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As I grow older, July is treated like summer’s version of January — time for a fresh start or a restart across life’s spectrum. We’ll be updating vacation plans, embarking on new house upgrades, revising business objectives, and recommitting to that diet/workout.

Oh yeah, and a lot of lazy afternoons watching baseball.

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We get the opportunity to make these choices in our lives because of this great nation we live in which derives its zest from the Declaration of Independence.

This year we are celebrating our nation’s birthday more consecutive days than I can remember beginning with our Town Limits celebration on Friday, Great Meadow on Saturday, barbeques on Sunday and our true holiday on Monday. What a great country! “…I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here, and framed and adopted that Declaration of Independence…which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time...” ~ Abraham Lincoln, Independence Hall, February 22, 1861 Happy 240th Birthday, America!

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SIMPLE HOME STAGING TIPS

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SHOWERS, FLOWERS, REWARDS AND SURPRISES

Get your house ready to sell this summer

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by Lynne Galluzzo

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Using yoga to help heal our veterans and active servicemen

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THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF PIGGY

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f you’re getting ready to sell your house, you should take a tour — a tour of your own home, that is. I’m not talking about walking around like you normally do. I want you to pretend you’re a prospective buyer and see your home with new eyes. Ask your realtor or a good friend to inspect with you.

Here’s what you should be looking for to improve saleability: 1. Start at the curb. Begin outside and check the paint on your mailbox and the beds along your walkway. Could you plant some flowers to brighten up the approach to your home?

2. Climb the front steps. How do the steps and handrails look? A front porch with a fresh stain or coat of paint makes a clean entrance.

Arrange furniture in ways that look inviting.

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Could you two sit and have an enjoyable chat on the porch? Creating spaces that call to visitors is key to staging!

3. Open the front door. Are the door and frame free from scratches and dirt? Could you hang a wreath? Don’t forget to check the locks and replace or polish dingy door handles and knockers.

4. Examine the entryway. What do you see first when you open the front door? If it’s clutter, get rid of it. If you can make the area brighter by removing heavy drapes or shades, take them down or add a mirror to reflect the light. Strive for a light, airy, welcoming feel that makes visitors say “ahh.”

5. Consider rooms from doorways.

Make sure your furniture in each room is

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arranged to encourage visitors to come in. If there’s a big recliner back near the doorway, people are less likely to enter. Make it inviting! Add flowers and plants and set furniture up in conversational seating as if you are inviting buyers to come in and relax!

6. Rethink bookshelves. While we all treasure our books, full bookcases can be a bit unsightly. Pack most of them and keep just a few out. Who says bookshelves are only for books? Add a few chachkies to the shelves instead, or leave just a small stack of books. Show prospective buyers activities they can enjoy in your home, such as reading in a cozy nook or enjoying a cup of tea by the fire.

7. Minimalize your kitchen. Clear off the appliances and counters, and remove excess and unnecessary clutter. The emptier your counters are during showings, the larger the space will seem. Visitors will start to

imagine where their items will go! You don’t need to splurge on extensive renovations, but do so on the items that need to get the buyers’ attention.

Go for “builder’s grade” granite/quartz and stainless steel or black appliances.

Don’t splurge on the high-ends.

Consider refinishing or painting the cabinetry or adding new hinges and pulls.

8. Create space in the garage. While you may typically use your garage for storage, clean it out when staging.

Show buyers that a car can actually fit in there! Use peg boards to keep tools neat, and rent a storage unit for the clutter you won’t need for a couple months.

9. Make your bathroom shine. Just like in the kitchen, remove as much as you can from counters. Add a plant or a small grouping of three items in the corner. Replace or polish spotted and worn faucets and pick out bright,

airy colors for rugs, shower curtains and towels. Make if feel “spa-like”!

Buyers like the spa feel. Start with the basics and consider replacing dated floor tiles, mirrors, faucets, hinges, and light fixtures. Make sure they are as universally appealing as possible, using neutral colors. Add just a dash of character and fresh pops of color. And it never hurts to stage it with candles and fancy soaps in glassware.

10. Build a backyard escape. Consider fresh mulching for beds and trim back bushes. Arrange furniture in inviting ways — maybe have seating circled around a fire pit or place two chairs under the perfect tree.

Thought it’s a lot of work, staging is an art that can bring big payoffs.

Contact me for more information on how I can help you stage your home to sell. ❖

Marcia Goodman is a staging Realtor with RE/MAX Gateway and an Accredited Staging Professional. Using her background in counseling, Marcia knows how to really listen to the needs of her clients.

She is committed to helping her clients buy or sell one of their largest investments in a timely, efficient and straightforward manner.

Marcia also specializes in home staging, a skill she first learned from living all over the world and helping her mom “set up house.” Marcia has been married to her college sweetheart for over 29 years and has four amazing sons.

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ots of people did not like all of the rain we had this spring, but I loved it. My garden looks like it went to England for a month. It is so lush and green and healthy. My roses that usually struggle are full and strong and heavy with blooms. A climbing rose that I planted on the entrance arbor had not bloomed for so long I forgot what color it was, but now I know it is dark red because it is gifting me with flowers. The iris were tall and fragrant.

