Broad Run Lifestyle Magazine March 2016

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from the PUBLISHER } Do you like green eggs and ham?

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

I do not like green eggs and ham.

Would you like them here or there?

I would not like them here or there.

I would not like them anywhere.

I do not like green eggs and ham.

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

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Easter eggs always reminded me of Dr. Seuss.

Think, Green Eggs and Ham. I always half expected, still do, that the dye would leach into the egg and turn it that color. And as much as this creative free spirit has always loved playing in bowls full of dye, coloring eggs a rainbow of pastel colors for Easter seems like such a weird idea. Growing up in suburban Orlando, I used to think that all eggs were perfectly white straight from the chicken. When I discovered that they in fact come from the chicken in a myriad of colors, I didn’t understand why we would bleach the eggs only to color them again for a holiday about the death and resurrection of Christ. It was almost as strange as, well, as strange as Dr. Seuss.

Despite many of my friends’ opinions, I’ve spent most of my life thinking that Dr. Seuss was all hype.

Following a recent Christmas gift of What Pet Should I Get (more to come on that soon!), I did some research into Dr. Seuss’ life and career and came to realize that Theodor Seuss Geisel was in fact an incredibly talented and hardworking writer and artist. So if you’ve never really understood his popularity, it’s worth a look!

Colored eggs and Dr. Seuss may never make any sense. But I hope this March 27 as you sit down to eat a lovely Easter meal of honeybaked ham and deviled eggs, you can finally answer like Sam-I-am’s friend, “Say! I will eat them anywhere! I do so like green eggs and ham! Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-am.”

2016 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Danica Low Aimée O’Grady Steve Oviatt

John Toler Christine Craddock Andreas Keller

Charlotte Wagner Fran Burke-Urr Stacia Stribling

If you have an idea or would like to write for Broad Run Lifestyle magazine, please email Rebekah at editor@piedmontpress.com.

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Rebekah Grier Managing Editor

CONTENTS

MARCH 2016

DEPARTMENTS

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IN THE FAMILY WAY

What to consider before becoming or buying from a breeder

by Charlotte Wagner

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AN UPSTANDING CITIZEN

Hilleary Bogley of the Middleburg Humane Foundation

by Rebekah Grier

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HOLIDAY FOOD BASKETS

A volunteer experience

by Joseph Kim

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BUCK OBSESSION

Family. Faith. Friendship.

by Jay Pinsky

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STITCHING LIFE TOGETHER

Bob Kelly of Hunt Country Yarns

by Aimée O’Grady

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LEADING THE WAY

The PATH Foundation

by Amy Petty

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CREATING PEACE

Art is both therapy and language for Lilla Ohrstrom

by Aimée O’Grady

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DISCOVERED HISTORY

Broad Run, a time capsule in the gap, Pt II

by John Toler

FEATURES

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“ST.” GEORGE WASHINGTON

The historic and unique stained glass at Grace Episcopal Church

by Rebekah Grier

JUST LIKE HOME

The Front Porch Provides a Place to Gather, Eat, and Be

by Debbie Eisele

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Lilla Ohrstrom describes art as both therapy and language

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illa Ohrstrom discovered her life’s passion at the age of five. When she was in kindergarten at the Hill School in Middleburg, her teacher brought in some clay for her class to manipulate. With it, Ohrstrom made her first pinch pot. From that moment on, she knew she would become an artist.

After graduating from high school, Ohrstrom studied at Skidmore College, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the Parsons School of Design in Paris, and l’Ecole des Arts Décoratif in Strasbourg, France.

She has apprenticed with artists such as Cyril Heck, whose work hangs in the Smithsonian, and Felix de Weldon, who sculpted the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, more often referred to as the Iwo Jima Memorial.

In 2001, Ohrstrom purchased the Youngblood Art Studio, which is located down a pedestrian pathway off Main Street in The Plains.

Nol Putnam, an ironsmith, was Youngblood Art’s previous owner.

His work is still occasionally on display in the studio’s gallery.

Today, Ohrstrom displays her own sculptures in the gallery space.

Her work stands prominently on tall pillars illuminated by spotlights.

There are cast bronze sculptures, plaster casts, mixed media pieces, and hand-built, coil-built, and wheel-thrown ceramic works.

Adjacent to the gallery is a large atelier, or workshop, filled with the tools Ohrstrom and the studio’s students use to create their works.

On one side of the atelier stands a large kiln, and on the other a kick wheel, which is a potter’s wheel that is worked by kicking the heavy disk at its base. Several other pottery wheels sit together in the middle of the room, where ceramics artist Catherine White taught a recent class. Every shelf and windowsill of the atelier is lined with art: busts, small pots, vases, and other creations - some fired, glazed, or painted, and others waiting for their turn in the kiln. It is here, in the atelier, that Ohrstrom both finds her inner peace and helps others find theirs.

