual disability, and substance use services to Charlottesville and surrounding counties.

“Region Ten doesn’t need to be the go-to person [for the mobile crisis unit],” says Anderson, a former client who later became a board member and peer support specialist at the agency.

Former client Quezeann Williams also attests to these biases. At 10 years old, she says she was forced to go to Region Ten without her mother’s consent after she entered foster care, and was put on medications that “never made her feel good” and caused her to gain a lot of weight, among other side effects.

“I feel like because I was Black, what I said to the white people did not matter. It was their words against anything I felt, needed,

or wanted,” says Williams, who graduated from Charlottesville High School this year.

“I struggle from anxiety due to this being more so trauma than anything...It was one of the worst experiences I ever went through.”

Anderson began receiving services at Region Ten as a child in the ‘90s, and was diagnosed with PTSD and depression. After graduating from college, she says she returned to the agency for adult services, but was inflicted with even more trauma.

“The system caused me to be subjected to everything from cultural incompetency, to racial unawareness...to microaggressions,” she says. “There was a gap in racial empathy.

And that has been consistent throughout the time I received services.”

These problems in mental health care systems exist nationwide. Across the country, Black people, indigenous people, and people of color are more likely to receive poor quality of care and have their services end prematurely, among other disparities, according to the American Counseling Association.

Per federal law, Region Ten cannot comment on individual cases. However, it’s been working for several years to expand its cultural awareness and sensitivity as part of its strategic plan, according to community relations coordinator Joanna Jennings. “[We] offered staff and management the opportunity to attend a local racial and cultural humility training in the fall of 2018 and 2019,” she says. “These two training sessions began a journey for Region Ten that has opened up the conversation of systemic racism at all levels of the agency.”

In 2016, Anderson filed a formal complaint about her treatment with the Charlottesville Human Rights Commission. The complaint made its way up to the Virginia Human Rights Committee, and the following year, it ruled that Region Ten had unlawfully prevented her from receiving services for six years as retaliation for her complaints, slamming the agency with multiple violations.

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Josh Mayo might be the hardest-working promoter of local music. For the past three-and-a-half years, Mayo has been hosting weekly open mics, giving new artists exposure, and welcoming respected players to the stage. He didn’t skip a beat during recent shutdowns, putting the showcase online and continuing to welcome a wide range of guests, from Sam Colony, Hi Castle, and The Musical Suspects (Matt Horn Ferguson and Andy Rowland), to Karen Collins, Susan Munson, Tyler Dick, and Joe Kaltenbach. “I’ve been blessed to know so many of my favorite musicians in this sweet town of Charlottesville,” says Mayo. The series is back to live performances for a small patio audience, while remaining online. Free, 8:30pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St. 234-4436.

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Prior to moving to Charlottesville, she worked in Hong Kong, where she helped develop plans for a large shopping mall.

The team installed an art gallery within the space, so that “people could shop and enjoy the artwork together.” When Pan saw the enormous success of the mall, which she says brought in 120,000 customers daily, she started thinking about the common threads between art and commercialism.

Pan wants to give a home to the creatives who need it most, she says, and who might not know much about the business aspect of the industry. “I want to disrupt the industry and make the art world more like democracy,” Pan says. To serve this mission, RevArt’s clients tend to be emerging, rather than established artists.

“Business is a pain for [artists],” she says.

“They like creation…but they also want to make a living.” That’s where RevArt comes in. The startup handles IP licensing for its clients and helps them make commercial connections. Really, Pan says, the goal is to expose inexperienced artists to a profitability they might not otherwise reach. “The whole IP licensing market grows 10 percent every year. People don’t know that.”

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While her clients might be producing at a greater rate than usual, Pan concedes that the pandemic has certainly slowed the growth of RevArt and made communication more difficult. Artists based both in Charlottesville and in Hong Kong (where the startup’s two office spaces are located) have asked Pan to come to their studios in person as opposed to virtual visits. “People hate Zoom!” she says.

She uses the necessary shift to technology to focus more on RevArt’s potential “digital assets. People…are social animals. We still want to see the artwork. How to leverage technology to accomplish that—that’s the new challenge for me.”

Pan hopes that making artwork more available online will also have the effect of broadening its audience, a goal that returns her to the idea of “democracy.” The art industry, she says, is “very far away” from day-to-day life. “It’s being controlled by a few groups of very wealthy people. We want to make it more accessible to ordinary people.”

All of these plans are for further down the line. For now, RevArt’s main goal is that of any small business during difficult times: “to survive.”

It’s hard enough for a startup to make it in a “normal” economy, Pan says. She mentions her Darden peers taking Wall Street or consulting jobs rather than striking out on their own, but stresses that the security isn’t worth it to her. “I’m spending my savings to do this. But I want to do this, and I see value.”

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Hallelujah. What’s next?