My very best iris is almost three feet tall with intense blue ruffled flowers the size of my open hand. The peony show was amazing. Most of my peonies are singles. That means they have one row of petals around a fluffy middle. Singles don’t get heavy and broken with rain so I don’t have to hoop them. One of the most fun peonies blooms first red and then pink. I am guessing there are two different plants in there but it was like that when I planted it and will probably stay that way. Both the blue iris and the two-color peony I got on super sale because they weren’t marked and no one wanted to take a chance on what they might be. I did, and I’m grateful every spring.

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The “wanderers” that I wrote about previously have found their homes for the season. The rose campion is especially prolific with big bunches of dark pink flowers on light green stems. I have pulled out the ones that are too close to the roses where they might compete for nutrients.

I thought I might like the height and bloom of the joe pye weed, but when it started pushing over shorter plants, I pulled every one of them out. Some yarrow is growing inside of some iris and some bee balm has combined with an iris bed also. I will let them go. Too much work to separate them and I’m not sure why I would want to. My beloved linum, italian blue flax, is in bloom and will keep blooming every morning for most of the season. I see that it has also gifted me with some volunteers which I will encourage along with the two additional ones I just bought at DeBaggios Herb Farm and Nursery.

The hydrangeas are all starting again from the base.

This means that the ones that bloom on old wood will probably not have flowers this year. The late frosts after a warm spell wiped out all of the new leaves. The good

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news is that all of the plants I moved last fall are doing well.

It is always a relief to see that something I pulled out of a place where it was happy has managed to forgive me and adjust to new surroundings.

And, as I have said before, using Biotone makes a difference.

This spring I planted an edgeworthia because of its unusual and very fragrant flowers. The frost got all of its new growth and I was worried about its ability to recover because it had not had an opportunity to establish its roots yet. Checking on it regularly I have gone from imagining green shoots to actually seeing them.

The daffodils are long gone.

I am cutting foliage in half so it will continue to gather strength for next year, but not flop all over. Some of the leaves that I only got to recently were leaning on other plants and some of the bottom daffodil leaves were starting to rot. They all need to be dug and divided in the fall, but by then I usually forget where many of them are! So this year I am marking the big clumps with yellow golf tees so I can locate them later.

Years ago I took home inch-high baby trees from around the base of a kousa dogwood and a dark red Japanese maple. After years of nurturing them in pots and then planting them in the garden by the newer stream/ drainage bed, I can finally call

them real trees. It is exciting and gratifying to be able to have trees that I truly grew myself. The same goes for the redbud that was only a foot long stick from The Arbor Day Foundation. It flowered this year for the first time.

The volunteer maple that we put in a pot as an eight-inch stick and took from our house in Centreville to a sad three months in heavy shade at the apartment we rented until we could move into this house is another success. Even after it got planted and established, the deer broke it in half by rutting on it. Today it is a large, lush tree and a constant source of amazement for Gary and I. All of the trees that we planted in the first few years we lived here are amazingly big now. I remember looking at them and wondering what they would look like in five years. Now it has been ten or more and they have outdone my hopes or expectations.

It takes some faith and optimism to plant anything.

To put little brown bulbs in the ground and expect them to become flowers in the spring, to move an established bush and expect it to keep making flowers, to plant a stick and expect it to become a tree, to plant unknown flowers and expect them to be lovely, to plant small, hard seeds and expect them to become juicy vegetables – it all takes patience and care and hope. But the rewards are simple and great.�

Lynne Galluzzo and her husband, Gary, live on ten acres in Haymarket where they garden extensively.

Lynne applies what she learns in her gardens to her garden maintenance business - The Garden Lady. Contact her at: Lgalluzzo@verizon.net or TheGardenLady.biz.

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arah King was in high school when the idea came to her to write The Great Adventure of Piggy the Peruvian Guinea Pig, a children’s book inspired by her desire to cheer up a cousin who lost her guinea pig. With memories from childhood of her mother reading to her, King’s interest in books, illustrations, and visual language was instilled in her at an early age. While a student at Battlefield High School, King would paint murals, and then began experimenting in illustrations as a way

An illustration from The Great Adventure of Piggy the Peruvian Guinea Pig.

to improve her mural art. These early interests led to a degree in Children’s Book Illustration, then time at the New York Studio school pursuing painting from perception, all the while Piggy’s story continued to evolve. Although she shared some of the first copies with her close friends, Piggy really “took on steam” at a meeting with Morgan James Publishing House in 2015. Piggy will finally make his debut this month when the book is released.

King explains that The Great Adventure

of Piggy the Peruvian Guinea Pig is “rooted in truth”—she wanted to create a character people can relate to, but both kids and adults can enjoy. While lost on the Manassas Battlefields, Piggy takes the reader on an adventure to get back home. At the heart of the tale is the concept that “finding courage when you are at your most vulnerable and when you are the most scared, is a really important thing that we face. And it can be overwhelming.” A compelling lesson from the story is this: “the journey

changes us” and “we are not the same person we were when we began.” The book is quite personal for King since the characters and animals depicted in the book are real people and animals from her life. Even the illustrations are based on places around her home in Manassas Park. All the animals in the book are native to Northern Virginia.

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impacting children and adults at the same time. “With illustration you really can do anything, use any medium, and experiment—all in service of a narrative.” She explains that “illustration can be one of the most impactful ways in which we are first introduced to art.” The beauty of illustrating a children’s book is that this art form feeds a child’s imagination and shows the reader a world greater than their own, says King. However, one important difference in this art is that it has to be in harmony with the text - a painting can have a narrative that stands on its own.