Ohrstrom is currently working towards a master’s degree in art therapy from George Washington University. Ohrstrom believes that the process of making art with a therapist benefits individuals because it gives them the opportunity to enter a meditative state while they create. “They become very present and focused during the process of creation,” Ohrstrom says.

Once the work of art is complete, the therapist helps the artist reflect on the piece. “Art created through this process can be very revealing,” Ohrstrom says. “People can learn a lot about themselves.”

To satisfy the internship requirements to earn her master’s degree, Ohrstrom is currently working at A Place to Be in Middleburg. This facility uses therapeutic arts to better help people navigate their way through life’s challenges. While there, Ohrstrom applies art therapy techniques while working with everyone from stroke survivors to individuals with special needs. She enjoys examining the psychology behind people creating the things that they do. “What does art do for someone while they are working creatively?” Ohrstrom asks.

Ohrstrom sees more and more people craving outlets for their creativity. She cites the popularity of coloring books for adults as one example of this. “There is now a proven therapeutic benefit to coloring. It has a meditative quality.” she explains.

Top Right: ‘Going To School’ “Even the simple task of coloring (coil built glazed ceramic requires that someone be present and stone ware) was displayed take the time concentrate. It is very at the Art of The Piedmont beneficial.” fifth annual art show held “Creativity is something that February 19, 2016, at the humans seek out,” Ohrstrom says.

Middleburg Community “Whether you are the president in a Center to benefit the Atoka Montessori School. boardroom or working in an art studio, there is an art to living and a natural curiosity to being creative. It is very important to me to live artfully. Unfortunately,” she continues, “this innate instinct within us all is stamped out at an early age. It is very important that children and adults be permitted to explore creativity.”

Her passion for teaching students of every age is evident. As we spoke, Ohrstrom helped my four-year-old daughter with a turkey Christmas tree ornament. After softening the clay and rolling it flat, she used a kitchen cookie cutter to cut the shape,

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then used a shish kabob spear to draw in finer details. “I enjoy working with children of all ages,” she said while fielding the questions my daughter fired off in rapid succession.

It turns out that Ohrstrom has a lot of practice helping children find their inner artist. She and her husband have four children, ages 13, 19, 24, and 26. They are all creative in their own ways, be that photography, acting or painting. And when her own children were young, Ohrstrom taught classes for other youths who were the same age as hers.

Ohrstrom feels that “children cannot be well-educated without the arts.

The great businessmen, engineers, and scientists are highly creative people.” In addition, she explains that by exposing children to the arts at an early age, they become more open and observant. “If a child possesses a trained eye, then they will become more attuned to what’s around them,” she says. “In the end, they will be encouraged to slow down and become more focused.”

Her concentration on developing an early interest in art stems from her appreciation of primitive art. Two examples of primitive art that appeal to her are The Venus of Willendorf, dating to 28,000 BCE, and the Lascaux Cave drawings of the Palaeolithic era.

“The marks made in primitive art are the same marks that are used today,” Ohrstrom explains. “Even when the marks evolved to become more sophisticated in the Renaissance, the basic marks remained unchanged.”

Early art was a form of language.

Ohrstrom believes that art continues to be a way of communicating today, one that gives voice to an artist’s’ inner workings. “Art is still a form of language, and through art therapy, the meaning behind the work can be revealed,” she says.

Ohrstrom aims to help her students become more observant and encourages them to move through life artfully, taking in the beautiful sunsets and blooming flowers more often than not. Through her studio, her talent, and her passion, Ohrstrom is able to showcase not only our region’s accomplished artists, but also help local residents discover their inner artist and bring peace to their heart. ❖

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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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OUTDOORS

Steve Lewis and his son, Colby.

Lewis started Buck Obsession in 2011. It has since been picked up by the Pursuit Channel and will air on Direct TV and Dish Network.

All photos courtesy of Steve Lewis and Buck Obsession.

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f you want to meet a celebrity in Fauquier County, look up. Don’t see one? Look harder. Still nothing, huh?

He’s there. Just be glad you’re not a whitetailed deer, or a black bear, or a duck.

Most celebrities don’t become successful by hiding, but that’s just what Steve Lewis and 11 of his friends have done through their television series, Buck Obsession, an outdoor reality show documenting their hunting adventures across North America.

“Growing up I always loved the outdoors and hunting,” said Lewis, founder and producer of Buck Obsession.

“The day Buck Obsession was founded, I decided to start a series of videos that documented my experience in the outdoors. It has since progressed into a nationally-televised program.”

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F A M I LY. F A I T H . F R I E N D S H I P.

by Jay Pinsky

Lewis’ love for the outdoors and hunting in particular is rooted in a family tradition of hunting and a profound respect for nature. “I like to hunt for the sport and also being out in God’s creation,” said Lewis. “I like the challenge of learning the wildlife and how they operate. I started hunting under the direction of my father. He started me in the outdoors at a young age and taught me a lot regarding the sport of hunting. I continue to hunt because I love it. It’s in my blood and being out in the outdoors gives me the opportunity to relax and unwind.”

