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Where little post-its in a child’s lunch was the extra touch added in the past, now some parents are creating a generation of healthier, hip, Pinterestinspired meals for their kids.

life SO much easier, it adds a “fun” element for the kids, and it can help your family reduce the amount of waste that it produces on a weekly basis. When shopping for reusable lunch gear, look for products that are made from safe materials (free from BPA, PVC lead, and phthalates), are durable, and are the right size for your child’s needs. Some of my favorite brands include LunchBots, LunchSkins, and Hydro Flask.

By now, you may have heard of a “Bento Box” lunch. The history of these boxes can be traced back to the fifth century when Japanese workers would take their packed lunches with them in the morning containing popular food staples, such as rice or potatoes. In our modern world, it simply means a divided container holding small portions of different healthy items. There are now even cookbooks devoted to Bento Box lunches and a handbook for beginners to learn cooking techniques by following recipes with easy steps.

2. Plan Ahead. Packing healthy school lunches does require a little bit of planning ahead. Make sure that your kitchen is stocked with healthy lunch options prior to the next school week. Wash, peel, and cut fresh fruits and vegetables ahead of time to keep in the refrigerator throughout the week for easy, grab-and-go sides. Make a few extra servings when you are preparing your dinner once or twice a week so that the leftovers can be used to fill your child’s lunch box later in the week.

For ideas on how we can incorporate Bento lunches in to our routines, we turned to Sarah Young, a Haymarket-based mom of 3, wife, and Certified Health Education Specialist who runs a Facebook page and blog called Health Wise Home.

She is dedicated to helping “educate, empower, and inspire others to help build a healthier Sushi Lunch: (Brown future by sharing valuable rice avocado rolls, information, healthy pistachios, mixed recipes, and practical organic berries, carrot advice.” sticks, and organic shelled edamame) Nut Butter Sandwich Rolls Lunch: (Pineapple, Peanut Butter Sandwich Rolls, radishes, carrot sticks, raw mixed nuts) Oatmeal Muffin Lunch: (Oatmeal muffin, organic blueberries, mixed raw nuts, carrots and celery sticks)

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Nearly a month before the hallways fill with their classmates comparing summer stories on the first day back at Kettle Run High School, the Marching Cougars have been hard at work in the heat and humidity...

Mr. Matt Yonkey, the 85 piece band’s director, gathered the ensemble in late July to get a jump on the Cougar’s planned half-time show, “To Boldly Go…”; a program envisioned around the idea of a space shuttle launch, journey and return to earth.

A huge amount of creativity and organization goes into choreographing and arranging the music and movements that entertain the crowd at football games and band competitions. Mr. Yonkey describes many months of collaboration with the marching and design staff to craft a showcase of the students’ talent.

“To Boldly Go…” is unlike any show that the Marching Cougars have performed in the past. Instead of a selection of recognizable standards or marches, the program is designed around a narrative of a round-trip to high orbit and back. The music tells the story of anticipation of preparation for launch, the excitement and thrill of launch itself, the wonder of entering the vastness of space while viewing the majesty of Earth from afar, and closing the show with a number that expresses 8

Forming friendship and cultivating pride in workmanship,

upperclassmen hone their leadership skills as band veterans.

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Band members are not only expected to memorize their parts, they are also required to march in time (even backwards!) to the music they play. Band parents tried to keep up during the ensemble’s final Band Camp performance.

the violence of reentering the atmosphere and the exhilaration of returning back to Earth.

Tuba? What Tuba?

Kelsey Garonzik makes Mr. Yonkey explains, “At some point in our lives, maneuvering a massive musical we want to be an astronaut,” deriving enthusiasm instrument from TV coverage of the NASA space flight programs, science fiction programs like “Star Trek”, around the field and movies like “The Right Stuff” and “Apollo 13”. look easy.

Pieces covered in the eight minute performance include “The Spheres,” by Ola Gjalleo; “Star Trek Generations Overture” by Dennis McCarthey; “Apollo 13 Theme” by James Horner, and “Wild Nights” by Frank Tichelli.

The students gathered on one of Kettle Run High School’s practice fields in late July to review marching technique and quickly bring incoming freshmen up to speed in regimental marching style and carriage. This however, was not the first assembly in preparation for the upcoming season.