But King’s passion extends way beyond illustration—she believes that there is no one way to be an artist.

She urges high schoolers who have discovered their passion as artists to dive in and find their voice. “Don’t be discouraged that something has been done before,” King encourages.

“It hasn’t been done by you yet. Take classes or paint on your own, but never stop drawing. A stick figure still is important. Don’t be overwhelmed

because everyone sees the world a little differently. The way you see it has value, so go for it!”

The Great Adventure of Piggy the Peruvian Guinea Pig will be available on Amazon and at major book retailers.

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Piggy will not be the last character King plans to release into the world, though. She says there are more stories on the horizon. In March of 2017, King and her mother, Wendy Ault, will release Cowboy Grandma, a story about following your dreams no matter where you are in life—it’s never too late. Stay tuned for the next adventure! ❖

Christine Craddock is a writer, editor, photographer, wife, and mother of two adorable children. She is a faithful contributing writer for Haymarket Lifestyle magazine and has resided in Haymarket since 2006.

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And I had been looking for a place to connect with other like-minded women who care about the community. These days, we meet September through May on the third Wednesday evening of the month, at 6:30 p.m. at the Piedmont Country Club in Haymarket. Although “retired” from the DWC Board, I’ve been serving as Chair of Public Relations for DWC since 2007 and represent at area business networking events.

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connecting members in ways that they might not have found on their own. Over the years, we have supported multiple local charities including: Serve Our Willing Warriors Retreat, Comfort Cases, American Red Cross, Rainbow Riding Therapy, SERVE, Haymarket Food Pantry, Friends of Homeless Animals, PACE WEST School, BARN Transitional Housing, Bull Run Mountain Conservancy, Hylton Performing Arts Center, C.A.S.A. PW, BEACON Program for Literacy, and Alzheimer’s Association, just to name a few. We also have a scholarship program and this year, in partnership with HGBA, the Dominion Woman’s Club is awarding three $1,000.00 scholarships to three deserving seniors graduating from Battlefield High School!

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KEEP YOUR PROMISES. It seems too obvious to be a tip, but it is critical to every business. Do what you say you are going to do – and do it in a timely fashion!

BE YOURSELF (and network anyway). I often hear business people say that “networking isn’t their thing.” You don’t have to be an extrovert to be successful at networking. Be yourself, but step out of your “comfort zone” and always take the time to meet someone new and learn something new. Thirty seconds can potentially change your life forever in a positive way.

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people and helping them be successful; and I get to do that in my fulltime job and at HGBA.

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even years ago, after a health scare, I made the commitment to get healthy. I cut processed sugar out of my diet totally and began eating more whole foods or food in its natural state. I read many books on nutrition and how what you eat affects your body. At that time, it was a lot easier to get my family on board with the changes I wanted to make to our weekly menu. I simply just made it and my three little girls ate it. Fast forward to today; my sweet little girls are now teenagers (technically only two are, but the ten-year-old has the attitude of one!). My oldest believes that anything organic doesn’t taste good. Good food can only come out of a package, and if it has an expiration date of two years that’s a good thing! One trip into my pantry today would score you something from a package that has the resemblance to food, is highly processed, and has an ingredient list a mile long. My goal is to take back my kitchen and only fill my pantry with wholesome foods. I purchased 100 Days of Real Food, by Lisa Leake to help me do this. It’s a book on how to get the processed junk out of your pantry and get the real food back in. It is loaded with tips and advice, with the last section dedicated to 100 delicious recipes.

One thing I loved about this book is the honesty of the author. Lisa talks about how she had a large sweet tooth and loved white bread. She was never a health nut. She grew up on Golden Grahams and Doritos. However, after watching an episode of Oprah with Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, she became very curious about where her food actually came from. That episode led her to read Pollan’s book and watch the documentary Food, Inc. What she learned shocked her and her journey to eating better began.

Her first step was reading labels on everything that was in her pantry. She discovered that many of the so-called

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“Making any changes to your diet can be difficult, but totally changing everything you eat is beyond

overwhelming.” healthy items she had been feeding her family actually didn’t have any healthy ingredients in them. I did this myself and was shocked at how misleading food labels can be. The front of a product will rave about how natural it is, but upon reading the ingredient list, I’m baffled by why they are making this claim. I also appreciated how honest she is about how overwhelming this process can be. Making any changes to your diet can be difficult, but totally changing everything you eat is beyond overwhelming. But Lisa shows you how she did it one step at a time. There is a lot to learn about reading labels, what ingredients to avoid, and ultimately where our food actually comes from. She actually went as far as to individually call companies and ask tons of questions about where they get their ingredients and how those ingredients are handled. She feels we all should do this. This is on my “to do” list along with finding local farms to support.

My daughters are very used to eating certain food items, so to find whole food alternatives was a must. This book has many suggestions for lunches, snacks, and even desserts. Whenever my girls would want a certain item that we deemed “bad” from what this book taught us, I would ask them to try to

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find a recipe with healthier ingredients that we could then make ourselves. We even began making up our own. This part has actually been a fun experience to share with them.

