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If you are not familiar with us already, allow me to introduce you to Broad Run Lifestyle Magazine! We are proud to announce that the most recent addition to the Piedmont Lifestyle Publications family is expanding into The Plains and Marshall.

We are excited to offer a locally-focused publication that is also produced, written, and mailed by people in Fauquier County. It’s a home-grown effort born from love of place and love of people and we are excited to be a part of your neighborhood.

We started this new adventure for several reasons.

First, this is a growing community that has no publication focused solely on it, its businesses, and people. We want to introduce or reintroduce residents, recent and longtime, to the wonderful merchants, professionals, and organizations that serve the area. Second, shopping the businesses that already exist in the area is the best way to keep local taxes low and provide needed area jobs. When people shop local businesses, we all win! And finally, we want to contribute to maintaining the sense of community and fellowship that Vint Hill, New Baltimore, The Plains and Marshall have always enjoyed, especially now that the area is growing so rapidly.

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Dr. Rebecca Verna brings Western medicinal practices to our treasured companions

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Indy receives acupuncture treatment (see three blue acupuncture needles on his forehead) at Paws for Holistic Pet Care in Marshall. Loving his spa treatment, he eyes implore, “Must you disturb my spa therapy with photographs?”

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rmy Medic John Thomas was being triaged in a Texas hospital after suffering head injuries in the Middle East in 2005. While there, other recovering soldiers focused their energies on regaining their strength, healing, and returning to their homes. In addition to these circumstances, Thomas had one other desire: to have a Great Dane puppy.

After several months in Texas, Thomas was re-admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. As he prepared for his trip, Thomas’ doctors, fellow patients, and officers had a parting gift for him. On the passenger seat of the vehicle was a bag of dog food and an 8-week-old Harlequin Great Dane puppy.

For the next few days, Thomas and the puppy, who he named Natalie, bonded on the 23.5-hour drive from Texas to Maryland. When they reached Walter Reed, Thomas had to leave Natalie with his mother. While in recovery, he often thought of the puppy back home waiting for him. Knowing his long-awaited Great Dane was there for him, Thomas focused on regaining his strength so he could get back to her.

Natalie was only six years old when she fell ill.

Her veterinarian diagnosed her with hip dysplasia and recommended that she be euthanized. But given their history, Thomas would stop at nothing to see his faithful companion, who saved his life, live out hers as long as she could and in the best health possible.

He took Natalie to Dr. Rebecca Verna, owner of Paws for Holistic Pet Care in Marshall. After only two treatments with Dr. Verna, Natalie could stand up and lie down and was in relief from her pain.

After four treatments, she was going up and down stairs. After six treatments, she had made a full recovery. She was her friendly and frisky self again.

Because Dr. Verna had accurately re-diagnosed Natalie with Wobbler Syndrome, a disease of the cervical spine that compresses the spinal cord and/ or nerve roots and causes a dog to have a wobbly gait, she was able to get Natalie on the road to recovery with the correct treatment.

This is just one of many success stories that Dr. Verna has been a part of. For over two decades, Dr. Verna has studied modern medicine and integrated Western practices and Chinese alternatives, including acupuncture, chiropractic techniques, Reiki, essential oils, and blended herbs to customtailor treatment to meet her patients’ individual needs.

Dr. Verna had her “ah-ha” moment when she was just seven years old and caring for a small, sick litter of guinea pigs. “My mother packed me and the guinea pigs in the car and took us all to the vet,” Verna recalls. “She told me that even though they are small animals, they were mine, and I needed to care for them.”

“When one came down with an infection,” Verna continues, “the doctor gave me a liquid form of tetracycline to add to the guinea pig’s water. I did

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Top middle: Lexie was cured of an intermittent leg lameness after several treatments with laser, acupuncture and chiropractic.

Above: Dr. Verna’s two house pets, Frodo (Border Collie mix) and Bountiful Joy (Yellow Lab) often come to work with her.

Chloe, a Bichon Frise, gets a Class IV cold laser therapy treatment for an injured knee.

as I was told and watched as the guinea pig began to heal. It was at that moment that I knew I was going to be an animal doctor.”

Over the years, her devotion to the physical health of her patients has seeped into her personal life. In 2013, Dr. Verna was 65 pounds overweight, and her health suffered as a result of it.

She struggled to care for her pets and found herself easily fatigued, requiring naps throughout the day. Her ailments included joint pain, depression, brain fog, and a host of other general aches and pains. Her metamorphosis began when she cut gluten from her diet. With that one change, her depression and brain fog both lifted.

Verna’s girlfriends encouraged her to swim with them one day in 2013. One was training for a mini-triathlon in Manassas.

While Verna never believed she could participate in such an event, she knew she could stand to lose some weight.

Having read that walking could reduce her chances of developing cancer by 80% and could add 10 years to her life, Verna began walking with a friend at the park.

Her son was a teenager at the time, and she knew that she would be setting a terrific example for him.

Over the course of the next year, Verna exceeded her own expectations. She not only participated in a triathlon, but placed in her age group. “This is the new me,” she declared.

When her son came to her feeling defeated by his own challenges, she asked him, “Did you ever think your old, fat mom would drop 65 pounds and compete in triathlon?” She gave him a code and told him to scan it with his phone the

next morning. It would tell him how well she had placed in her event. He has since become one of her biggest supporters.

Verna says that her transformation from a tired, overweight person with health issues to a healthy-eating amateur athlete was “one of the most enlightening times of my life.” She uses this exceptional time in her life in her business when new clients come in feeling defeated about the condition of their beloved pet. “’I don’t know what you can do for this Dachshund’ they tell me. ‘It has been paralyzed its entire life.’” Her reply is, “Watch me.” Using techniques she has learned through continuing education, Verna provides clients with skills they can use at home, while also employing acupuncture in her practice that will “literally regenerate the nerve in the spine. I have seen animals that are dropping poop and are incontinent when I meet them leave my office fully continent after just one session,” she explains.

There have only been two animals that Verna remembers as being worse off as a result of her treatments. But even this she sees as a good thing. “If they leave my office in more pain because of treatment, that’s okay, because it means that I can make a change. For those animals, I would modify the techniques I was using and not be as aggressive.”

Then there are the miracle cases that she has helped with: two dogs, both diagnosed with seizures and brain masses.

In both cases, the animals lived more than two years. One never had another seizure once she was on the right herbal blend after acupuncture treatment. “There isn’t any animal that I won’t try to help and

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I have been fortunate enough to have successfully helped many,” Verna states.

Every year she learns something new that she can use to help an animal.

As is so often the case, when a person opens their home and heart to animals, they reap untold benefits. In the case of Dr. Verna, things came full circle. She dedicated her life’s work to the care of ailing pets. She helps lame dogs walk again, ends seizures, and gives beloved pets additional years of wellness to enjoy with their families. In return, she has improved her own health, set a positive example for her family, and enjoyed the love and affection of countless fourlegged creatures both in her home and through her practice. These personal experiences are then brought back to her practice to help the next patient overcome obstacles to live longer, healthier, happier lives.

With pet inquiries, contact Dr. Verna at 703-395-0795 or on the web at www. drverna.com. The practice can be found at 8381 W. Main Street in Marshall. ❖

Aimée O’Grady is a freelance writer who enjoys transforming stories told by Fauquier residents into articles for Lifestyle readers.

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eading north on Route 17, turn right off the main thoroughfare and onto Route 245, a quaint country road. Take in the rolling hills and alternating pastures of the countryside with cattle and sheep dotting the landscape. Miles of lush woods in the distance frame your view. After a few miles, enter a charming 18th century village with historic homes and unique shops. On the right sits an old home. Originally a residence, the house has lived many lives from shops to business offices. Today, it is Crest Hill Antiques & Tea Room.

Upon entering, guests are invited to browse the highquality antiques, furnishings, 19th-20th century European and American furniture, crystal, china, silver and artwork as they make their way to the small tearoom. Large windows fill the house with natural light. Eclectic tea ware, collected over the years and from around the world, is used to serve afternoon tea. The quaint ambiance evokes the warm and inviting feelings of visiting a friend.

In the Tea Room at Crest Hill Antiques, you can enjoy afternoon tea at any time of day. Owner Sally DeLuca originally opened the antique shop in 2007 on Main Street in The Plains. She enjoyed only six months of operation before the recession hit. To help bolster Top: DeLuca uses her business, DeLuca transformed grandmother’s own fine unused space into a small tea china as serve ware in room and offered tea and cookies. the tea room, including this gold teapotAbove: Over time, the menu expanded An example of the finger to include sandwiches and salads. sandwiches available on Having first opened her shop the menu in the Tea Room primarily to sell antiques, DeLuca at Crest Hill Antiques.

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Lining up at Highclere (the home that Downton Abbey is based upon) just like the servants in the show when an important guest is arriving. Sally Deluca, second from right.

Below: Tea guests dressed the part during the Downton Abbeythemed Tea.

has had to change the focus of her business to now be a tea room that happens to sell antiques on the side. In 2011, DeLuca moved the business across the street to its current location to capitalize on the small house with a larger tearoom.

