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A Golden Guy: Will Allison scattered at 11 locations around the perimeter of the race course, all covered by easy identifiable tents. The machines are programmed to take cash only, and will provide the bettor with up-to-date odds on every horse in every race. Just like at your local neighborhood racetrack, the odds will change based on the amount of money wagered on each horse.

There will be win, place and show betting, as well as daily doubles and exactas, among other exotic wagers. The machines will spit out an individual ticket, and also will provide the cash pay-outs for winning tickets. If a spectator makes a bet but leaves the track without cashing in a winning ticket, a machine will be available on the grounds for several days or at the Gold Cup offices on Main Street in Warrenton.

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educational program for people coming to the races,” Allison said. “We’ll have instructions on our website, pictures of the machines and how to do it. It’s an easy process and we think people will enjoy using it.”

Allison said he “guesstimates” the day’s handle should approach about $50,000, if only because it’s a new system. By the time the Gold Cup races come around in the fall, Allison said the entire course will have Wi-Fi coverage and bettors will even be able to use an app on their smartphones to make their wagers by credit card if they so choose.

“You could be at your parking space and do it right from there,” he said. “We just did not have time to implement the system this time, but we’ll have it in place in the fall. We do know that at a lot of parking spaces, people will have a pool going. But if you offer them a phone app, they can win $200 instead of $20 in the pool. Our demographic shows we have a large group of folks who are smartphone smart. We think it will be appetizing and our handle will keep growing.”

The races have grown exponentially since the first Gold Cup was contested around several estates off Waterloo Road in Warrenton in 1922, and Allison remains bullish on their ever-increasing popularity. He’s been involved since joining the board in 1985 and shows no sign of slowing down.

“I love it,” he said. “I love having a plan and using your mental capacities to make policy and strategy for the races. We think it’s a great event.”

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By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life The running of the Virginia Gold Cup once again will be held on the first Saturday in May and Warrenton native Dr. Will Allison once again will be on hand to make certain the day will be even more memorable—and perhaps more profitable. More than 50,000 spectators are expected to attend the fashionable 89th annual extravaganza at Great Meadow near The Plains.

Allison, a dentist by training as well as a lifelong horseman who once was Master of the Warrenton Hunt, has been president of the Virginia Gold Cup Association and chairman of the races since 2000. A dapper, affable and animated 80-year-old, he still practices parttime and also spends a considerable amount of volunteer hours every year coming up with ways to improve one of Virginia’s premier sporting events (this year on May 4), as well as the fall meet known as the International Gold Cup. This year, pari-mutuel wagering machines will be available at a number of locations all around the 250-acre property, the better to bet on all six races. In many years past, bookmakers were allowed on the grounds, setting up blackboards to offer up odds and take bets, but because alcohol is served on the property, the Virginia ABC insisted that they no longer be allowed to ply their trade.

Allison and his board have come up with a better idea.

“We decided that pari-mutuel wagering would be a good source of revenue to be used exclusively for purses,” he said in a recent interview. “It will benefit our horsemen. We’ve had a hard time getting a title sponsor for the Gold Cup race, so we needed money for purses. The [pari-mutuel] technology has advanced so much that we’re now able to serve the type of outdoor location we have.”

In June, the Virginia Racing Commission approved the Gold Cup wagering plan, which also has other ramifications. The races now will be under the VRC purview, meaning all officials have to be licensed, medication for horses must be administered by the official veterinarian, and security around the barn areas will be vastly improved.

“In the old days, just about anyone could get in there,” Allison said. “You’d see an owner’s five grandchildren running around. Not anymore. We’ll have a security fence, and only specified people will be allowed in those areas.

These are things that probably should have been done a long time ago. When you have a $75,000 purse [for the Gold Cup], it should be fair to every owner and you want things transparent.”

The new pari-mutuel system also should be eminently fair to anyone who chooses to use the machines supplied by United Tote, owned by Churchill Downs. They will be

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Middleburg entrepreneur Sheila Johnson has a number of well-known interests, including her Salamander Resort & Spa and her ownership interests in the Washington Mystics, Washington Wizards and the Washington Capitals sports franchises.

She also serves on the Sundance Film Festival board of directors and it is that experience that is the foundation for an event expected to provide a significant economic boost to Middleburg and its merchants—a town-wide independent film festival.

“It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” she said in a recent interview.

The idea surfaced as she watched the economic benefits in Park City, UT, from the Sundance festival “and the joy people experience as they go from movie house to movie house to watch independent films,” she said.

“I want to introduce people to some really great movie makers and young, upcoming actors who probably will never get the wider visibility of bigger films,” she said.

To that end, Johnson, the town and the Middleburg Business & Professional Association are planning a three-day festival in October, where independent films will be shown at various locations, such as the Middleburg Community Center, The Hill School, Boxwood Winery, the National Sporting Gallery and Museum, and possibly at the Salamander resort. All the venues would be within walking distance, so moviegoers also could stroll about, eat in the town’s many restaurants and cafés and browse the many offerings its eclectic niche stores.

Johnson’s idea so far has met with enthusiasm from Mayor Betsy Davis and the Town Council. Co-owner of The Fun Shop on West Washington Street, Davis is elated with the

idea, which plays into a broad movement to do more town-wide events, where entertainment, the arts, and dining and shopping opportunities fuse.

“Some of us in the [Middleburg] business association and on Main Street are looking for more events,” Davis said, noting merchants had suggested some sort of festival at various times. “Then Sheila was on Sundance, and it all came together. How lucky we are to have that kind of expertise,” she said of the three-way partnership between Johnson, the town and the business community. Various merchants will join the effort by offering special discounts, and Visit Loudoun is also expected to support the project, Davis said.