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Buck Obsession continues to grow since its beginnings back in 2011. For 2016, the Pursuit Channel, shown on Direct TV and Dish Network and their 50 million households, added Buck Obsession to their programming. “Buck Obsession’s mission is to provide and inspire others to have a goal of family, faith and friendship,” said Lewis, “and to show others to take your children in the outdoors and teach them good hunting tactics and skills, and to be ethical in the outdoors. Our mission is to show that teamwork does work. I manage 12 pro staff members and we

Left: Andy Thorpe of Buck Obsession managed to harvest this turkey from the woods featured in background while also self-filming. Below: Steven Lewis, Produce and Owner of Buck Obsession.

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have molded into one family and work great together in the field and off.”

Buck Obsession’s popularity may lie in their formula of providing genuine, sincere, and ethical shows about hunting. Some things go well, other things may go poorly, but every show is unscripted, according to Lewis, and every character you see on television is playing his real-life self. Buck Obsession is counting on their show’s authenticity as much as its sense of adventure and skill as a flavor many Americans will choose in a hunting show. “We just try to be ourselves,” said Lewis. “People want to see real people and not things that are scripted.

Many people have told me that they appreciate that we stay true to our roots. We’re not actors and our shows aren’t scripted. We pride ourselves in showing that average Joe’s can have big dreams.”

While Buck Obsession is far from the only show depicting hunting on television, Lewis and his crew try to separate themselves from the pack through a variety of methods including purposely dispelling a lot of myths about hunting and hunters themselves.

“I would say that some people look at hunters as being inhumane and blood thirsty, but that’s not the case,” said Lewis. “We love the outdoors

and respect the wildlife we hunt and harvest. Hunters are wildlife conservators. It’s not called killing, its called hunting.”

While most sportsmen might think starring in their own television show about a sport they love might be fun, Lewis is adamant about just how much hard work it takes to be successful.

Especially when you realize Buck Obsession is an extracurricular activity for the entire staff.

Lewis said Buck Obsession is very structured and the process to be a member of his staff is rigorous. “We have a producer of the show, me, our sponsorship agent Andy Thorpe and pro staff manager William Green.

“We have a team of 12 members that are from different states such as Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Each team member had to go through an application process, which included submitting a video resume of what they have filmed in the past. Each member also had to have the commitment to help with trade shows and also events where they are needed. We also have social media administrators that focus on keeping our fans up-to-date with events, hunts and merchandise.”

“I would say the hardest part is making sure you manage your time right,” said Lewis. “All my staff plus

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Left: Brad Abbott and Josh York took down this hog at Buck and Boar Outfitters in Swansea, SC. Below: Sean Calhoun took down this buck in Nebraska while selffilming. Calhoun also owns Gobbler Down Custom Calls in Chantilly and is preparing to host the 4th Annual Hunt for Heroes in April. For more info, cantact him at sean@gobblerdown.com.

myself have full time jobs and do this job on our free time. Dedication is a huge part of this television show and getting it all together for network.

Family is a huge part in this.”

Celebrities or not, Lewis and his staff pride themselves on keeping a better focus on staying morally grounded than on trophy hunting.

“Buck Obsession travels a lot to hunt as well as to trade shows, so making sure things are scheduled and planned right can be a challenge,” said Lewis. Their commitment to their faith, families, each other, and being ethical in and out of the tree stand is woven into each episode of Buck Obsession, ensuring each show is not only a fun-filled adventure for hunters, but also a testimony for their viewers that they can and should balance their love for the outdoors with a much greater calling.

“Never neglect your family,” said Lewis. “Your family is your backbone and your support system. Show balance in this and dedicate times only for this job. Having a family

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that supports you is key. So the hardest part is making sure your life is balanced and keeping the wife happy.”

Not far below family as a top priority for Buck Obsession is a hunter’s mission as a mentor and coach. “Make sure you spend time with your children or grandchildren in the outdoors,” said Lewis. “One day you may not be able to hunt so every minute and second is very important to spend with them. If you are disabled don’t let that put a sad face on you. Get out and enjoy God’s creation and He will give you the strength to enjoy and cherish the outdoors with his love and power.”

For new hunters, Lewis adds this advice: “Be a sponge. Absorb all the knowledge you can about the ethics and stewardship of the outdoors.

Have fun.”

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to Lewis is to downplay popularity as a means to reach your goals in life. “Buck Obsession’s role is to provide hunters with hope that you don’t have to be a celebrity in the outdoor industry to make your dreams come true. Work at what you want to accomplish in life and it will happen.

Never give up. Also, respect the outdoors.”