DeLuca’s passion for antiques began early in life, thanks to the women in her family who gifted her with teacups over the years. This collection eventually expanded to include other elements of tea ware.

A lover of antiques and the stories they tell, DeLuca proudly possesses her grandmother’s living room set, her aunt’s antique bedroom set and her parent’s dining room set in her own home. In the tearoom, she uses pieces from her own collection, including a lovely Bavarian gold china tea set from her grandmother. When asked if she has concerns with people handling her antiques, she responds, “No, that’s what they are intended for.”

One of the more unusual pieces that DeLuca has seen came from a local family. “It was a Russian samovar that is mostly a metal container used to heat water with a tea pot resting on top.

It is an unusual looking piece and not something I had ever come across before.”

Today, the Tea Room at Crest Hill Antiques is a destination for visitors traversing the countryside from Route 66 south towards Charlottesville. It’s also a favorite stop of Northern VA residents who enjoy the locally-made scones and pastries from Deany Jones at Gerry’s Kitchen and delicious sampling of tea by tea blender Marsha Richards, owner of Tea for All Reasons in Winchester.

The relationship between Sally DeLuca and her baker, Deany Jones was serendipitous. DeLuca was a member of

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the Business and Professional Women’s Club, a club where Jones’s sister was a member. When DeLuca announced to the group that she was looking for a baker, Jones’s sister connected the two. At the beginning, Jones did not have an operating business. She set about creating one for the sole purpose of baking for DeLuca’s new Tea Room.

Jones has been with DeLuca since the beginning of the business and today she enjoys the opportunity to use her passion for baking as a part time business. Jones retired as a critical care nurse in 2012 from Prince William Hospital having spent her nursing career working there, at Fauquier Hospital and a number of assisted care facilities. Today, she bakes and cares for her 92-year-old uncle.

DeLuca and her team coordinate events including book signings and guest speakers, scheduling one every month throughout the year. The tea room is also available to rent for events.

The Tea Room at Crest Hill Antiques emulates small, family run tea shops throughout the English countryside. “I didn’t want an fancy environment like something you would experience at the Ritz in London,” DeLuca explains. “I love the smaller villages in England, and the towns in our region remind me of them.”

The practice of taking afternoon tea began in England in the mid-19th century. Upper-class women experienced a “sinking” feeling in the middle of the day between the noon lunch hour and supper, which was not served until 8:00pm. Woman began dressing elaborately and visiting one another at home for afternoon tea. Soon tea houses began opening to cater to the upper class. Afternoon tea at the London Ritz can cost upwards of $70 per person today. The tea itself, imported from India or China, was poured from a silver tea pot into fine china tea cups. For over twenty years, afternoon tea remained a privilege of the upper-class. Then, in the 1860s, a tea room catering

Right: The tour group having tea at a Cotswold manor house. Below: The Ryans, from Charlottesville, make a point to stop in at the Tea Room whenever they are in the area.

to middle-class women opened in London. Soon thereafter, tearooms were the only place ladies could meet friends without a chaperone.

The popularity of Downton Abbey has launched a revival of Afternoon Tea worldwide. The Tea Room at Crest Hill Antiques has enjoyed the benefits so much so that in September of 2015, DeLuca hosted an antiquing tour throughout England.

It included a tour of Highclere Castle, where Downton Abbey is filmed.

“I anticipated only 6-8 people would register for the tour, but was pleased when 14 local men and women registered,” DeLuca says. The tour included shopping in the Cotswolds villages, a tour of Aston Pottery Center, a trip to Blenheim Palace, sightseeing in London, hotel accommodations and most meals. The tour was such a success that DeLuca is in the process of planning the 2016 tour, which will take place in September.

Springfield resident Kathleen Calahan and her husband were one of the couples who went on the tour. “We stop by the tea room at least twice a week and like to check in with the other shop owners in The Plains,” says Calahan. “I bring some tea home and some I enjoy only when I am in the tea room. We are devoted to Sally and the tea room.” Her decision to join the tour was an easy one, “I had been to England ten years ago for my Master’s degree and the opportunity to go back was exciting!

Sally had stops on the tour that I didn’t know about. It was great to have someone arrange the entire itinerary.” Calahan, a textile artist, enjoyed the tour and demo at Aston Pottery. “That stop wasn’t something I would have seen on my own, but it ended up being one of the most memorable experiences of the trip.”

No detail was left out on Sally’s tour, “There was a packer who stopped by shops after we went through. He collected all of the items we purchased, packed and shipped them back the US for us. We didn’t have to carry things around or find space in our luggage. It was a wonderful service.” Calahan encourages

people interested in a trip to England to consider this tour, “For people who are anxious about planning a trip, or want to see some things off the main tour route, or are even travelling alone, this is a great opportunity.”

To celebrate the sixth season of the famed show, Downton Abbey, the Tea Room at Crest Hill hosted a Downton Abbeythemed tea in January to coincide with the show’s season premiere. Richards blended custom Downton Abbey teas for the three-course menu which featured recipes from the Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook. Among the selections were creamy butternut squash soup, Lady Mary’s Canapés, and Mrs. Patmore’s Madeira pound cake. DeLuca added an element of fun to the tea with a Downton Abbey-themed crossword puzzle, with a special prize straight from Highclere Castle for the one lucky winner. Some guests even came in Downton Abbey costumes.

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Above: A custom tea blend for Crest Hill Antiques and Tea Room made especially by Marsha Richards, owner of A Tea for All Reasons. Right: Antique jewelry and servingware on display at Crest Hill Antiques.

Throughout Crest Hill’s other rooms, guests can browse antique and vintage jewelry – antique being defined as anything over 100 years old, and vintage anything younger than that. Hats, drawings, vases, platters, and books are also available at Crest Hill. One special item came through the shop but wasn’t there for long. “The same family that brought me the Russian samovar had a bound book of London newspapers from 1875, DeLuca relates. “It was a collection of books that had newspapers from a six-month period bound together. This one was from June through December and reported news from the era real-time. The images were all engravings and works of art themselves.”

While it was an exceptional piece and DeLuca considered holding on to it, she was happy to sell it to an excited patron.

DeLuca shared another story of a memorable guest who visited the shop. “One afternoon, a man came in, and I asked if he needed anything. He told me that he had grown up in the house,” she recalled. “He lived there from 1959 to 1964 and attended school down the road.” He spent some time with DeLuca and shared with her stories about what The Plains looked like at the time.

It is clear that everything associated with Crest Hill Antiques & Tea Room has a story to tell, whether it is the house, a piece of furniture, or any of the many antiques in the shop. To maintain these pieces, DeLuca and her staff act as custodians to the historical items, regardless of whether they hold personal value, such as the furniture sets in the DeLuca house, or represent an unknown story from owners.

From the sellers to the buyers, the pieces that pass through the shop and the tea room make their way to new owners to add to their own collection of stories. ❖

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Aimée O’Grady is a freelance writer who enjoys transforming stories told by Fauquier residents into articles for Lifestyle readers. She learns more and more about our rich county with every interview she conducts. She and her husband are happy with their decision to raise their three children in Warrenton.

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or some, there is no fear of the unknown. Rather, the unexplored lures them. It whispers to them to leave the comforts of familiarity behind and head off on adventures of passion and the pursuit of life’s desires.

Linda Neel embraces the unknown. She collects objects that she is drawn to, their shapes distinct and inviting. She places them strategically beneath a silk screen to generate a pattern. She then pours dyes onto the silkscreen and lets it dry.

Once the screen is dry, she turns it over onto a thin, flowing piece of white silk and wets it down to transfer the colors.

And then she waits.

When she removes the screen, its design is a surprise even

Tom and Linda Neel in their gallery Live An Artful Life® in The Plains.

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to her. Although she selects the colors, places the objects and arranges their order, she is never sure of what will appear on the silk once the screen is lifted.

From this point, the silk is mounted to a panel. Linda continues to work the silk, perhaps using colored pencils or painting on the panel. The last few steps involve varnishing the panel and attaching hardware before adding it to her gallery’s walls.

The process of creating one of her silkscreen panels parallels the way Linda Neel has lived her life. Moving from one adventure to another, she is never entirely sure of what will happen when she arrives at her destination.

In 1984, Linda left a technology company in Denver, Colorado, and relocated to Northern Virginia to pursue her passion for horses. Once settled, “I opened the first art gallery in Leesburg, the Leesburg Gallery of Art, where we sold prints, as well as original pieces,” she explains.

At roughly the same time, her future husband Tom Neel left a high-paying job in the automotive industry in Southern California. He made his way back to the Northern Virginia area, where he was raised.

“I knew there was something more for me than where I was,” he says. Both artists, Tom and Linda’s worlds eventually collided. They ran the Leesburg Gallery of Art as a couple and met artists throughout the country in the process.

The gallery gained fame for its sales of original artwork, and eventually the Greenwich Workshop in Greenwich, Connecticut contacted the Neels and asked if they would be interested in running the gallery. At the time, the Greenwich Workshop was the largest fine art publishing company in the country.