As the heartbeat of the band, the percussion section and auxiliary pit rehearse and memorize their music long before the ensemble meets for intensive practice. Some may question why students would willingly give up their summer leisure time to sweat over sheet music and a notebook of marching drills.

The answer is twofold: the sense of accomplishment in leading one’s peers in a complex production brings with it great pride when the judges scores are read at competitions, and the extensive practices and team effort toward excellence brings with it camaraderie and the opportunity to build strong friendships before the school year begins.

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loved ones were invited to march alongside their Cougars during the pass & review exhibition on the final day of band camp. The attempt to keep up with the many tempo and directional changes in the intricate program left many bewildered and winded family members scrambling across the field, making an amusing sight for spectators.

Schadenfreude notwithstanding, the Kettle Run Band Boosters’ Association, primarily made up of band parents, plays a huge role in coordinating the off-field organization of this complex operation.

From schlepping heavy percussion equipment from the practice location to the sideline, to coordinating fundraising efforts, to ensuring the bands uniforms are worthy of the pride of Kettle Run High School, the dedication of the band parents is key to a successful marching season.

Throughout the Fall term, the Kettle Run Marching Cougars plan to enter five local and regional competitions, plus the Virginia State Marching Assessment hosted at Liberty High School on October 18th.

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by Robert H. Chrisman Normally, I dedicate this column to questions asked of me by either my son or my daughter. But this month, I decided to put “The Boss,” a.k.a. my wife, on center stage. She asked her question benignly enough, but it hit my ear-drums like a sledgehammer hitting concrete. You see, The Boss asked her question just as I was retrieving a cold bottle of beer from the refrigerator in eager anticipation of finally settling in for the evening. It had been a typical day at work, followed by a commute home in stop and go traffic, in what seemed like hundred degree heat and humidity. That cold beverage had my name written all over the bottle. The sledgehammer part? Well, upon hearing The Boss’s question, I instantly realized that I had forgotten something this evening: the ceremony for my son’s induction into National Honor Society. Back into the refrigerator went the bottle of cold beer, with its condensation wetting my fingertips in temptation.

As I sat in the driver’s seat of my SUV in the garage waiting for my family to pile in, I mentally went through in my mind what lay ahead.

I calculated that the ceremony would likely begin a few minutes past its scheduled start time of 7:00 PM, followed by the various speeches from teachers and select students, and then the students would be paraded across the stage to receive their recognition. Of course, as with all of these high school events, there is the “after” celebration; parents mingling with other parents in the auditorium to catch up on gossip. So, as I sat in my SUV, the grim reality sank in that it was going to be another late night out.

You are probably thinking that it’s pretty callous of me to be complaining about having to be out late with my family to see our son receive his Honor Society certificate. It is, arguably, the most important high school achievement.

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The day of the National Honor Society induction was a perfect example of the Murphy’s Law of suburban living: The alarm clock emits its harsh, unrelenting, and piercing screech right on time early in the morning. The sun hasn’t even started to show its colors yet. Forty minutes later, The Boss is out the door and on her way to work, while I struggle with our Chow Chow to get her outside for her morning walk. Our Chow Chow is a rescue, and she apparently was never exposed to suburban living in her previous situation.

Getting her outside to do her duties is sometimes a challenge.

Nevertheless, nature calls, and we have established a mutual agreement; that being, I drive her to a nearby quiet part of the neighborhood where she can have some peace and quiet for her morning constitutional. Then we walk back to the house, where she settles-in to assuming her favorite role – “Chow on Duty” – guarding the house.

On this particular day, the din of a construction site on nearby Washington Street, drove our poor girl to distraction.

She had no mind to leave the house, so that meant me “escorting” her, i.e. carrying her to the car my dress clothes.

Thirty minutes later, we were back in the house, and she was excited to see my son and daughter were in the kitchen, dressed for the day and eating breakfast. Shortly thereafter, my son drove his sister and himself to school, and I was easing into the morning traffic jam.

Five days a week, I drive on Route 29 to my job in the morning, and then back home in the afternoon, obediently following the bumper to bumper, single-file formation of traffic. Route 29, for me, is the better option over taking I- 66. I like to gaze off into the open fields of the Manassas National Battlefield Park instead of crawling along five lanes of jammed-up traffic. Plus, it drives me nuts to look over at the driver next to me to see him or her vigorously texting on their cell phone or reading the newspaper instead of KEEPING THEIR EYES ON THE ROAD!!