In the end, if the staff at Buck Obsession on their game, you’ll probably never find them, but their most important message will never be hidden. Family. Faith. Friendship. ❖ Jay Pinsky is a freelance journalist specializing in firearms, hunting, natural resources and agriculture. He is the founder of the Green Bow Foundation, a not-for-profit dedicated to developing leadership in youth through archery, natural resource management and stewardship.

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Washington The historic and unique stained glass at Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains

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by Rebekah Grier

hen you think of stained glass, you most likely don’t think of George Washington. But that’s exactly who is featured in the prominent Te Deum window behind the altar of Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains. Certainly not the only local church or historic building to have multiple stained glass scenes, Grace Church may indeed have some of the most unique and historically-rich stained glass windows in the county.

Founded in 1855 by Reverend William Meade, Bishop of Virginia, Grace Church survived the Civil War and was instrumental in forming the new Whittle Parish from the older Piedmont Parish that included Trinity Church in Salem (now Marshall), and Emmanuel Church in Delaplane. These three churches also shared a rector, Rev. Charles Shield, for many years.

In 1916, during World War I, Grace Church hired Washington, D.C. architect W.H. Irwin Fleming to design a new church building and parish house. It was his first commission. Fleming went on to redesign Trinity Church in Marshall as well as Hopefield and the Clerk’s Office in Warrenton. Fleming married a Virginia bride, Saidy Beverley Carter Stewart, and even lived in The Plains for a few years. In 1917, the cornerstone for the new church was laid with the same silver trowel that George Washington used in 1793 to lay the cornerstone of the National Capitol. The new church building was consecrated on June 28, 1918, by Rev. Robert Gibson, then the Bishop of Virginia.

“Widely recognized for its inspiring beauty, Grace Church stands as an excellent example of early 13th century rural English Gothic architecture.

The building was constructed of local stone given as free-will offerings and hauled from neighboring farms. The building of the new church required 1,000 four-horse wagon loads. In fact, some of the stone came from the ruins of the original Glebe House (built in 1772) of Leeds Parish, the original parish in this area of Fauquier County,” states the 75th Anniversary History of Grace Church.

Only a year after the consecration, in 1919, the first stained glass windows for the new church building were commissioneda. The church commissioned Henry Wynd Young, a Scottish stained glass artist who had moved to New York in May of 1907. That same year,1919, Bertram Goodhue, a noted American artist and architect, said of Young, “there is no doubt in my mind that he is far and away the best glass The Te Deum window stainer we have.” Young, who mostly created pieces at Grace Episcopal Church featuring George in the Gothic revivalist style, created windows Washington in the that can be found in: St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia center of the bottom University, New York, NY; the Cathedral of St. panel.

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John the Divine, New York, NY; Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI; Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, NJ; and East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA. Young’s altar window for Grace Church was dedicated on Trinity Sunday, June 7, 1920. He died only three years later. Young’s signature can be found in the far left-hand lower corner of the window, just under the feet of St. Stephen.

Young’s altar window for Grace Church, also known as the Te Deum, features the subject Te Deum Laudamus, Latin for, “We Praise, Thee, O God.” It was dedicated in memory of James Robert Foster, Senior Warden of the parish at its consecration. According to the 75h Anniversary History, “Depicted in the Te Deum window is ‘The Glory of God’s community of the Redeemed.’

God the Father symbolized by the fatherly hand, with fingers extending from clouds in the triune blessing. God the Son sits by the throne, while God the Holy Ghost appears as the Heavenly Dove of snow-white purity and outstretched wings. Singing the eternal praises of God are the angelic hosts, cherubim, seraphim and archangels. Groups of apostles, prophets, martyrs and saints from the Holy Catholic Church, with others representing the ancient, post-reformation and modern church.”

The very bottom panel of the Te Deum is where the Father of America, George Washington, stands proudly looking out over the congregation. But Washington isn’t the only unique character on the panel. The panel, in fact, depicts 10 somewhat non-traditional stained-glass figures. From left to right, the panel shows St. Stephen, St. George, Thomas Cranmer, Rev. Robert Hunt, Bishop Gibson, George Washington, Lancelot Andrews, St. Columba, St. Augustine, and St. Chrysostom. Anything but a random cast of characters, “They were carefully chosen,” explained Marcia Markey, longtime Grace Church member and historian. Markey went on to tell of each figure and his significance to the local church, Christendom, or the Anglican and Episcopalian community.

ST. STEPHEN St. Stephen, pictured on the farthest left, is the first martyr recorded in the bible. In the Te Deum scene, St. Stephen is shown holding three stones in his purple robes. These represent his death by stoning (Acts 7:54-60).

ST. GEORGE The figure directly to St. Stephen’s right is St. George, the patron saint of England. The inclusion of St. George honors the strong connections that the Episcopal church has with the church of England, or the Anglican church (the Episcopal church was originally more of an “American province” of the more global Anglican community).