“We had been on their radar for a while. The gallery was well known because of the pieces we sold and the custom framing we offered,” Tom

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The timing was right, and the Neels left the Leesburg gallery in competent hands to run the Greenwich Workshop.

“This experience provided us with a rich education in the business world of art,” Linda explains. “We traveled with artists, attended openings, and learned about the publishing business.”

It was during this period that the Neels sold the Leesburg gallery. After a four-year stint in Connecticut, they took their valuable education and returned to the Piedmont region, where Tom began to pursue his art full-time. Linda, meanwhile, returned to the technical world as a business coach and ultimately accepted a position at Sprint as Program Manager.

Tom and Linda always admired the building located at 6474 Main Street in The Plains. When it became available in 2008, they were quick to announce their interest in it and began another chapter of their lives, this one refocused on the arts.

Walking into Live An Artful Life® Gallery is like stepping into much more than an art gallery. Flooded with natural light, it is a museum that stands as a testament to the devotion of the artist. Customers admire pieces from artists throughout the United States who have leapt into the unknown to pursue their passions, working with every imaginable medium. From wood and metalwork to glass pieces, oil paintings, candles, jewelry and scarves, the gallery boasts a myriad of pieces.

There is something for everyone from collectors to gift buyers, the perfect piece for any occasion and any budget.

As artists, Tom and Linda know the life of an artist. They

understand the changing nature of the pieces as artists change direction to pursue new interests. The displays in the gallery are ever-changing, bringing in a steady stream of clientele interested in what now hangs on the gallery walls and sits upon the shelves.

The name of the gallery stands as a call to action.

“There are so many people looking at their phones, going to jobs they don’t like, coming home and sticking food in front of their spouse, and just going through life one step in front of the other,” Tom opines. “Then there is another group of people who are having a great time. They understand that life is full of color and contrast and texture. That’s what we are all about.”

As a young man in his early 30s, Tom knew that life had a larger calling for him than the firm where he was employed.

He knew he had a destiny to pursue. When asked today if he has arrived at his destiny, he smiles and says, “There is always a new chapter.”

A conversation with Tom Neel leads you to contemplate your own life as you walk out of the gallery doors and through the picturesque village of The Plains. Looking at the quaint niche shops, the majority seem to be owned by people who see the color in life.

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Broad Run A TIME CAPSULE IN THE GAP

A busy community grew along the historic waterway

by John T. Toler

In 1907, Broad Run native Henry Samuel White rode his horse and buggy across Trapp Branch, downstream from Stover’s Mill, which can be seen in the background. Courtesy of Helen White Mayhugh.

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ramed by the Bull Run and Pond mountains at the Prince William-Fauquier county line, Broad Run has witnessed a lot of history over the past 200 years: early settlement, the coming of the railroads, the Civil War, and expansion of the interstate highway system.

In 2009, the Broad Run-Little Georgetown Rural Historic District, comprised of 9,500 acres in Prince William and Fauquier counties, was added to the Virginia Landmarks Registry. It was noted that the history of the region dates back to “…the first wave of European settlers, which were part of the westward expansion of Prince William County in 1725.”

While there has been residential growth in the Rural Historic District, the agricultural landscape has remained basically intact, due largely to several conservation easements that protect the open land and viewsheds in both counties.

Broad Run was in the early travel network that by 1748 ran from the commerce centers in Alexandria and Georgetown, D.C. westward through Thoroughfare Gap. From there, the road went to White Plains (presentday The Plains) and on to Calmes Gap in Clarke County, and ultimately to Winchester. In addition, by 1764, road improvements were made to the path (now known as Blantyre Road), connecting Warrenton to the Gap. Broad Run and Little Georgetown developed along the Gap Road (Rt. 55), Old Busthead and Blantyre roads (Rt. 628), Georgetown Road (Rt. 674) and the recently-renamed Trapp Branch Road. The community included farms and residences in Thoroughfare Gap, and later the structures built along the Manassas Gap Railroad.

Historic ruins can be found that recall the early days of Broad Run, including Meadowland, Jonathan Chapman’s 1740s stone mansion house, located just inside the Prince William county line. The ruins sit above the railroad tracks, which were built along the right-of-way of the 18th

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“The house was the center of a large plantation village, with sawmills, a grist mill (the Chapman-Beverley Mill), tanneries, a slaughterhouse, store, saloon and slave quarters for 150 slaves,” according to the 1937 WPA Historical Inventory Project done by architectural historian Susan R. Morton. “Several trenches remain that once were the graves of soldiers, since removed. Many of the outbuildings were burned during the war.

The Chapman cemetery is nearby.”

Jonathan Chapman died in 1759, and five more generations of the Chapman family – Nathaniel, Pearson, John, George and another John – lived at Meadowland until the last John’s death in 1866. It remained in the family until 1870, when it was acquired by the Bleight family of Haymarket, descendants of the Chapmans. The house burned in the 1880s.

THE WATER-POWERED MILLS Obviously, the name “Broad Run” comes from the stream that runs through it, and the waterway and the gap in the hills have much to do with what happened there. In ancient times, the pass was used

by Native Americans. In later years, the gentle slopes and rich soils were tilled by generations of farmers.

The production of grain crops necessitated the construction of waterpowered grist mills on Broad Run. The first two mills were built in 1742 by Jonathan Chapman and his son Nathaniel.

The ruins of the large Chapman-Beverley Mill, which are being actively preserved, are easily recognized from I-66 and Rt. 55.

Chapman’s second mill, located about 150 yards further upstream, stood only until 1757, when it burned and was never rebuilt. According to Lee Moffett in Water Powered Mills of Fauquier County (1977), the second mill was built without a dam or mill race, since due to the fall the normal flow of Broad Run at that point was adequate to power the mill.

In the years that followed, at least ten more mills of different sizes were built on Broad Run from east of The Plains to Buckland. Much has been written about the Chapman-Beverley Mill, but lesser known are the seven mills on Trapp Branch, a tributary of Broad Run that runs

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The first two mills on Trapp Branch were built by a Capt. Frogg sometime before 1747, but their precise locations remain unknown. The third mill on the branch was built around 1818 by James Skinker of Haymarket for James Gunnell, a planter with large landholdings north of Little Georgetown.

Built of stone, the mill was three stories high. It had an overshot wheel and was equipped with rollers to produce flour, and an up-and-down sawmill. The long mill race ran through the relatively flat land above the mill known as the “Mill Race Field.”

“The greatest portion of the Gunnell tract and all of the Trapp Branch Mill property were transferred to a Mennonite family of farmers and pioneer millers who migrated from Pennsylvania in the 1830s,” according to Architectural Historian Cheryl H. Shepherd in the nomination to place the Stover-BrawnerHeflin Store on the National Register of Historic Places.

A highly detailed survey, Mrs. Shepherd’s research has uncovered many historical facts about the region.

Abraham and Rachel Stover and their sons Ralph, Charles and Albert came from Bucks County, Pa., in 1833. They purchased the Trapp Mill Branch property, consisting of 135 acres and the mill, from William Skinker in 1834, and moved the family into a small house above the mill.

Until his health failed, Abraham actively operated the mill, grinding grain for flour and stone for plaster.

Sons Ralph and Albert took over the mill while Charles worked the surrounding farmland. When 270 acres of Gunnell land adjacent to their property was auctioned in 1837, Charles convinced his father to buy it for him, in order to expand his farming operation. It proved to be a good investment.

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Eventually, ownership of the mill passed to Charles Stover, and later to Ralph. Sadly, both Abraham (at age 67) and Albert Stover (at age 26) died in 1854.

In 1889, Ralph Stover sold the property to William Beverley (1852-1937), but the property returned to the Stover family five years later, when it was purchased by Robert C. Stover. “It seems that the last people to run the mill were a Mrs. Stover and a Fred Stover, who worked the mill until 1935 or 1936,” wrote Mrs. Moffett.

Not long afterward, milling operations ceased and the building was used for storage, mostly for hay and barley.

The next owner was Dr. William Pinkney Herbert, who bought the mill from Ella Antrim Stover (1893-1990) in

Top: Meadowland, the Jonathan Chapman home above the ChapmanBeverley Mill, was built in the 1740s, and burned in the 1880s. Today, the ruins stand as a reminder of the large plantation that once flourished there.

Courtesy of the Turn the Mill Around Campaign. Bottom: Jonathan Chapman’s second mill on Broad Run burned in 1857, and was never rebuilt.

This watercolor of Stover’s Mill was painted in 1928 by Mrs. Mary White Drowne Gale (1904-2005), an artist who was born and raised in Broad Run. It is one of the few surviving images of the mill. Courtesy of Mr. Kenny White.

1943. It was sold again in 1955 to Wendell M. Adamson.

Stover’s Mill was destroyed by a fire on the night of Nov. 12, 1961. According to the account in the Nov. 14 edition of The Fauquier Democrat, “One of the county’s few remaining grist mills, Stover’s Mill at Broad Run, burned Tuesday night.