The Sundance festival selects only about a quarter of the 4,000 entries submitted. Johnson said she’s not suggesting anything of that scale.

She wants to start out with 15 film showings, plus panel discussions with top critics, writers and directors, including Maureen Orth, of Vanity Fair, and Will Haygood, of The Washington Post, who will discuss the films with students and the public to broaden their vision and understanding.

Johnson is working on the nonprofit project through the Middleburg-based Piedmont Community Foundation. “We’re trying to raise money for scholarships, and funds for the festival,” she said. The festival was her idea, but “it’s really an independent project happening in town, which I think they would just love.”

The mayor said she understood the fundraising goal for the festival to be in the neighborhood of $400,000, of which about half already has been raised.

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By Marcia Woolman For Middleburg Life Between recent snowfalls, students from Highland School in Warrenton and Middleburg Academy participated in a treeplanting project. The Goose Creek Association kicked off its 2013 riparian buffer project in mid-March in a joint effort with Tom Turner of the John Marshall Soil and Water District to plant 433 trees.

The success of this watershed conservation effort was in large part attributed to area schools that sent ecology clubs and science class students from Highland Upper School with teacher Jon Kraut and Middleburg Academy with teacher Ann Reimer.

The Piedmont Environmental Council’s Andy Washburn assisted in locating the young helpers. A total of 42 students participated, along with members of the Virginia Department of Forestry and other staff from JMS&WD. Several volunteers from the community and the Goose Creek Board also rolled up their sleeves.

The volunteers consisted of students who were brought to the farm by parents who worked with them and others in teams.

Over the two days, more than 100 people, most of them volunteers, provided 285 hours of community service. The students were presented with certificates verifying this from the Goose Creek Association.

The goals of the Goose Creek Challenge are wide and begin with restoration and preservation of the stream banks and wetlands within the Goose Creek watershed.

The primary concern is the health of the

watershed. The Chesapeake Bay, Leesburg and Fairfax are all downstream, but the work done for water quality in Fauquier and Loudoun counties pays dividends to millions outside this area.

Educational goals in this process are equally important. Providing a meaningful educational experience for the students that re-enforces the science lessons they are learning is the key to lifetime learning.

Having parents bring their children on a weekend and share in that learning fulfills yet another goal of community environmental education.

No meeting or lecture can bring forth the understanding that comes from hearing Turner explain the value of trees to the protection of water quality while he holds a young tree. He continues by discussing the value to wildlife and the types of animals and birds that will benefit from the seeds and produce of these trees and bushes.

Only native plants were used in an effort to help restore the food base for the songbirds and migratory birds that use the local countryside as their homes. It will support the squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, mice, foxes and deer as well.

The valuable shade that will be created and the root structure that will hold the ground firmly while absorbing huge amounts of water will, as they grow, take up more heavy rain and prevent it from spilling sediment and pollution from fields into the waterways. They will eventually prevent nutrient overloads that are creating the dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Debbie Nash who celebrated her birthday with a huge tailgate party on the hillside, and Linda Robeson compared hats.

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Maggie Bryant’s Sulwaan won the Airlie Steeplechase at the Warrenton Hunt Point-to-point races. From the left: jockey Paddy Young, Kim Nash, jt-MFH Warrenton, trainer Jimmy Day, Karen Russell and Bridgett Poe Paradise.

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By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life Growing up as a “Southern girl” in Big Stone Gap near the Tennessee border, Dinah Corley often received sage advice from her mother, who always told her to “never go to someone’s house empty-handed.”

She also grew up loving to cook, and it is now Corley who offers her own advice on how to prepare luscious cuisine and, perhaps equally important, how to go to someone’s house with a gorgeously packaged homemade food item that’s both easy on the palate and perfectly presented on the plate.

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“I’m Southern, and Southern people love to cook,” she said in a recent interview. “I got interested in cooking because I had cooks all around me. When I went to college in London, that’s what I studied. I got to a great school that taught exactly what I always wanted to do.”

While in school, she took her first cooking classes at the London Cordon Bleu, and after graduation enrolled in a two-year study program for a Grande Diplome at the Paris Cordon Bleu. She also had the good fortune to work with some of the finest practitioners of the culinary arts, including James Beard, Julia Child and Child’s long-time friend and assistant, Simone Beck.

Also known as Simca, Beck took a special interest in Corley and offered her the chance to spend three months a year at Bramafam, her country home in the Alps Maritime area of France.

Corley made that pilgrimage for seven years—assisting Beck in cooking classes, recipe testing and editing books. After that invaluable education and hands-on experience with so many masters of the culinary universe, Corley began her own career as a cooking teacher and writer, with stops along the way in Tulsa, OK, and Martha’s Vineyard.

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Corley moved to Northern Virginia six years ago and after spending considerable time restoring her home, she resumed teaching and writing about cooking. Her next book will be focused on many of the culinary luminaries who helped influence her career.

She’s also been looking around for a suitable commercial space for a kitchen that can accommodate 15-20 cooking students at a time.

“I can’t do it in my house because there’s just not enough space,” she said. “I like the bigger classes so it can be less expensive. I think it would be a lot of fun to have 20 students.

This is such a food-centric area. A lot of people are devoted to local farm to table, locally raised lamb and beef. It’s a great place for me to be right now.”

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The book offers invaluable food gift-giving tips, including one that states “a successful gift should provide instant gratification for the recipient…Jars of muffin mix of raw ingredients with recipes attached are not gifts. They’re chores.”

Historian David McCullough, the bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, apparently is a big fan of Corley’s work.