And I loved the recipes at the end of the book! I have tried many, but my favorite so far is the Best Whole Chicken recipe. It is delicious, easy, uses the crockpot, and I have even made my own chicken stock from the leftover bones just like Lisa suggests. There’s also a carrot cake recipe that I always use for my birthday cake. Yes, cake that’s better for you, with wholesome ingredients! The recipes are easy to follow and don’t have a lot of crazy, hard-to-find ingredients like some other healthy cookbooks I’ve tried. Most ingredients you can find at your local grocery store.

100 Days of Real Food is definitely an interesting read for anyone who is trying to eat better but is unsure where to start. Lisa Leake takes you through the how, the why, and also shares with you the rules her family used. My pantry is getting better, although you will still occasionally find the processed package food item. But my hope is that, through discovering this book, I can teach my daughters what it is to actually eat healthfully—and that it can be delicious and fun. ❖ }

SOME OTHER BOOKS SIMILAR TO 100 DAYS OF REAL FOOD: Clean Green Eat: 100 CleanEating Recipes to Improve Your Whole Life, by Candice Kumai (call number: 641.5636 Kum), Clean Eats by Alejandro Junger, MD (call number: 641.563 Jun), and Clean Food by Terry Walters (call number: 641.5636 Wal).

The Haymarket Gainesville Community Library also has the book In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (call number: 613 Pol) in our collection. If you are looking for a documentary on food, the library has Fed Up (call number: DVD 338.19 Fed).

This documentary looks at obesity and how the food industry and the government changed our eating habits. To find 100 Days of Real Food by Lisa Leake at the Haymarket Gainesville Community Library, just look for the call number 613.2 Lea.

Melinda Casilli is a Library Services Technician at the Haymarket Gainesville Community Library. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Point Park University.

Melinda is an avid reader and loves to cook. She lives in Gainesville with her husband and three girls.

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Based out of Fredericksburg and founded in 2006, Mary’s Shelter has four maternity homes that have helped over 200 women receive the support and encouragement to move on to stable, independent life. Founder Kathleen Wilson immediately responded when Robin reached out to her and provided invaluable information to help Carried to Full Term move into the next phase.

Because of Wilson’s support, Robin views her as a mentor and Mary’s Shelter as a big sister organization that made a huge difference in getting Carried to Full Term up and running.

Robin emphasizes that the women who need this type of help do not always fit what the common perception is. “They look like we do,” she says, and may find themselves in crisis due to many different circumstances.

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mission of Carried to Full Term aligns with the determination of St. Paul’s to live out the promises of The Baptismal Covenant in The Book of Common Prayer. These promises include to “strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being,” among other promises made at important moments in life. These women are trying to do good with their lives, and the life of their baby too, says Rousseau.

“St. Paul’s is excited to provide Carried To Full Term with a basic need we all have: a place to call home, where safety, stability and support can be shared through walking together in faith and love, presence and prayer.” The church community is excited about this outreach opportunity at the historic home known as The Meade House as a way to share their ministry and connect with other local congregations and nonprofit organizations.

“It has been proven that children who grow up in a stable environment tend to have a better start in life than children who don’t,” says the founder of Carried to Full Term. This home will provide a “safe and nurturing environment” for the mothers to be able to take care of themselves in preparation for the baby’s birth and have time to plan for the life that follows. Robin says the core value of Carried to Full Term is love. “We don’t care how they come to us; we care how they leave.” And the goal is for them to leave “healthy and whole.”

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finding long-term housing, jobs, and education.

Every step of the way, these mothers will have support and supervision, as well as case management. The program is designed to help these women leave the home with the ability to live responsibly and independently.

“They will receive support to help them care for their newborn, learn life skills, begin or complete their education, and resources to seek employment” while keeping their spiritual and physical health and personal responsibility also in the forefront.

Robin wants the community of Haymarket to know that this home and Carried to Full Term belongs to them. “Everyone has the capacity to do something to help change and invest in a life, whether it’s a newborn or a mother needing some encouragement and support.” Community members and leaders, schools, and churches are welcome to visit the home, and get connected and involved in the mission. There are many ways the community can provide support for The Haymarket House, including donations of monetary value, diapers, maternity clothes, and food items. Those interested in raising money for the home may host a tea party, luncheon, brunch, or yard sale to assist on a financial level. Robin says she would love invitations to speak to groups or clubs to share the story of Carried to Full Term.

To contact Carried to Full Term, go to carriedtofullterm.com, call call 571-445-0373 or send an email to carriedtofullterm@gmail. com.

If you are pregnant and in crisis, call 703445-7023. ❖

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escendants of English land baron Robert “King” Carter built many homes in Western Prince William County in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but most were lost during the Civil War, or by neglect and decay.

One exception is Falkland, located on present-day Falkland Road just east of Buckland. The property on which the manor house was built was once part of Cloverland, owned by Charles Carter of the Shirley and Corotoman plantations.

The 2,000-acre tract ran along Broad Run all the way from Thoroughfare Gap to present-day U.S. 29. Charles Carter’s son Edward (17671806) built the Greek-Revival manor house at Cloverland in the 1790s. This house survived until the mid-20th century (See Haymarket Lifestyle, October 2010) It is believed that Falkland was built sometime after 1825

by Edward Carter’s son, John Hill Carter (1799-1859) on the site of an earlier house dating back to 1752. His first wife was Susan Baynton Turner (17991826), the daughter of Maj. Thomas Turner and his wife Eliza Carter Randolph Turner of nearby Kinloch. They had one child, Jane Eliza (18211915), who married Robert Beverley (1822-1901) of Avenel in 1843.