A lofty structure of beautiful stone and 70-foot beams, it was built in 1732. About 2,000 bushels of grain and 900 bales of hay were destroyed in the fire, according to Grant Creel, chief of The Plains Fire Company…the firemen were called late and arrived only to find the roof already aflame.”

“It is thought that someone was spending the night there and accidentally started the fire,” wrote Mrs. Moffett. “Mr. Adamson was upset by the fire. He had planned to make it a recreational area of some type.” Sadly, this tragedy would be repeated in October 1998 when arsonists destroyed the Chapman-Beverley Mill, just as plans were being made to restore the structure.

COMMERCE AND WAR COME TO LITTLE GEORGETOWN Remarkably, it was the Stover family that owned and operated the first store in the Broad Run-Little Georgetown area, built in 1845 by stonemason John M. Fry at the intersection of the Gap and Blantyre roads.

In addition to creating a “trading post” for customers in the area, the business plan – or whatever it was called back then

– was logical and efficient. Packaged flour, grain and other local products processed at Stover’s Mill were loaded up and taken by wagon to Alexandria and sold. The wagon would then return packed with sugar, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, cotton, baling twine and household items that were sold at the store.

Mrs. Shepherd notes that because the Stovers were Mennonites, they would not own slaves. “Whether working in the fields, at the mill or within the store, the family labored and was supported by hired hands only.”

During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate troops occupied the area.

In 2012, Mr. John T. Hazel Jr., who lives nearby at Huntley, and his son Jack met with Lee W. Sherrill Jr. who was working on the history of the 21st North Carolina Infantry. He was particularly interested in Hazel property at Blantyre, located just northwest of Little Georgetown.

In the autumn following the Confederate victory at First Manassas, the 21st North Carolina Infantry (11th North Carolina Volunteers) were encamped near Manassas when a typhoid epidemic broke out, due to the crowded, unsanitary conditions. As the situation worsened, it was decided to “scatter the sick,” sending them to clean, safe areas to recover.

Some of the men were sent to Front Royal, while others were moved to the fields around Blantyre, arriving in mid-September 1861. At the time, the property was owned by William Skinker

Boswell, who had removed with his family to another Skinker property in Orange County, Va., to avoid the conflict. Before the war, 125 slaves worked the plantation.

The vacant main house at Blantyre became a hospital, and the plantation a campground.

In his book, Mr. Sherrill described the mansion at Blantyre. “The imposing stone and frame house sat on a dominant hilltop, with a large, sloping lawn falling gently on three sides from the house.” The twostory, garreted mansion had eight rooms (four up and four down), a free-standing kitchen, 30-ft. deep well, three springs within walking distance, an ice house and other outbuildings.

Sympathetic Broad Run neighbors descended on the makeshift hospital, bringing beds, linens, food, “four milk cows” and more for the sick soldiers.

Mentioned in the book are the Turners of Kinloch, the Skinkers of Huntley, the Beverleys of Avenel and the Hendersons of Roland.

Nurses with the Salem (N.C.) Ladies Aid Society arrived by train on Sept. 21 to care for the men at Blantyre. In addition to what was sent from North Carolina, supplies were bought at Stover’s store, described as “…a welcome destination for the nurses.” In addition, “Pay day came on Oct. 6, 1861, and created a rush on Stover’s Store,” according to Mr. Sherrill.

But soldiers were still dying. By Sept.

22, 1851, ninety of the soldiers at Blantyre had died. By Oct. 4, the number had risen to 120. They were buried at Blantyre, but their graves were lost over time. Mr. Hazel believes that the graves are possibly under present-day I-66.

By mid-October 1861, the first 200 ablebodied men at Blantyre were ordered to help man the defenses at Centreville, and

by Nov 3, 1861, hospital operations there were terminated. By early spring 1862, Union troops would be in the area, and on

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Aug. 28, 1862, the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap was fought there, the day before the Second Battle of Manassas.

Stover’s Mill also played a minor role during the action at Thoroughfare Gap, when wounded Confederate soldiers were brought there. As it was with the sick soldiers at Blantyre, those who died of their wounds were buried nearby in unmarked graves.

Union troops who came to Little Georgetown also left their mark. On Nov. 13, 1862, two Yankees – Sgt. Thomas F. Hamilton and Pvt. Warren W. Hull of the 73rd Ohio Infantry – were at the store, and penciled their names and regiment on the inside wall next to the east gable window.

THE STORE CHANGES HANDS The Stover family owned the store building until 1895, when it was purchased by Henry Newlon Brawner, a member of the family whose property on the battlefield figured prominently in the Second Battle of Manassas. At age 16, he is believed to have been the youngest of Mosby’s Partisan Rangers during the war.

H.N. Brawner had rented Stover’s Store starting sometime before 1884, and operated the business there for eleven years before buying the property. Later, Brawner became involved in the emerging regional telephone services. By then, he had built a nine-room house, barn and other outbuildings in the open area just northwest of the store.

Wishing to focus his energies on the telephone business, in 1897 Brawner offered the store and the other buildings on the property for sale. There were no buyers, and in May 1899, the real estate, the store’s inventory and Brawner’s livestock were sold at auction.

The buyer was Edgar W. Heflin, who changed the name to Heflin’s Store, and expanded the product lines to include clothing, hats and shoes. He operated the store until 1926 when, due to mounting debt, it was again put up for auction. The purchaser this time was his son, Carlton Heflin.

“Carlton practiced law and had no interest in operating the store, but he wanted to help his father,” wrote Mrs. Shepherd.

Left: The home occupied by “Although situated in a prime Abraham Stover in the 1830s location for pull-off travelers still stands above the mill site. in addition to providing fuel The original part is on the left; for local tractors and cars, Mr. the addition on the right was Heflin appears to have resisted built as a separate dwelling

by Ralph Stover in 1838, and the trend to add service pumps later connected to the older or a canopy, unlike many house. Restored and updated, country stores across America it is now the home of Tony and that adapted to the automobile Barbara Smith. Right: Built in 1845, Stover’s Store was later age.” operated by H. N. Brawner and Edgar Heflin ran the store finally by Mrs. Edgar Heflin, until his death in 1945, at which before closing in the 1970s. It time his wife took over. She was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. lived in the house next to the John T. Hazel Jr. in 1999 and carefully restored. It was placed store and kept sporadic hours, on the National Register of until finally closing it down in Historic Places in 2004. the early 1970s.

In November 1999, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hazel Jr. purchased the 1.3-acre store property from Matthew Carlton Heflin Smith, a Heflin descendant. The Hazels had extensive stabilization and restoration work done on the store, including repair of a large bulge in a side wall that was near collapse.

The decrepit old house and other outbuildings were demolished, leaving only traces of one stone foundation. After the work was completed and the extensive nomination prepared

by Mrs. Shepherd, in 2004 the Stover-Brawner-Heflin Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

In the survey for the registry, Mrs. Shepherd notes that the store, “…is distinguished for remaining in its original form without envelopment by a larger commercial or residential addition,” and that it is “...the solitary surviving example of an unaltered storehouse built of stone in Fauquier County.”

Part 2, to be published in March, describes the coming of the railroad, the post offices, local industry, and the churches that served Broad Run. ❖

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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here used to be a “date night” show on TBS called “Dinner and a Movie.” Hosted by a guy and a gal, they prepared a meal and bantered back and forth between the movie segments. In a real life situation resembling the movies they hosted, however, the two didn’t get along very well. As a matter of fact, the network sent them to therapy and eventually the female host left. Later, however, they became friends.

In film and literary tradition, the essence of romance seems to involve misunderstandings, bad timing, personality clashes, deception, and interference from other interested persons.

Accordingly, either hilarity or disaster ensues before the happy ending or tragic fate.

Shakespeare knew this well.

So did the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, and Margaret Mitchell.

This is why their stories are timeless and make great films.

If your Valentine’s Day plans include dinner and a movie, consider skipping the lines at the theater. Instead, give one of the 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time, as ranked by the American Film Institute (AFI), a try.

Here are seven of my personal favorites that have stood up well against the test of time. Each is available at your local Fauquier County Public Library location.

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NOW VOYAGER (1942)

New Voyager is a bittersweet tale of transformation. Bette Davis plays Charlotte Vale, an ugly duckling-turnedswan. Therapy helps her get out from under her wealthy mother’s control and constant humiliation. Claude Raines is the helpful doctor whose sanitarium she goes to to recover from a nervous breakdown. Afterwards, on a cruise, Charlotte meets a married man, played

by Paul Henreid. They fall in love and much too soon she has to go back home to face her mother. In a powerful scene, Charlotte finally stands up to her mother, with a tragic result. But the story’s only half over. If you like this, you might enjoy reading In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner, or The Charm School by Susan Wiggs.

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THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) The Awful Truth remains one of the top screwball comedies.

Here, Irene Dunne and Carey Grant are getting a divorce and they both want custody of their dog, Mr. Smith. The scene involving the hat and the dog, when Dunne’s new suitor, Ralph Bellamy comes a calling is a classic, as is Irene’s performance as Grant’s “sister” which wrecks his suitability in the eyes of his new amour’s stuffy parents.