The defeat of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is only the beginning

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n July 5, my family and I were in the car together when we had a media experience that feels oldfashioned and rare these days. All of us, at the same time, heard the headline on the radio: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been canceled.

There followed a few seconds of disbelief, then many minutes of celebration. After so much awful, awful news this year—after seasons in which the news has felt like a constant morass of overlapping grief and confusion, experienced mostly in private, while hunched over a tiny screen—this was a shout of clarity, unity, joy: a mini-version of the nation’s communal viewing of the moon landing. Soon enough, the exclamatory texts from friends and neighbors started arriving, and we celebrated electronically, too. But we kept saying it out loud to each other, delightedly, in person: “No pipeline!”

Those two words had suddenly, magically become a statement of fact rather than a pleading slogan on thousands of blue-andwhite yard signs and banners dotting Nelson County, where we’ve lived for years, with NO PIPELINE as a constant refrain in our landscape.

Like virtually all of Nelson’s residents, we wholeheartedly agreed that a land-grabbing, water-polluting pipeline slashing across our county was a heartbreaking prospect.

My kids made handwritten versions of the signs and posted them in their room. Adult activists (many working through the group Friends of Nelson) made art, wrote songs, cataloged native plants in the pipeline’s path, symbolically walked the route, drew maps, blogged, gathered signatures, campaigned for anti-pipeline supervisors, held meetings and demonstrations, and relentlessly spread the word.

I supported all of it but, frankly, I wasn’t betting on their success. When two wide swaths of trees were clear-cut in 2018 near the entrance to Wintergreen Resort, despite the fact that many legal challenges were still pending, it seemed inevitable that the behemoth energy company, not the private citizens, would win out.

Part of the reason I felt a sense of hopelessness was that I’ve seen the crushing power of the energy industry in my home county, in southwestern Pennsylvania. That region, underlain by the vast natural gas formation called the Marcellus Shale, hosts the other side of fracking: the wells that supply the gas which would have flowed through the ACP. Over the last decade or so, the infrastructure of fracking has marched over my native landscape like an unstoppable dystopian monster.

The dissolution of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project defines a sharp contrast between communities. Central Virginia activists worked hard to fight the ACP, whereas people in southwestern Pennsylvania (right) have mostly welcomed the fracking industry, seeing it as a finanical lifeline.

It’s a hilly, scrappy place; I grew up seeing sheep farms and cornfields, junkyards and railroads. Coal and steel had left their own deep scars, but the first frack wells I noticed were still jarring: hills brutally decapitated in order to create flat wellpads, acres of heavy gravel, wide new roads cut into the soft slopes so that large trucks could roar into the fields, bringing water that would be mixed with proprietary chemicals and injected underground.

The economics of the situation in rural, post-industrial Pennsylvania are such that many people there are glad for the gas boom.

It brought jobs, even wealth in some cases.

That the jobs probably won’t last forever, or that the wealth comes in exchange for risking one’s drinking water, are facts that are often brushed aside. When you’ve been ground down for generations by the boom-and-bust cycles of extractive industry, it’s hard to say no to high-paying jobs or lucrative gas leases.

After some years during which I saw more and more frack wells on every visit home (Washington County now contains 1,146, more than any other in the state) I started to notice pipelines, too. More clear-cut hillsides, more country roads torn up so that pipelines could pass underneath, more silt fences holding back erosion. It defined the lie that natural gas is “clean” energy.

All this has been on my mind as I’ve followed the saga of the ACP. Make no mistake:

I’m one hundred percent glad that Dominion and Duke pulled the plug on this; it would have meant nothing but degradation for central Virginia and the environment we all share. But I can’t help seeing the contrast between the way people in central Virginia furiously fought the ACP and the way people in southwestern Pennsylvania have mostly welcomed fracking.

Separated by only a few hundred miles, the two regions are very different. The wealth, the value placed on scenic beauty and tourism, the generally high education level—all these things mark greater Charlottesville as distinct from my Rust Belt home. I’ve come to realize that it’s a privilege to be able to oppose fossil fuel development, to be able to see beyond purported shortterm benefits for locals. Even for those anti-ACP activists who are members of marginalized groups—like the residents of Union Hill in Buckingham County, a historic African American community that would have suffered terrible air-quality impacts from the presence of an ACP compressor station—there is power in being connected to a larger movement of people with the means and the time to mount a sustained, sophisticated resistance.

Buckingham even got a visit from Al Gore in 2019; he denounced the proposed compressor station. Meanwhile, New York-based writer Eliza Griswold published Amity and

Prosperity, a searing embedded account of water pollution and poverty set in the very village in which I grew up. Her book won the Pulitzer in 2019, but fracking in Washington County continues. Whereas Charlottesville has a certain ongoing national cachet—indelibly stamped on every nickel—there is something chronically invisible about greater Pittsburgh, and the Rust Belt, in American discourse. Like Appalachia, they get mentioned occasionally, almost anthropologically, and then dropped again.