John Hill Carter later married Mary Jane Loughborough (c. 1819-1903), and six children were born of this union: Lavinia (1836-1889), Cassius (1837-1914), Matthew Loughborough (1838-1866), Charles Shirley (1840-1877), R. S. ‘Scottie’ Carter often accompanied his father, contractor Randy H. Carter, to Falkland while work was being done on the 1952 addition.

Courtesy of Scottie Carter.

Caroline (b. 1842) and Eliza (1856-1908).

The main house at Falkland occupies a high, flat rise in the foothills of the Bull Run Mountains. “The reddish-gold colored stone used in constructing this house is very beautiful and unusual, compared to the relatively common red sandstone seen in other older buildings in Prince William County,” according to the survey done in the 1970s for the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission.

The stone used in the construction was quarried on the property.

The original house was a two-story, three-bay Federal-style structure; a 1½ story wing was added on the southwest side about 1844. The walls of the main section are three feet thick at the base, tapering to 18 inches in the attic. On the southwest end of the house is an interior, double-chimney, while the smaller wing has a single interior chimney.

The survey notes that the craftsmanship of the interior of the early home was exceptionally good, “…reflecting the taste of a cabinet-maker who was active in the Buckland area in the 19th century.”

Downstairs were the entry hall and main stairs, drawing rooms, dining room and the original kitchen. The 1½ -story wing added later contained the new kitchen and master bedroom. Upstairs were three bedrooms in the original part, and a fourth bedroom in the wing.

Falkland had the usual plantation outbuildings, plus a 1½-story frame “schoolhouse,” according to the survey.

West of the main house was a tenant house.

NICK CARTER OF FALKLAND

The Civil War would have a serious impact on Falkland and the John Hill Carter family. It is known that son Charles joined the Southern cause at the beginning of the war, serving under Capt.

John Marr in the Warrenton Rifles. But it was the actions of Matthew Loughborough “Nick” Carter during and after the conflict that most remember.

Nick Carter is described in the survey as “…an impulsive, violent, murderous man who allegedly rode with Col. John S. Mosby. Under arrest after the war for some outrage he had committed, he fled to Texas.”

While others have written about the exploits of Nick Carter, the most accurate

account was compiled by Robert Beverley Herbert (1879-1974) in his book, Life on a Virginia Farm (1968).

Mr. Herbert’s grandmother was the aforementioned Jane Carter Beverley, half-sister of Nick Carter, and she remembered much about him that she shared with her grandson.

A willful and mischievous child while growing up at Falkland, “His father nicknamed him ‘Nick, after ‘Old Nick, (the devil),” according to Mr. Herbert. As a youth he was known around Buckland as a show-off, and later developed a drinking problem.

During a flood, it appeared that the bridge over Broad Run would be washed away. As his neighbors watched, “Nick mounted his horse and rode back and forth across the bridge, emphasizing his exploit by firing his pistol as he went,” wrote Mr. Herbert.

In This Was Prince William (1978), a more brutal incident was recalled.

“While sitting on a porch with a young lady to whom Nick was attentive, her cat came along, and she expressed more interest in the cat than she did in him.

Whereupon he picked up the cat, and holding it up by the back of the neck, shot a hole through it.”

Nick Carter’s problem with alcohol was noted by his half-sister, Jane Eliza Beverley. “I was fond of him, but was sorry when I would see him come to Avenel,” she told Mr. Herbert. “He always wanted something to drink, which I knew he shouldn’t have and didn’t want to give him.”

In his early 20s at the beginning of the war, Nick did not join a regular organized Confederate unit, and at some point, became affiliated with Capt. John S. Mosby’s Partisan Rangers. This allowed him to fight while being able to stay close to home, and then fade into the background after striking the enemy.

According to Mr. Herbert, “Capt. Henry Dulany of Upperville described Nick Carter as a handsome man with a superb figure who wore a reddish brown beard, but his general make-up was marred by a

Top: JOHN HILL CARTER 1799-1859. Bottom: ROBERT BEVERLEY HERBERT 1879-1974. high, almost falsetto voice.”

Nick Carter’s exploits as a guerilla fighter were well known. “He and a close friend named Charlie McDonough, and mounted on good horses, used to make a practice of riding through any detached bunch of Yankees they happened to locate. They trusted to escape by the speed of their horses, and the fact they could jump fences,” wrote Mr. Herbert.

But one time near Middleburg, the Yankees counter-attacked and gave chase, and “…as the two men approached a low, boggy place, an old sow wallowing there ran under one of the horses, which fell,” according to Mr. Herbert. “The rider who was down was Charlie McDonough, who was killed either by the fall or by the pursuers. The other rider was Nick Carter.”

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Top: Photographed before the wing was added in the 1950s, Falkland looked much like it did during the Civil War. Courtesy of Scottie Carter.

Bottom: The frame schoolhouse at Falkland, shown in the 1970s, was where the Carter children were taught. It was later made into a guesthouse.