Don’t look for much logic.

The whole story is a light comedic confection. If you like this, you might enjoy reading contemporary authors Marian Chesney, Georgette Heyer or Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

PILLOW TALK (1959)

This first comedic pairing of Doris Day and Rock Hudson centers on the inconvenience of a shared telephone party line. An interior decorator (Day) and a smooth-talking songwriter (Hudson) only know each other through annoying phone call interruptions, yet find themselves attracted to each other without knowing who the other person is in real life.

The solid secondary performances by Tony Randall as Day’s smitten decorating client and Thelma Ritter as her maid with a crush who listens in on Hudson’s phone calls, help to make this a frothy fifties farce. If you like this, you might enjoy reading The Thing About Jane Spring by Sharon Krum or books

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ANNIE HALL (1977) Woody Allen plays Alvy Singer, a stand-up comedian in NYC who meets Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), a shy Midwestern beauty and aspiring singer.

Allen creatively explores the nature of romantic relationships through childhood memories, previous relationships, family, cultural and religious differences and the fears and neuroses for which he is well-known.

Christopher Walken’s cameo as Annie’s brother is priceless. Any books about death or cats would make good follow-up reads.

IN LOVE (1998) #52 THE GRADUATE #50 SHAKESPEARE Stellar performances by Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, (1967)

Mike Nichols won Best Director for this movie about youthful angst. It masterfully conveys alienation, disillusionment, and trying to fit in the post-college world. Simon and Garfunkel’s soundtrack almost becomes another character in the film. At his homecoming party, recent graduate Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) is just trying to get through to the next day when Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) asks him to take her home. Ben finds himself drifting into an affair with the older woman.

Later, he meets her beautiful offlimits daughter, Elaine. He finally decides what he wants in life. Is it too late? If you like this, you might enjoy reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, or The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Colin Firth, and others in this brilliant original screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman all contribute to this masterpiece of comedy, drama and romance. The plot loosely centers on the imaginary background of how Shakespeare was inspired to write Romeo and Juliet. If you like this, you might enjoy reading The Players: a Novel of Young Shakespeare by Stephanie Cowell, Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper and the humorous wordplay works by Ian Doescher blending Shakespearean language with the Star Wars stories.

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Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn portray an elderly married couple. Norman, the “old poop,” is still Ethel‘s “knight in shining armor.”

When adult daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda) comes to visit at their lakefront vacation home in New England, old wounds and resentments surface. It is a poignant exploration of marriage, aging, and family dysfunctions, letting go of the past and hanging on when the going gets tough. If you like this, you might enjoy reading A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.

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by Stacia Stribling, PhD

ilence falls across the stage as the concertmaster signals to the oboist for a tuning note. She plays an “A” and the rest of the woodwinds gradually chime in followed by the strings. Soon the concert hall is reverberating with the glorious sounds of a perfectly tuned 60 piece orchestra. The conductor steps up to the podium with his baton electric bass in hand…

It’s just another Tuesday night rehearsal for Warrenton’s own Piedmont Symphony Orchestra. Under the leadership of Maestro Glenn Quader, the orchestra is halfway into its 20th anniversary season with two sold-out performances already in the books. For the upcoming concert, “The Beatles and Friends,” Quader has traded in his conducting baton for his electric bass reviving the fan favorite PSO Rock Concert. The idea for a collaboration between symphonic orchestra and rock ensemble was hatched 20 years ago. Quader was in Florida at the time playing in a rock band, and preparing to set off to pursue a conducting career. Years later, in his fifth year as conductor of the PSO, he reconnected with former band mate, Kenny Hasty. Hasty had recently relocated to Northern Virginia from Nashville where he ran a recording studio. What was once a mere brainstorm quickly became a reality. At the time, Tom Tucker chaired the PSO Board of Directors and supported this opportunity to introduce something “outside of

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Elizabeth Lawrence (top) is one of the featured vocalists in the PSO Rock Concert in Warrenton in February.

the box” to the community.

The risk has certainly paid off. This is the third rock concert for the PSO. Returning to the stage to join Quader in the rock ensemble are Russ Hasty, Kenny Hasty, Sammy Sosa, and Tom Tucker. This year vocalists Elizabeth Lawrence and Robb Foster join them for classics by The Beatles, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, and more. Watching them rehearse is like witnessing the reunion of the coolest family you have ever known. There is a strong sense of commitment to each other and plenty of laughter. All of the musicians’ paths have crossed at some point in time be it as high school peers, band mates, or onetime gig collaborators. Their collaborative efforts, in some cases, have been quite elaborate. For example Quader and the Hasty brothers toured together extensively and produced numerous studio recordings of their own material that they shopped to labels. They have also worked with several Grammy-winning artists over the years. All of the band members understand the nuances of harmony and rhythm and support each other to create a sound that honors the artists’ compositions and yet adds their own unique interpretations.

Above: Robb Foster (middle) playing with one of his bands, Radio Redline, in summer 2015 with guitarist Charlie Higgs (right) and bassist Jeff Trinidad (left). Right, from left to right: Grammy Winner David Cabrera playing guitar with PSO Music Director Glenn Quader on bass and Vincent Parrish on guitar in a previous PSO Rock Concert.

The talent among the group is astounding. The combined years of classical training, studio production, and touring have prepared this group to deliver a world-class show right here in Fauquier County. Most importantly, it is evident that they are having a lot of fun in the process.

While new to the Highland stage, Elizabeth and Robb are well known performers throughout the Northern Virginia region. A native of Fauquier County, Elizabeth began singing in church as a child and at age 16 got her first paid gig. She has been singing ever since. For the past 11 years she has been performing with the Elizabeth Lawrence Band. Billed as a blues and rock group, they perform covers and original music across the D.C./Maryland/Virginia area. Elizabeth enjoys the opportunity to play at local venues and to give back to the community that has supported her over the years. In fact, you can catch her band in some of your favorite Warrenton night spots including Molly’s Irish Pub and McMahon’s as well as this summer in the Verdun Summer Concert Series. This is Elizabeth’s first opportunity to play with an orchestra, and she is excited about the opportunity. For her as a singer, it is “so cool to have that much full sound behind you.”

Growing up in a musical household, Robb Foster began singing in high school where he met drummer, Sammy Sosa.

He has classical vocal training and ventured into composition in college. He is currently working with several rock bands: Full Mesh, Radio Redline, and Switched at Birth, which just released an album titled, “Arctic Luau.” In addition to writing music, Robb also writes poetry and recently published a book titled, Lyrics and Poems from the Shenandoah. Never having had the opportunity to sing with a full orchestra, Robb is excited about his collaboration with the PSO. He is eager to be part of a “musical community coming together to do what we love.”

Orchestra members are equally thrilled to create a powerful musical experience and to venture into the world of rock.

Quader’s goal “in bringing these two worlds together is so that PSO players can see how different it is working with a rock ensemble. It’s so much more about feel, groove and vibe of a given tune, style or crowd. That is certainly not exclusive to Rock music, and I hope it permeates into their approach

to our symphonic music…It’s all about capturing the essence of those elements in real time with a real audience.” This approach has certainly had an impact on the PSO musicians.

As one member of the wind section shared, “It is so different from what we typically do. I love the challenge.” And challenge is what the PSO is all about. The versatility of this musical ensemble is quite impressive. After tackling classic rock, they will brave the intricate Stravinsky Firebird Suite at their upcoming April 17th performance. This concert will also feature the annual Young Artist Competition and Visual Art Contest. On May 15, PSO heads to Tinsel Town to perform some of the best loved tunes from Broadway and Hollywood Blockbusters. To round out this anniversary season, an additional concert is slated for June 26 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas where patrons will hear Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Tickets are going fast, so be sure to go to piedmontsymphony.org to get yours today!

If rock is what you want, the February 14 performance, generously sponsored by Country Chevrolet (which has sponsored 14 PSO concerts to date!) is already sold out.

But don’t fret! (Pun intended) Thanks to the generosity of the Airlie Center, the PSO is now offering an additional performance on Saturday, February 13. If you have not yet found that perfect gift for your significant other this Valentine’s Day, tickets to the show could be it. In the meantime, back to rehearsal. ❖

Stacia Stribling is an Assistant Professor in George Mason University's College of Education and Human Development. She had been a flutist with the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra since its debut in 1996 and currently serves as a member of the PSO Board of Directors.

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Bottom: Coffee is in conjunction with energizing brewed individually sustenance provided by our coffee for each customer to shop make for a cyclist’s haven in give the freshest flavor possible.

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a region well known for good cycling roads,” say Nieters and Lindsley. The location in The Plains works so well because of the many routes for bicyclists to ride, oftentimes north to Middleburg or west to Front Royal along secondary roads. The shop’s popularity is mainly due to word of mouth, especially within the cycling community, but also among coffee lovers in the area. Both Nieters and Lindsley say the shop has been “warmly welcomed by the town” and “the dynamic relationship between the coffee shop and the cycling shop has been enthusiastically embraced by the cycling community.”