That day, I left work around 4:30. It took me a little over an hour to get home. As I pulled into the garage, I saw The

Boss’s car was already home. Wow, I thought, she made good time in traffic, completely forgetting that she was leaving early from work to have dinner ready before the evening’s event.

As I peeled myself out of my SUV in the garage, I heard what sounded like pandemonium in the kitchen. Sure enough, when I went through the kitchen door, I found The Boss in a full blown tizzy, a bottle of bug spray in hand, vigorously killing sugar ants that were emerging through the window above the kitchen sink. You have understand that The Boss hates bugs being in her house, but she especially hates finding sugar ants, so this was a serious situation; actually, a near crisis situation because despite her best efforts with the bug spray, the ants kept emerging through the window frame.

Standing in the kitchen, surveying the situation, I figured there was probably an ant’s nest in the window frame. I naturally looked to my son for help. He was sitting in a comfortable arm chair in the family room texting with friends, showing not the slightest interest in his mother’s ant battle. The other young and strong person in the house, my daughter, was in her room, most likely texting with her friends as well. Resigned to this lone fight, I took off my dress jacket and loosened my tie, pulled up a chair, and somehow managed to climb up onto the sink. It must have been an interesting sight for our neighbors to watch me straddling the sink and disposal, trying to keep my balance as I struggled to unhinge the two window screens. Sure enough, I found an ant’s nest. Twenty minutes later, the ants were dispatched, the screens were back in place, and my feet were back on the kitchen floor. A job well done, and that’s when I reached into the refrigerator for a cold bottle of beer, only to be reminded

by The Boss that we had to get going to the school. Wait, what about dinner? I haven’t even changed yet! Then I heard The Boss say, “Don’t forget, this was your idea. He didn’t want to go in the first place.”

Later that evening, as my son prepared for bed, he thanked me for encouraging him to attend the evening’s ceremony. He said it meant a lot to him to see The Boss, his sister, and me in the audience. He gave me a hug, and then went to bed. I was exhausted and worn out by the time I climbed into bed, but having seen my son proudly smiling on the stage as he accepted his certificate made the long day all worth it. Being tired all the time from the rat race is a part of being Dumb Old Dad.

Robert H. Chrisman is a born and raised Washingtonian. He is married with two teenage children (one of each), and a four-year old Chow Chow. He has been a resident of Haymarket since 2002, and a Federal employee for the past twenty-eight years.

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one another, signals from Centreville or the tower near the Stone Bridge could quickly be relayed via the McLean tower to the main station near Manassas,” according to William C. Davis in Battle at Bull Run (1977).

In 1851, Abraham Van Pelt, a New Jersey native, purchased 230-acre Avon Farm from Alfred Ball, owner of the nearby Portici plantation. The original part of the house was built of logs, and was one of the oldest structures in the county.

The survey done in the 1930s by Susan Rogers Morton for Works Progress Administration described the house as having six rooms and a large stone chimney. “The beams were fastened with wooden pins, and there were many handmade nails,” she wrote.

“There was still one shell hole (from the Civil War) still visible in the house.”

A Union loyalist, Van Pelt faced harassment as the country moved toward civil war. But he could not have known that his farm would figure prominently in the opening shots of the First Battle of Manassas.

“Sometime prior to the full escalation of hostilities, Abraham moved back to his home in New Jersey, abandoning family, farm and holdings,” according to Don Johnson in Thirteen Months at Manassas/Bull Run (2013). “Later, his wife and one daughter, reacting to rumors and fear of being arrested, went north.”

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The home of Benjamin Tasker Chinn figured prominently in the First and Second Battles of Manassas. This is how it appeared in the 1870s.

Their spinster daughter Elizabeth, 36, stayed on to manage the farm, while their son joined the Union Army and served as a scout under Gen. Marsena R. Patrick.

It was in this capacity that he would return during the Second Battle of Manassas.

After the skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Confederates under the direction of Capt. E. Porter Alexander, a member of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard’s staff, erected four signal towers north and east of Manassas.

Completed by July 10, 1861, the main tower was located on “Signal Hill,” the highest point in Manassas (365 feet above sea level) on part of what was once the Wilcoxen farm.

