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During the popular Twilight Jumper series at Great Meadow, Coles picked up some impressive placings, including victory aboard Remonta Eden in the $5,000 Mini-Prix on Aug. 30. Coles has also been equally successful with young and less experienced horses. She caught the attention of the judges and established hunter professionals during the inaugural $157,990 USHJA Pre-Green Incentive Championship in mid-August when she guided Nilani Trent’s Autumn Rhythm to impressive placings in Lexington, Ky.

Coles and Autumn Rhythm placed fourth out of 107 entries during the first day, qualifying for the championship round. Coles was just behind eventual winner Hunt Tosh and ahead of renowned hunter pros Jennifer Alfano, Havens Schatt and Peter Pletcher in the standings “He couldn’t have gone any better at the Pre-Green Championship,” said Coles, who also collected 15th place in the championship round. “I was very happy with his results, especially the first day. It was great to be a part of the first championship and to be among so many great hunter riders….I’m really proud that he stepped up to be seen as one of the best PreGreen horses in the country.”

Coles has designed Spring Ledge LLC to offer a variety of custom training options for horses and riders, from those aspiring to top-level hunter/jumper competition to ship-in lessons for eventers and foxhunters wishing to hone their show ring skills. The Spring Ledge facility includes 20 stalls, an expansive indoor arena and outdoor ring and ride-out in Orange County Hunt territory.

“I really enjoy training young horses and helping people improve their relationships and skills with their horses,” Coles said. “It’s always about the relationships and discovering what works best for each partnership. If a horse or rider needs a unique approach in solving a problem or improving a performance, I’ll work hard to figure out that ideal way.”

While Coles is focused on growing a business, she hasn’t lost sight of her own riding goals.

“My ultimate goal is to have top-level grand prix horses and a successful client base and sales program,” said Coles. “I also enjoy working with all types of horses, including Thoroughbreds for the show ring and hunt field.”

For more information about Spring Ledge LLC, contact Sloane Coles at 540-270-0173 or smcoles17@gmail.com.

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By Tricia Booker For Middleburg Life Most young hunter/jumper professionals who hang out a shingle to begin their careers have ample show ring experience. Perhaps they’ve earned championships at the country’s top shows since childhood, trained with some of the best instructors and have ridden talented ponies and horses.

While Sloane Coles certainly fits this description, the 25-year-old takes it a step farther. In addition to a successful show ring career—including multiple national and regional championships in hunters, jumpers and equitation—Coles has lifelong experience riding cross-country and foxhunting.

“I think when my upbringing in Virginia and background showing in equitation, hunters and jumpers is combined with my continuing education in horsemanship it all provides a unique set of skills,” Coles said. “I’m equally comfortable hacking cross-country, crossing streams as well as jumping grand prix courses and showing green hunters.”

Coles comes from a long family tradition of equestrian sport growing up in The Plains.

Her parents, John and Julie Coles, are both lifelong riders and horsemen, with John an MFH at Orange County Hunt since 2001 and Julie a successful amateur hunter/jumper rider.

Following graduation from The Hill School and Foxcroft, Coles spent most of the following decade immersed in her continuing education. She earned a business degree from Drew University (New Jersey) while also balancing a passion for sports. She graduated from Drew in 2011 as an All-Landmark Conference lacrosse player and a Grand Prix show jumper.

Coles has worked with such trainers as two-time Olympic gold medalist Beezie Madden and husband John in New York, international rider Mark Leone of Ri-Arm Farm in New Jersey, Belgian Olympian Francois Mathy Sr., in Europe and Olympic show jumper Lauren Hough in Florida.

After traveling the United States and Europe to study riding and horsemanship, she realized home is where she wants to be. So she established her new business, Spring Ledge LLC, based out of her parents’ farm, The Oaks, in The Plains.

“It feels right and comfortable,” she said.

“I’ve made connections all over the world, and while there are always more to make, I feel prepared and am ready to work hard and move forward toward my goals.”

And after just six months back home, Coles has already made her presence known in

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Barbara and Mark Augenblick recently hosted a party at their home, Woodside, to honor the trustees of The National Youth Science Foundation, area alumni of the National Youth Science Camp and guests from Middleburg.

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It is exploring the possibility of launching science enrichment programs in Virginia.

The camp brings two top science students

from each state and others from around the world to West Virginia for a month in the summer to study with preeminent scientists from around the world. The program has been in operation since 1963. Delegates from Virginia to the 2013 NYSC were Pegah Bakhshi, from Springfield, and Sara Lettie, from Berryville.

Notable alumni of the NYSC include Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!; Wes Bush, CEO and President of Northrop Grumman; David Thompson, CEO and co-founder of Orbital Systems; and David Hackleman, co-inventor of the HP inkjet printer.

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by Paddy Young captured The Daniel C. Sands Cup. Sponsored by The Middleburg Bank the race is named for the late president, who was also a founder of the bank as well as serving as president of the Middleburg Community Center. A long time fox hunter and master of the Middleburg Hunt, Sands was instrumental in making Glenwood Park available for horse and field sports.

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Boulevard in Arlington planning to work in their art department. That never panned out so I used my design skills in other phases of printing, living in Aldie and commuting to the Arlington area for about eight years. When a job opened up at the Loudoun Times Mirror in Leesburg, I jumped at the opportunity to end the long commute.

In the 13 years I worked at the Times papers I gained many friends in the community and a much better understanding of the county I lived in. In 1986 I found that a little print shop in Middleburg was for sale. My oldest daughter, Beth worked at the shop with the owner, Frances Pressley. Frances had started Middleburg Printers on Washington Street several years earlier and had since moved to the new Piedmont Building on Federal Street owned by George White. Frances wanted to sell the print shop to stay home and raise her three boys. After working for somebody else for over 20 years, I thought it was time to try it on my own. The joy in my work is to take someone’s ideas and conceptions and make them real, ink on paper, to hear them say “That’s just what I imagined it to be.”

Over the last seven years I guess I’ve become a fixture around Middleburg. I printed birth announcements, graduation programs, wedding invitations and memorial services, the entire spectrum of life in Middleburg. Prize lists, horse shows, play programs and sale flyers are just some of the things I’ve done over the years.

In 1990, I married another Middleburg fixture, Tutti Smith. Not only could you get your party invitations printed, you could also book your caterer. Today, I could print your invitations and the next week be at your home cooking beef tenderloins and chicken breasts on the grill.

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I grew up on the south shore of Long Island in Babylon. We had a small boat for as long as I can remember, went swimming, fishing, clamming and crabbing almost every weekend when the season and weather allowed.

I remember riding my bike to school with a fishing pole tied to the frame. I would stop at the town dock and fish for flounder or fluke or snapper, whatever was running at the time.

My mother had an aunt and uncle who owned and trained horses and lived in Charles Town, West Virginia. We visited for a week one summer, I think in 1956, and really loved the open countryside and beautiful mountains. I stayed with them for another month after my parents went home and worked with “Uncle Gene” at the race track. I learned how to hot walk horses after exercising or after a race. Of course mucking out stalls was one of my first and least favorite jobs. I had a great summer on the race track circuit going from Charles Town to Wheeling to Waterford Downs and back to Charles Town.

Back home on Long Island things were changing. My parents worked in a defense plant in the ‘50s and by 1956-57 the work started to slow down and layoffs were beginning. Also, the ”city” was moving out to the suburbs, kind of how Loudoun is now being ruined by over development. When a horse transportation business came up for sale in Charles Town, my parents thought it would be a great opportunity to move away and start a new life.

After finishing my first year of high school on Long Island, I was enrolled in Charles Town High School in 1958. Culture shock! It took awhile to adjust, but in time I made a lot of friends and really loved the slower pace of the area. After high school I went on to Shepherd College (now a University) and graduated in 1965. Armed with a BA in English with a minor in art, I took a job at printing plant on Wilson

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By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life Melanie Leigh Mathewes still remembers her kindergarten teacher in a Richmond elementary school asking her students to stand up and tell everyone what they hoped to be when they grew up.

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future ambitions. But not young Melanie.

“The teacher came over to me and I said ‘I want to work in a museum,’” Mathewes said in a recent interview.

And that’s precisely where she spends much of her time these days, occupying a spacious upstairs office at the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg. In January, Mathewes will celebrate her first full and terribly productive year as the renowned institution’s executive director.

And what a year, so far.

Though she credits her board of directors, her staff and many others for its spectacular success, on Mathewes’ watch, the two-year-old museum has drawn rave reviews for its recently completed exhibition of the work of Sir Alfred Munnings, among the most revered sporting artists of his or any other time.

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Manuel Johnson, chairman of the library’s board of directors, said he appreciated Mathewes’ willingness to deflect attention from herself, if only because the exhibition had been in the planning stages for some time. Still, he added, “she deserves a lot of credit for helping with all the administrative details to move it forward. She’s very willing to share the credit, and that’s a very good trait.”

Gathering 68 works by the renowned British artist from a wide variety of museums and private collections obviously was no easy task.

“It would have taken most museums three or four years to put that together,” said Turner Reuter, owner of the Red Fox Inn, a sporting art expert and a major force in helping to secure many of the works for the exhibition. “We did it in four months.”

More than 4,000 visitors came through the museum for a show that opened in April and closed Sept. 15. And Mathewes was equally thrilled with all the print and digital news coverage spreading the word about the exhibition and the library and museum.