Happy Creek Coffee & Tea does not offer the average coffee experience.

Their mission is to “provide expertly roasted and carefully brewed coffee and a 100% gluten free menu in a welcoming and pleasant cafe atmosphere.” Visitors will watch as each coffee order is brewed individually in front of them in a ‘bloom’ method, after the whole beans are ground seconds before

brewing, to give it the freshest flavor possible. Espresso, espresso macchiato, cappuccino, americano, and lattes are offered as well as hand-poured coffees, cafe au lait, and the unique ‘craft on draft’ which is nitrogenated cold brewed coffee (which has its own unique following). For the tea lovers, there are white, green, black, and herbal brews in varying flavors such as strawberry fields, ginger peach, sweet pomegranate, vanilla bean, and many others. Hot chocolate can also be ordered as well as fresh squeezed juices and smoothies.

The staff is knowledgeable and passionate about the products and quick to help customers decide which tasty beverage will be their new favorite brew.

On any given day, the tables at the shop are filled with bicyclists in full gear or those stopping The shop is a in for some help blend of vintage, from Nieters with modern, and eclectic, resulting their bikes. Nieters in a unique, works with riders to welcoming, adjust their bikes to relaxing environment.

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Clockwise from left: The shop is nestled on the corner in the quaint little town of The Plains.

The ‘bloom’ method gets its name from the visible expansion of the water to do its job producing the best cup of coffee possible. The bike shop offers a supply of biking products for cycling enthusiasts who gather at the store before and after group rides.

provide the optimum riding experience. His expertise with this type of adjustment comes from studying the art of fitting using 3D motion capture, a technique that uses cameras to catch the flaws in a rider’s form. Nieters also works on repairing bikes and building custom bikes for individual customers. While the store offers some biking retail products, the Haymarket location has more available of this type of inventory. Cyclists can peruse the bikes and products available for purchase and meet up with fellow riders to head out on a group ride.

Haymarket Bicycles posts rides on Facebook and Twitter (@haymarketbikes) for those looking to join in.

The hope for the future of the shop is for it to exist also as a venue for musicians, both local and traveling.

But for now, it is the perfect place for a unique experience in a tiny town rich with history and charm.

Haymarket Bicycles Studio and Happy Creek Coffee & Tea is located at 6485 Main Street in The Plains, Virginia. For more information, visit facebook.com/ hbfitstudio or search Happy Creek Coffee & Tea at The Plains on Facebook. ❖ 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. { FEBRUARY 2016 |

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by Andreas A. Keller

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Sunday afternoon hike in winter is not necessarily everyone’s choice of entertainment. Yet, done right, it can be exhilarating and offer lifelong memories for the entire family.

It all starts with a simple planning process. Where do we want to go for a hike? What’s the weather forecast and how do we dress appropriately? How are the trail conditions? How long do we expect to be on the trail? What should we take with us in a backpack?

Let’s sit around the kitchen table and do some planning for a wintery hike.

The Shenandoah River State Park, located on 350 Daughter of Stars Drive in Bentonville, VA, about eight miles south of Front Royal, would be an ideal place to start.

This well-appointed park of 1,600 acres along the South Fork of the Shenandoah River State Park has 5.2 miles bordering the shoreline and 17 trails stretching over 24 miles, so there are many trails of any length to choose from.

Who in your family wants to map out a trail and then play leader of the pack?

You can find trail maps online at dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/ and have fun choosing your own route.

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There’s no need for concern about getting lost, trail signage and trail blazing is excellent. With every trail clearly marked and measured, your ten-yearold could plan a family hike and guide everyone safely back to the trailhead with a great sense of achievement and pride.

How does one prepare for a hike in wintery weather? First, dress warmly and in layers. Hikers have a saying: “There is no bad weather, just wrong equipment.” Boots ’n Beer members, being experienced hikers, have learned the art of layering and protecting themselves against cold, wind, rain and snow.

For a winter hike, a pair of hiking shoes with a gripping sole is a must to avoid slipping on snow-covered trails.

They will also keep your feet more dry and more warm than sneakers or running shoes. For those who want to go on an extended hike and want to avoid, or at least minimize, getting a blister, it is recommended that you wear two pairs of socks — a thin polyester pair of socks layered over with a cushioned pair of hiking socks. With your feet warm and protected, walking or running the trails

becomes more fun.

What about to eat? Any kind of power bar will do. Alternatively, packing simple lunch bags will work just fine. There’s always the peanut butter sandwich, an apple, Snickers bar and bottle of hot tea for each hiker. Hydration is important, even in winter. Find a backpack or empty a school bag and stash it all in, and you are about ready to take the family for an outing they will always remember.

The Shenandoah River State Park is open all year long, seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to dusk and has an entrance fee of $5.00 per car on weekends and $7.00 on prime season weekends and holidays. Beyond the trails this wellmaintained state park offers a picnic area and tent and trailer camping in designated areas. Reservations are necessary. Your pooch is also allowed but must be on a leash at all times.

Also, if you’ve never taken your children on an overnight camping trip, the Shenandoah River State Park is the perfect place to start a new adventure in 2016. It is safe, clean, and close to civilization if you need to escape the cold.

Happy Trails! ❖

Andreas A. Keller is a passionate hiker and avid backpacker. He is a Charter Member of the hiking club Boots ’n Beer and can be reached via email at aakeller@mac.com. For those who need encouragement to incorporate hiking into their lifestyles, please go to www.bootsnbeer.com and sign up for our free monthly hiking clinic.

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by John T. Toler Part 1, published in January, recalled Ferdinand Bartenstein’s immigration to the U.S. from Germany in 1837; his son Reinhardt, who rode with Mosby; and grandson Thomas Engel Bartenstein, a long-time Clerk of the Court. Part 2 continues with three more descendants of Reinhardt Bartenstein who remained in Fauquier County.

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illiam G. “Billy” Bartenstein (1890-1972), son of Reinhardt and his wife Sallie Ball Klipstein, went to work at the Fauquier National Bank in 1910 as a “runner,” or messenger. A former cadet at Bethel Military Academy, he enlisted in the 2nd Virginia National Guard, the “Warrenton Rifles,” in 1908. He was elected 2nd lieutenant in 1915.

Billy’s banking career was interrupted in 1916 when the Warrenton Rifles was federalized and sent to the Mexican border, and again during World War I, when his unit was deployed to France as part of Co. C, 116th Infantry. By then, he had been promoted to the rank of captain, and assigned as a battalion liaison officer.

He was in the trenches during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which lasted from September to November of 1918. During the fighting, the troops were subjected to heavy machine gun and artillery fire and gas attacks by the Germans. The 3,700-man regiment suffered approximately 250 killed and 1,000 wounded.

Returning to Warrenton in 1919, Billy resumed his job at the Fauquier National Bank, where he would work until 1960, retiring as assistant cashier and head teller. He also served as Warrenton Town Recorder for several years.

In 1932, Billy married the former Mildred Nannell Brown (1905-1994), a graduate of Randolph-Macon Women’s College. Mrs. Bartenstein taught English at the Warrenton Country School, the

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Lt. Billy Bartenstein (center), flanked by his brother Cpl. Joseph H. Bartenstein (left) and Lt. Daniel Wood (right), while serving in the Warrenton Rifles before World War I.

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Billy was a member of the Warrenton Rotary Club, and the first commander of John D. Sudduth Post 72, American Legion. He continued the family tradition in the Warrenton Presbyterian Church, serving as an elder for several years.

As war clouds were gathering in early 1941, states were authorized to establish local military companies made up of men who were either too young or too old to serve in the regular Armed Forces, but wanted to do their part to protect the homeland. Billy was commissioned as a captain in the 11th Battalion of the Virginia

Sallie. He attended public schools in Warrenton, and worked in the Clerk of the Court’s office for 18 months after graduating from Warrenton High School.

Laurence entered VMI in 1919, and after a year, he returned home and worked briefly in the Clerk’s office. He then entered the University of Virginia, where he earned his undergraduate degree and then his law degree under a special oneyear program. He was admitted to the bar in July 1925, and entered private practice in Warrenton shortly afterward.

In October 1926, he formed a brief partnership with Nelson Fell, which ended when Mr. Fell died two months later. From then on, Laurence was the

The Warrenton Volunteer Fire Company was established in 1924, with Billy Bartenstein appointed the first fire chief.

Posing with one of the first pieces of fire apparatus acquired by the company are (in cab, from left): Chief Bartenstein, George Woodzell, Tom Frost and Chris Butler. Front row on truck: Chester Maxheimer, Unk., C. Irvin Garrett, Allwyn Ash, Unk., Laurence Bartenstein, Thomas Coflin, Unk., Pres Ruffner. Back row: Hugh Harris Sr., Clifton Hurst, Lee Risdon, Unk. Courtesy of Warrenton Volunteer Fire Co.

Protective Force, and served as the adjutant to the battalion commander, Col. Frank Wray.