THOMAS CRANMER When King Henry VIII of England decided to break from the church of Rome and establish himself as the head of the church of England in 1534, he really didn’t want all that much to be different, he only wanted to get rid of his first wife, Catherine, and marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. “When the pope with whom you want to get help is being held by your wife’s uncle, and you want to get rid of your wife, you’ve got a problem,” Markey said. Anne Boleyn helped appoint Cranmer to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury and after Catherine was banished and the king and Anne secretly wed, Cranmer declared Henry’s marriage to Catherine null and void and his marriage to Anne valid. Cranmer was also a large contributor to the first Book of Common Prayer, a new new book of liturgy that removed focus from the pope.

REVEREND ROBERT HUNT Reverend Robert Hunt (fourth from the left) is depicted holding a golden chalice with an inscription date of 1607. Rev. Hunt was the Chaplain on the voyage that founded Jamestown, VA. He served the first Anglican Eucharist (Communion) on American soil in Jamestown in 1607 and founded the first church in that settlement, making him the founder of the first church

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The sanctuary of Grace Episcopal Church. Behind and above the altar is the Te Deum window.

in English America. Rev. Hunt’s remains were only somewhat recently found by archaeologists in 2013, buried in a grave under the chancel - an area reserved for the clergy - of the first church.

Rev. Hunt’s remains were found with his head pointing east, a typical orientation for a clergyman at that time, and the farthest north of the three other graves found with him. It is believed he died in winter or early spring of 1608 during the “starving years,” although the cause of his death is unknown. Archaeology lead at Jamestown, James Horn said, “There is a very important story about the intent of the Virginia Company to translate the [Anglican Church] to the New World, and the Reverend Robert Hunt is very much a part of that.”

BISHOP ROBERT A. GIBSON The Reverend Robert Atkinson Gibson consecrated the newly designed and rebuilt Grace Church in 1918. In 1902, Bishop Gibson became the sixth Bishop of Virginia and served until his death in 1919. According to the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, “Under his guidance, the Blue Ridge archdeaconry was established and many mountain schools, churches and chapels were built, as the pastoral ministry of the Episcopal Church reached into many isolated areas. It was also during his episcopate that the majority of Virginia’s black parishes were founded. For the 1907 General Convention that met in Richmond, Bishop Gibson devised a diocesan seal that was to be instructive of the origin and history of the Diocese of Virginia and is still in use as the bishop’s seal. He did a great work of repossessing, restoring, reopening and reactivating many of Virginia’s colonial churches

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which had long stood idle or in a state of near ruin.” In the Te Deum window, Gibson appears to be holding an image of the seal he created.

GEORGE WASHINGTON During the American Revolution, Anglican priests and bishops in the colonies were considered Tories and traitors because of their ties to the Church of England. Many of them fled back to England or were tarred and feathered. In the Episcopal community, however, the church cannot ordain a priest, consecrate a church, or confirm young people without an ordained bishop. “I mean, we’re really stuck! We can’t keep going,” Markey said. Due to the lack of ordained ministers, George Washington arranged for ordained bishops and priests from Scotland to come to America.

Besides being the Father of America and a Virginian, Washington was also a member of the very first vestry (governing body) in the Pohick Parish (where Mt. Vernon is located). This shows that to some degree Washington was a committed churchman. It is unclear what book Washington is depicted as holding in the stained glass scene. There appears to be a date of either 1739 or 1759. In 1759 Washington married his wife Martha and moved to Mt. Vernon.

LANCELOT ANDREWS Lancelot Andrews was appointed by King James I of England as the head of the committee that developed the King James Version of the bible. James felt that somehow it had slipped out of people’s minds that the King was appointed by divine right.

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ST. COLUMBA St. Columba (521 AD - 597 AD) was a Celtic Christian who founded the Iona monastery. He and his followers became missionaries to the Pics (“barbarians,” in what is now England). Celtic Christianity emphasized the idea of God being on earth and a part of everything in the world including animals and nature. This clashed greatly with the Roman Catholic Church which eventually dominated over the Celtic Christianity ideas.

ST. AUGUSTINE St. Augustine (died 604 AD), not to be confused with Augustine of Hippo,

was a missionary to the Anglo-Saxon pagans in northern England after the Roman withdrawal from Britannia in 410. His teachings converted the AngloSaxon king and he was eventually able to build a monastery outside the city. St. Augustine was eventually appointed the First Archbishop of Canterbury. He is considered the founder of the English Church.

ST. CHRYSOSTOM St. Chrysostom (349 AD - 407 AD) was the Archbishop of Constantinople who preached eloquently and profusely about the abuse of wealth by the church instead of helping the poor, needy, widows, and orphans. In Greek, Chrysostom means

“golden-mouthed” or “golden tongue.”

St. Chrysostom was eventually exiled and died a martyr.