Now that victory has come on the local scale, the questions have to expand in scope.

Why was the pipeline proposed in the first place? What are the priorities for financial investment and political muscle among different energy paradigms (including conservation, a latent “resource” that is far from fully tapped)? What can local activists—who have now proven their efficacy—do to influence the broader conversation about where we get our power?

The answers will have bearing on our local environment, of course, but even more directly on places that, compared to this wealthy, exceptional region, are downtrodden, ignored, polluted, impoverished, and miseducated. Hallelujah: NO PIPELINE has become a reality. NO FRACKING (and while we’re at it, NO MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL, NO NEW COAL PLANTS, YES SOLAR and YES WIND) should be next.

Whereas Charlottesville has a certain ongoing national cachet—indelibly stamped on every nickel—there is something chronically invisible about greater Pittsburgh, and the Rust Belt, in American discourse.

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usk. A cold fitful breeze. Quiet except for our footfalls on dry leaves. Far above, a hawk glides, dark against the twilight sky.

“Cooper’s,” says Theo after a swift glance.

Theo is leading our group along the Rivanna Trail in search of woodcocks. It’s sunset in spring—courting time.

Theo picks a spot on the border between a large cut hayfield and the woods. We hunker down, breathing on our cold hands, and wait.

“Peent! Peent!”

It’s the male woodcock’s call, a prelude to a remarkable display. The bird flies upwards in a spiral, his wings making a twittering sound, and then descends with a gentle chirping. He will do this over and over, charming whatever female woodcock he can lure out.

We wait, trying not to stir.

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The USA National Phenology Network enlists citizen scientists to help gather information about climate change through the observation of plants budding, blooming, and dropping seeds, and the connections to insect and animal migration patterns.

surprisingly dramatic when I had data sheets in my hand (I marked it all down on paper and entered the data manually, but another option is to use the program’s mobile app).

Posthumus says that the data collected around the country is a real resource for science. “All the data submitted are freely available,” she says. “You can filter for specific data sets, species, life cycle events. We’re up to 82 peer-reviewed publications by scientists that have used the data.”

I found that having a reason to check on these plants every few days got me to walk in the woods more often, putting me in closer touch with the progress of the season, and acquainting me with the plants themselves. Next year, I plan to add more species to my list, and I’ll make sure some of those are part of Nature’s Notebook’s special campaigns. The Nectar Connectors campaign, for one, aims to collect data specifically on plants that monarch butterflies and other pollinators use for food. Knowing when milkweed blooms, for example, can help scientists predict whether the timing of monarch migrations will continue to align with when their food is available.

All this can help with future adaptation, Posthumus says. “National parks and national wildlife refuges are using the data to help them answer their own questions about how the onset of spring has changed in parks and refuges,” she says. “It can help them think about what’s going to happen in the future.”—Erika Howsare

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“Phenology” might not be a word you use in everyday conversation, but it’s one of the keys to tracking climate change. The term refers to the study of timing in the natural world—the dates when plants flower, leaves emerge, seeds drop, and animals migrate. The USA National Phenology Network is building a stable of citizen scientists to track events like those across the country. I joined up this spring, and the observations I’ve gathered have become part of a database used by scientists worldwide.

“Phenology is a really great indicator of climate change impacts, but we don’t have a good way to do standardized monitoring across the country,” says Erin Posthumus with USANPN. Her agency—which is based at the University of Arizona—was created in 2007 and launched the citizen scientist program, Nature’s Notebook, two years later. Since that time, 18,000 people nationwide have taken part by keeping a close eye on certain plants and animals and reporting their observations.

Among those are many groups at schools and nature centers, but also “backyard observers”—individuals, like me. When I signed up with Nature’s Notebook, I chose four plant species that grow on my property, so I could keep up with regular observations without having to get in the car. These included two trees (poplar and sassafras), one shrub (spicebush), and one wildflower (bloodroot).

As I began observing in March, everything still looked wintry, but soon things started to happen. Bloodroot leaves emerged. Poplar buds appeared. It all felt

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“See him?” whispers Theo, gesEzra started going on club turing up and right. Some of outings in elementary school, when he got interested in pereus are quick enough, others miss the elusive target. We wait grine falcons—“how fast they again. The cold settles into could fly, and the whole DDT toes and ears; no more calls. story.” (The peregrine was Dark sets in. We head back pushed almost to extinction by along the trail, using our flashthe now-banned DDT insectilights sparingly, stopping at cide.) He enjoyed both the sharintervals while Theo plays owl ing and the competition, spotcalls on his phone. Faintly, a ting the most birds or the most screech owl replies. It’s like unusual species. Ezra’s interest many other bird walks—exsparked Theo’s curiosity, and cept that most of our group is now both are avid birders and still in grade school, and Theo, knowledgeable naturalists. our intrepid and knowledge“When kids get interested able leader, is 14. This is the in something, that naturally Blue Ridge Young Birders Club. leads to more interests—from Theo’s brother Ezra, 16, is birds to habitats, seasonal also along tonight, and says changes, photography,” their the club started in 2012 with mother says.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else,” wrote playwright Tom Stoppard. That’s ripe advice for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when every exit can indeed be an entrance somewhere else—but only if you believe in that possibility and are alert for it.