Falkland served as Nick’s base during the war, and it has been noted that the house had several “cubbyholes,” including one between the two chimneys, where he hid when the Yankees came looking for him. Visiting the house many years later, Mr. Herbert noted, “It’s a very fine old place, with more nooks and corners which could be used as hiding places than almost any home I’ve ever seen.”

But Nick would have to hide before the Yankees entered the house. On one occasion, he was resting on a sofa with his shoes off when enemy troops burst in. He jumped out a window and ran up into the Bull Run Mountains, where he hid for several days. Family members managed to get food to him until the Yankees departed.

The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, and on April 21, Col. Mosby disbanded his troops at Salem (Marshall). But for Nick Carter, the war was not over, and his hatred of the victorious Yankees only intensified.

“After the close of the war, Nick was walking along a road near Falkland when two Yankee soldiers came along,” recalled Mr. Herbert. “He was not in uniform and did not appear to be armed, and gave the impression of being just a country farmer.

“They asked if there was any place nearby where they could get a drink of water, and he conducted them to a spring.

While one of the Yankees was kneeling down drinking, Nick grabbed the pistol which the other man had in a holster, and shot the owner of the pistol and then the other man before he could get up or do anything about it. He was then able to get away with their horses.”

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a wanted man. Mr. Herbert found a letter sent Sept. 30, 1865 by Gen. C.C. Augud to Maj. Gen. Terry, Commander of the Department of Virginia in Richmond, which read in part: “I deem it my duty to inform you that I am this morning advised from good authority that Nick Carter, a desperate and lawless character belonging in Fauquier County, and who has been committing a number of outrages since the surrender of Lee’s army, is at present organizing a band of men like himself for purposes of plunder and robbery.

“Two young scamps of the name Marstella are said to be associated with him. Carter’s mother, a widow and of great respectability, resides near Thoroughfare Gap. The Marstellas live not far from Bristoe Station, on the O&ARR.” The letter was passed to the Provost Marshal’s Office in Warrenton, where it was noted in a reply dated Oct. 12, 1865 that the matter involving Nick Carter had been investigated, and that there was no evidence of a gang being formed.

“It is reported that Carter left for Mexico some two months ago, and since that time, nothing has been seen or heard of him,” wrote Provost Marshal Capt. W.E. Orr. “I can learn nothing in regard to the Marstellas.” The matter was closed, at least in Virginia.

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What actually happened to Nick Carter was revealed – at least in part – by letters sent home to his family. He first headed north, passing through Baltimore on his way to Canada, where he stayed briefly before heading to South America. It appears that he had been recruited for some kind of expedition there, but wrote that it was “…just so much money thrown away.”

He departed South America in December 1865 and stayed for a brief time in Texas, before crossing the border at Eagle Pass into Mexico, where he “... accompanied a party of gentlemen on a tour of several thousand miles…in a country that is infested with bands who spare neither friend nor foe.”

Nick Carter was the second-in-charge of the group, which were likely mercenaries hired by a Mexican warlord. “Our party numbered thirty, and we lost only three killed and two slightly wounded on the entire trip. The fight in which we lost the men was not long, but very severe.” They had been surrounded by bandits flying the “Daquila flag,” meaning they would give no quarter, but this time they escaped.

It is not known when or where the next fight took place, but nothing was ever heard from Nick Carter again. There were rumors that he had returned to Texas and changed his name, but this was never proven. Online records state that Nick died in Mexico in 1866.

In 1956, Mr. Herbert journeyed to Cordova, Mexico – the city from where Nick’s last letter was sent – but due to the passage of time, he could find no trace of him, either in records or talking to the oldest English-speaking citizens he could find.

In a strange twist, it has been stated in several histories that Nick Carter’s exploits were the subject of a series of “dime novels” printed in the 1890s. This is not correct. The “Nick Carter” in these stories is a detective.

“I know nothing of the detective Nick Carter,” said Mr. Herbert. “Whether the creator of this fiction ever heard of the

Virginia Nick Carter, I have no way of knowing.”

FALKLAND IN MORE RECENT DAYS

Ownership of Falkland passed to daughter Eliza, who was married to Eugene Rossis. It passed through other owners, but remained intact. “In the early 1900s, Falkland was a large dairy farm, shipping milk and produce by train to Washington, D.C.,” according to the VHLC survey.

Farm products were moved down a narrow road from Falkland across the fields to the station at Thoroughfare. In 1931, the property was acquired by David and

Gen. Douglas MacArthur were retaking the Philippines. On Dec. 27, 1944, Col. Malevich and Col. Saint were put on the Enoura Maru, a Japanese cargo ship loaded with POWs for transport to another camp in Manchuria.

On Jan. 10, 1945, while the ship was in port for repairs at Takao, Japan, it was strafed and bombed by U.S. aircraft, and Col. Saint was killed. The survivors were loaded on another ship and taken to the prison camp in Manchuria.

Liberated at the end of the war, Col. Malevich returned to the U.S., and was treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. He brought Col. Saint’s

Falkland is currently owned

by Ernest and Barbara Kellogg, who acquired the property in 1986. The Kelloggs raise Alpacas on the farm. At right is the 1844 wing; at left, the 1952 addition.

Elizabeth Batchelder.