“Good food and generosity—what a wonderful, immediately appealing premise for a cookbook,” he wrote. “With salt-cured whole lemons preserved in extra virgin olive oil, and eggplant spread in a crisp wonton wrapper, there seems to be no end to the creative treats Dinah Corley provides here. Tempting is hardly a sufficient word for them.”

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By Peggy Rust For Middleburg Life The Middleburg Horticultural Symposium, now in its 22nd year, brought together a number of entertaining speakers last month at The Hill School, with all proceeds from the Fauquier Loudoun Garden Club event going to the continuing preservation of the historic Goose Creek Bridge.

The stellar list of speakers started off with William Cullina from the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden with many fabulous photographs.

Follow up questions focused on his choice of camera and lens. The title of his talk was “Sugar, Sex, and Poison: Shocking Plant Secrets Caught on Camera.”

Helen Dillon, who came from Dublin, Ireland, dazzled the audience as she related in no uncertain terms how to “Dig It Up and Throw

It Away.” Her unorthodox methods achieved stunning results.

Jonathon Wright, the Horticulturalist at Chanticleer in Wayne, Pennsylvania, filled in nicely for W. Gary Smith who came down with severe laryngitis the previous day. His talk was brimming with ideas for cool season containers and he whetted the attendee’s appetite for a road trip to Chanticleer in the Spring.

Thomas Hobbs from Vancouver, Canada, offered telling anecdotes and marvelous photographs discussing the travails and joys of leaving your mature garden behind and starting from scratch on a new one. His talk was entitled “Is Your Cake Baked? Mine Was: Starting Over From the Ground Up.”

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Liberty Hill Farm in Berryville operates under one basic premise, according to its owner Ken Matich.

“We don’t sell anything that we wouldn’t want to feed ourselves,” he said. “We’ve lived here for 11 years and about five years ago, we decided we had to do something for food for us.

We didn’t want to eat genetically modified products. We didn’t want to eat commercially raised meats. We ate well, but just not well enough.

We started raising our own food. Plus, we were interested in a family business.”

That’s also why Liberty Hill Farm has continued to grow. The Matichs’ basic two-story colonial is situated high on a hill that commands a glorious view of their 15 acres and the Blue Ridge Mountains. One laying hen loves the two Jersey cows, Virginia and Carolina, the first members of son Samuel Matich’s dairy herd. The large flock of Barred Rocks laying hens swoop and flow like a speckled tide in and around their enclosure.

The Cornish Cross meat birds start out as small mounds of fluff living in a nursery until they get big enough to spend time al fresco in a chicken tractor. The floorless portable coop allows rotation so the grass doesn’t get overgrazed or killed off completely, and the birds can eat bugs and other natural sources of protein.

Their natural diet is supplemented with nonGMO grains. All livestock fencing is designed for portability so the grazing areas can be rotated.

Ken Matich grew up in Fairfax, studied political science at Wake Forest University and spent three years in the Marine Corps. When he got out, he turned his military experience in communications into a civilian living in telecommunications. His wife Andrea is from Boston, studied architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology, and finished her studies at

Catholic University. A government job brought her to Virginia. They met 25 years ago at church.

Together with their son Samuel, 18, and daughter Treasure, 16, they have defined the term nuclear family. They grew real food for themselves, and it was their desire to start a family enterprise to supply others with real food, too.

“We had been doing this part-time, but last year I decided to leave the corporate world and devote myself fully to my family and our family business,” Ken Matich said. “What we’re doing at Liberty Hill is not about the finances, it’s about changing your lifestyle to obtain the fullness of life with the ones you love. We would never turn back and we are richer now than before with the abundance the Lord has given us. We sell our chickens and freshly milled bread at the farmers’ markets in Purcellville and Middleburg.

We also sell free-range eggs, jams and turkeys in season. We found a source for natural non-

GMO chicken feed two hours down the valley.

Our chickens don’t get hormones, antibiotics or medications. You are what you eat.”

Their research to start a pasture-based family farm began with extensive reading, such as Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey M. Smith. They visited Polyface Farm in the Shenandoah Valley southwest of Staunton to get a firsthand look at Joel Salatin’s sustainable and healthy farming practices. They essentially went back to the basics. They even learned to butcher their chickens themselves so that they have total quality control from start to finish.

“We don’t take life lightly; we’re grateful to God for the birds that become our food, and we micro-manage them all the way—from life to packaging,” Ken Matich said. “We know that this chicken is good for you and tastes good.”

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When asked to pinpoint their biggest challenge, Andrea Matich replied, “Not enough time!”

Said Ken Matich: “Too many ideas.”

From raising their own chickens and keeping their own laying hens, the Matichs also expanded into making bread. They mill nonGMO organic grain themselves and their bread gets rave reviews.

“If you only have time to stop at one place at the Middleburg Farmers’ Market, then make sure it is Liberty Hill Farm,” Ken Miller, a Hill School drama teacher, said. “They bring to the table chickens, eggs, breads, jams, honey, soup, chicken pot pies and much more—organic, raw, farm fresh food at its best. What they bring to the market makes you come back wanting more week after week.” ­­­——— Note: The farm store at Liberty Hill Farm is open by appointment only; a self-service store will open later in the spring. Go to www.libertyhillfarmva.com for locations where you can meet to get your order. One central location year-round every Saturday morning is on the lot used for the Middleburg Farmer’s Market, which Liberty Hill Farm attends from the first Saturday in May to the last Saturday in October.

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The Matich family, and many others, are convinced that health problems including obesity and the disintegration of the immune system are by-products of unhealthy, commercially produced food.

“In this country we spend 5 percent of our income on food, but in Europe it’s more like 40 to 50 percent, and they spend it on good, real food,” Ken Matich said. “We need small farmers. We need personal responsibility and people need to be educated so they can decide for themselves, not be told what is good for you by the government or the food industry.”