So please dissolve your current assumptions about the current chapter of your life story so that you can be fully open to new possibilities that could become available.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all,” wrote Libran author and historian Hannah Arendt.

She implied that thinking only with the head may spawn monsters and demons. Mere conceptualization is arid and sterile if not interwoven with the wisdom of the soul and the body’s earthy intuitions. Ideas that are untempered by feelings and physical awareness can produce poor maps of reality. In accordance with astrological omens, I ask you to meditate on these empowering suggestions. Make sure that as you seek to understand what’s going on, you draw on all your different kinds of intelligence.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov.21): “I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army,” says singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco.

I think that goal is within sight for you, Scorpio. Your power over yourself has been increasing lately. Your ability to manage your own moods and create your own sweet spots and define your own fate is as robust as I have seen it in a while. What do you plan to do with your enhanced dominion? What special feats might you attempt? Are there any previously impossible accomplishments that may now be possible?

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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your meditation for the coming weeks comes to you courtesy of author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

“We can never have enough of nature,” he wrote. “We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): “Notice what no one else notices and you’ll know what no one else knows,” says actor Tim Robbins. That’s perfect counsel for you right now, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your perceptiveness will be at a peak in the coming weeks. You’ll have an ability to discern half-hidden truths that are invisible to everyone else. You’ll be aggressive in scoping out what most people don’t even want to become aware of. Take advantage of your temporary superpower! Use it to get a lucid grasp of the big picture—and cultivate a more intelligent approach than those who are focused on the small picture and the comfortable delusions.

and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.” Oh, how I hope you will heed Thoreau’s counsel, Sagittarius. You would really benefit from an extended healing session amidst natural wonders. Give yourself the deep pleasure of exploring what wildness means to you.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Faith Baldwin has renounced the “forgive and forget” policy. She writes, “I think one should forgive and remember. If you forgive and forget, you’re just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look upon what you remember and know you’ve forgiven is achievement.” That’s the approach I recommend for you right now, Pisces. Get the relief you need, yes: Forgive those who have trespassed against you. But also: Hold fast to the lessons you learned through those people so you won’t repeat them again later.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author and activist bell hooks (who doesn’t capitalize her name) has taught classes at numerous American universities. She sometimes writes about her experiences there, as in this passage: “My students tell me, ‘we don’t want to love!

We’re tired of being loving!’ And I say to them, if you’re tired of being loving, then you haven’t really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.” I wanted you to know her thoughts, Capricorn, because I think you’re in a favorable position to demonstrate how correct she is; to dramatically boost your own strength through the invigorating power of your love.

Aries (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is renowned for his buoyancy.

In one of his famous lines, he wrote, “I am awaiting, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder.” Here’s what I have to say in response to that thought: Your assignment, as an Aries, is not to sit there and wait, perpetually and forever, for a renaissance of wonder. Rather, it’s your job to embody and actualize and express, perpetually and forever, a renaissance of wonder. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time for you to rise to new heights in fulfilling this aspect of your life-long assignment.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Langston Hughes was a pioneering and prolific African American author and activist who wrote in four different genres and was influential in boosting other Black writers. One of his big breaks as a young man came when he was working as a waiter at a banquet featuring the famous poet Vachel Lindsay. Hughes managed to leave three of his poems on Lindsay’s table. The great poet loved them and later lent his clout to boosting Hughes’ career. I suspect you might have an opening like that sometime soon, Aquarius—even if it won’t be quite as literal and hands-on. Be ready to take advantage. Cultivate every connection that may become available.

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Taurus (April 20-May 20): I live in Northern California on land that once belonged to the indigenous Coast Miwok people. They were animists who believed that soul and sentience animate all animals and plants as well as rocks, rivers, mountains—everything, really. Their food came from hunting and gathering, and they lived in small bands without centralized political authority. According to one of their creation stories, coy-

ote and silver fox made the world by singing and dancing it into existence. Now I invite you to do what I just illustrated: Find out about and celebrate the history of the people and the place where you live. From an astrological perspective, it’s a favorable time to get in touch with roots and foundations.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): “When I look down, I miss all the good stuff, and when I look up, I just trip over things,” says singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. I wonder if she has tried an alternate approach: looking straight ahead. That’s what I advise for you in the coming weeks, Gemini.