Billy and Mildred Bartenstein lived on Locust Street in the Bartenstein Subdivision, near other family members who built homes there. They had two children, William G. Jr., who later lived in South Carolina, and Nannell Bartenstein Edmunds, a resident of Maryland. After a 50-year career at the Fauquier National Bank, Billy retired in 1960 as assistant cashier and head teller.

sole attorney in his practice, and a member of the Fauquier Bar Association and the Virginia Bar Association.

Laurence was the secretary of the Fauquier County Electoral Board, president of the Warrenton Rotary Club, and a member of the Warrenton Chamber of Commerce. Following family tradition, he served as a deacon and secretary of the Warrenton Presbyterian Church.

In October 1929, Laurence married Geneva Garber “Chris” Criste (19061949). They had two children: a son who died at birth in February 1933, and a daughter, Linda Garber Bartenstein, born in 1934.

Laurence Bartenstein had a very

successful law practice. Testimony to this fact can be found in county legal records, including the 1914-1969 county indices of deed grantors/grantees, where his name appears so often that “Bartenstein” earned its own section heading.

In March 1941, Company 111 of the 11th Battalion, Virginia Protective Force (the “Warrenton Rifles”) was organized, and Laurence joined, first serving as the supply sergeant. As the veteran officers originally appointed to lead the company were recalled to active duty, Laurence moved quickly up the ranks. He was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in May 1942, 1st lieutenant in June, and captain and company commander in July. He

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Top: Members of Co. 111, under the command of Capt. Laurence R. Bartenstein (far left) render honors at the Warrenton Cemetery during the 1946 Memorial Day observance. Bottom left: FRED BARTENSTEIN SR., orchardist, engineer and surveyor. Bottom right: The family of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bartenstein Sr., during a visit to Erin, Fred Bartenstein’s home on West Shirley Avenue, during Easter 1956. Children, from left: John Stevenson (Steve), Susan and Robert Jr. (Bobby.) Little brother Curtis would be born the following year.

would serve in that role until the unit was disbanded in 1947.

Laurence Bartenstein died on January 16, 1948, at the age of 47. His older sister, Blanche Bartenstein (b. 1880), died the same day, and wife “Chris” died on Nov. 3, 1949. Frederick Bartenstein was appointed the guardian for their 15-year-old daughter Linda, who lived with her aunts in Warrenton after her mother’s death.

Linda graduated from Warrenton High School in 1951, and attended Longwood College, earning a business degree. She married Forrest Glenn Frazier in 1954.

The Fraziers had four children, including son Glenn Frazier, who lives in the house where he grew up on Locust Street, Warrenton. Widowed in 1996 and retiring in 1999, Linda now lives in Blacksburg.

FREDERICK BARTENSTEIN, SURVEYOR AND ORCHARDIST

Fred Bartenstein’s first job, at age 14, was helping to plat the Town of Warrenton. He also worked as a “switch boy,” or operator for Warrenton’s first telephone company.

Fred finished high school, and in 1908 earned an engineering degree from Washington and Lee University.

He played semi-professional baseball in Memphis, and worked in the oil fields around Bakersfield, Calif. while waiting for a job as a civil engineer to open up. He

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At home in Fauquier County, Fred got into the apple and peach orchard business, operating Bartenstein Orchards Inc. on Wildcat Mountain in partnership with Truman Vance. In October 1916, Fred and the former Anna Robertson Curtis (1890-1982) were married, and moved into the new home he had built on Wildcat Mountain.

Fred and Anna Bartenstein had four children. Fred Jr. (b. 1917) now lives in New Jersey, and Mary Hampton Bartenstein Faulkner (1919-2008), a longtime resident of Fredericksburg. Robert Mason (1921-2003) and John Hume “Jack” Bartenstein (b. 1925) remained in Warrenton.

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shed, and machine work house. In 1937, Bartenstein Orchards Inc. packed 2,300 barrels of Winesap apples, which had the advantage of being stored and shipped to markets in Europe without refrigeration.

But the combination of the Great Depression and the Smoot-Hawley Bill, which put steep tariffs on apple exports, doomed the orchard business.

When Bartenstein Orchards Inc. was sold at auction in October 1939, it was noted in The Fauquier Democrat that the property consisted of 1,035 acres, “… planted with 8,000 apple trees about 20 years old, 500 apple trees three years old, and 300 peach trees.” The property was bought by Melvin Chambers of Midland for a mere $10,000.

In 1939, Fred established his land surveying business, and became the county surveyor ten years later. He moved to Erin, the c. 1835 white clapboard house at 60 West Shirley Avenue (site of present-day Blue Ridge Orthopaedics), and had his office in a building next to his home. For several years he was associated with Blackwell Engineering Company in Warrenton, working as their superintendent of construction.

Like his brothers Billy and Laurence, Fred served in the Virginia Protective Force during World War II. Based on his engineering knowledge, he later served as chairman of the Warrenton Planning Commission.

Fred continued his surveying practice and duties as county surveyor until suffering a brief illness and dying on Nov. 4, 1970. His funeral service at the Warrenton Presbyterian Church was conducted by the Rev. J. Richard Winter

and his son-in-law, the Rev. Thomas G. Faulkner.

BOB BARTENSTEIN, CIVIL ENGINEER

Fred and Anna Bartenstein’s second son, Robert M. Bartenstein, was born on Wildcat Mountain. He graduated from Warrenton High School and spent a year on his father’s survey team before entering Virginia Military Institute, where he earned a BS degree in civil engineering in 1943. During World War II, Bob served as a military intelligence officer in the Army Air Corps. It was while he was stationed at Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Ala. that he met his future wife, Miss Frances Susan Stevenson.

Bob and Frances were married in 1946 and came back to Warrenton, where Bob first worked for Blackwell Engineering Co. By 1950, they had two children – Robert Jr. (b. 1947) and Frances Susan (b. 1949) – and Bob decided it was time to open his own engineering company, R. M. Bartenstein & Associates.

The Bartensteins purchased the 90acre property northwest of Warrenton that was once the site of the Bethel Military Academy, and renovated the only surviving structure – the former bachelor officers’ quarters – to serve as their home.

Small, decrepit and outdated, making the house habitable was a major task. In the meantime, sons John Stevenson, known as “Steve” (b. 1953) and Curtis Howard (b.

1957) were born.

In 1960, North Rock on Winchester Street was purchased by North Rock Inc., a development company headed by Bob Bartenstein, and the family lived in the main house. Bob retired in 1974, but remained active in professional engineering societies. They sold North Rock in 1978, and moved to a new home on Winchester Street.

R.M. Bartenstein & Associates was involved in several landmark local projects.

These included the 1958-60 annexation survey for the Town of Warrenton under a contract awarded to Wiley & Wilson Inc., which added 1,740 acres to the town limits, and Bob’s service on the Redistricting Commission that redrew Fauquier County’s five magisterial districts.

Three of Bob and Frances’s children and their families still live in the area: Susan Bartenstein Necci and her husband Jim live in Amissville and have two sons, Andrew

and Mason; Curtis Bartenstein and his wife Violet also live in Amissville, and have two daughters, Bridgette and Kristy. Steve Bartenstein lives in Warrenton, and has son Clint, who lives in Las Vegas, and daughter Katelyn Bartenstein Stern, who lives in Warrenton.

JACK, THE REAL ESTATE EXPERT

Youngest son John H. “Jack” Bartenstein also graduated from Warrenton High School, and attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute for one year before his studies were interrupted by World War II. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and fought in the epic Battle of the Bulge, and was present at the liberation of Nazi death camps as the war in Europe ended.

Following his discharge, Jack returned home and earned his BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Soon afterward, he joined R. M. Bartenstein & Associates.

In November 1952, Jack and the former Elizabeth “Lib” Dietz, a Warrenton teacher, were married. They lived in the family home on Locust Street while Steinwald, their home west of Warrenton was being built. They had four children, Margaret “Meg” (b. 1954), Laurence “Larry” (b.

1956), John H. Jr. (b. 1959) and Edward “Ted” (b. 1961).

After R.M. Bartenstein & Associates closed, Jack worked as a consultant. For years, he was in demand for his expertise in interpreting legal documents related to real estate, and was often called upon by attorneys to give his expert opinions on difficult cases.

One of his long-term clients was Upperville philanthropist Paul Mellon. He later worked for the Mellon estate until retiring on Jan. 1, 2016, at age 90.

Ten years ago, Jim and Susan Bartenstein Necci hosted a family reunion at their home near Amissville, with 108 family members from across the U.S. in attendance. The line started by German immigrant Ferdinand Bartenstein and his wife, nee’ Elizabeth C. F. Gordon, continues to grow.

While the continuing story of the Bartenstein family in Warrenton is unique in many ways, it provides many examples of the attributes that made our communities strong and our nation great: patriotism, a tradition of public service, a strong work ethic, appreciation of the value of education, and a vision for the future. ❖

John H. ‘Jack’ Bartenstein, photographed in 2010 with his daughter-in-law, Teresa (Mrs. Edward ‘Ted’ Bartenstein), at the marriage of his grandson Patrick.

Courtesy of Teresa Bartenstein.