“Because of [Munnings], our story is being shared with a huge audience,” Mathewes said.

“We’ve been picked up nationally and globally, and you can’t get a better story than that. It’s helped us make a lot of friends. A lot of stars aligned that helped us pull it together, and so many people were involved…I can take absolutely no credit for how magnificent that show was. No one will ever see this show again in this configuration. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see it.”

Mathewes, who now lives in nearby Philomont, also views her current position as a once in a lifetime opportunity that clearly fulfills her childhood vision of her future work.

She became enamored with museums at an early age. She lived within walking distance of the Richmond Museum of Fine Arts and was a frequent visitor there and at other local museums and historical properties. Mathewes majored in art history at Virginia Tech, where she also studied architectural history, and earned a master’s degree in museum studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

There were several more crucial stops along the way to Middleburg, including her first job after graduate school at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas. In a complex that included an art museum, children’s museum and planetarium, she developed educational programs for both children and adults, “and I loved every minute of it.”

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“I had done a lot of fulfilling projects with Hermitage, and I was looking for other ways to exercise my mind,” she said. “I was told about this position [in Middleburg] and it piqued my interest. The collection here is vastly different from Hermitage, but the function of the institution is the same—reaching the public, offering educational opportunities and being a steward for the collection.

“My mission is not changing,” she continued. “My purpose is to knit the work the library

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and the museum do. We’re working hard to give emphasis to the collection in the library and the research that can be done. That’s the foundation for the programs and exhibitions we have at the museum.”

And the schedule of events at both facilities is jam-packed with lectures, symposiums, book signings and new exhibitions. The latter will include a show entitled “Angling in the Western World” now on display through March 23 followed later in the year with an exhibition of equestrian paintings by Upperville-based artist Clarice Smith.

Fundraising also is a significant part of

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Mathewes’ job description, and the library and museum have already lined up a corporate partner—the Northern Trust—“that will support us through several initiatives through the course of the next year,” she said. With a smile, she added, “no one should be insulted if I come up to them and ask for support for the museum.”

Mathewes also has embarked on the long and somewhat complicated process of gaining accreditation with the American Alliance of Museums. Once completed, the library and museum will have more opportunities to secure important grants for future programs, and also expand its ability to acquire works from other institutions around the country.

“Our feeling is why not do everything right from the beginning,” Mattewes said.

“Everything you do going toward accreditation makes it a better place for the public to enjoy.

We already have fabulous relationships with other museums. It will just open more doors… we can expand our circle of friends.”

Mathewes clearly has made many friends in her relatively short tenure here, not to mention plenty of local admirers of her good work.

Said board chairman Johnson, “She’s doing great. She really hit the ground running.

She has a great background and is well prepared to move us toward being an accredited institution. Sometimes you get someone in that position jumping on to a running train and they want to stop the train. She did not. The things she considers essential that are running right, she has not disrupted anything.”

“The library has been in dire need of a qualified leader in all aspects—dealing with our collection, the public, the board, the employees,” board member Reuter said. “We needed a take charge person, and she is the ideal leader for the National Sporting Library and Museum. She’s personable, knowledgeable, speaks well in public and has great contacts.

“It’s too soon to know how successful she’ll be in growing the endowment…but we are running better than we’ve ever been run before,” he continued. “Our past has been glorious, and I’m really excited about the future.”

As is Melanie Mathewes, now living a kindergartner’s dream.

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Pearson described her job at the town office as doing “a little bit of everything.” Then she ticked off a seemingly endless list of boards and committees she serves on and all manner of special activities—Christmas in Middleburg, Jump Into Spring, for example—she helps coordinate. And, oh yes, she also produces a detailed newsletter to help promote upcoming events.

Most of all, her business is improving Middleburg’s business. She’s trying to get more people—both residents and tourists—to come to town, shop in the stores, eat in the restaurants, open up new businesses, rent office space and support the town-sponsored Saturday farmer’s market. Mainly, to take advantage of all the unique opportunities Middleburg has to offer.

“I’m also there for the businesses to push information to them,” she said. “We do that through the Business Association and with emails. We held an evening class in July at the community center and invited businesses to come and learn about social media. We had 20-25 people for a workshop with Christine Naramore from Union First Bank. She taught them how to tweet, how to use Facebook to their advantage. We’ll continue to do those kinds of events.”

Pearson has lived in Middleburg all her life. She’s the daughter of the town’s late and much-beloved policeman, Jeep Craun, she attended Loudoun County High School, and held her first job at the Yount, Hyde and Barbour accounting firm. She worked at Middleburg Real Estate and credited the late Bud and

Mike Morency as being important mentors, along with Sandi Atkins when Pearson was at Focus Financial.

“Every job prepared me for the next job,” Pearson said, adding that one of her most memorable experiences was a long stint in the business office at The Hill School. “There were so many professionals at every different level.

One teacher made me a better mother. She had six kids herself and never got upset about anything. She was so good, so calm, nothing ever surprised her.”

Tom Northrup, Hill’s now retired long-time head of school, recalled Pearson as being “just a fabulous person. She was a team player who would do whatever it took to make something successful.

She had tremendous versatility, and she did a wonderful job with her own [three] children. All of them are community-minded, apples falling from the same tree.”

Pearson is clearly bullish on the Middleburg business community, not to mention the recent opening of the Salamander Resort & Spa. “Hopefully it will bring their guests into town to shop,” she said. “They’ll have their own events there, like The Film Festival, and you hope it will spill out to us.

It’s a short walk to get here. They’ll have a shuttle, I’m sure, Photo by Leonard Shapiro maybe even [horsedrawn] carriages.”

Pearson also believes local business has been improving in recent years since the economic downturn and “we’ve had gradual growth. We’re trying to keep Middleburg from not ballooning out like Leesburg. We want to make what we have better. We want the shops to do better and offer more, which they have.

Our buildings look nice, and we have great shop windows.”

What Middleburg does not have, Pearson hears all the time. The town conducted a survey several years ago and many respondents said they’d love to see something like the old Reliable Store come back, not to mention a Coach Stoplike restaurant and an office supply store.

As for popular franchises like McDonalds, it’s probably not going to happen any time soon.

“It would have to fit in the historic district,” she said. “Signs would have to be approved, zoning approved. It really hasn’t been an issue. I just don’t think we have the numbers [of people] to support it.”

As for her own vision for the future, Pearson smiled and said her wish list would include giving the town-sponsored Pink Box visitor center more room.

And her dreamiest dream?

“I’d love to have a town square. Maybe Safeway moving to Federal Street, with room for a deli and a salad bar and then make that [current Safeway] property a real town square.

That’s my dream. Now I just need to win the lottery.”

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Horsing Around Wakefield Upper and Middle School students in The Plains are participating in the school’s new equestrian program this fall, partnering with Beverly Equestrian to offer the program and field a competitive school team.

The school will compete in weekend Interscholastic Equestrian Association events. Riders train at Beverly Equestrian after school, and the program also can be used as a physical education credit for students.

“I’ve been riding for a while, so this was a great opportunity for me to start riding again,” said ninth grader Kate Vorder Bruegge. “I didn’t know much about tack and the stuff you should know off the horse. I am learning more how to communicate with the horse when I’m not on it.”

The program has two components—an active learning experience at Beverly Equestrian’s facilities with world-class instructors and

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Instructors at the barn include Darrin Mollett, co-owner of Beverly Equestrian, Katherine Michels and Allison Springer. Cathy Fields and Art Perritt lead the on-campus horsemanship sessions.

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They put tack on the horse, get in the ring, get on and get familiarized with the horse.

In sessions on campus, students learn horse anatomy and different movements that get the horses to perform certain actions.

“I didn’t know all the technical terms” about the horse, freshman Cory Kleinman said. “I knew more about the tack and the actual equitation.”

Cavalia Odysseo, a spectacular ode to horse and man, will begin its Washington area run Oct. 9, continuing until Oct. 27, under the big white tent at National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Md. Cavalia marries the equine arts, stage arts and high-tech theNormand Latourelle and Gorrion atrical effects and features

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“Perhaps this would be a good time for us to say goodbye,” I suggested. Nora was walking around the room, jostling Abbie to calm her. Victoria’s performance had left us all at a loss for words. I was still optimistic that the visit could end on a good note.

“Well,” Victoria said, “now that you’re on the other side of this whole thing, let me tell you about the 40 hours of hell when I had Aaron!”

There was a trick carnival mirror in my mind’s eye, in which the very thing that’s normal one moment becomes abnormal, the next. Nora settled back into her chair and Abbie appeared less agitated. Victoria, on the other hand, was winding up by the second. “ . . . and then, after all that, they sliced right into me like a ripe cantaloupe,” Victoria said. “You wouldn’t have believed it!” My left eye began to twitch, the one that twitches when I am tired or anxious or upset.

“From here to here,” Victoria said, standing up. With an imaginary scalpel, she mimicked the vertical path a knife would have taken had it been in the hands of Jack the Ripper.

“Victoria,” I said. “They don’t do them that way anymore, did you know that? From here to here! That’s why I look like I’ve swallowed a watermelon. That’s why I can hardly zip up a zipper!” She did an exaggerated tug on her zipper.

“Victoria,” I said again. My eye was beginning to twitch in earnest now.

“And what did I get out of it,” Victoria continued, clapping her hands together for effect.

I tried to keep my voice calm yet firm. “You got a good son out of it, Victoria. That’s what you got. A good son.”