In other words, adopt a perspective that will enable you to detect regular glimpses of what’s above you and what’s below you—as well as what’s in front of you. In fact, I suggest you avoid all extremes that might distract you from the big picture. The truth will be most available to you if you occupy the middle ground.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): The Italian word nottivago refers to “night roamers”: people who wander around after dark. Why do they do it? What do they want to accomplish? Maybe their ramblings have the effect of dissolving stuck thoughts that have been plaguing them. Maybe it’s a healing relief to indulge in the luxury of having nowhere in particular to go and nothing in particular to do; to declare their independence from the obsessive drive to get things done. Meandering after sundown may stir up a sense of wild freedom that inspires them to outflank or outgrow their problems.

I bring these possibilities to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming days will be an excellent time to try them out.

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How have you engaged with nature during the pandemic?

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Part of the reason I moved back to Virginia three years ago (from semi-desert in the Northwest) was to be surrounded by nature here. I put a pan of birdseed out and the deer, birds, squirrels, even the occasional fox come running.

Pulling invasive from my long neglected backyard gardens... and performing crape murder! (Severe pruning)

I’ve been spending a lot of time biking around town. I love biking, but was always intimidated by the hills here in town so I never rode here until this year. Turns out, I’ve never loved the city more than I do when I’m on a bike. It’s a lot more delightful and accessible than it seems in a car!

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Feeding a feral kitten and my reward? getting bitten by chiggers.

I’ve been making friends in the backyard.

Have taken the dogs hiking almost every weekend. And since I’m teleworking now, I make it a point to take my FULL lunch hour outside in the yard or in the garden.

I have engaged with human nature, found unexpected beauty, but also unearthed poisonous biters, voracious grubs, and vicious stingers.

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he past few months have been busy ones for live music. No, not for the kind we go hear in the club or the concert hall, but yes for the kind we make for ourselves in our living rooms and on our front porches.

With live music venues closed due to Covid-19, the music making has shifted to home studios, couches and rocking chairs—and computer screens. The app we’d never heard of until a few months ago, the one we love to hate but would hate to be without—Zoom, of course—is now the site of concerts, lessons, jam sessions, and all manner of musical merrymaking.

The music economy may be dire right now, but the music hasn’t died and the party isn’t over; it has only shifted lo-

cales. Music lessons in particular are still happening all over Charlottesville. Let’s visit a few local groups and individuals dedicated to teaching music, and see what they do in normal times and what they’re up to now.

The Front Porch At The Front Porch in Charlottesville, Pete Vigour and other devotees of oldtime acoustic Americana have seen little drop-off in the number of eager learners.

“So far, we’ve had really positive feedback regarding online lessons,” Vigour says.

“People still value connecting with their instructors and seeing them weekly.”

Teaching on Zoom, Vigour says, has had its own learning curve. “We started right away in mid-March, so there was really no break in the class. We went straight from regular lessons one week

LOCAL MUSIC LESSONS IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD to Zoom lessons the next. It’s been challenging and of course everybody’s had technical issues, but they’ve gradually learned. Many of the teachers are keeping all their students.”

It’s no surprise that Vigour himself has been teaching music for 30 years, not when he grew up in Waynesboro playing fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and ukulele. “There were four kids in my family and all four of us played as young kids and experimented a lot,” he remembers.

“There were always instruments lying around the house and we were encouraged to make noise with them.”

Church choir and various schoolrelated musical groups supplemented what Vigour was learning at home, and then in high school, in the late 60s, he joined another student’s jazz band, playing big band tunes by luminaries like Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. “At that time there were a lot of people in their 50s, say, that had done ballroom dancing, maybe had courted just before or after World War II and had done a lot of dancing to the big bands. So, there was actually a lot of interest in that kind of music.”

Later, Vigour recalls, “I started getting interested in the old-time musicians that were in my area and learning about the traditional fiddle music that had been right there, that I had never really known about.”

In normal times Vigour gives individual private lessons for kids and adults on old time and folk fiddle, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and dulcimer, pretty much the same array of instruments he first took up as a kid. On Monday nights he conducts a jam session, typically with ten to twenty people.

Vigour also holds several all-ages classes, including one covering the standard repertory for string band music. A class called Rise Up Singing is based on a songbook of the same name first pub-

“It was such a joy showing up to the various locations each week and getting to make music with excited kids,” he says now. “I think we did a good job of inspiring confidence and joy around making music together.”

B# Music Over at B# Music on Woodbrook Drive, Bill Sanderson teaches piano, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and ukulele, all in private, one-on-one sessions, all now on Zoom, Skype, or FaceTime. “It’s a challenge, but it’s good,” Sanderson says.

Sanderson’s uncle played guitar, his grandmother played bassoon, and his aunt was a voice teacher; all went to music college. “I started taking lessons when I was probably 14 or 15,” he says, “in upstate New York, from a guy named Carmen Caramanica—he was Lou Rawls’ musical director.” He himself began teaching in 2003 and maintains an average of about 50 students, nowadays, with guitar and piano being the most popular instruments.