The Matichs are gentle people and yet firmly speak their minds without a trace of rancor.

“We work and play together as a family,” Ken Matich said. “This is all our children know.

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The heated pool will become a highlight of summer living, and entertaining is a snap on the terrace or other outside areas.

Improvements to the grounds include a tenant house, horse stable, barn and machine shed.

A classic addition to the local landscape when it arrived three decades ago, Oakfield has benefited from a stylish, careful renovation – and retains its position in a soughtafter spot of the bucolic countryside.

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that provides enough space for an eat-in space.

A paneled library is a wonderful spot for quiet reflection, but it also features a wet bar. There are built-in bookcases designed from old pine, and even a stone, wood-burning fireplace.

The main level is home to a large master retreat, with copious space that includes a large bedroom area, separate baths with built-in dressers and vanities, plus additional closets and storage space available in the dressing room/exercise room located just above the master suite.

Take the staircase or the home’s elevator, and we’ll meet on the second level, where additional amenities await.

Four very large bedrooms are found here, with any working well as a second master suite.

Two of the four bedrooms contain their own en-suite bathrooms, while the other two share a bath. As a bonus, one bedroom is equipped with a pullman service kitchen.

Full stairs lead us up to a floored attic, perfect for life’s accumulated treasures.

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With more than 6,200 square feet of living space to explore, we’ll duck inside and begin our tour.

The open foyer, with its natural-slate floor, draws our visual attention to the impressive circular staircase, the first of many expansive touches.

The formal living room is home to floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing natural sunlight to stream in and warm the ambiance, and through French doors we can access the gardens and a fieldstone patio.

A refined formal dining room features accents such as crown moulding, French doors, a built-in china cupboard and even a wood-burning fireplace.

The newly designed kitchen was created to provide aesthetic appeal while also serving serious chef’s with appropriate features, and it wins on both counts. From the ample work and cabinet space to the Meile appliances, it can handle any gathering with ease. There is even a bay window, with western views and ample sunlight,

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Having had the privilege of previewing the Oakfield estate in Upperville some years back, it was a joy to be offered the opportunity to do so again, now that the home is on the market.

Set on more than 86 acres, the main home was constructed in the early 1980s and has a timeless feel about it. And with a location just a mile from Upperville in the heart of Piedmont Hunt territory, the next owners will have the opportunity to enjoy a combination of bucolic surroundings with privacy and glorious views, yet also prosper from a location just 30 miles west of Washington Dulles International Airport.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $4,900,000 by Paul MacMahon of Sheridan-MacMahon Ltd. Real Estate.

To properly begin, we’ll note that the acreage of the estate is mostly open, fenced and cross-fenced, with two spring-fed ponds adding to the picturesque ambiance.

The home itself is bound by lovely perennial gardens, stone walkways, terraces and a custom pergola, along with a gas-heated saltwater pool with lights and fountain.

There is a delightful array of trees found throughout.

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Exquisite details throughout this incredible 12 bedroom Georgian Revival manor home built in 1936. Situated on over 191 acres. This lovely home boasts a Reception Hall and a white Carrara marble Flying Staircase accessing 3 levels. Over 1/2 mile of Rappahannock River frontage, spectacular views, springs, ponds and rolling pasture $9,750,000

199 acres in the heart of the Orange County Hunt Territory s 5 Bedroom Georgian Manor sFormal living and dining rooms s Solarium s Pools c.1801 Patent house, 2 tenant houses Horse facilities include an indoor arena with 13 stalls, paddocks and fields with run-ins. & apartment and pond. In VOF Conservation Easement. $4,900,000

Circa 1878 s Exquisite brick Victorian on 52 open acres near Middleburg s Elegant Dining Room s Formal Living Room s12' Ceilings s 4 Levels sGreat Mountain Views s Beautiful Stable with 1 Bedroom Apartment s Run-In Sheds s Out Buildings and more. $3,950,000

Extrordinary estate on over 180 acres sIdeal for horses s 7 Bedrooms sNew Gourmet State of the Art Kitchen & Baths s gorgeous full wall windows, overlooking 10 acre lake s10 stall stable sPaddocks with run-in sheds sPool and poolhouse with fireplace, spa and new tennis courts. $3,900,000

Handsome 5 bedroom Manor home with heated pool on 48 acres on Atoka Road. 1 bedroom Guest Cottage complete with kitchen, 2 Barns: Hunter barn with 4 stalls & tack room, Broodmare Barn with 5 stalls and tack room. 225’x137’ Show Ring with sand footing. Board fenced fields and paddocks, 3 ponds. In VOF easement. $3,200,000

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Minutes from I-66 and convenient to Dulles International Airport. $2,499,000

164 acres in an ideal location. Beautiful Open and wooded land near Bluemont in the heart of Piedmont Hunt Territory with spectacular mountain views and scenic vistas and great home sites. Open Space Easement and Fox Hunting Easement. Property is in 2 parcels and may or may not be combined. $2,459,850

The 26 acre estate sits in magnificent horse country approx. one mile west of Middleburg just off the much desired Zulla Road, this estate includes the 1½ story white brick manor home w/2 car attached garage, 4 car detached garage, heated pool, 3 stall barn with run-in shed, 2 large paddocks and offers tremendous ride out potential. $2,450,000

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6 stall barn with office & apartment, 100’ x 200’ covered arena, manicured cross-country trails and jumps. Convenient access to prestigious Foxcroft School and only minutes to Middleburg. $2,390,000

90 acres w/approx. 45 fenced acres and 45 acres in woods with trails. 3 bedroom manor home, Indoor and Outdoor Arenas ,2 barns open into the indoor arena, Main barn has 20 stalls, Show Barn- 5 oversized stalls, 3 tack rooms, office, 2 wash stalls, 2 bathrooms, laundry room, 14 paddocks. Manager’s cottage.