Victoria sat down beside me again, toppling two small pillows to the floor in the process.

“Well, maybe after the sex and drugs,” Victoria said. “Maybe after all that nonsense.

Maybe after . . .”

“Victoria!”

“Well, it’s true!” She stood up again, turning her attention back to Mrs. Kinney.

It might have looked like Mrs. Kinney was smiling, but it was a stunned, confused amazement.

“Do you know what I call my son,” Victoria asked. Mrs. Kinney shook her head again. “’Father of our country’,” Victoria said. “That’s what I call him. ‘Father of our country,’ and that’s because . . .”

“Victoria, please,” I said. “Please!” Eventually, Victoria sat down beside me.

She turned toward Nora and Abbie a few moments later. She lurched and seemed star-

tled. The thought crossed my mind that Victoria had forgotten about the baby altogether, caught up as she was in her own performance.

“But that won’t happen to you,” she said in a chastened tone of voice. “I mean, the sex and the drugs and all that other stuff. . .That won’t happen to you.”

Mrs. Kinney got up from her chair, lifted Abbie out of Nora’s arms, and silently headed down the long hallway.

“Well, we really must be going now,” I said, picking up my handbag and walking around the sofa toward the front door before anything else could be said or done. Nora accompanied us to the door. Thumper was already there. Even Thumper was anxious to see us go.

We got into the car and Victoria carefully backed out of the long driveway and onto the road. There were a few cars ahead of us, but she let them be. We drove silently for several miles.

“Well,” she finally said, “that went pretty well, didn’t it?”

“Pretty well, I guess. It might have ended a bit sooner, though.”

“What do you mean, ‘sooner’? I didn’t even get to see where it sleeps!”

“Where she sleeps’ Victoria. I didn’t even get to see where she sleeps.’”

“That’s what I said,” Victoria responded.

“Anyway, do you think they liked our presents?”

“Oh, yes,” I said. “Especially when they realized we had made everything ourselves.”

We had turned off the country road, now, and were on the main highway. There were a few cars ahead of us as the road dipped and curved and twisted. Victoria began filling up on herself, like a balloon being pumped full of air, and I knew that she’d be back to her victorious self again.

“Knock, knock,” she said.

“Who’s there?” I asked.

[After many years spent in the nonprofit sector in Washington, DC, Dulcy Hooper and her husband, Richard, relocated to the Middleburg area several months ago with their Chinese Crested Powder Puffs, Sophie and Isabel.

For years, Dulcy has entertained herself, friends and family members with fictionalized accounts of events inspired by real life. In addition, she is finding the time to work on a lengthier piece of fiction, States of Being.]

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By Betsy Burke Parker For Middleburg Life Serendipity led artist Tom Neel to Virginia, but an abiding love of land and life has rooted him deeply into place.

Welcome to the softly colorful world of painter Tom Neel. His landscapes, still-lifes and nature subjects comprised an intriguing retrospective, “The Land Beneath My Feet,” that debuted Sept. 28 at a Hill School reception; much of the show now hangs at Neel’s Live An Artful Life gallery in The Plains. “[The store] is something of an evolutionary endeavor,” said the 58-year-old artist. “I’ve had 25 years in this business, professionally. I’ve had time to think about ‘what does it mean to me.’ In the show, I let my art speak.” Along with art for the show, Neel also debuted a short film and a coffee-table book by the same name. The 140 full-color pages include art, poetry and ruminations on Virginia’s tug on his soul.

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“This area we live in, the Piedmont, is beautiful,” Neel said. “The balancing act now is preserving this postage stamp piece stuck in the middle of DC moving west and Winchester coming east. I wish I had the answers to a complicated issue. I certainly don’t see myself as the poster boy for land conservation,

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A self-proclaimed “Beltway mutt,” Neel came to Virginia 26 years ago, but it wasn’t a direct route. He went to high school in Rockville. Art, music and cars “all three tugged at me” from a young age.

The formative, young teen years were especially tough when his parents’ divorced when Neel was in middle school. “It was a rough time. Art was my absolute salvation. I don’t think college could’ve helped me at the time.” So Neel followed his love of cars and

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headed west. He worked as a mechanic, and got into drag racing. He moved to California, played guitar in a group and made a name in custom van conversions. He crafted highly detailed fine scale models and wrote poetry.

He eventually realized he was not a West Coaster.

Neel returned east and met artist Linda at her Leesburg Gallery of Art in 1984. They were married and he helped run the shop.

The Neels moved to Connecticut to direct GWS Galleries in 1990 but returned in 1994, another defining moment in his career. He

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began painting full-time, honing his style.

Neel’s style is Andrew Wyeth’s landscape plumped with George Inness’ palette, deft strokes infused with muted yet vibrant yellows and tonal ochre. With an emphasis on mood, he’s a leading American exponent of realistic impressionism, a highly personal style integrating wildness within an observed landscape, bucolic and agrarian drawn from visual memory, photographs and observation.

One work links an easily recognizable scene off the Rectortown Road looking west to the Blue Ridge: trees are frilled for summer and late afternoon light streams east toward the viewer. Another depicts a handsome rooster scratching around a barnyard that could be anywhere, but the scene has the same ethereal glow. Poppies ripple along a roadside in one painting, a field of wildflowers frame The Peak and far-off Mount Marshall on the quiet lane leading to little Washington in another. To the outsider, the paintings are beautiful creations of a master craftsman, an artist with a sure hand for composition, color and creativity. But to the insider, to the Virginian, they evoke love of

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Neel “collects ideas, funnels them down to paintings whose time it is to come alive... placing everything in my soul into that one work. If you’re creatively inspired—create. To be an artist, you must create. If you want to do it as a career, manage it as you would any other business. Businesses have to be creative, artists make creativity their business.”

Coordinating the busy gallery and the creative process is like the “spinning plate” act in a talent show, Neel said. “You get three or four plates spinning while balanced perfectly on the end of a stick and as one starts to slow, you run to it, giving it extra momentum to keep it balanced and then you move to another wobbling plate.

“In some effort to keep things interesting, why just stop at four…you add yet another plate and get it going, all the while running back to keep all the other spinning atop their sticks, and so life goes. The important thing to always remember is to enjoy the challenge.”

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Co-founders Ken Falke, a retired Navy ordnance specialist, and his wife Julia cut the ribbon to formally launch Boulder Crest, a country retreat providing free accommodations, activities and programs for the nation’s seriously wounded veterans and their families to relax and reconnect during their recovery and rehabilitation. The Falkes donated the 37-acre tract of land for the retreat, which broke ground only 15 months ago.

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So how does this impact us right now?

The Farmer’s Almanac is calling for a hard, snowy winter in our area. Inconvenient, yes, but environmentally it might be a really good thing, as our local water table has been assaulted for many years when we have had little or no snow, like last winter. The results of that can be seen right now.

Take a look at our local streams when you cross the next bridge. Considering that we have had a summer with benevolent rainstorms on a regular basis until just recently, isn’t it surprising to see many streams dried up and others barely flowing? Rain alone cannot keep a creek going. It takes winter snows to seep into the underground aquifers and recharge them. So if the big snows do come this winter, be patient as you start up your snow removal equipment. The streams and fields and all things that grow will be smiling.

There are definitely signs that winter might come early and be vigorous. Just keep an eye out for changes you see in your own house and lawn.

The other day, a fox hunter told me her horse was already growing his winter coat, and that is only 24 hours after our most recent heat wave.

Somehow these animals know.

Personally, I have seen mice inside for the first time in years. If they come at all, it’s usually when the cold nights begin. Do they know something we don’t know? Do they read the Farmer’s Almanac? Even the stink bugs already were crawling on the screens and windows last week. Is this also a sign of early winter or were they trying to escape that last batch of heat?

In the end, we are so fortunate to live in this beautiful countryside and have the opportunity to watch nature unfold firsthand. We should pay attention to the little nuances that predict the weather. I remember clearly a day several winters ago when I was driving home in mid-afternoon. It was like being in a Disney movie. I saw deer moving, foxes mousing, and the woods seemed to be teeming with activity.

I said to myself, I bet there is a storm coming, and that was the storm that gave us 30 inches of snow. How do they know? They just do, and that’s the way it is supposed to be. The rest of us watch the weather channel.

[Marcia Woolman is an amateur naturalist who spends a lot of time hunting, fishing and riding.

She serves on the Board of the Goose Creek Association, and several other conservation organizations, both here and in Montana.]

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The spirit of “giving back” which permeates the Foxcroft School community was celebrated on the last weekend in September along with the start of the school’s Centennial Celebration when hundreds of alumnae, students, family, faculty, and friends participated in a worldwide Centennial Day of Service.

The flagship event, taking place on the campus of the girls boarding and day school just outside Middleburg was the “Cherry Blossom Walk, Fun Run, and Pooch Prance,” which benefitted the Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation. About 25 other community service projects were held in such far-flung locales as Hyderabad, India; Cusco, Peru; Providence, RI; and Ketchum, Idaho. Some of the group activities included: • Painting and gardening at Holy Family Day Home in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. • Doing a 5K Breast Cancer Walk/Run in New York’s Central Park.

• Preparing and serving lunch at the Masters Table Soup Kitchen in Augusta, GA. • Cleaning up the historic village of Arrington, near Cambridge, England.