The others were placed at the McLean House at Yorkshire; west of Centreville; and on Van Pelt Hill, above the Stone Bridge over Bull Run. Messages were transmitted between the towers by signal flags, using the “wig-wag” code.

“While all four of the towers were not in sight of

“On the morning of July 21, 1861, Capt. Alexander observed the Union turning movement to Sudley Springs from his post on Signal Hill,” according to the account in Prince William: A Past to Preserve (1998). “Using the signal flag system, Capt.

Alexander alerted Col. Nathan Evans at the Van Pelt farm near the Stone Bridge. His timely warning enabled Evans to shift his troops to intercept and delay the Union column. This ultimately contributed to the Confederate victory.”

In the ensuing fight, the house and tower at Avon were shelled by Union artillery, but the house was basically undamaged.

“During the battle, the home was used as a hospital, and Elizabeth assisted in the care of the wounded brought there,” according to Don Johnson. The battle ended after Union forces were driven back over Bull Run. During the Second Battle of Manassas, the house was commandeered

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to her father’s property, but much of the claim was disallowed. Descendants of the Van Pelt family sold Avon in the 1890s, and in the early 1930s, the old house was destroyed by fire. The U.S. Government acquired the site in 1936.

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT The Van Pelt house, as it appeared about 1900. It burned in the early 1930s. a hospital, and this time, Elizabeth moved to a tenement on a nearby farm. As the battle drew to a close, the Union troops at Avon farm retreated to their defensive positions at Centreville.

Confederate soldiers later came upon the site.

As told in Prince William, the Story of Its Places and Its People (1941), “A Confederate private, passing by that way somewhat later, indited (sic) the following gruesome paragraph: ‘We halted at or near the famous bridge over Bull Run, and near a house on the hill used by the Yankees as a hospital. I went up to see it, and it was full, house and yard. It was indeed a house and yard of the dead, though at first glance it did not appear so.

The bodies were sitting and lying in all positions, with their eyes open.

It required some investigation to convince one of their actual deaths.

But so it was.’”

Abraham Van Pelt died in 1866, and Elizabeth filed a claim for damages

Bernard Hooe built the Chinn House, originally known as Hazel Plain, around 1809. It passed through several hands until 1853, when Benjamin Tasker Chinn purchased it.

Outbuildings included the detached kitchen on the east side of the house, slave quarters, and a former wagon house used as a chicken coop and woodshed.

With the exception of the Chinns’ house, outbuildings and gardens, the view from the ridge was largely unbroken. The fields sloped down from the house to a ravine and Chinn Branch, before rising again to Bald Hill and the western slope of Henry Hill.

The battle, which included infantry, cavalry and artillery units, went back-and-forth throughout the afternoon. Finally, the Union line on Chinn Ridge collapsed. Although the fight continued on Henry Hill and beyond, for the Union army, the battle was lost.

At the outbreak of hostilities, the home was occupied by Benjamin, his wife Edmonia, and daughters Courtenay and Sallie.

Once the fighting ceased and the dead and wounded moved from the battlefield, the Chinns returned to their home, which remarkably was still standing. However, they could not use the well in front of the house, as it had been filled with the amputated limbs of wounded soldiers, poisoning the water.

Because of its position on a strategic ridge, the Chinn property figured in both battles, and each time, the house was used as a field hospital.

However, it was the intense fighting on Aug. 30, 1862 during Second Manassas that the most significant action took place there.

In 1871, Benjamin Chinn sold the farm back to Mary A. Downman. It passed to Q.L. Sanford in 1883, and then to the Andrew Cather family, which held onto the property until 1936, when it was sold to the U.S. Government as part of the Manassas National Battlefield Park.

By then the epic battle was in its third day, and Union troops were desperately trying to hold onto Chinn Ridge, in order to prevent the Confederates from cutting off the withdrawal of Gen. John Pope’s army to Henry Hill, where they could make a stand.

The original plan of the National Park Service was to repair the Chinn house and use it as the park superintendent’s residence. However, when the siding was removed for replacement in 1950, the building proved to be unstable.

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Avon Farm can be seen on the horizon in the background of this March 1862 photo of the ruins of the Stone Bridge. The property obviously commanded a strategic position.

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Map of the area where much of the action took place during the First Battle of Manassas.

The Chinn and Robinson houses are shown; Avon Farm, the Van Pelt property, was just northeast of the Stone Bridge.