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51+ acre farm with a beautiful 5 BR home with gourmet kitchen, wine cellar, great views, pool, flagstone terrace and carriage house - extensive horse facilities - 9 stall barn, covered arena, outdoor arena, 7 paddocks, 4 stall shed row barn, machine shed. $2,350,000

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PRIVACY & More 76+ acres on Sage Road in Markham. Fantastic Sunsets & Mountain views and Pond. 2 level Cape Cod home with 3 Bedrooms, 1 full bath, 1 half bath & fireplace.

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Beautifully renovated Historic Unison Schoolhouse, circa 1870. s Pine flooring, high ceilings, mouldings and perennial gardens s The horse facilities include a recently built 4 stall barn w/excellent tack room & feed storage, open to 4 paddocks with automatic waterers. Great rideout in prime Piedmont Hunt $625,000

MERSEY/DOVER ROADS - 5 parcels, 3+ acres each, just on the outskirts of Middleburg ranging in price. $257,250 - $350,000

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From a quiet lane, just west of historic Middleburg, this lovely home with 4 bedrooms, 4 ½ baths was built in 2008, on 18 acres. The welcoming front porch overlooks the riding ring whereas, the wide covered deck, on the back of the home, offers a private retreat overlooking the heated pool and pond with its boat house. $1,290,000

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By Marcia Woolman For Middleburg Life Will this snowy and very cold March affect the fishing this spring? Yes, it certainly will, and here are a few tips that will allow for success.

First, water temperature and number of daylight hours have a big influence on fish and the timing of activities. Since I am just an experienced fisherperson, not a scientist, I will begin with what I know from years of fishing. Then I will hypothesize a bit as a naturalist in determining these weather-related effects.

The natural cycle of food is what creates good or bad fishing. You need to feed the fish artificial lures or flies that reflect what they are eating naturally at that time. We all know that trout feed on mayfly hatches that have a normal emergence time, but more importantly they have an emergence temperature.

So in a very cold, snowy spring like this the water temps will remain abnormally low thus keeping the insects and the trout dormant for a longer time.

So, if you usually find the first hatch of let’s say, March Browns or black caddis in March, this year look for them in April. Once you locate and identify a mayfly hatch check out the hatch chart, and make a note if these flies were two weeks late. Then, you can also figure out when all the rest of the hatches will be. If you’re planning a trip to Penn’s Creek in Pennsylvania to hit the Green Drake hatch, which they call the “Memorial Day Hatch,” don’t plan that trip until on or after June 1.

There is a scientific approach to help you with all of this and it is called Phenology, which is the study of the relationship between blooming plants and the aquatic insects in the same region. There is a book out called The Phenological Fly that discusses and illustrates this relationship. It works because flowers and

trees bloom depending on temperature and length of daylight, so why wouldn’t there be a relationship to aquatic insects that live on the same cycle? So, if you are a die-hard fisherman start a log that records your observations on this phenomenon.

When I lived in Pennsylvania near the famous Spruce Creek I had a purple Columbine flower that was always in bloom when the yellow Sulpher mayfly hatch was on. The Green Drakes come at the same time as the black locust trees bloom. In general, the best spring fly fishing occurs when the redbud trees are blooming. You can make your own chart as you fish from year to year. I know that there is some really great fishing on the Rapidan when the wild Azaleas are in bloom on the mountain. It could take the guesswork out of a long drive if you had a flower barometer to read each spring and summer. Just in case you didn’t have enough to do this spring, develop your own phenology chart. It will provide you with better fishing.

Surely spawning of the shad, which creates the shad run, is likely temperature and light engineered by Mother Nature in a similar way. If the water is high and cold they will also be running up the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers a bit later than you may have caught them previously. So be prepared to make the adjustment, and save yourself a fishless day.

Best thing to do in an uncertain year like this one is to call a fly or tackle shop and ask a local expert. Take your fishing seriously, and you will become a better fisherman, or woman—and understanding how all of nature works together will enhance that enjoyment.

[Marcia Woolman is a freelance writer who serves on several conservation boards locally and in Montana. She takes her fishing seriously.]

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20+ acres • VA farmhouse, c 1780 • Master BR suite/3 additional BR & 2 full BA • 2 staircases • 4 wood burning fireplaces • Beautiful wood floors throughout • 13 stall stable • Bank barn • Large sand ring • Spring house • Fenced & cross fenced with water to fields Ann MacMahon (540) 687-5588 Margaret Carroll (540) 454-0650

NEW PRICE • Protected location in Orange County Hunt • 5 BR with master suite on first floor • 3 1/2 BA • 2 fireplaces • Mountain views • Pool • 10 useable acres • 150 x 220 riding arena • 3 barns totaling 8-9 stalls • Run-in shed • Stone walls Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

Prime Upperville location • Piedmont Hunt Country • Surrounded by properties in easement • Contemporary home • Stucco exterior • 3 BR • 2 full & 2 1/2 BA, 2 fireplaces • Spiral staircase leads to 8 stall barn • Tack room & office • Property fenced & cross fenced Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

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Immaculate end unit town home feels like a private cottage • Completely renovated • New kitchen & baths • New roof • Elegant living room with wood burning FP • Built in book shelves • Private terrace & landscaped garden • Perfectly turn key • No maintenance Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

Village of Middleburg • Walk to everything • 3 bedrooms • Hardwood floors • Large carport • Fenced back yard • Freshly painted • New kitchen cabinets Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

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Historic circa 1890 Stone Manor on 40+/- Acres Overlooking the Village of Linden. Incredible Stone Construction with Solid Walls; Original Staircase, Moulding and Windows. Several Outbuildings Need Rehab & 2 Car Detached Garage. A Great Opportunity to Restore and Use for a Private Retreat, Country Inn or potential Winery. Completely Private with Quick Access to Interstate along State Roads.