Other Foxcroft women honored the school with a 300-mile AIDS bike ride, pro bono creative marketing services, CPR training, hospice visits, volunteering at animal shelters and sanctuaries in Peru, Argentina, and Missoula, Mont. and more.

“These young women aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty,” Sheila C. McKibbin, Foxcroft’s associate head of school, said. “‘Giving back’ has been one of our core values since the school was founded.”

Hundreds of participants came to Foxcroft for the Cherry Blossom event—also known as Nanette’s Walk in honor of the late

Nanette White–which the school hosted for the first time.

The Centennial kickoff also included a surprise announcement by alumna Nan Stuart at the dedication of a dormitory bearing her name. Stuart said she would provide scholarships to Foxcroft students who decide to study engineering, architecture or architectural engineering because of their participation in an innovative seminar conducted during the building’s construction.

The 1971 Foxcroft graduate and current trustee made the offer after learning about Project Green Build, a monthly seminar which used the creation of Stuart Hall, a $10.3 million, 50-bed dormitory, to educate 26 girls about design and construction.

“The great thing is the way the students were able to see and learn from the building as it went up,” Stuart, owner of Kinsco/Code 3 Associates in Longmont, Colo., said. “If any of those girls decide to study engineering, architecture or architectural engineering because of what they did, I will provide the funds.”

Many contributed to the creation of Foxcroft’s first new dormitory in more than 40 years, but Stuart jumpstarted the project with a $1 million gift.

Earlier in the program, Maria Eagen, chair of Foxcroft’s Science Department, and Vivian Tsai, a senior from Taipei, spoke about the educational opportunities to which Stuart referred when making her stunning offer of college scholarships.

“The construction of Stuart Hall afforded us a unique opportunity to educate and inspire our students,” Eagen said of Project Green Build, the living learning program led by the project engineers and architects that introduced students to all aspects of creating such a

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building with presentations, hands-on activities and tours of the dorm in progress.

“Our students learned about topics from footers to finishing touches and everything in between,” Eagen said. “The inspiring part is that they learned by doing. They went outside and dug footers, laid brick, and toured the construction site to learn as things were being constructed.”

Festivities on campus concluded with a bountiful “When Pigs Fly” barbecue and pig roast prepared by Mike Brown, the long-time director of the school’s dining hall and owner of Mr. B’s Barbecue in Berryville.

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For information on the home, contact the listing agent. For information on having a house reviewed, contact the Middleburg Life real estate advertising department at (540) 687-6059.

Facts for buyers Address: 21051 St. Louis Road, Middleburg (20117).

Listed at: $2,950,000 by Helen MacMahon and Margaret Carroll, Sheridan MacMahon Ltd. Real Estate (540) 687-5588.

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showcasing the versatility of the upperlevel space.

The first lower level is home to a guest bedroom with full bath, along with a large recreation room, an exercise/dance area and another half bath.

The rear of the home, as noted earlier, is graced with multiple porches and terraces, with unobstructed westward views of the Blue Ridge. A wonderful spot to contemplate weighty matters, or to enjoy with a gathering of friends and family.

The adjacent carriage house provides additional versatility and flexibility. Use it to augment family-living spaces, or it would work well to accommodate overflow guests, depending on the needs of the moment.

All told, this home is stately but welcoming, on a lot that is close to the amenities of Hunt Country but set back in a private enclave of serenity.

Whether the day’s plans call for a quiet time – or for a soirée for 200 guests – Belvedere will be able to handle any situation.

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spot to begin. Like all the formal rooms on this level, it is large but one never has the feeling of being overwhelmed. Like the living room, our next stop – the open dining room – is amply proportioned and benefits from two-story, floor-to-ceiling windows that highlight mountain vistas.

The kitchen is a showplace, designed for gourmets and featuring every need identified and taken care of. The appliances are in immaculate condition, and the kitchen boasts a casual-breakfast nook with a built-in, three-desk homework area.

The family room is home to a woodburning fireplace, and like the other formal areas, its large rooms are juxtaposed close together, making them conducive to daily life.

The main level also is home to a music room; a billiard room complete with custom-built cherry-and-leather bar; and a charming, screened-in porch adorned with a wood-burning fireplace and a gas grill.

Four bedrooms are located on the upper level, with the master retreat the highlight.

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Set on slightly more than 27.5 acres along St. Louis Road near Middleburg, this month’s featured estate – “Belvedere” – combines two great traditions in a single package.

Both the classic English Tudor and the elegant French Country styles are found in this creative property, one constructed a decade ago and now a local fixture.

Designed both for entertaining and for daily living, the property features an exceptional main house (with multiple porches and terraces overlooking the Blue Ridge) along with a carriage house. Amenities will meet every need, and a sense of style will follow us as we tour room to room.

The property currently is on the market, listed at $2,950,000 by Helen MacMahon and Margaret Carroll of Sheridan MacMahon Ltd. The three finished levels of the main home bring about 10,000 square feet of interior space under roof, so there is much to explore.

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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

Comparable to exquisite Kentucky Horse Farms, the gently rolling fields are lined with white board fencing. Features include a gracious 6 bedroom manor home, pool with house, 8 barns, large machine shop, 2 ponds, 9 tenant homes and at one of the entrances, the owner’s handsome office inclusive of conference and impressive trophy room. $7,500,000

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Expanded through the years, Takaro has wonderful entertaining areas both inside and out, many overlooking the pool. Two separate suites are wonderful for guests or home office. A dramatic main level apt. is attached to the handsome 7 stall barn. This 14.73 acre property offers a carriage barn, air conditioned dog house, paddocks and pond. $1,550,000

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MELROSE: 12 parcels (none in easement), comprise the 591 acres, some of the finest managed land in the country. Part of the 2400 Acre estate of Spring Hill Farm. One can purchase additional property from the 2400 Acre estate of Spring Hill. Currently on the property are 2 tenant homes and 3 barns. Part of this land also backs to a game preserve. $3,750,000

POTTS MILL - on 137+ acres with frontage on Little River, Open Space Easement, rolling fields with mature hardwood forest, Orange County Hunt Territory, great ride out, very private, within 5 miles of the village of Middleburg, views in all directions. $2,800,000

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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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Excellent 14.6 acre horse farm south of Middleburg in Orange County Hunt. 3BR house w/views of Blue Ridge. 4 stall center aisle stable, heated tack room & hay storage. Board fenced pastures. Conservation easement.

Surrounded by large estates. Great ride out. Apartment tenant requires 90 days notice to vacate. $850,000

Very nice 30 acre parcel in Broad Run near The Plains.

Easy access to I-66, Gainesville and beyond. $349,000

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Stunning and recent restoration by owner/designer of c.1825 Church and Meeting Hall, now leased to an Antique Shoppe and Design Center. Zoned "Commercial Village" and "Village" in the heart of Virginia's wine and horse country. Both buildings sit within the front half of the .84 Acre parcel w/the remainder in lawn w/mature trees & lovely mountain views. $998,000

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107.76 acres Spectacular views from this highly desirable estate location within the Orange County Hunt Territory. Board fenced, 107 acres with frontage on Atoka Road and Rectortown Road. Stocked, approx. 4 acre, pond w/island, spring fed from tributary of Goose Creek. Open Space Easement allows for building of main dwelling, garage or barn with apt. and appropriate farm structures. Zoned RA. $1,250,000

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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Spectacular, verdant 182 acres with Rappahannock River frontage and pond. Beautifully protected views of the mountains, charming 3 bedroom, 1 bath cottage with living room, library/study, kitchen and breakfast room.

Access road to be shared. $3,640,000

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Event chairmen were Michelle and B. Tim Brookshire, honorary chairman was Jacqueline Mars and Ann Nitze was the host committee chair.

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WI8084630 $1,950,000 Call John S. Scully, IV 540-327-2114 A classic home nestled in its own private 3.68 acre enclave overlooking historic Winchester. Complete renovation and restoration has blended superior architectural period details with exquisite finishes and state-of-the-art amenities. Center entrance hall, beautifully crafted woodwork including wainscoting, chair rail and crown molding, 5 fireplaces and slate roof.

Expansive and beautifully terraced gardens. Separate maid’s quarters or private apartment or office above garage.

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Call John B. Schroth 540-327-2124 Own a piece of history! High Banks Farm, circa 1753. Stone manor house with 1⁄2 mile of Opequon Creek frontage.

Pastoral views, 70 acres, mainly open, fenced and cross fenced, 3 ponds and 3-bay tractor shed. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Architecturally stunning contemporary craftsman style home in a beautiful pastoral setting. Accessed by a picturesque paved private lane. Over 9,000 sq. ft. of luxurious space. Designed by Carter & Burton Architecture for gracious entertaining and enhanced by walnut floors, generous room sizes, two master suites, and sophisticated lighting design. On a 5 acre site overlooking meadows and the Opequon Creek Valley.

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Nestled in Virginia’s rolling hills, where the Piedmont transforms into the majestic Blue Ridge mountain range, lies a unique property that celebrates the art of Virginia wine making. Vintage Ridge is a productive vineyard with 44 acres of exquisite meadows, seven of which are dedicated to a meticulously cared for vineyard.

Imagine scarecrows popping up everywhere. No imagination necessary, because it happens every year in October throughout the village of The Plains.