Credit: The Battle of Young’s Branch (1862), by B. T. Warder and James M. Catlett.

resident of Gainesville, remembers that after the siding on the Chinn House was removed, it was covered with tarpaper. The paper blew off in a storm, and was replaced with more tarpaper, this time anchored by furring strips. That blew off, too, and the National Park Service concluded that the old house was structurally unsound.

Mr. Gardner recalls that his friend, William Lawrence, a pilot for United Airlines, lived in a house nearby that he had built on one of the few parcels of land within the park that were still in private hands.

THE ROBINSON HOUSE Before it was destroyed by arsonists in 1993, the house built by James “Gentleman Jim” Robinson (1799-1875) east of the Henry House was special in many ways. Had it been spared, it still would have provided a unique glimpse into a lesser-known facet of the history of the Manassas Battlefield.

Much of what made the

Robinson House so interesting was Jim Robinson himself. Born at the nearby Pittsylvania plantation, family tradition holds that he was the son of Landon Carter (1738-1801), the master of the plantation, and a free African American woman.

“James Robinson would have been born free or slave, depending on the legal status of his mother,” according to the War for Freedom: African American Experiences in the Era of the Civil War, a survey compiled for the Manassas National Battlefield Park. “At that time in Virginia and other slave states, children inherited the legal status of their mother.”

In his case, Robinson was born free, and received a rudimentary education from the tutor hired to teach Landon Carter’s children at Pittsylvania. It is believed that he took the tutor’s surname, “Robinson,” as his own. From age 10 to 21, he was “bound out” or hired out, ostensibly to learn a trade, but worked first as a farmhand, and later as a waiter in a tavern at Brentsville owned by Thomas Hampton.

Apparently, this was a good arrangement, as Robinson worked at the tavern for at least ten

By the 1940s, the Chinn House was in poor condition, its sides propped up to stabilize the structure. Later efforts to save the historic home were terminated, and it was demolished.

“The park service gave Bill a contract for $100 to pull the old house down,” said Mr. Gardner. “I don’t recall if the government paid Bill the $100, or Bill paid the government.” Soon, all that was left was the stone foundation.

Mr. Lawrence later built a modern stone house on his property, which fronts on U.S. 29, and has a large pond with a fountain in the center, creating a familiar landmark. He used some of the large beams of the Chinn House for his new house, and gave a couple of beams to Mr. Gardener, who put them to decorative use in a new home he was building in Gainesville.

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to buy or hire out his own family members, or to arrange for them to be hired out by men he could trust,” according to the War for Freedom. “In 1846, he hired his son Tasco from his owner, John Lee. This arrangement allowed Tasco to live and work with his father, rather than with his slave master. Later, Robinson was able to buy Tasco.” The price was $30.

James Robinson built a log cabin on his property in 1842, and later enlarged it as his family grew. This is how the house appeared in March 1862, between the two Battles of Manassas.

A similar situation involved their daughter Jemima, who was serving as John Lee’s servant and caregiver as his health was rapidly failing. In 1847, Robinson made an arrangement with John Dogan and Alfred Ball to hire Jemima, in order to prevent her from being sold to another slaveholder that would take her from the area, should John Lee die. But just before his death later that year, Lee willed Susan and their daughter Hannah to Robinson, and individually emancipated Jemima.

Sadly, Robinson could not protect his two older sons, James and Alfred, who Lee had sold to a man in New Orleans who had a sugar cane plantation. Young James was never heard from again, but years after the war, Alfred returned to the Manassas area.

Through hard work, the Robinsons built the property into a successful farm. Robinson was able to acquire more land, and also started his own roadhouse on the Warrenton Turnpike, further adding to their wealth.

When this photo was taken about 1900, the Robinson House was significantly larger. When the house was renovated in 1926 by James Robinson’s descendants, it is believed that most of the original house was removed. years, learning the business and accumulating enough money to purchase his own farmstead. He also developed a close relationship with John Lee, a land-poor planter, who in 1840 sold Robinson 170 acres southeast of the Stone House for about $500.

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In 1842, Robinson built a small log cabin on his property, and immediately went to great lengths to protect his enslaved family members. “One way that he could try to do this was by using his status as a free man either

According to the 1850 Census, nine persons were in the Robinson household: James, age 51; his wife Susan, 45; daughters Mayme, 26; Hannah, 11; and Dinah, 6; and sons Tasco, 16; Pendleton, 2; and Bladen, 6. Also living there was Annah, age 75, who could have been James Robinson’s mother, or another relative.