Learning to play an instrument, Sanderson affirms, “is a great feeling. It’s so easy to click on a YouTube link and let it show you how to play a song, but it’s not that easy to actually play the instrument.

You have to put in work, time, and effort, and when you really work at it, and you play something, it’s very rewarding. It’s one of my favorite things to do all day.”

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“With our guitar students, whether it’s a classic rock song or just a song they’ve heard on the radio, they can bring that in and within a couple of lessons they can get it completely under their belts, and then that kind of branches them into other music.”

The Center for Vocal Study At The Center for Vocal Study, the goal is to let the music branch from body to soul. “When we get into exploring the physical voice, it invites a conversation about the metaphysical voice as well,” says founder Heather Hightower. “How are we showing up in our lives; are we sharing the gifts that we have inside of us?

“The Center for Vocal Study aims to be a safe space for singers who have a gift to keep working with it to bring it into the world. We provide voice coaching that focuses on the whole person. We specialize in helping people find confidence, happiness and freedom in their voices.”

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Piano and guitar are the most popular choices at Music & Arts on Route 29, which offers lessons for kids and adults on most orchestral instruments. “We usually we have 180-200 students at a time, kids and adults” says Retail Manager Joe Gomala. “Lessons are all online right now. Usually I have six studios that are full pretty much all day long.”

Gomola’s parents and his three siblings are all musicians. His mother taught piano, and he played trumpet and baritone sax in his middle school band. Later he fell in love with the guitar, now his main instrument.

Majoring in Psychology at James Madison University, he minored in Music Industry: “I was going to go into music therapy, because I think it can be that beneficial,” he says. “From a hobby to a career, I think it’s always therapeutic.”

How long, then, would it take a beginning student to start having fun and be able to play something? “You learn theory, you learn some scales before you can play a piece,” Gomola answers, “but if we’re talking “Hot Cross Buns” or “Mary Had a Little Lamb” level stuff, we’re talking in the first couple of months.”

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lished in 1988 by the legendary Sing Out! magazine, co-founded by Pete Seeger.

Updated in 2004, the book now contains 1,200 more songs.

Front Porch founder Emily Morrison grew up in Ferrum, Virginia in a musical family, played banjo and other instruments from a young age, and was exposed to traditional music at school and in her neighborhood. She opened The Front Porch on Water Street in 2015, where it currently has 17 teachers, 300 or so students, and divides its teaching year into three sessions.

Charlottesville-based songwriter and band leader Matt Curreri now teaches online audio recording classes for The Front Porch. While the pandemic has put his other work there on hold, Curreri has been working alongside Morrison in a number of programs since the Spring of 2018. “Hometown Choir is a big fun choir practice where Emily leads the singing and support on guitar,” Curreri says.

“At Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention, we had a mix of learning drums, guitar and bass in a rock band format and also recording original hip hop vocals over beats found from various sources. At Walker Elementary School, it was semiprivate lessons on band instruments led by a couple great local horn players and me. And at community centers and after school at public elementary schools, I would bring a bag of ukuleles and percussion instruments along with six I-Pads, and we would write songs and explore sounds.”

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mance and choral conducting at UVA, taught music in Guatemala, began the Field School of Charlottesville’s boy’s choral program. “I love using my classical training to sing sacred music,” she says, “and I often make my humble musical offerings in the church. The Center was a spontaneous creation in the fall of 2016 beginning on the Downtown Mall.

I endeavor to serve the musical spirit even when it leads me on unexpected adventures!”

Nowadays Hightower is excited about the new, ten-month personal business program she’ll start leading soon. Entitled “The Musician’s Way: The Art of Doing Business from the Heart,” it’s set to begin in September 2020 and run till June 2021. “The program can be summarized as a coaching program for creative artists to build service-based businesses they love,” she says. The Musicians’ Way will meet virtually; enrollment is limited but is open to participants from anywhere in the world. “I’m really excited about this.

It’s the fruit of the past decade of my life.”

While Center classes typically take

place in its building on Pantops, it is also currently offering socially distanced practicing sessions, and Hightower has been pleasantly surprised at the results.

“The speed at which people are dropping into a deeper space within themselves is really beautiful,” she says, “and I think that has to do with the fact that they’re in their own space; they have agency over the mute and video buttons. They sometimes feel comfortable trying out sounds knowing that other people in the room can’t hear them. Zoom is a surprisingly effective platform for helping people find confidence in themselves and their voices.

It’s totally different than a choir—it’s a leading edge, it’s a brand-new facilitation space.”

Good for What Ails You “With many people having more time on their hands, they’re finding creative ways to keep themselves busy,” Vigour says. “Music is a great distraction and stress reliever.” And you don’t need to have the makings of the next Prince, build your own recording studio, and master 12 instruments to have fun making home music.