The third annual “Scarecrow Days” festival will take place Oct. 11-26. Last year, the Main Street area was decked out with more than 35 scarecrows in a wide assortment of creative designs, including bank robbers losing their loot, enormous birds and insects, the queen of England pouring tea, and giant vegetables exacting revenge on frightened chefs. Town residents and businesses vie for recognition in four categories: the funniest, scariest, most creative and the people’s choice, determined by public voting, which runs from Oct. 12-25.

Visitors are encouraged to come to town, pick up a ballot and scarecrow map in one of the Main Street shops, view this year’s entries, and vote for their favorites. The results will be announced on the final day, Saturday, Oct. 26, during the town-wide fall festival. That day will include a chili cook-off at Grace Church, an Oktoberfest with live music outside Forlano’s Market, a blood drive and open house at the Masonic Lodge, and the scarecrow awards presented by two prominent residents appearing as Mr. & Mrs. Scarecrow. For more information about Scarecrow Days or the fall festival, visit ThePlainsVirginia.com or call 540-253-9797.

And creativity in The Plains is hardly limited to scarecrows.

For example, while the Old Dominion Soap Company opened its shop doors in The Plains this past April, owner Carole Kindel has been making all natural, olive oil soap for over 15 years. The space on Main Street now allows her to teach her craft to others through the soap-making classes offered at the shop.

In addition to a great variety of specialty handcrafted soaps, the shop also makes soy candles and offers special gift sets perfect for the upcoming holiday season. If you are looking for a functional and unique favor for an event, they offer customized labels for their soaps and candles. The shop also stocks a

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Located a convenient one hour from Washington, D.C. the vineyard’s hospitality and renowned wine have been attracting both city dwellers and those from the surrounding countryside for more than 10 years. Other features include a renovated log guest house, swimming pool and tennis court. All equipment and wine inventory convey with this active winery. Vintage Ridge Vineyard charms its inhabitants and visitors alike with the allure of grape vines set within an environment of stunning beauty!

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wide assortment of unique and seasonal home décor items. For more information, visit www. odsoapco.com or stop in at 6488 Main St. ZigZag Gallery has a full schedule of exhibitions planned, starting with “Clay Perspectives“ (through Oct. 12), featuring functional and sculptural ceramic works by Inyoung Han Lee, Fran Newquist, Martin Karcher and Wayne Willson. Following that is “The Return“ (Oct. 17 to Nov. 12), presenting works in pastels by Tia Maggio and oil paintings by Winslow McCagg.

The juxtaposition of these two artists’ differing approaches to landscape results in a show full of energy and exuberance. You can meet the artists at the show’s opening reception Saturday, Oct. 19, 5-7 p.m. ZigZag also will have a major presence at The Christmas

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Shop in Middleburg, with beautiful contemporary jewelry, exciting crafts and creative children’s items, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Nov. 7-9. For more information, visit zigzagtheplains.com or call 540-253-5364.

And finally, Youngblood Art Studio will have works by Lilla Ohrstrom on display from October through though December.

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138-acre farm nestled in the heart of the Piedmont Hunt territory. The 1816 house is an exceptional example of 19th century Quaker architecture. Outbuildings include 5-stall barn, large shop, two tenant houses, pool, and generator.

Estate Property with 20 plus private acres, is located on the Catoctin Ridge with magnificent distant views. Modernized and customized to perfection, it is complete with a stone 1-bedroom guest house, a 1-bedroom carriage house with 3-bay garage and workshop, pool and tennis court.

Stunning 10-acre retreat. 6,500 square feet, 3-car attached and 3-car detached with workshop. Enviable indoor and outdoor entertaining space with waterfall, custom stone work, multiple patios, and deck. Partially cleared lot. 480-bottle wine cellar. Generator. Close to MARC.

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Authors speaking in Charles Town and Waterford Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg, the subject of a new book by author Chris Kotulak, will be honored at the Charles Town racetrack Saturday, Oct. 19, in conjunction with the West Virginia Breeders Classics.

Van Berg is scheduled to speak about the book, “Jack: From Grit to Glory,” at the Classics’ Breakfast of Champions in the Skyline Ballroom of the Hollywood Casino. The breakfast begins at 9 a.m. and also will feature appearances by a number of former members of the Washington Redskins and radio play-by-play man Larry Michaels, who will serve as master of ceremonies.

Berg also will sign copies of the book Friday night at the racetrack, Saturday morning at the breakfast, and again Saturday night at the Breeders Classics.

Kotulak described the biography as “a true story of hardship, heartache and heartfelt joy. The life and remarkable accomplishments of Jack Van Berg is a testament to discipline, respect and commitment. The characters are real, yet the accounts of humans and horses seem unbelievable; as if they are from a different time—because they are…Jack lived through a golden age of horse racing, trained cham-

pions, broke records and became a Hall of Fame trainer.”

For more information on the Breakfast of Champions, call 304725-0709 or go to wvbcmbn@verizon.net.

In another book event, farmer Forrest Pritchard will speak about “Gaining Ground: A Story of

Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm” at a program sponsored by the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership Wednesday, Oct. 16.

The presentation, which starts at 7 p.m., will take place at the organization’s headquarters, located at 15481 Second Street in Waterford.

His talk will take place on World Food Day, which was established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1979 and was first observed in 1981. World Food Day draws attention to achievements in food security and agricultural development. As part of the observation, a

network of 450 organizations have taken action in their own ways to showcase models of success in food security and to highlight what more needs to be done.

Pritchard’s book is about a seventh-generation farmer’s inspiring journey to the heart of the sustainable farming community. Pritchard is a professional farmer, writer and public speaker. Holding degrees in English and geology from The College of William and Mary, Forrest studied under George Garrett in the University of Virginia’s MFA program.

His farm, Smith Meadows, has been featured on NPR and in The Washington Post. One of the first “grass-finished” farms in the country, Smith Meadows has sold at leading farmers’ markets in Washington, DC, for 15 years. His book was named a Top Ten Book by Publishers Weekly, Washingtonian Magazine and NPR’s “The Splendid Table”.

The cost for the event is $10 and includes a reception at 6 p.m. with light refreshments being served. Pre-registration is required as limited seating is available, and books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information or to register, go to www.HallowedGround.org.

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Custom built brick Colonial on 10 acres with Blue Ridge Mountain views. Open Floor Plan has a new Chef’s Kitchen with top of the line appliances, granite island, adjoining sun-filled Family Room with cathedral ceiling & double fireplace to Den. Hardwood floors, 3 fireplaces, huge back deck, finished basement with Recreation Room & Guest Bedroom Suite. 2-car garage with office space or workout room above. Turn key 4-stall center-aisle barn with tack room, wash stall, turn-out shed & fenced paddocks.

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Beautiful all brick custom built home just North of Middleburg on 12 private acres in unparalleled tranquil setting. Main level Master with fireplace, Luxury Bath, Formal Living Room & Dining Room, 2 story Great Room with stone hearth, Library, 2nd Master Suite & 2 Guest Bedrooms, full basement with room for In-Law Suite, Game Room & Workout Room. 1,200 sq ft brick terrace overlooks stunning pool. Mature landscaping, gardens & attached 3 car garage. $999,999

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Lovely pool & gardens. Great ride-out. $995,000

Sophisticated country cottage on quiet, dead-end street in Upperville. This 3 BR, 2.5 BA home was renovated by DC owner/interior designer. Dining Rm, Family Rm & Living Rm w/fplce. 2 BRs on 2nd flr. Main level Mstr BR w/huge walk-in closet & luxury bath. Private setting on 1.32 acs. Sweeping lawns, mature plantings & small stream. Open patio & 1-car garage. Walking distance to churches, food & Post Office. $685,000

Charming stone & frame cottage with 3 Bedrooms, 1 bath on 4.57 open acres just East of Middleburg on a quiet gravel road. Cottage was originally part of neighboring estate "Exning". Redesigned by local architect. Lovely hardwood floors, 2 stone fireplaces, screened & flagstone porches. Updated kitchen. Old stone walls. Fruit trees. Small field with run-in shed.

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Board fencing installed. County approved 4-Bedroom Septic Field. $255,000 COON TREE ROAD - Located in Halfway, just minutes to Middleburg or The Plains. 3 mostly cleared acres dotted with mature trees. Elevated building site with great views. Ideal for hunt box or main house. Approved 4 bedroom perc. Orange County Hunt. Great commuter access to I-66 or Rte 50. $215,000

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3,200 sq. ft. custom home sited at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mtns. & near Shenandoah River. 3-4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths on 2 levels. Formal Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen with island & breakfast nook. Luxury Master Bedroom Suite with private balcony. 2nd Master Bedroom with sitting room. Huge Family Room. Oversized 2-car garage with work space. Rear deck ideal for entertaining.

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Charming c. 1909 traditional stucco farm house on almost 5 open & fenced acres. Lovely front porch, hardwood floors, 2 bedrooms up, full bath on each floor, country kitchen, separate Living Room & Dining Room, rear screened porch & detached 1 car garage. Large fenced pasture with small shed/barn ideal for horses. Orange County Hunt territory with great ride out. Only minutes to Middleburg, Marshall, EZ access to I-66 & Rte. 50. $447,632

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In its 40th edition, The Goose Creek Jass and Ragtime Society hosted more than 300 revelers Mary Jo Buckland and Kelly Buckland

in a Gatsbyesque setting complete with paper lanterns and an alluring pergola. Children romped in the boxwood gardens, and adults got their groove on bopping around the dance floor, or just sitting back in their folding chairs, sipping Sauvignon something. The scintillating sounds resonated from Tuba Skinny from New Orleans, Dan Levinson’s Crescent City Jazz Band from New York City and The Loose Marbles from New Orleans.