The census also showed that Robinson held property valued at $1,000.

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“Lt. Bouvier was destined to live and become the great-grandfather of future First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy.”

The Robinson property was the scene of intense fighting in both battles. In this drawing, Gen. T.J. Jackson is shown rallying his troops on Henry Hill during the First Battle of Manassas, with the Robinson property in the background. battle to find 13 dead Confederate soldiers lying dead in his front yard,” according to a brochure distributed by the Manassas National Battlefield Park.

The Henry House nearby was struck by Union artillery fire and severely damaged, but the Robinsons returned to find their home intact.

But long after the fighting ended, they faced the task of burying the dead still lying around their house, as well as many others left on the battlefield.

Over the next year, the Robinsons struggled to hold onto their farm and make a living. But with the opening shots of the Second Battle of Manassas, again they were forced to evacuate their home and flee to safety.

The Robinson House was used as a Union planning station and hospital, and somehow managed to survive the heavy gunfire and artillery barrages fell all around it.

But the scene was grim. According to the account written by Felix Gregory deFontaine for the Charleston Daily Courier, published Sept. 11, 1862:

“The Robinson House was used as a Yankee hospital. In a visit there this morning, I found 100 of them (Yankees) packed in rooms as thick as sardines… The wounds of the majority were undressed, and the blood had dried upon their persons and garments, and altogether they were the most horrible set of human beings it has been my lot to encounter.”

In Thirteen Months at Manassas/ Bull Run, Don Johnson relates the story of one Union casualty brought to the Robinson House. Lt. John V. Bouvier, who was serving on Gen. Marsena R. Patrick’s staff, had been shot through the lungs during a confrontation with Confederate soldiers on the night of Aug. 29, 1862.

“Initially, Bouvier was taken to the Dogan House, and on the evening of the next day, as Pope’s army retreated over the Stone Bridge, Bouvier was taken to a Negro cabin where he was treated by Jeb Stuart’s surgeon, Talcott Eliason. Later, after being pardoned, he was treated at a private home. Bouvier was not able to return to service until November 1863. In all probability, the Negro cabin where he was left was the Robinson family home.

During the battle and its aftermath, the Robinson House suffered significant damage. After the war, Robinson applied to the Southern Claims Commission, which was set up to handle the damages suffered by property owners who had been loyal to the Union. His claim amounted to $2,000, and included damage to his house and property taken by Union troops.

Jim Robinson died in October 1874, and his son assumed the duties as the head of the household until he died in 1904. At that point, the property passed to other family members until the National Park Service acquired it in 1936.

“The historic house was occupied

by Robinson’s family until the early 20th century, eventually becoming the victim of arson in 1993,” according to the Archeology in the Park, published by the MNBP. “The family, which maintained a deep connection to the site, was understandably disturbed by the home’s near-total destruction.”

Working with the family, it was decided that rather than attempting to rebuild the house, park officials would conduct archeological research of the site, in order to uncover “…new insights into the changing life ways of free African Americans,” according to Archeology in the Park.

While dismantling parts of the house, dozens of Robinson family account ledgers, letters, bills and invoices were found, some dating back to the 1830s. “These papers… supply evidence of the ways in which free African Americans negotiated their difficult social and economic circumstances.”

Author John Toler is a writer and historian and has served Fauquier County for over 50 years, including 4 decades with the Fauquier-Times Democrat. He has written and lectured about many legendary characters in Fauquier County’s history. 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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Anyone who has come home from a long trip to be greeted by effusive wagging, wiggling, barking and kisses (or, in the case of cats, meowing, nuzzling and purring followed by a healthy dose of passive aggression) knows that animals form an emotional bond with their human companions and communicate that love in ways more profound than words can express. Because of that emotional connection, I just wasn’t sure I was able to make it through my 26

appointment with Caroline Folker, Community Relations Manager with the Fauquier SPCA, with my composure intact. I had prepared myself for seeing room after room and kennel after kennel of terrified, lonely and sad dogs and cats. Fortunately, due to the tender loving care given to the animals housed in the Cassanova based shelter, this couldn’t be further from reality at the sprawling animal care facility.