In 1946, Falkland was purchased by Col. Steven Malevich (1911-1969) and his wife, Jean (1912-1971). Mrs. Malevich was the widow of Col. Frederick Gilman Saint (1908-1945), and the mother of their two young sons, Charles and Crosbie Saint.

She was the daughter of John Edgerton Crosbie of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a well known oilman, banker and successful horse breeder.

Both Col. Malevich and Col. Saint were serving in the Philippines in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when the Japanese invaded the islands, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They were captured in April 1942, following the surrender of the U.S. and Filipino troops cornered on the Bataan Peninsula. Both survived the infamous 65-mile Death March to prison camps in the Philippines, and managed to stay together during years of brutal captivity at Camp Cabanatuan and other POW sites.

By December 1944, forces under

personal effects to his friend’s widow and her children, who were living in Alexandria, Va. Col. Malevich and Jean Saint were married shortly afterward, and first lived in Alexandria. Mrs. Malevich wanted to move to the country, and in October 1946, purchased Falkland from the Batchelders.

While living at Falkland, daughter Stephanie and son Steve II were born. In 1952, Col. and Mrs. Malevich built the second wing on the house, matching the 1844 wing and balancing the structure.

The architect for the project was Meade Palmer, and the contractor was Randolph H. Carter. The stone used on the new addition came from the original quarry on the property, resulting in a near-perfect match.

Col. Malevich died in 1969 and his wife in 1971. What followed was a difficult time for the children, who had to deal with double inheritance taxes and the courts.

They were forced to sell the property in 1973.

The buyer was the Columbia Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, headquartered in Takoma Park, Md. Their original plan was to establish a retreat on the 536-acre property. A family lived there for awhile as caretakers, but after they left, the house stood vacant, and was severely vandalized.

Falkland was later purchased by Dr. David Kiernan, an ear-nose-and-throat specialist, who repaired the damage, updated the house and lived there with his family.

In August 1979, Falkland was purchased by business partners Robert Alvey, George Kelly and E. R. Conner Jr., for a residential development. Their previous projects included Hickory Grove Estates and Long Level.

The restored main house and 52 acres were offered for sale as one tract, and the rest of the property subdivided into large lots.

“We want to have a nice development of Colonial-type houses,” said Mr. Alvey at the time, adding that there would be “…horse trails around the entire property, using roads that circumscribe threequarters of it now.” A system of roads was put in, and the development was known as Falkland Farm Estates.

The house and 62 acres were purchased

by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kellogg in 1986.

The house was again updated, and facilities for raising an Alpaca herd were built on the farm (see Broad Run Lifestyle Magazine, January 2016). Starting with 12 Peruvian Huacaya Alpacas, the herd at Double “O” Good Alpacas has numbered as many as 280 animals, including more than 50 boarders. ❖

John Toler is an author and historian who has served Fauquier County for over 50 years, including four decades with the Fauquier-Times Democrat.

Toler is the co-author of 250 Years in Fauquier County: A Virginia Story, and author of Warrenton, Virginia: A History of 200 Years.

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e celebrate July 4th as the day we declared our independence and Memorial Day as the day for remembering the brave men and women who have given their lives to preserve and protect our freedom. Remembrance and gratitude to the people defending our freedom are vital emotions to express, but many Americans want to do more. A large number of service members come home from their tours of duty and need more than our thanks. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), physical injury, and relational issues are just a few challenges facing these men and women. Thankfully there are advances being made in the understanding of trauma and the brain, advances in physical therapy, and professionals increasing outreach and support for our returning military. Awareness of how many returning veterans are dealing with suicidal thoughts has galvanized the military and veteran communities, and externally brought about a wide range of programs both traditional and alternative in nature.

Fortunately there is a rise in trainings for alternate forms of therapy.

We are learning more about the vagus nerve and how to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system to bring calm to the mind. One area that has had a large rise in awareness is the positive effect of meditation and yoga for our active military and returning soldiers. Yoga and meditation are being taught at the Pentagon as a way to deal with stress and trauma. These classes are not just becoming commonplace, but in some rehabilitation programs is actually mandatory. Many veterans are impressed enough with the results they are gaining through yoga that they are becoming yoga instructors. Programs are burgeoning across the country filled with former military choosing yoga as a way to serve their fellow servicemen and women. Yoga as a treatment for PTSD is now a common addition to trainings and treatment methods.

When leading a class for veterans or active military suffering from trauma, it is important to have training for the unique sensitivities of the situation. In my trauma training, I learned that you should never touch a client suffering with PTSD. It is common in yoga classes for the instructor to assistant a client in their yoga posture, but placing hands on a trauma victim can cause traumatic flashbacks. If you use music in class, make sure you never choose music from the countries of the specific war where the soldiers fought. Choose your words carefully making sure your verbal cues are not too esoteric. Take out the Sanskrit terminology and keep your words western and grounded. Word choices Photo by Jewel Peach Photography

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Instructors from Transform Power Yoga in Haymarket lead a yoga class at Bull Run Mountain Warrior Retreat for Serve our Willing Warriors.

should be sensitive in case there are sufferers of sexual trauma in the class. Teaching trauma sufferers to learn to trust their own bodies again is the first goal. “It’s really about learning about your body and your experience; learning to breathe,” states Dan Libby, a cofounder of the Veterans Yoga Project (a 12-week program for treating veterans with PTSD). The value of relaxation techniques can’t be underestimated. Breathing exercises allow victims to self-soothe by triggering the parasympathetic nervous system into action. A dedicated meditation practice changes brain chemistry to increase calm and reduce stress. And the physicality of a regular yoga practice fosters a way of letting go of trauma by releasing held memories and injuries. First, there is an element of awareness around physical tightness. That awareness leads to an intention of expansion, and then finally the release of trauma. Then healing truly begins. It is important to have an instructor prepared for the emotional moments of these servicemen and women. The environment should feel safe and then trust can be felt.