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about a third of the cost for what a single grave now costs.

These days, the cemetery is run by a volunteer committee headed by its president, the Rev. Lewis Christian, of The Plains, who is associate minister at Middleburg’s Shiloh Baptist Church. He is assisted by secretary Liz Wallace, treasurer Geraldine Napper and committee members Julia Stewart and Milton Woodson.

A retired government worker, Woodson lives across the street from the cemetery and is responsible for maintaining the property and the gravesites. He also has taken it upon himself to plant an American flag in front of the headstone of every military veteran, some dating back to World War I. “Everyone comments on how well the cemetery is kept,” Wallace said. “I think it’s his peace, being there, taking care of the grass and the flowers. He really does a wonderful job.”

The committee is not affiliated with any one particular local church, Christian said. The historic cemetery survives on funds raised from the sale of funeral plots and donations, with Memorial Day weekend a particularly critical time for Solon. On Memorial Day, a full church service, last year led by Christian, is annually

conducted on the property.

“The gates are open from Friday to Monday that weekend,” Wallace said. “That’s when people come to pay for their upkeep fees and make donations or seek to buy graves.

That’s when we get most of our funds to operate the cemetery.”

Solon averages about 10 funerals a year, and Christian and the committee works with a number of funeral homes in the surrounding area. Occasionally, there are requests for plots from Maryland, DC, and West Virginia from people with familial ties to the local community.

There appears to be plenty of room to accommodate future needs for burial plots, but Wallace said looks also can be deceiving.

“According to the maps and records, there are plots that do look empty, but we can’t be certain,” she said. “Sometimes there’s just no marker, especially some of the older graves.

Families might have moved away and there are no markers. I don’t feel like you can sell that plot. Somebody could come along and say ‘wait a minute, that’s my great-great-great grandfather there, and I wanted to be buried next to him.’ It’s a touchy situation.”

Still, she said, Solon should be able to accommodate requests for many years to come.

“We can find a place for you to the best of our knowledge,” she added.

Christian is responsible for making certain “everything is right and perfect. I’ll help [families] make decisions on what has to be done, and of course we work with all the local funeral directors.”

Solon originally was established at a time when segregation and Jim Crow laws were in effect, although it is now integrated with several bi-racial couples, Wallace said. More than a few early graves were totally unmarked because some of the former slaves and their living relatives back then were illiterate. The oral tradition of the times passed on the location of many of those gravesites, according to local historian Eugene Scheel.

“I don’t think a lot of people now even know that the cemetery exists,” Wallace said.

“When we called the town office not too long ago, the person who answered the phone said there was no cemetery there. But a lot of people around here care very much that it’s there and that it’s being maintained for future generations.

“I hope they’ll take it over when we’re gone. We’re going to do the best we can to keep it going. It’s important.”

For further information on Solon, write to PO Box 264, Middleburg, Va. 20118 or contact Christian at 540-253-5105 or Wallace at 540-687-6384.

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By Leonard Shapiro For Middleburg Life Coming into Middleburg from west to east on Rt. 50, the Solon Cemetery is barely visible through the tall pines fronting Washington Street across the road from Chestnut. But a right turn down a short gravel driveway and through the iron gates reveals a solemn twoacre site that has always been considered some of the town’s most hallowed ground.

There, in a meticulously manicured setting, are more than 700 graves, some dating back to the 1880s. That’s when Solon became Middleburg’s predominately African-American cemetery, a final resting place for many black residents of Loudoun and Fauquier counties, and well beyond.

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GEORGIA ON MY MIND: A slight twist on a 1700’s Georgian for space & function. The back side of this gem shows off the size with a graceful shed dormer and full walkout lower level to the pool. 35 acres with a wonderful stable and stunning 360º mountain views to enjoy year round. $1,400,000

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Kim Macher, executive director of the Epilepsy Therapy Project, first learned of the organization nearly 10 years ago. With an office in Middleburg, it was founded in 2002 by a group of parents, physicians and researchers with a mission to help accelerate the development of new therapies for people living with epilepsy and seizures.

“At that time,” Macher said, “I knew very little about epilepsy and seizures, but it didn’t take much time to learn enough to know that I wanted to help this community.”

There are nearly 3 million people in the United States with epilepsy, and 60 million

“While many incredible people with epilepsy can live life to the fullest and reach their goals and dreams, there are many others who haven’t been able to do so.”

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people worldwide. This year, another 200,000 individuals in the U.S. will be diagnosed with epilepsy. Despite all available treatments, 30 percent to 40 percent of those diagnosed with epilepsy will experience uncontrolled seizures, while many more will experience less-thanoptimal seizure control. In fact, epilepsy takes thousands of lives each year and is more preva-

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lent than autism, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and Parkinson’s disease combined.

“We need the broader public to have greater awareness about epilepsy and seizures,” said Macher. “While many incredible people with epilepsy can live life to the fullest and reach their goals and dreams, there are many others who haven’t been able to do so because they live with uncontrolled seizures or with the devastating side effects from current therapies.”

After a decade-long partnership in the funding of new therapies, the Epilepsy Therapy Project merged earlier in 2013 with the nationally known Epilepsy Foundation. The newly combined organization has 47 affiliate offices across the United States, creating a nationwide network of supportive care.

Through the organization’s website, epilepsy.com, a supportive network is made available around the world to those with epilepsy and their families. The organization’s comprehensive agenda includes education, advocacy, awareness, local services and supporting research, in addition to the development of new therapies.

“Across all diseases and life-threatening conditions, patient-focused organizations— and patients themselves—are leading the way toward better treatments,” said Michael Milken in a statement made at the time the merger was finalized. Since 1998, the Milken Family Foundation has worked alongside the Epilepsy Therapy Project and the Epilepsy Foundation to provide funding to young investigators focused on developing more effective treatments for the condition.

The decision to move the organization’s offices to Middleburg was made several years

Kim Macher and her Belgian sheepdog, Hannah

ago. Asked why she had established an office in Middleburg, Macher’s answer is simple.

“Why not?” she responded. “I believe it takes a community; and, for me, Middleburg was love at first sight.”

Macher is no stranger to Middleburg.

Several years ago her daughter, Samantha, attended “Summer’s Here” Camp at Foxcroft.

Later, she attended and graduated from Notre Dame Academy (now Middleburg Academy).

“The school guided her and gave her the valuable experience, confidence and education that sustained her as she moved on to the University of Virginia, and then to Hollins University,” said Macher. Now living in Los Angeles, Samantha Macher is a published playwright

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The Grooming Of Innisfree’s Native Landscape

By Carole Otteson Special to Middleburg Life

What happened when a founding member of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and her husband, an admirer of trees, bought 100 acres of former cornfield in Virginia’s hunt country that was overgrown with every kind of invasive exotic?

Beth and Wayne Gibbens worked hard.

They named those acres Innisfree and inexorably and energetically restored the land, guided by an internal compass that pointed true native.

Twenty years in the making, Innisfree in the Middleburg area, is now a splendid patchwork of woodland, meadows and hedgerows, a masterpiece of landscape restoration.

The Gibbens, who prior to moving to Innisfree lived in Washington, DC, did the lion’s share of the work themselves. In the beginning, they made the one-hour plus drive back and forth from the city.

Monarch butterflies sop nectar from Maximilian sunflowers.

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“We came out every weekend. We didn’t have any structure, so we’d work from dawn ’til dusk,” Beth remembers. “At first we had to pick up all the rocks and get rid of all the poison ivy. A lot of people are shocked by [our doing the work ourselves].”

But, points out Beth, “It’s our joy.”

“I’m really happy with it,” Wayne agrees.

“Beth, who was a dear friend of Lady Bird Johnson, was inspired by the former First Lady to do what we did here. Then Beth went to the Cullowhee native plant seminar and heard Gary Smith talk.”

Landscape architect and artist W. Gary Smith’s reverence for the native landscape resonated with Beth. She was so impressed with his presentation that she immediately called her husband and said, “You’ve got to come down here!”

Wayne Gibbens joined his wife at the conference in Cullowhee, N.C. It was the beginning of a 15-year collaboration with Smith that has become a warm friendship. For his work on the project, Smith won a Gold Medal Award from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers in 2011.

The timing of that meeting in Cullowhee was propitious. The Gibbens had spent five years clearing the land and had begun to plant.

They were ready for the next phase. On Smith’s part, he says, “What really inspired me was their level of commitment.”

Although most of Smith’s work is for larger botanic gardens, after speaking with the Gibbens at the conference he was intrigued.

“When working with native plants,” Smith says, “it’s crucial to have a certain degree of humility. They have that humility. They get it.”

It wasn’t until he actually visited Innisfree and saw the serpentine lines of horse fencing that flow over rolling hills that he understood

the Gibbens’ level of sophistication. When he saw how local craftsmen had built walls, paving and stonework “without detailed construction drawings” and how local stone was used to complement historic walls, he says, “I felt a spontaneous connection with them.”

The couple had already begun planting trees. It had been a great labor of love.

“Before we had a well, we would walk down to our pond and carry back water,” Beth says. “We watered the trees—everything—by hand. When Gary came, he said, ‘Well, the good news is they’re just perfect. The bad news is, except for one. You’ve got to move it.’”