John Toler is an author and historian who has served Fauquier County for over 50 years, including four decades with the FauquierTimes 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-entering the workforce after having taken time off to raise a family is a challenge for anyone. But as Lora Vennettilli Gookin found, if you go about the task with patience and an open mind, the right opportunity will eventually present itself.

Trained as an architect and civil engineer, Gookin relished her work in technical fields. She enjoyed the math and scientific thinking required to determine things like road placement for new neighborhoods and public works projects such as storm drains and detention basins.

All that changed in 2001 when Gookin had her daughter, Olivia. Three short years later, her son Vincent was born and Gookin decided to become a stay-at-home mother. When her son turned four, Gookin decided it was time to re-enter the workforce. While several engineering firms presented her with job offers, she realized that she needed a new adventure.

It was in 2008 that she had an overnight revelation. Since her daughter’s first birthday, Gookin had insisted on baking her children homemade birthday cakes. She stuck with as many natural ingredients as possible without compromising the luxury of a delicious dessert. “One morning I woke-up

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knowing that I wanted to open a bakery,” she recalls.

But the scientist in her wouldn’t let her do this halfheartedly. “Less than a week later, I registered my business’ name, Gâteau, and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Scottsdale, Arizona.” Nine months later, she graduated and was ready for business.

At that same time, Gookin and her family relocated to Virginia from Arizona for her husband’s career. During her first couple of years operating Gâteau in Arizona, she quietly did short orders for birthday cakes and other events with quick turnaround times. She postponed accepting orders with long lead times, like wedding cakes.

Once her family was settled in New Baltimore, Gookin began grassroots networking. She attended bridal shows where she met other vendors who told her about other shows, and the ball got rolling. “The other businesses in this industry really helped me out. Everyone was eager to see me succeed,” Gookin explains.

This February, Gookin will celebrate five years in business.

While most new businesses are only beginning to see the signs of success as they approach a five-year anniversary, Gookin’s Gâteau has blown away those standards. The business is not merely successful; Gookin has hired three full-time employees to help her fill as many as nine custom cake orders each weekend. Gookin’s future plans for Gâteau include participating in area farmer’s markets where she plans to sell cookies, miniature cupcakes, macaroons, and cake pops for market customers. She is also experimenting with “no bake” cakes using fig sweeteners. However, they “still need a lot of work,” confesses Gookin.

Gookin first registered her business in Fauquier County in 2011. She spent two years operating out of her home’s kitchen before looking for commercial space. “I underestimated the investment involved with renting commercial space,” she explains. She chose to renovate her home’s unfinished basement instead. The basement was converted into Gâteau Bakery in 2012.

Today, walking into Gâteau Bakery is like walking into an Italian Villa. Rich travertine floors complement dark wood molding and heavy, ornate kitchen doors with customselected hinges and handles. Her bakery is not just a building; it’s an experience. It features a large center island with appliances lining the walls. A huge commercial threepanel refrigerator occupies one wall. “I have no idea how we will get that out of here, but they managed to get it in,” Gookin says.

Adjacent to the refrigerator is a small freezer. A convection oven stands on the opposite wall, and a commercial wash sink sits next to the oven. Shelving takes up most of the open space in the kitchen, with shining stainless steel mixing bowls and ingredients for her recipes. The shelving and supplies spill out of the kitchen and into the showroom space and the family’s exercise room. This spillover is a sign of Gâteau’s growth, which may require an eventual expansion to other areas of the basement.

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Left: This Jeep mud-splatter wedding cake highlights Gookin’s skill and creativity. Right: Lora Vennettilli Gookin, founder and head baker at Gâteau Bakery. Bottom: the Gâteau Bakery kitchen housed in Gookin’s renovated basement. All photos courtesy of Lora Vennettilli Gookin.

goods that used as many all natural ingredients as possible,” she says. She uses no chemicals, aluminum leaveners, shorteners, or dyes. She also bakes with organic flour whenever it is available. As far as Gookin is concerned, “If someone is eating dessert, it should be a healthy one.”

Today, Gâteau Bakery is open by appointment only. Gookin takes custom orders as well as any cake order placed directly from Gâteau’s website, www.1Gâteau.com. With four full-time employees, the Gâteau staff has established a system to process these orders without cake machinery. “We prepare all the cake plates ahead of time and store them,” Gookin explains. “While one cake is baking, one baker can be stacking the cakes, and someone else can be working on décor. The décor takes the most time. Each sugar petal is made individually with a thin wire and set to dry. Once dried, all the petals are assembled to create the flower.” While every cake has a varying number of flowers, it is a time-consuming task for even the simplest of cakes.

During the infrequent stretches that Gookin and her staff have down time, they experiment with new recipes. But Gookin assures that, yes, it is possible to taste too many cakes.

“We can only taste up to three new cakes at a time. After that, they stop tasting good.” Gookin’s neighbors receive frequent invitations for tastings once the staff has selected the new recipes.

In the end, Gookin is thrilled with her in-home bakery business. As an appointment-only operation, Gâteau is able to function like any other commercial bakery.

Having her bakery in her home allows Gookin that elusive balance between work and home life. She is able to help her children with after-school tasks, eat dinner with her family, and be part of her children’s bedtime routines, all while her cakes wait patiently in the basement bakery. When her children are tucked soundly in bed, Gookin can return to the baking she loves, incorporating the science and precision of

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her previous career with a cup or two of sugar.

Interested in ordering a cake for a special occasion?

Contact Lora and her team at Gâteau to schedule a tasting: 540-347-9188 or www.1gateau.com. ❖ Aimée O’Grady is a freelance writer who enjoys transforming stories told by Fauquier residents into articles for Lifestyle readers.

She learns more and more about our rich county with every interview she conducts. She and her husband are happy with their decision to raise their three children in Warrenton.

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Before extinguishing the behavior, consider the type of surface your cat prefers to scratch. Is it dense wool carpet, or the finer suede of your sofa?

Identifying a pattern in preference will help determine the type of toys that will naturally attract your cat. Does your cat prefer vertical or horizontal surfaces?

location preference

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cat may still be scratching in your absence. See if there is a specific area of your house — is there more or less traffic? Are sleeping quarters more commonly targeted?

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Cats also benefit from interactive play, activity, and environmental enrichment/ mental stimulation. Providing fooddispensing toys, playing chase with a lure, and giving your cat interactive motion toys will provide entertainment and an appropriate outlet for excess energy. The result is reduced scratching behavior due to boredom.

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trimmed on a regular basis. Make sure to keep claws short — clipped just below the quick, in order to minimize any damage done to furniture and household items. If you feel uncomfortable restraining or trimming your cat, ask your veterinarian or catfriendly groomer to help.

Nail caps made of soft plastic can be purchased at most pet retailers.

These covers slip over your cat’s existing nail to provide a dull buffer between the nail and any surface it meets. Your cat must be fairly tolerant in disposition, however, for these caps to be a successful tool. Most cats will tear them off or find other ways to remove them.

Various deterrents and management tools are available to keep claws off of household items. Double-sided sticky tape specifically designed to be safe for furniture can be purchased in the cat section of your pet retailer.

It is an aversive surface for when your cat makes contact, thus teaching avoidance behavior. This is a great option to use on sofas, ottomans, bed sides, and drapes.

Spray canisters that are motion triggered can also be placed in “nogo” areas to prevent scratching. As the cat passes the device, it will emit a citronella spray. The cat will then associate the scent and sound with a given location.

The success of handheld spray bottles is hit-or-miss depending on the timing and the disposition of the cat. Some owners have success interrupting clawing by spritzing their cat with a bit of water, whereas others cause avoidance issues as the cat begins to associate the owner (not the behavior) with the aversive.

claw removal

De-clawing is a surgical procedure that involves removing the cat’s claws from (most commonly) the front paws. A lot of controversy surrounds this topic including those who claim it prevents destructive clawing, and those opposing the procedure as a health and welfare concern. Professional organizations are increasingly insisting that the procedure is unnecessary and advocate that proper mental

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The first course of action is to ensure your cat has his or her nails

stimulation, interruption of unwanted behaviors, and redirection is key to stopping household clawing problems.

From a management standpoint, a major concern with de-clawed cats is the lack of defense should a threatening situation occur, which is why a de-clawed cat should only be kept indoors. From a behavioral view, lack of claws prevents the natural execution of instinctive behavior and can be considered an issue.

redirection

Browse your local pet store or online resource for objects to redirect your feline’s behavior. Take preference for surface and location of your new items into consideration when placing them in your home. Cat trees, vertical carpet mats, and cardboard scratching pads are good to use for this exercise.

When you see your cat clawing the sofa, simply interrupt and place the cat on the desired object instead. The cat will soon learn that his own area and clawing items are safe, and that other household items are off-limits.

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Charlotte Wagner is a certified animal trainer and behavior consultant. She advocates that prevention, management, redirection, and training of alternate responses is key to training success. Charlotte currently owns and operates Duskland Training and Behavior in Warrenton and can be regularly seen at conformation dog shows, agility events, rally obedience trials, therapy visits, and community gatherings with one or more of her precious pets. www.dusklanddogs.com

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