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In homage to Elizabeth Lemmon, Welbourne’s spunky socialite, and her relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, and their editor, Max Perkins, the Mosby Heritage Area Association is hosting a 1934-themed tea party at her former Upperville home May 12.

Lemmon lived at historic Welbourne, her family home for nearly 200 years. In 1922, while in New Jersey, she met an editor, Max Perkins, at a party. They embarked on a 20-plus year pen pal relationship that was believed to have remained platonic but nevertheless was very poignant and affectionate. This is evident from their surviving letters, and from the recollections of Fitzgerald and Wolfe, both of whom stayed at Welbourne in 1934 at Perkins’ urging.

Welbourne once was the home of Colonel Richard S. Dulany, 7th Virginia Cavalry, as well as the site of a visit from Colonel John S. Mosby and General J.E.B. Stuart during the Civil War. Knowing its historic past, Perkins asked Lemmon to look after Fitzgerald during his 1934 visit.

By then, he was battling some personal issues, including alcoholism, and Perkins felt

Welbourne might offer a welcome rest for the author. Welbourne’s history proved a worthy muse; Fitzgerald’s short story, “Her Last Case,” which was set at Welbourne, was soon published in the Saturday Evening Post. His fondness for drink, however, remained intact.

Through the years, Lemmon and Perkins exchanged letters covering popular topics of the day, such as Key West, Gary Cooper, gin and jazz, Ernest Hemingway and Red Cross classes in the midst of World War II. They also shared personal news of their families and lives.

During the May 12 event, “F. Scott Fitzgerald” will be milling around this whimsical afternoon tea party on the Welbourne veranda.

Some of the Perkins-Lemmon letters will be read and will be available from Second Chapter Books. And refreshments will be provided by Market Salamander.

Tickets are $50 for MHAA members, $60 for non-members, and $20 for children 12 and under. There will be two seatings, at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., and reservations are required. Call 540687-6681 or go to www.mosbyheritagearea.org to purchase tickets.

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Kennels recently paid a visit to Mayor Betsy Davis at The Fun Shop. Davis was helping to sign cards to be delivered to the wounded warriors as part of the Yellow Ribbon program at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda.

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he Fauquier Springs Country Club was jumping during the Casanova Hunt Ball with a Great Gatsby theme. Dinner and a floor show of singers and dancers were followed by dancing to “Big Ray and the Kool Kats.”

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Krista Struder and Stephen Magalhaes will be married in late June.

athy and Kurt Struder of Hamilton have announced the engagement of their daughter, Krista, to Stephen Magalhaes, the son of Maria and Felisberto Magalhaes of Clifton. Struder and Magalhaes graduated from Middleburg Academy (then Notre Dame) in 2003.

Bunny Nash, Stephen Nash, Heather Gustafson, Pierce Hunt, Arianna McCarty, Dennis McCarty participated in the Hill School alumni event.

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She was a Christmas gift that keeps on giving: a 38-pound bundle of pure canine joy that once apparently roamed the streets of Aruba and now has found a home in Waterford, courtesy of a couple who really cared.

Shelley Chadwick and her partner, Jon Mays, were enjoying a vacation at an Aruban timeshare resort in December 2010 when a four-month-old puppy literally crossed their path as they were sitting at a poolside tiki bar.

The dog was an Aruba-centric breed known as a Cunucu, which means “wild” in the Papiamento language.

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deed, mostly because he already had several much larger guard dogs at his place. Those concerns were justified as the interloper was not welcomed by the big dogs, and Irwin brought her back to the resort that evening.

The next day when Chadwick and Mays went into a resort lounge, they found the puppy sitting there, bleeding from a number of cuts on its legs. They brought her up to their room, and the dog jumped on the bed and promptly went to sleep for the next 14 hours.

“She was not in great shape at that point,” said Chadwick, a South African-born accountant who works three days a week at the Middleburg Antique Emporium, which is owned by her parents, Lesley and John Clark, and Roger Mason. “I’ve never seen a dog with that many ticks in my life. She was just full of them.”

Later that day, several children at the pool told Chadwick and Mays, a Kentucky native, that the dog the kids had called “Spike” (because of a distinct ridge that ran from the top of its head to its shoulder blades) had been thrown off a second floor balcony by a resort security guard the night before. Apparently he’d seen the dog chasing a little girl and thought it might be threatening her. Instead of doing the right thing, the guard just dumped the puppy over a railing and walked away.

Needless to say, when the resort owners

learned about it, the security man was out of a job and Chadwick and Mays had themselves a stray puppy they began to fall in love with. The resort also happened to be a pet-free facility, and they were gently told they’d have to find somewhere else to keep her.

After scouring local pet shops around the island, they located a kennel where Dushi could spend the remaining two weeks of their vacation. It was a pet hotel called Happy Tails, and now this tale gets even more intriguing.

Once the puppy was comfortably situated in her new temporary home, Mays went on the Internet to find out how they could bring Dushi home to Virginia. According to Chadwick, because Aruba was in a rabies-free zone, all they needed was a certificate of health saying the dog could travel. Dushi was taken to a veterinarian who gave her all the required shots and cleared her for the trip.

While Dushi was at Happy Tails, the couple visited her regularly and also bonded with the kennel owners, Jacqueline Van Veen and her son, Gilbert. One day, Gilbert said it had always been his dream to start an animal rescue operation on an island that sadly had a growing population of homeless dogs roaming the streets.