Arriving in the shelter’s waiting

room, I was quietly greeted by a gentle and strikingly beautiful pit-bull terrier mix named Jillian. She wagged her tail softly and led me over to the reception desk where shelter employees and volunteers welcomed me with smiles and stories of the many rescues the shelter has seen throughout the years.

The wall behind the desk is covered with pictures and letters from the many families who have adopted animals from the shelter over the years. “We love getting updates from B road R un L ifestyle

the families,” Ms. Folker said, “In fact, many dogs who still live in the area come back for visits. It feels good to know that they remember us as a positive experience with a happy ending.” After I had a moment to look the cards and letters over and snap a few photos of this wall of fame, Jillian reminded me that it was time to continue with my tour.

First stop: the enormous shopping basket filled with colorful squeaky toys donated by Petco for the shelter to sell as a means of fundraising. Jillian clearly wished to emphasize how much donations from the community are appreciated by the animals at the shelter.

In addition to the donation of toys and treats to the shelter animals, the Fauquier SPCA maintains a “Wish List” link on their website for items in the greatest need.

As she led me through the doors to the sun filled lobby, her ears perked up to a commotion in the kitten room. We walked closer, and saw that Kim Housman, a volunteer who regularly comes to the shelter to “snuggle the kittens and give them love” was just settling in for an afternoon of fuzzy fun and games. Jillian looked at me dubiously as if to say, “They’re cute, but full of mischief. I’m glad Ms. Kim is here to help them learn to be nice.”

We walked on to the adult cat adoption center, where a wall of enclosures faced a huge picture window facing a courtyard with multiple bird feeders. “Cat TV,” Jillian explained. The adult cats seemed as entranced by the antics of a squirrel attempting a raid on one of the feeders as movie goers were during the casino heist in Ocean’s Eleven. When I approached their cages, the beautiful variety of felines available for adoption floored me. Every variety of cat imaginable is represented, and they all turned their attention away from the goings on outdoors to show their interest in the new visitor. Perhaps inspired by the afternoon’s entertainment, one cat decided to burglarize his upper neighbor by extending a front paw into the cage above, adroitly thieving a toy from his roommate, while simultaneously winking at me as if to say, “Watch this!”.

With a laugh, one of the volunteers in the adoption center playfully chastised “Loki” as the sneaky culprit, opened his cage and stroked his beautifully marked black and tan coat. “We try to encourage as much [human] interaction as possible. That way adopters have a better idea of how a particular animal will fit into their home & family.”

With a gentle nudge, Jillian reminded me that it was time to continue my tour. She showed me the shelter’s shop, outfitted with basic necessities for animal s ring r, Kim Housman play ee nt lu vo CA SP ur’s P: TO kittens CENTER: Arth master to a circus of rd on the shelter’s grounds Place, a fenced in yaronment for exercise and play provides a safe envi there. BOTTOM: Bert peacefully for the dogs housed me. awaits his forever ho S eptember 2014

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care, plus little extras like commemorative picture frames and decorative accessories.

All proceeds go right back to caring for animals, and the shop adds a level of convenience to bringing a new member into the household.

The shelter also offers microchipping services to the community at a fraction of the cost of veterinary hospitals during their quarterly Rabies Vaccination and Microchipping clinics. A chip about the size of a grain of rice is placed under the animal’s skin and registered to the owner’s address. Should the animal get lost, most shelters and veterinary clinics have equipment to read the information on the chip.

All dogs and cats adopted out of the Fauquier SPCA are equipped with microchips. To help control overpopulation, all animals are also sterilized (spayed/neutered) before leaving the shelter. The 100% sterilization program allows the Fauquier SPCA to maintain special accreditation to place animals in loving homes nationwide. Without 28

these services they would be required to adopt only to the local area. Given our rural location, the shelter could soon run out of suitable homes for an abundance of animals.

As Jillian and I proceeded to the dog kennels, something occurred to me. Aside from the piped in soft jazz, and the whirring of fans, it was pretty quiet and peaceful for a room with forty or so canines. “Nap time,” Jillian remarked, yawning. In almost every enclosure, tuckered-out dogs looked positively peaceful as they bunked down on their cots and in their baskets. “We try to make sure that they get sufficient physical activity while they’re here. It helps with their mental well being as much as their physical health. Just like people,” Director of Shelter Operations, Cinda Bailey Rambow explained. In any group nap scenario, there are always one or two outliers, but even they sat at the door of their bunks, quietly wagging their tails or chewing on nylabones. Bert, a Basset Hound/American Foxhound mix looked at me as if to say, “while I would rather be in a home with a sofa

to lay on and kids to play with, the people here are nice, and I feel loved.”