In honor of the 75th anniversary of Grace Church in 1993, Reverend Peter James Lee, then Bishop of Virginia, wrote these words, “A visit to Grace Church, The Plains, provides for the discerning person an opportunity to embrace the rich history of the Diocese of Virginia through the particular history of this special parish.

Your architecture and the iconography of your windows are themselves reminders of the great tradition of the Anglican Communion and of the powerful links of Grace Church with the church across the ages.”❖

Additional stained glass panels in the sanctuary of Grace Episcopal Church. These scenes depicting St. Luke and his gospel are believed to have been made in the Tiffany Studio in New York City. Although they are unsigned, they are in the Tiffany style.

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What to consider before becoming or buying from a breeder

by Charlotte Wagner

Despite what some people think, quality breeders do not make money from selling puppies. After adding up the expenses of pet maintenance, veterinary care, health testing, and time off rearing a litter, most breeders are lucky if they break even after puppy sales. That’s not to mention the travel and entries fees associated with champion breeding stock. What defines a true breeder goes far beyond the production of dogs. It involves dedication, countless hours of research, sacrifice, quality of life for the animals in their care, and genuine love. Those looking to make a profit from breeding dogs, or those who have inferior breeding standards are more likely to fall under the criteria of a backyard breeder rather than a true breeder.

SELECTING A BREEDING PAIR In order to have a successful breeding experience, breeders should assure that both the male, formally known as sire, and female, often referred to as a dam, are physically correct, compliment one another, have a sound temperament, and have certificates for applicable health testing. Breeding strategies should also be considered when mating dogs regarding natural breeding or artificial insemination.

PHYSICAL CORRECTNESS When selecting dogs for breeding purposes, overall form and structure should be considered for the benefit of the potential litter, and the greater gene pool of the breed. If a dog is of poor

Barbara Saylor raises Standard Schnauzers in her home with a strong focus on providing love and socialization to her puppies.

X-rays can be used to get a view of how many puppies can be expected by counting skulls or spines.

structure, or if the breeding pair is not well matched, offspring should be spayed and neutered and a repeat mating should be avoided. Responsible breeders do not only focus on their own individual needs, but also consider the impact their decisions and practices have on the breed population.

neurological abnormalities, drug resistance, and more. Dogs that are determined CLEAR do not carry the gene for the condition which is tested and can easily be used for a breeding program.

Dogs screened as CARRIERS have one copy of the gene, but will not be ill from the condition. Carrier dogs should be used consciously in a breeding program as there is fifty per cent chance that gene will be passed on to the offspring. Dogs that are AFFECTED carry two copies of the disease gene and will require medical attention in order to address any health issues caused by an inherited disorder. Dogs that are affected should not be used in a breeding program unless selectively bred to a clear partner.

Health testing continues with the prevention of anatomical and physiological abnormalities. Certain common conditions such as hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, patellar luxation, cataracts, ataxia, dilated cardiomyopathy, degenerative myelopathy, etc. are assessed via physical manipulation, ultrasound, or x-ray by a certified veterinarian or specialist.

Organizations such as the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) have databases with rating schemes that set a standard when evaluating certain inheritable conditions.

TEMPERAMENT Sound temperament is of the utmost importance when breeding dogs, as potential puppies will be living in people’s homes. Temperament goals include the characteristics set forth by the breed standard, as well as overall mental flexibility.

Studies have proven that various behavioral traits related to canine compulsive disorder, separation anxiety, aggression, fear, and shyness can be inherited. Dogs possessing or producing any of these traits should never be bred from as it will only cause issues for the owners, negatively impact the wellbeing of the dog, and ultimately end up in poor quality of life or even euthanasia.

Work ability and functionality should also be considered when breeding for temperament. Some owners may be looking for an active dog to compete in sports such as agility and obedience, some may want a high drive working companion on the farm or in the field, whereas most owners simply want a social and loving pet of moderate disposition. It is important for breeders to take character traits into consideration when matching puppies with potential owner lifestyles.

HEALTH TESTING AND SCREENING A basic understanding of different bloodlines, inheritance, disease prevalence, and screening practices can significantly reduce (and even eliminate) preventable health issues in the majority of dog breeds. Suggested protocols for health testing are usually established by the national club for each breed (Ex. The Golden Retriever Club of America). When looking for a responsible breeder, they should provide potential owners with copies of official paperwork and certificates pertaining to health testing of their breeding stock (and in some cases extended relatives). Make sure health tests are done at the recommended age in order to ensure valid results were given.

Various laboratories across the country offer genetic testing to determine the inheritance of diseases related to blood disorders,

PUPPY PREP Once the breedings have taken place, the dam and household needs to be prepared for the arrival of a litter of puppies. The gestation period of the dog is usually 62 days, however puppies may be born between 58-68 days depending on ovulation. As a general rule, larger breeds yield larger litters (6-12 pups), whereas smaller breeds have small litters (1-4 pups).