That day, he planted a seed that Chadwick and Mays eventually helped nurture into reality. In September 2011, they decided to launch Dushi and Friends Rescue Foundation, with the express purpose of raising funds so that Happy Tails could afford to take in as many strays as possible. There are now 28 stray animals at the facility, and the foundation so far has raised more than $6,000, all going to the feed and care of the dogs.

“It’s not even close to what they need,” Chadwick said. “They spay and neuter and do whatever they can to find them new homes.

Sadly, there are also people who say they’re going on vacation when they leave their dogs there, and they never come back to pick them up. They take care of them, as well.”

Chadwick and Mays have distributed a number of donation boxes at restaurants and other shops on Aruba, and there also is one at the Middleburg Antique Emporium, with plans to distribute more around town. Donations also can be accepted via PayPal on the foundation’s website, www.dushiandfriends.com.

Dushi, meanwhile, is thriving in Waterford, and is particularly fond of romping in the snow. Because she is allergic to most grainbased dog food, Chadwick and Mays cook all of her food themselves, usually chicken, brown rice and carrots.

“She is an extremely smart dog, and she definitely rules the roost,” Chadwick said. “She has a mind of her own. There’s some Plott Hound in her, and you can tell that when she howls every once in awhile. But she’s definitely a sweetheart.”

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BEST BET for Sunday, April 28, at 1 p.m. will be the Middleburg Hunt’s point-topoint—an al fresco celebration of sporting traditions in the glorious setting of Glenwood Park just out Foxcroft Road. Trophies for Best Bonnet, Best Ties for Men, Tailgate displays and oh yes…fastest horses. General admission $5 in advance or $10 day of races; general parking is $5 and patron or subscriber spaces available. www.middleburghunt.com or 540-454-2991.

April 24, 1-7 p.m.—Foxcroft School’s Red Cross Blood Drive in the Fox Hound Auditorium, in the main schoolhouse in Middleburg. Beth Lamond 540-687-4322 or blamond@foxcroft.org. Senior Mary Motion of Upperville and juniors Maddy Travell and Campbell Hartley, both of Middleburg, are the student leaders.

April 7, at 4 p.m.—A Far Cry chamber orchestra will perform at Waterford Old School auditorium, 40222 Fairfax Street, Waterford. Details and tickets 540-882 3018, Ext. 117 or www.waterfordfoundation.org.

April 13, from 9 a.m. to noon—The culinary staff at the Bistro on the Hill at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton will conduct “Junior Chefs” for cooking wannabes between the ages of 10 and 18 for a half-day class with restaurant chefs and bakers. $45 per class, 540-316-3588 or www.fauquierhealth.org.

April 14, at 5 p.m.—The Apollo Chamber orchestra, joined by a quartet of singers from the Washington National Opera’s Young Artists program, at Grace Church Concert Series in The Plains. Tickets $25, 540-2535177 or www.gracetheplains.org.

April 20, at 1 p.m. Middleburg Spring Races at Glenwood Park. www.middleburgspringraces.com or 540 687-6545.

April 20, 2-5 p.m.—Master chocolatier Erica Dodson of Ganache Bakery will create delectable chocolate goodies at Crest Hill Antiques and Tea Room in The Plains. Free,

April 24- September 15—At the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg, the focus will be on British artist Sir Alfred J. Munnings, P.R.A., with “Munnings: Out in the Open,” an exhibition of more than fifty paintings and “Sir Alfred Munnings in Print.” Details at www.nsl.org or 540-687-6542.

April 26, 7-9 p.m.—Middleburg Museum Foundation: “A Moment in History.” Event includes dancing, silent auction and refreshments at the Middleburg Community Center, 540-687-6538.

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April 27—Middleburg Academy will present “An Evening in New Orleans Gala and Auction.” A live auction will feature seven nights for two people at Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky, MN. 540-687-5581, www.middleburgacademy.org.

May 2, at 7 p.m.—The Loudoun County Master Gardener lectures at the Rust Library in Leesburg with naturalist Melanie Choukas-Bradley, speaking on her book City of Trees: The Complete Field Guide to the Trees of Washington, D.C. 703-777-0373.

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According to Diane Relf and Alan McDaniel, horticulture experts at Virginia Tech, varieties of cucumber are being released that are advertised as all female, or gynoecious types.

On a normal cucumber plant, the first 10 to 20 flowers are male, and for every female flower, which will produce the fruit, 10 to 20 male flowers are produced. This indicated to plant breeders that production could be increased greatly if many more female flowers were produced. Some of the new varieties produce plants that have only female flowers, while others have a greater proportion of female to male flowers. These plants tend to bear fruit earlier, with a more concentrated set and better yields overall. These require a pollen source, so seeds from a different variety are included in the seed packet.

Parthenocarpic cucumbers are all female and are seedless because the fruit is produced without being pollinated. If this type of cucumber is planted near others, pollination will occur and seeds will form. This type is often grown in greenhouses.

Burpless cucumbers are long and slender with a tender skin. Through plant breeding, the bitterness associated with the burp has been removed. Other causes of bitterness in cucumbers include temperature variation of more than 20°F and storage of cucumbers near other ripening vegetables.

Most varieties of cucumber vines spread from row to row.

Training on a trellis or fence along the edge of the garden will reduce space needed and also lift the fruit off the soil. If trellised, plant four to five seeds per foot in rows spaced 30 inches apart.

Untrellised rows may need to be spaced 4 to 6 feet apart. When plants are 4 to 5 inches high, thin so they are 9 to 12 inches apart.

It may be better to plant a second crop around July 1, which will have fewer disease problems, than to try to continue harvesting an early planting until frost.