A survivor of the Pentagon attack on 9/11 has turned his personal journey with PTSD and yoga into a new profession. Twenty-six of the 125 people killed in the Pentagon that day were John Thurman’s co-workers. A few weeks after the attack, he started noticing signs of survival guilt and PTSD. The six months that followed the attack brought physical healing to Thurman, who suffered severe smoke inhalation from kerosene, but mentally he was not healing. A friend suggested yoga. Although skeptical, he tried it. The biggest result for Thurman was the reduction in “mind chatter” that he experienced with PTSD. He started to notice that he was more relaxed and that he could sleep without nightmares. Yoga is scientifically proven to help lower stress levels. The practice worked so well for him that he pursued a teacher-training course to broaden his understanding of the practice. In 2013, he left the army to pursue teaching yoga full time.

“For me, as a teacher, what is it that you want to do with your yoga?

For me it was twofold: one was to bring yoga to men,” Thurman said.

“It’s a good workout. You get your cardiovascular on, you’re building strength, but you’re building flexibility and length in your muscles.

The other (reason) was to specifically bring it to servicemembers and veterans.” So the Pentagon, the very place where he started his yogic journey, hired Thurman to lead a weekly class. He leads a room

packed with 40-50 students. The class is a mix of active-duty as well as retired military. “I think you know, one of the things out of 9/11, is the fact that I have been able to become resilient and recover, and live my life. I have a responsibility to do that. For the people who lost their lives on that day, you have a responsibility to live and be well,” said Thurman.

Healing our veterans is a critical component of gratitude, but we must focus on active military, too. An article in Men’s Health magazine shed light on the strong physicality of the practice and the magnitude of its healing properties by telling the story of a sergeant who was originally uninterested in any workout that seemed too “sissy” to him. He was deadlifting 515 pounds, squatting 405, and benched 315. After much teasing by his fellow operatives who were engaged in a regular yoga practice, he finally tried it. The group did their yoga session in a cinderblock building in the desert with no air conditioning. Matching breath to the movements was a new challenge, and he felt that he was using a new group of muscles. Upon returning to the U.S., the sergeant incorporated yoga into his regular workout routine. He saw a 30-pound weight loss without any diminished results in his weight lifting. “Leveraging the breathing techniques I learn on the yoga mat allows me to access untapped strength and mobility—I don’t need to redline to improve,” said the sergeant.

Our military are no strangers to high-stress situations. A mind that can act instead of react can be lifesaving. Yoga teaches techniques to find calm in the middle of chaos. As more and more fellow soldiers are finding their way into yoga classes and constructing a mind-body connection, experienced yoga soldiers are recognizing a greater level of trust developing between members of their regiment when entering dangerous situations. Home lives and relational issues are healing because soldiers have the skills to cope with familial life. It is hard to be experiencing PTSD and not have it affect personal relationships.

The importance of giving our military personnel techniques to employ balance, peace, and a level of normalcy in their lives is critical and a basic need to navigate life back home.

I and some of our other instructors from the studio have had the extreme honor of teaching yoga to soldiers and their families at Serve Our Willing Warriors at The Bull Run Warrior Retreat, a local center for our soldiers and their families to come and enjoy restoration, family time and rehabilitation. I have never done anything with my training that has touched me more as an American. Yoga is a healing art, a technique for navigating life’s many challenges, and a significant benefit for our active and retired military. A necessary gift to remember, renew, and restore some of our most precious Americans. ❖

Liba Spyros is the co-owner of Transform Power Yoga in Haymarket. Prior to beginning her yoga practice, Liba was a professional ballerina who studied at the School of American Ballet and danced with the Houston Ballet.

She also studied Pilates under Romana Kryzanowska who was certified by Joseph Pilates. Transform Power Yoga is located 15111 Washington Street, Suite 109, Haymarket, and can be contacted by phone 703-753-2977 or via their website TransformPYoga.com.

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The wines also live up to the view, especially the Rose of Sangiovese, a surprisingly light, fruity wine that makes a wonderful summertime sipper.

The Sauvignon Blanc will remind many of the French Sancerre wines with its fruity and floral notes. Of the white wines, the Viognier, with a hint of Petit Menseng, pairs wonderfully with pork and ham and the Vidal Blanc is a great go-to wine with barbeques, cheese and crackers.

The reds include the Sunset Red, a complex wine made from five different varietals. This wine, while drinkable now, is one that will be a great addition for your cellar, if put away for a few years. The surprisingly big Cabernet Franc pairs well with red meats as does the Aldie Heights Cuvee red blend, with its big, complex tastes.

Picnics are allowed outside, as are kids, dogs and Frisbees. Special events, like weddings, corporate events and other celebrations are also encouraged.

Those interested are invited to tour the new club facility, which opens the weekend after the 4th of July. ❖

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