CHANGES IN THE DAM (MOTHER) During the later stages of pregnancy (usually after 5 weeks), owners will notice the dam gaining weight as the abdominal area expands. Mammary glands will begin to enlarge around the same time, and milk may be present a couple of days prior to delivery. The behavior may change in preparation of the litter - dams will circle, shred articles to make a nest, become more secluded, or restless and irritable.

SCREENING DURING PREGNANCY Breeders often use diagnostic tools such as ultrasound and

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x-rays in order to confirm pregnancy and make estimations as to litter sizes.

Veterinarians are able to conduct ultrasounds in order to confirm pregnancy after 21 days of gestation. After this time, palpitation of the abdomen may also confirm changes associated with pregnancy. After 45 days x-rays can be used to get a further view of potential pups, and helps vets and breeders determine the number of pups by counting their skulls or spines on the radiograph.

DELIVERY The dam’s temperature will usually drop 12-24 hours prior to labor. She will begin to build a nest and may refuse to eat. When birthing pups at home, a whelping box or birthing area should be set up in a quiet part of the house with plenty of supplies. Deliveries can happen during any part of the day and often occur late at night or in the early hours of the morning.

Breeders should be able to observe their dogs, but avoid from becoming too involved unless assistance is needed by the dam. Labor usually lasts between 3 and 12 hours.

Veterinary support may be solicited depending on circumstance. New breeders may prefer to arrange for their pups to be delivered at a veterinary facility for ease of mind, whereas others require medical assistance due to birthing difficulties. Dogs can have various issues including: large puppies in small litter sizes, anatomical abnormalities of the birthing canal, lack of hormones, and puppies stuck in the birthing canal. In cases where dams are unable to naturally birth litters cesarean sections are performed. The cost of veterinary treatment for newborn puppies is highly expensive and may require the use of an emergency clinic if labor occurs out of regular business hours.

FOLLOWING DELIVERY Neonatal care involves ensuring puppies are eating, clean, and thriving.

Various procedures may be performed depending on breed and individual practices. In over 50 sporting and working breeds such as Spaniels, Pointers, Dobermans and Rottweilers tail docking is conducted. The procedure involves a veterinarian or experienced breeder removing a portion of the tail to prevent potential injury, or for cosmetic purposes.

Similarly the front dew claws, are removed on a vast variety of dog breeds to avoid harm or tearing. Both these procedures are performed between three and five days of age.

As puppies mature they will rely less on their mother for nutrition and become more ready for a regular diet. Breeders may choose canned, soaked kibble, home cooked, or raw diets to transition their puppies onto. Weaning puppies from mother to other diets ideally occurs around three to four weeks of age (however some breeders choose to wean earlier).

Disease prevention is key to a healthy litter. Parasitic worms are common and can be managed through regular deworming. During this time puppies are most vulnerable to diseases, which is why breeders will often ask visitors to take off shoes or disinfect when handling pups. Cross contamination from outdoor dogs and interactions in high traffic areas are often cause for outbreaks of distemper or parvo diseases.

Check in next month to learn more about buying and raising puppies especially taking note of developing good behavior and social skills, what to include in your contract with the breeder, and beginning training puppy at home. â?–

Top: Local breeder Terri Rendon breeds Siberian Huskies as show and working sled dogs. She and her husband Ron even compete in sled dog races with their teams!

Bottom: Local breeder Julie Reardon raises her Chesapeake Retrievers as show, companion, and hunting dogs. Puppies are exposed to the outdoors with boat rides, swimming lessons, gun shot, and duck class at an early age.

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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Stitching Life Together Bob Kelly of Hunt Country Yarns in The Plains

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ob Kelly, the owner of Hunt Country Yarn in The Plains, was told by one of this teachers in high school that he would be trained and retrained for different jobs at least three times in his life. Bob has beaten that average several times over.

The long and winding road that lead Bob to running Hunt Country Yarn begins with him as a chemistry student at San Jose State University in California. Bob spent three semesters studying research chemistry when the creative voice in his head changed from a whisper to a shout. While he found the subject matter interesting enough, chemistry just wasn’t creative enough for him. He couldn’t picture himself working for companies doing chemical analysis. So he changed tracks to Graphic Design. He laughs when he thinks of himself as a chemistry student moving into the art department. “There were a lot of things in that department that I wasn’t going to touch,” he says. Bob graduated from San Jose State as a Dean’s Scholar in 1970.

Bob had spent his summers during college working at a Bank of America branch. He went back to work for them part time following graduation and stayed on for a year and half. When he was offered a full-time position that would have put him on track to becoming a banker, he gave the job some serious consideration. But again, he just couldn’t envision himself in the banking industry for the rest of his life. While the money would be good, the memories would have paled in comparison to where life took

him next. whined the most.”