There are many excellent bush varieties of cucumber now available. Most of these produce well for the limited amount of space and may be a desirable alternative in a small garden if trellising is not possible.

Cucumbers prefer sun, and well-drained, moderate-high organic matter with a pH: 5.5 to 7.0 and temperature 65 to 80°F. Keep moist, not waterlogged; mulch helps maintain moisture.

Plant seeds after danger of frost has passed and soil has warmed,

or use plants sown indoors in peat pots three to four weeks prior to planting time. Space 12 to 18 inches by 48 to 72 inches in rows; 24 to 36 inches by 48 to 72 inches in hills (two to three plants per hill); or closer if trellised. Heavy feeder; sidedress with fertilizer one week after blossoming begins and again three weeks later using 3 tablespoons 33-0-0 per 10-foot row.

In order for the flower to develop into a fruit, pollen must be carried by bees from male flowers, on the same plant or on different plants, to the female flower, the one with the tiny swollen “pickle” beneath the yellow petals.

Poor cucumber set is common during rainy weather when bees are inactive. If pesticides are necessary, use them after sundown to avoid harming the bee population. Plants respond to mulching with soil-warming, black plastic in the spring for earlier harvest. Organic materials are useful in the summer to retain moisture and keep the fruit clean in non-trellised plantings.

Working in the vines when leaves are wet may spread diseases. Wait until after morning dew or rain evaporates.

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Middleburg’s Historic Buildings – The Middleburg Baptist Church

By Pam Mickey Albers, AIA For Middleburg Life [First in a series on “A Mighty Fortress.” For the next series of articles on historic buildings in the Middleburg area, the focus will be on church history and architecture.]

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Churches have always played an important part in the planning of a town and history of the community. No exception, the Middleburg Baptist Church was built on land donated and designated for a place of public worship and burial by Burr Powell, son of Leven Powell.

Leven Powell developed Middleburg’s layout in 1787 from a subdivision of his 50 acres purchased from Joseph Chinn in 1763.

The church was first named the “Free Church” and was built and shared by the Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians before each congregation built its own church. The first mention of the Free Church was in 1796 when an Episcopal minister wrote about preaching in Middleburg—it was later mentioned by another Episcopal minister through the year 1827.

In an 1835 article Joseph Martin describes Middleburg as containing “… 2 houses of worship, 1 methodist and 1 free for all denominations…”

The church building standing today was built in 1844, and replaced an earlier structure not documented. The Methodists built a church in 1829 at Madison and Jay Streets— later known as the Asbury Methodist Church— and the Emmanuel Episcopal Church was built on Washington Street in 1842. The Middleburg Baptist Church was officially established April 27, 1847, but the Presbyterians worshipped with the Baptists until they moved and built a church in Aldie in 1849.

The Baptists subsequently remained the sole worshipers of the Free Church, although the title was held by trustees appointed by the town and it was not cleared until 1953, when the title was obtained by the Middleburg Baptist Church.

The church constructed in 1844 was built from brick, which is said to have been made at Pot House off Foxcroft Road. It is in the Federal or Adams style of that period with a single gable roof and a semi-circular center window.

The church had two main entry doors, one for women and one for men, and the pews were separated down the middle, a common practice in those days.

The African-American slave members of the church entered through the two side doors that lead up to the balcony level. The pews in the balcony are the original handmade ones.

In 1954, an addition was built in the rear for offices and classrooms, but the main sanctuary remains today as it was in 1844.

During the Civil War, the church was used as a hospital and services were not held as noted by a Clerk of the Church in March 1862.

“No services at our church, the Yankees having possession of Middleburg,” he wrote.

The last mention of services not being held was after the war in April 1865, and again the recorded minutes said no service was held.

The cemetery for the town was established in the front lawn of the Free Church.

The markers have been removed and placed up against the front stone wall on the east side and date back to the 18th century. The Sharon Cemetery to the east was established in 1849 and today an iron fence designates the private cemetery. Emmanuel Middleburg Memorial Cemetery was established in 1968 and borders the Middleburg Baptist Church property on the south and west sides.

Today members of families that were the

founding fathers of the Free Church still worship at the church. An article from the Fauquier Democrat dated Sept. 2, 1954, states, “Many old families of the Middleburg area have been active in the church during its long history.

They include the Skinners, Adams, Warrens, Nixons, Swarts, McCormicks, Bentons, Woodwards and Pearsons.”

The Free Church, “the cemetery church” and finally known as the Middleburg Baptist Church is truly a part of the founding and history of Middleburg.

The author would like to thank Pastor Travis Moger, with whom I spoke about his church, as well as, information from articles and photographs that I researched: The Pink Box, the National Register of Historical Places, The Story of Middleburg, Virginia 1787-1958, Emmanuel Episcopal Church website and A History of The Middleburg Baptist Church.

[Pam Mickley Albers is an architect and director of the Middleburg office of Anderson Cooper Group Architects. A Middleburg native, she is a member of the Historic District Review Committee in Middleburg and the Envisioning Committee for the Comprehensive Plan of Middleburg.]

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Main level retail/restaurant space approx. 2600 sq. ft., will be vacant by May 1, 2013. Stone, three level, detached, mixed use building with parking. Upper level3 one bedroom apts-leased. English Basement Lower level- leased, Main level small shop-leased. Leases are verbal, month to month. $1,700,000

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Middleburg Commercial Property sIdeally located at the guest entrance of Salamander Resort and Spa opening in 2013 s2 parcels, totaling 12,800 square feet with town approval for C-1 zoning (Offices or Retail) sAmple space for expansion of exisiting dwelling or build new with room for onsite parking sPerfectly situated in the center of town for high visability sExcellent investment opportunity! $649,000

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