Having to move one of those precious trees was hard to hear, Beth says. Nevertheless, they did it and the collaboration took off.

“Gary helped us,” Beth says. “He drew us a plan and said in the next 50 years we should follow it.”

The plan is simple and ingenious. It connects the property’s various destinations with a meandering mown path nicknamed “the Daily Jaunt.” Consulting ecologist Jeff Wolinski provided advice and installed many of the meadows in pursuit of the plan.

“We named every place that we’d walk to,” Wayne says. “The woods in the back are the Confederate Woods. We had the Animal Cemetery. Everything has a name.” Among others are “the Scrim,” a beautiful hedgerow, and “Groundhog Hill.”

Designating these separate locales broke the property into manageable entities, each with a separate character that dictated its specific landscape treatment. Joining all together, the mowed path through 99.9 percent native wildflowers like asters and sunflowers and grasses gives the property lyrical cohesion. The Gibbens planted thousands of woody plants, native grasses and wildflowers “with their own hands,” Smith says.

A ride along the Daily Jaunt is like being on safari. Beth tosses off the names of all the plants in botanic Latin: Asclepias syriaca, Amelanchier, Silphium perfoliatum, Camassia scilloides. Overhead, singing birds swoop; butterflies hover over coneflowers; a groundhog scurries to his hole and a doe keeps a wary eye out while a small herd melts into the trees. Here and there, a tree is allowed to remain where it fell, offering habitat to birds and insects.

One prized tree is a gorgeous living Magnolia virginiana.

“The Smithsonian ran a program last year called ‘Living Landscape.’ They had people coming out to monitor bees and butterflies,” Beth says. “We had all eight native Virginia bees and a lot of non-native bees.”

The hedgerows (of oakleaf hydrangea [Hydrangea quercifolia] in one spot) and the meadows can look “kind of unkempt to people who don’t appreciate what we’re doing,” Wayne says. A neighbor offered “to come over and bush hog close to the fences. They don’t get it.

You would be amazed at how much time and how much money it takes to make it look like I don’t give a damn!”

“The single most difficult part about doing what we’re doing,” he adds, “is to let nature takes its course. If you do that literally, then tree-of-heaven takes over. How you let things go back to nature and still control the invasive non-native things is a constant struggle.”

Happily, the Gibbens are persevering.

Innisfree, though named for a beloved Irish thoroughbred horse, recalls Yeats’ poem “Lake Isle of Innisfree,” a utopian landscape with a “bee-loud glade”… “where the cricket sings” and evenings are “full of linnet’s wings.”

[Carole Ottesen is author of the horticultural mystery “Dying for the Christmas Rose.” This article first appeared in the fall issue of Wildflower magazine, a publication of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, TX.]

The banks of the Gibbens’ pond abound with persimmon trees, serviceberry, dogwood, silky dogwood and masses of milkweed.

Maximilian sunflowers and warm season grasses such as big and little bluestem, gramas, Indian grass and switchgrass attract birds and butterflies.

Stone walls on two sides of the swimming pool are bordered by milkweed, Joe Pye weed, bee balm, black-eyed Susan and purple coneflower.

Fields of lupines call to mind Texas bluebonnets for the Gibbens.

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We have an anniversary of note…Genia, 90, and Don Gartrell, 91, recently celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary. Married Aug. 23, 1942, in Upperville, they’ve resided in Middleburg their entire marriage. “We’re both very grateful for the life we have,” Genia said.

There were many special classes and

Happy to hear that Isabella “Biz” Barrett Sperduto, the daughter of librarian and artist Tia Maggio of Millwood and Kim Hoyt Sperduto of Washington, is engaged to Andrew Martell of New Milford, Conn. The couple met at Georgetown University. She’s an assistant principal in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and

Genia and Don Gartrell recently celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary

events-both sporting and social at the 114th Warrenton Horse show on Labor Day weekend.

Consider just a few: leadline winner William Tharp on All That Sass with all entry fees to the Make A Wish Foundation.

It was a big family event for Payton Maloney as parents and grandparents gathered to

Photo courtesy of U.S. Polo by Elizabeth Hedley

late husband, Stephen C. Clark, Jr. It included two important 19th century British sporting paintings by John Ferneley, Sr. and Benjamin Marshall.

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Andrew is the marketing director for J.G. Black Book, a travel promotion firm in Manhattan. A June, 2014 wedding is planned.

Laura Waller and Christian Coyner were married on Sept. 21 at Trinity Church in Upperville. The bride is the daughter of Nemie Schara of Bluemont and David Waller of Virginia Beach. The groom is the son of Anne and Gray Coyner of Upperville. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas.

Members of the Piedmont Driving Club had a surprise ending to their Sunday afternoon coaching outing from Texas Farm recently.

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Wesley Finlayson, Juan Bolini Jr, Grant Ganzi, Justin Daniels recently won the Inaugural United States Polo Association National Youth Tournament Series Championship held at Virginia International Polo in Upperville.

Andrew Martell and Isabella Sperduto are engaged.

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Lamb have been busy welcoming visitors and guests for “Spirits in Stone,” a highly successful sculpture exhibition and sale.

The international Horses and Humans Research Foundation (HHRF) welcomed Pam Milner, founding partner of Spirit Program, an equine assisted learning and psychotherapy (EALP) center in Middleburg, as its newest board member. And Barbara and David Roux recently welcomed guests to their St. Bride’s Farm for a reception and demonstration of the program along with a bonus exhibition of one of their show jumpers.

Middleburg resident Lucy Duncan was honored recently for Outstanding Readiness Support in Afghanistan by the U.S. Defense

The Rev. Anne Hallmark of Emmanuel Episcopal Church with newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. John Dale Thomas.

Photo by Viviane Warren.

Donovan and Viviane Warren and of course Rector Anne Hallmark took their places. The picnic food was ready and the wedding ceremony began. Best wishes and congratulations to horsewoman Maryalice and race track official

Paul Diehl, Julie Diehl and Barb Roux at St. Bride’s Farm Linda Tripp, Brayden Frye, Dieter Rausch with Blakely Maloney, Beth Frye, Derek and Bryce Maloney, Allison Tripp, Chip Maloney with Kyrra Frye,and Payton Maloney winner of the walk trot class at the Warrenton Horse Show.

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watch her win the walk trot class on Riley O’Rourke, sponsored by Middleburg Mortgage, with all entry fees to Bright Stars. Another very popular award was the first ever Robert J. Burke Perpetual Trophy awarded to the handler of the Best Young Horse. The winner was Emily Anne Belin.

And congrats also to E. Sue Bopp on Chawton, the winner of the $5,000 Warrenton Horse Show Hunter Classic presented by Warrenton Toyota/Miller Toyota.

The final round of the inaugural United States Polo Association National Youth Tournament Series took place recently at Virginia International Polo in Upperville. The Zone 3 team from the Florida region—Wesley Finlayson, Juan Bolini Jr., Grant Ganzi and Justin Daniels—won the Cecil Smith Cup. Just a quick update on Middleburg (the horse). He’s back in training with Christophe Clement at Belmont and should be racing again soon.

The board of directors of the Upperville Colt and Horse show gathered recently to announce they’ve taken possession of the 19-plus acres of the historic show grounds from Clarice Smith and the Smith family estate. And congratulations to Mike Smith (no relation), the new president of the horse show.

Friends gathered at the National Sporting Library & Museum for a bequest from the late Kathryn “Kats” Clark in memory of her

nesy, Jim Rodgers and Christopher Stephens, four artists prominently featured in the newly opened Salamander Resort & Spa. Dynamos Nadia Stanfield and Susanne

Terri O’Dowd of Middleburg Mortgage with Snowden Clarke at the Warrenton Horse Show Photo by Vicky Moon

Logistics Agency (DLA). The award recognizes her company, Safe Ports, Inc., in two categories—as a small business and as a womanowned business.

And congrats to several area students …

Caroline Greer of Aldie, a senior at Middleburg Academy, and Jamie Willey of Delaplane, a senior at Highland School, have been named semifinalists in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Also, Middleburg Academy senior Tre Benefield, son of Pan and Chuck Benefield of Deleplane, has been named a Rensselaer Medal Winner from the highly regarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y. Both of Wakefield School’s student-produced publications, the Talisman and Amulet, were Gold Medal Award Winners in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s annual contest. The Talisman upper school literary/art team was Erica Joy Oliverio, Alex Simon, Caroline Kessler, Caitlin Wagner and Kate Weimer.

The Amulet lower school publication team was Juliet Mayer, Morgan Hadlock, Nicole Andersen and Devon Vickery.

Jim Rich, senior warden of Church of Our Saviour at Oatlands, announced Reverend James Basinger as the new rector. Basinger succeeds Elijah White, who served the parish for 36 years.

Students at Banneker made pinwheels in art class under the direction of art teacher, Krister Tracey, which was recently displayed on the front lawn. Kudos to all.

John McMahon, a Hill School alum from a long-time Middleburg family, recently com-

This painting by John Ferneley, Sr. (British, 17781-1860) was given to the National Sporting Library & Museum by the late Kats Clark in memory of Stephen

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pleted an Iron Man competition in Canada. It included a 2.4 mile swm, 112-mile bicycle ride and 26.2 mile marathon. McMahon, 49, completed the event in 13 hours.

Goodstone Inn & Restaurant just outside of Middleburg has announced the appointment of Benjamin Lambert as executive chef.