“The guy from Pearl Jam put out a ukulele album,” Sanderson notes, and it’s true, in 2011 Eddie Vedder released an album called Ukulele Songs. A full 16 songs fit on that record—it turns out that the four-stringed instrument best known for “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” isn’t well-suited to long jams! But where rock stars lead, less glamorous mortals will follow. And when they do, Charlottesville’s music teachers stand by to help.

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WHITE OAK FARM

Situated amongst stately and mature oaks is this picturesque and peaceful equestrian and/or cattle farm with fully renovated home on 45+ acres near Charlottesville with a professional riding arena and pond. MLS#601428 $1,875,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

RAGGED MOUNTAIN FARM

Just west of Charlottesville, near Ivy, is this beautiful 92-acre home on elevated site with spectacular panoramic views of mountains, fields, and forest.

This property is one of three preservation tracts of Ragged Mountain Farms. MLS#606291 $2,475,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

MUSIC HALL

Tucked on 76 acres in the heart of Keswick estate and farm country, this 1917 residence with guest cottage has not been for sale for almost a hundred years. A very tranquil setting yet only a few minutes to all the amenities of Charlottesville and UVA. MLS#604272 $1,395,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

A winning combination of history, a charming residence with guest cottage, & a premier location in Ivy! The circa 1766 cabin was the birthplace of the explorer Meriwether Lewis. Today the comfortable home has living room, dining room, a cooks kitchen with adjacent great room, library, laundry, three bedrooms with private baths, and guest cottage. Many historic architectural details. Privately sited on 2.34 acres, amidst landscaped gardens, specimen trees, & pool. MLS#600869 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250 www.LocustHillVa.com

WALNUT HILLS

HISTORICAL Georgian Revival mansion built c.1878 by Gov. James Kemper on 373 splendid acres, guest cottage and a complement of farm buildings.

Long frontage on Rapidan River. MLS#574009 $3,490,000 Will Faulconer, 434.987.9455 www.WalnutHillsVa.com

WESTFIELDS

Charming cottage-style home with wonderful open spaces nestled on 25+ acres in the heart of Free Union’s finest estate properties. This 4-BR and 3.5-BA, energy efficient home is surrounded by its acreage with a lovely view and delightful setting. MLS#596705 $1,485,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

OAKLAND FARM

Historic circa 1767 property on 663± acres in Deep Run Hunt Country fronting the Willis River.

Brick manor house with 5 bedrooms, circa 1740 guest cottage, 4 barns, and more. MLS#549952 $2,595,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

TOTIER HILLS FARM

Brick mansion, superb quality construction. Features 98 gently rolling acres, total privacy, stream, and pond.

5 minutes to shops, 15 miles to UVA. MLS#600284 $2,700,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 www.TotierHillsFarm.com

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RAGGED MOUNTAIN FARM PRICED MORE THAN $200K BELOW ASSESSMENT!!

Stately 6,800+/- finished square foot Federal-style residence with Ragged Mountain and Blue Ridge views on 3+ acres in Ivy. ten minutes west of Charlottesville. 1st and 2nd floor master suites plus 4 additional bedrooms—all with en-suite baths. Formal living room/ library and dining room, 2-story family room, breathtaking Chef ’s kitchen.

Superb quality and detail! MLS#605950 $1,465,000 Steve McLean 434.981.1863

EDNAM

Quality-built, spacious home priced to sell below tax assessment value!!! Brick home, 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths, including main level master suite.

Walking distance of renovated Boars Head Resort. MLS#591365 $764,500 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

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Ten fabulous home sites mostly in beautiful hardwoods, gently rolling and PRICED BELOW TAX ASSESSMENTS! Two lots have 21 acres each, private settings, and frontage on the Rivanna River.

Ten minutes to Airport, excellent shopping. Call Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 for pricing.

SPRINGDALE

Historic farm in eastern Goochland, approximately 30 minutes from Richmond and 45 minutes to Charlottesville. Property includes 60 acres, a pond, woodland, and garage apartment. MLS#1930232 $895,000 Philip Reed, 804.833.8325 or Steve McLean,434.981.1863

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Circa 1856, 4-bedroom, 3-bath home on 4+ acres fronting on the scenic Rapidan River and adjacent to other large historic farms and estates in Orange County. Strong river and pond views, extensive gardens, and lots of charm. MLS#596560 $845,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

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HUNTINGTON VILLAGE

Super convenient town home located near the 250 bypass, Boar’s Head, UVA’s Law, Business & JAG schools, and less than 2 miles to UVA’s central grounds.