Jillian yawned again and began to mosey off to her bed behind the shelter’s reception desk. Her final remarks to me as she drifted off to dreamland, “This is a nice place. I’m glad that I work in a place where love multiplies….” It took me a moment to understand what she meant. From the minute animals enter the shelter, they are given love that perhaps they’ve never seen or known, and in turn, they learn how to love. When they are placed in their forever homes, the families they join are touched by their love and companionship, and then return a shower of that love back on the shelter through cards, letters, visits and support. From the cheerful interior to the smiling faces on the employees and volunteers cleaning up after and caring for the animals, that love pervades the atmosphere at the Fauquier SPCA shelter. Come visit, find somebody to love.

The Fauquier SPCA is located at 9350 Rogues Road, Casanova, VA and www.FauquierSPCA.org.

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A century and a half ago, in a country torn by war, Confederate soldiers made camp on a stretch of farmland not far from where the main farmhouse at Granite Heights Winery has stood well over 100 years. As earth is disturbed for the planting of the new vines, on the plot just south of Warrenton near Opal, bullets and tools from the farms long history are still being uncovered. Sadder times have been replaced with vitality and joy, and the farmhouse is full of laughter and flowing wine.

The winery, which opened to the public in 2012, retains the air of a small country farm. Owners, Luke and Toni Kilyk, operate the entire production themselves, bringing in help only during harvest and bottling. With busy professional lives, he’s a patent attorney, she’s a physician, the hand tended nature of their products takes on an even more remarkable context. In the outset of starting a Virginia vineyard winery from scratch, the Kilyk’s had the foresight to seek out advice from the best: Lucie Morton, a Virginian viticulturalist well known in the global wine industry for pioneering the renaissance of high-density planting; a concept that had attracted Luke in his original research. Like on several other Virginia vineyard sites, Morton advised that the Granite Heights vines should be planted tightly together: around two-thousand per acre. This approach forces the vines to compete for nutrients in the rich soil, decreasing

individual yield, but lending a depth to the finished flavors.

It’s not all seriousness, though. The uttermost attention to detail found in the wines can also be found in the winery’s meticulously outfitted themed club rooms.

Open only to winery club members, visitors experience the Kilyk’s lighter side with rooms dedicated to the couple’s other loves: their dogs, their love of history, and their love of pop culture, in particular the movie, A Christmas Story and the nonsensical sitcom Seinfeld.

Granite Heights Winery’s six wine sample flight changes constantly, so return guests will always find something new.

Their white wines are all aged in stainless steel to let the unadulterated flavors of the grapes come forward, unobscured by oak.

While this makes the Chardonnay fruity with a bit of acidity, like a crisp pear and lemon, it tells a different story with one of the up-and-coming varietals in Virginia: Petit Manseng. Depending on the year, this grape can wear a variety of masks. The aroma of the 2011 vintage, for example, is bright, clean and loaded with green apples, while the 2012 is rich and bursting with sweet peaches.

Granite Heights Winery’s reds are equally interesting. For a summer day, the “End of the Road” red blend is mediumbodied and smooth. Comprised primarily of Cabernet Franc, the telltale pepper bite is rounded out with the addition of 14% Cabernet Sauvignon. The “Evening

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As if this jewel of a farm weren’t idyllic enough, a quaint orchard sidles up next to the vineyard. From its spoils, Toni crafts the most delectable jams and preserves you’ve ever tasted. Creativity abounds in the unique flavor combinations like Blackberry Sage, and Ginger Peach, both available for purchase in the tasting room.

The tasting room itself is closed during the winter, but from April through November it’s a serene weekend retreat for all, even your dog. Luke and Toni are always welcoming of questions and conversation about their passion for handmade wine.

ADDRESS: 8141 OPAL ROAD, WARRENTON, VA 20186 PHONE: 540-347-1119 HOURS: SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS 12-5 WEBSITE: GRANITEHEIGHTSORCHARD.COM

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