Lambert is a nationally respected chef with over 14 years experience at luxury restaurants in New York and Washington. He plans to develop state-of-the-art, seasonally-inspired cuisine with a farm-to-table emphasis at Goodstone.

The renowned dining room menu will continue to offer French Country cuisine.

Upperville’s own Andrew Motion had a successful trip to Timonium, Md., where he sold two fillies at the Fasig-Tipton Mid-Atlantic Fall Yearlings sale for $48,000, almost five times what he paid for them at Keeneland in January.

Nice to chat with Will Russell when he stopped by the Middleburg Life offices recently to recount his viewing of four bears loping across the Zulla Road.

For his Eagle Scout project, Noah Holt of Middleburg, with Troop 163 in Purcell-

ville, built a three-stall run-in shed for Golden Dreams Therapeutic Riding Center, a nonprofit organization for children and adults with disabilities to gain experiences with horses.

The 3rd Annual Howl-o-ween Hayride and Puptoberfest to Benefit Oldies But Goodies Cocker Rescue will take place at Lowelands Farm on Saturday, Oct. 19 from 12-4 p.m. (rain date Sunday, Oct. 20). For tickets, contact Karen Lowe at hayride@cockerspanielrescue.com.

The work of beloved local artist extraordinaire Robin Hill will be part of the exhibition Contemporary Artist-Naturalists Robin Hill and Meg Page, Oct. 12 through Feb. 25 at the National Sporting Library & Museum. The show will offer stunning portrayals of birds, animals and fish, and an additional exhibit, Teaming with Nature: James Prosek, from Oct. 25 to Jan. 30, will be in the library.

And ho, ho, ho… get ready get go. Christmas in Middleburg on Saturday, Dec. 7 begins at 8:30 a.m., with Breakfast with Santa, parade at 2 p.m. and (get this) the day concludes with a wine crawl. OK.

Palm Cockatoos, 1998, watercolor and gold-leaf on paper, 38 x 28 ¼ inches by Robin Hill. Courtesy of the National Sporting library & Museum

Alexander Payne’s highly anticipated film Nebraska will open the inaugural Middleburg Film Festival Oct. 24-27.

Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is the centerpiece selection.

The festival is founded by Sheila C. Johnson, with Susan Koch as executive director and Connie White, programming director. The signature event will be an orchestral concert featuring the works of a noted film composer accompanied by movie clips.

Other activities and programs include: one-on-one conversations with renowned filmmakers and actors; farm-to-table dinners and wine tastings at local vineyards and master classes with leading members of the film industry. Director Lee Daniels and former Washington Post writer Wil Haygood will take a look behind the scenes of the critically acclaimed film, Lee Daniels’ The Butler.

Nebraska, which had its world premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, is the story of a quiet old man (Bruce Dern) whose mildmannered son (Will Forte) agrees to drive him from Montana to Nebraska to claim a non-existent $1 million sweepstake prize.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is based on South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography. It chronicles his journey from growing up in small village to leading the fight against apartheid and spending 27 years in prison before becoming the first democratically elected President of South Africa.

For film listings and screening times, event schedule, FAQs and to order tickets please visit: www.middleburgfilmfestival.com.

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Our students have access to the very best teachers and facilities, including our newly-renovated Middle School, state-of-the-art academic center and Harkness teaching room.

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Apple Crisp Serves 4-6

What better way to spend a crisp fall afternoon than apple picking? This year the Mutsu apples have been fantastic, so we loaded up our buckets with those big green beauties and headed to the kitchen. If you are not familiar with this variety, they taste like a cross between Yellow Delicious and Granny Smith, great for eating and baking. The crumb topping can be made well in advance and kept in the refrigerator. This makes a dandy breakfast straight out of the oven with a shot of heavy cream on top – not to mention how heavenly your kitchen will smell, a nice way to start the day.

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Let’s start off with a look ahead to Halloween at the end of the month with several related events.

The Middleburg Community Center will host its annual Halloween celebration Thursday, Oct. 31¸ with a hot dog dinner and other surprises from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Trick or treating around town to follow. But no tricks, please.

Susan Jeffries of The Zig-Zag Gallery in The Plains is directing an art show “The Return” with paintings by Winslow McCagg and pastels by Tia Maggio Oct. 17-Nov. 16. For details, call 540-253-5364.

A harvest festival will take place at Oatlands on Oct. 20 from 1-5 p.m. There will be music, country line dancing, hayrides, facepainting, farm animals and vintage farm implements. Admission is $10 per person or $20 per family. For more information 703-777-3174.

Another October tradition—what else but the Middleburg Lions Club Oktoberfest— will include a celebration at the Middleburg American Legion Hall on Oct. 19 from 6 to 10 p.m. There will be beer, food, music and games, with proceeds from the $35 admission benefiting the needy of Middleburg and the surrounding area. Go to: middleburgoktoberfest.com or call 540-522-9684.

Don’t forget the Howard Allen book signing at the National Sporting Library and Museum from 4-6:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Long-time Middleburg resident and photographer, Allen has authored “Unforgotten Times, Jackie Kennedy’s Happy Days in the Virginia Hunt Country,” featuring glimpses into the private life of a very public family.

More horsey news. The Junior North American Field Hunter Championship has several more important area competitions:

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Art in the Foothills, will be held in The Meeting House at Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors in Bluemont, Oct. 18-20.

Oct. 12 (Middleburg) and Oct. 20 (Snickersville). Call Marion Chungo at 540-220-7292.

The Orange County Hounds will hold the 2013 Cross Country Team Chase event on Oct. 27 at Old Whitewood Farm in The Plains.

Teams of three or four horses and ponies will gallop cross country over fences they might encounter during a day’s hunting. After all riders have completed the course, junior riders will compete for the coveted Junior Championship. The event begins at 9 a.m., with reserved parking $100 and a charge of $10 per car.

For information contact Pippy McCormick at 540-454-2854 (doverhse@earthlink.net) or Jane Bishop at 540-687-6965 (jcb.waverly@ mac.com).

And of course, there’s the 76th running of the always-anticipated International Gold Cup at Great Meadow Oct. 19. Break out those

ProJet Aviation will host the eighth annual Aviation Education and Career Expo Friday, Oct. 25, at the Leesburg Executive Airport.

fall bonnets and prepare to tailgate, unless, of course, you have a bad day at the pari-mutuel terminals located all around the gorgeous grounds in The Plains.

More than hats will be on display at the new Fashion Show Gala benefiting the Windy Hill Foundation on Oct. 18 at Salamander Resort & Spa. There will be fine dining, a fashion show featuring many area men and women modeling the gorgeous clothes and silent and live auctions. The evening begins with cocktails at 6. Individual tickets are $250, with a table for 12 at $3,500. Contact windyhillfoundation.org.

On Oct. 25, ProJet Aviation will host its eighth annual Aviation Education and Career Expo at the company’s corporate hangar on the Leesburg Executive Airport grounds. The event is geared primarily toward 16- to 20-year-olds and allows participants to interact with more than 40 aviation vendors who represent diverse aviation and aerospace careers. The event is free to all attendees and features speakers, videos and demonstrations. You also get a free lunch.

Space is limited, so contact Julie O’Brien at 703889-8558 or Julie@projetaviation.com.

A few local business notes. The fifth annual Chinn Lane Yard Sale is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26, with items ranging from knick-knacks to slightly bigger ticket merchandise. Last year, someone actually bought a Mercedes convertible at a sale where there is clearly something for everybody.

The Middleburg Animal Hospital will hold its grand opening on Oct. 12 from 1-4 p.m.

The Atoka Preservation Society (TAPS) will host Montpelier Historian Dr. Christa Dierksheide on October 30, 2013, to present a talk on “Thomas Jefferson’s Postcolonial Vision: Agricultural Improvement, Domestic Manufacturing, and a New Political Economy” Wednesday Oct. 30, at Mary House, Middleburg Academy. A cocktail reception begins at 6:30 p.m. with the lecture to follow at 7. Tickets are $50 per person or $85 per couple. Contact Leslie Van Sant at 540-270-0562.

The 65th edition of the Emmanuel Church Christmas Shop will take place Nov. 6, 7 and 8.

So make your shopping list out and check it twice.

The Middleburg Garden Club’s “An Old Fashioned Christmas” holiday flower show, greens sale and bazaar will be Friday, Dec. 6 from 2-5 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 7 from 10-2 p.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Church parish hall. Tis the season!

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This Georgian Revival home on 25 private acres is completely remodeled with excellent craftsmanship. Towering hardwood trees and lush mature landscaping envelope this stately home. A beautifully restored elegant 6 stall barnVictorian barn includes wash stall with hot and cold water, heated and cooled tack room with lounge area, bathroom, feed room with metal lined bins, 11 double fenced paddocks with automatic waterers and a 60 meter indoor arena with lights. $1,975,000

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An extraordinary 200-year-old home with a seamlessly integrated, light-filled 1999 addition. Set in the middle of 11 private acres near historic Lovettsville, the home is surrounded by mature trees, beautiful landscaping, and farm buildings, and is bordered by two streams.

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Forestry management Plan in hand. $948,600 myeRs mill - Just west of Warrenton, 45 acres along the Rappahannock River. Lovely views to the Blue Ridge and rolling hay fields.

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Middleburg Commercial 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 parkingsSituated in the center of town for high visability sExcellent investment opportunity! $629,000

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