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths on two levels with private balcony. Great investment opportunity! MLS#605906 $275,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

HESSIAN HILLS

Delightful 4-bedroom all brick home in excellent condition. Close to the University, Barracks Road, and Stonefield. Remodeled throughout, with open floor plan and upgraded appliances. City convenience with county taxes! MLS#605813 $529,000 Sonja Casero, 434.981.3523

GLENMORE

0.75-acre lot on a quiet cut-de-sac near lovely Lake Lochen. There are many options on this corner lot. One of the few exceptional lots left with the location, size, and diversity of this lot. MLS#599250 $269,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

WILMINGTON ROAD

8-acre wooded lot with no restrictions and approved for conventional septic systems. Located one mile east of Wilmington and surrounded by large farms. Perfect dream home location 10 min. to Palmyra. MLS#560695 $59,900 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

CHURCH POINT FARM

944 acres along the lower Chickahominy River, with 8 miles of shoreline, The property consists of marsh, farmland,woods, and cypress swamp and is managed for waterfowl, deer, turkey and dove. Features 3-BR brick dwelling. $4,475,000 Philip Reed, 804.833.8325 www.churchpointfarm.com

LONESOME MOUNTAIN ROAD

5-acre lot that has not been available for many years. This country but close-to-town location is conveniently located with quick access to Historic Downtown Mall, UVA, NGIC, airport, and North Fork Business Park. MLS#593160 $250,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250

MATTHEW MILL ROAD

11.12 acres, ideal tract for development into smaller lots as was done by neighboring property, Oxford Hills. Zoned R-1. County has indicated lots of 10,000 square feet possible. Public water available. MLS#598558 $400,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

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GILBERT STATION ROAD

Wonderfully private 67-acre tract of land approximately 11 miles north of Charlottesville in Barboursville. Mostly wooded with a creek and road frontage. Tremendous views. MLS#552156 $565,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

MILTON VILLAGE

21-acre lot minutes east of Charlottesville. Level building site with well and soils tested for drain field. 4-board fence along road frontage. Creek, small pond, and automatic waterers. MLS#586469 $375,000 Mark Mascotte, 434.825.8610

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ENDING THE WEEK OF JULY 26, 2020 THERE WERE 114 SALES IN THE 11 COUNTY AND CITY AREAS

n 44 were in Albemarle with an average price of $579,489 n 11 were in Charlottesville with an average price of $551,635 n 14 were in Fluvanna with an average price of $244,931 n 7 were in Greene with an average price of $350,074 n 7 were in Louisa with an average price of $273,676 n 12 were in Nelson with an average price of $206,708 n 5 were in Orange with an average price of $308,360 n 11 were in Staunton with an average price of $238,788 n 3 were in Waynesboro with an average price of $273,788

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Impeccably maintained on 2.5 acres ~ Stately design with stone accents and offering over 5,000 fin. sf. ~Chef ’s Kitchen ~Luxurious Master Suite ~Multiple Porches & Terraces. Enjoy your personal wine cellar & putting green.

Remarkably beautiful farm at the base of the Blue Ridge in northwestern Albemarle County. Spectacular panoramic views of the National Park and surrounding countryside.

Stylishly rustic three bedroom farmhouse with copper roof.

Beautiful “River Bend Farm” offers privacy and solitude on 14 acres mins. from Charlottesville. Custom European style, open floor plan, chefs kitchen, 1st floor master, 3 car garage. Additional garage w/upscale guest quarters.

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Lovely period home with great character in highly esteemed, walkable neighborhood just blocks from UVA. Enjoy ultimate flexible space with 5 bedrooms & 2 gathering with fireplaces. Spacious, private fenced back yard.

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$875,000 | montaguemiller.com/606236 Anita Dunbar | 434.981.1421

Visit this recently renovated, spectacular home in one of Set on a 2 acre lot on a quiet road in southern Albemarle Charlottesville’s most prestigious neighborhoods. Less County, this like-new 3 BR home was completed in 2016.

Open concept, one level living with great room and vaulted than 3 miles to UVA, 1.5 miles to Farmington CC and ceiling, stone fireplace, spacious kitchen & 1st floor master. Boars Head. Nothing you need to do but move in!

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South Fork Farms 15 minutes south on Rt 29. Large Colonial on 4.32 acres. 4 BR, 2.5 BA. Hardwood floors throughout the first floor, large kitchen, family room with fireplace. New paint and carpets. Ready for new owners.

Location, location, location! This stunning new build is just steps from Hollymead Town Center. Spend the morning visiting the farmers market, then walk back home to cook morning brunch in your gourmet kitchen!

Zoned B-1 on Rt 151 (“Brew Trail”) an authentic Virginia farmhouse, large barn and business building/studio on 1.19 acres. Great site for creative owner to blend varied interests and spaces, to create income stream.

$411,950 | montaguemiller.com/598376 Doug Burke | 434.951.7122

1989 Arrowhead Valley | Cville Affordable country cottage located just 7 mins South of UVA - Near 5th Street Station shopping - Tucked away on 2+ acres and near Charlottesville, home offers 2 large first floor bedrooms and 2 full baths. Move-in condition!

$294,000 | montaguemiller.com/606203 Trish Owens | 434.825.5393

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Two BR, two BA home with two car garage, at Claremont at Carriage Hill. Home features an open floor plan with high ceilings. Kitchen offers breakfast bar & walk-in pantry.

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