During his brief tenure at the bank, After a few semesters, Bob was required Bob had been taking scuba lessons along to earn a Master’s degree to continue California’s sunny coast. The owner of teaching at the school, so he began taking the scuba shop where he took lessons graduate courses. With his schedule now called him one day, explaining that he so loaded, it was time for Bob to part was looking to open a shop in San Jose. ways with the scuba shop. He earned Hoping to make good use of Bob’s his Master’s degree in Instructional experience with the San Jose area, the Technology in 1978, continued teaching, owner invited Bob to open and manage and took on work as a technical writer for the new scuba store. Bob accepted several tech companies in Silicon Valley. the job. It ended up being a nine-year This position was later expanded to being commitment that took Bob to Mexico and a Systems Engineer for a computer aided the Bahamas on scuba tours and to the typesetting start-up. mountains on ski trips.

Bob ended his teaching career in 1986 Bob provided scuba instruction at the and focused his efforts on his Silicon shop by day and taught night classes at Valley job. He enjoyed the challenges his West Valley College. The subject was of the work. “Every day was different. black and white photography as a science.

I never knew what I was going to face, “I preferred to teach the students in the evening classes,” Bob recalls. “The daytime students were mostly English majors, and they didn’t have the background classes to comprehend the information from a science perspective, and they Bob Kelly, the owner of Hunt Country Yarn in The Plains

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and since I didn’t have a computer background, I had to bring myself up to speed pretty quickly.” Bob worked in Silicon Valley for over a decade and during this time he met and married his wife, Valerie.

Bob’s Bahamas visits during his scuba-diving days left a lasting impression on him, and the islands called him to come back many times. While he enjoyed his work in Silicon Valley, in 1990 it was time for a new adventure and he left the job.

Having purchased a house during one of his visits to the Bahamas, Bob spent several years overseeing its remodel. But it wasn’t just any home. It was built in 1954 as a fishing cottage for King George VI of England. The property had been built

by Simon Wardell, a friend of the royals who was involved with the abdicated Edward VIII and Axel Wenner-Gren, a Swedish Industrialist. The Swede had close connections to Hitler’s inner circle, causing allied intelligence agencies to mistrust him during the Second World War. The story of opulence and scandal during wartime fascinated and intrigued Bob, who was drawn to the house. He found himself in the Bahamas for four years overseeing its progress. Today, the house is their vacation home until he and Valerie can retire and live there full-time.

During his time living in the Bahamas, the Bahamian pace of life taught Bob how to slow down. “Life doesn’t happen instantaneously,” Bob muses. “Life happens as life happens.”

Bob learned how to go with the flow. “If I needed materials for the house, I would call the store in the US and see when they could get it on a ship for me. If it was small enough, I would call a pilot I knew to help, but he may have a loaded flight, or other resort shipments to bring, or maybe he would forget. And I would just have to wait until the next flight.”

When the vacation home was completed in 1994, Bob and Valerie left Silicon Valley and headed east to live closer to her family. “My wife made the decision on where to live. I was happy with the small town, since that is hard to find in California.”

Just a year after they settled in Middleburg, Bob opened Hunt Country Yarn on Federal Street in Middleburg. In 1997 he moved the shop onto Main Street in The Plains. Bob’s Uncle Nello had taught him to knit when he was just a child. Uncle Nello was the eldest of ten children in a small Italian village near Lucca, northeast of Pisa. The name of the village is now lost to time, but Nello’s story remains. “When he was a child,” Bob says, “his mother told him if he wanted socks, he had better learn how to knit them.” Nello not only learned to knit, he also learned how to

teach and taught his siblings to knit - sparing himself the arduous task of knitting socks for all nine of his siblings.

Not having knit since childhood, Bob had to relearn how to cast on when he was in college. “I didn’t have a lot of money or a car,” Bob says, “so when I was done studying, there wasn’t much else to do. One year I needed some Christmas gifts, so I walked to a store, bought some yarn and settled in to make sweaters.”

For Bob, knitting is all of the elements of graphic design done with fiber. And for this scientific artist, the Yarn Shop sometimes feels a little controlled. “I have to buy the patterns that people will want to make,” he says, “My wild artistic ideas have to be tempered and I do try to inspire customers to be creative and use a pattern as a stepping off point.” But for the most part, the unexpected keeps variety in the everyday for him.

Throughout his life, Bob has taken risks. He’s passed over secure options in favor of opportunities with greater risk and

greater excitement. This risk-taking nature is evident in his Yarn Shop. Bob notes knitting’s forgiving nature, “If you make a mistake, you can unravel the yarn and start over. Life isn’t so kind so when you have the chance to try something new.

Knowing it can be undone, why not try it out?” he asks. He feels that it is important that people take advantage of a do-over; try new colors or a new fiber and see how the clothing drapes. This is a message that Bob conveys during many of the classes taught at the shop.

His Uncle Nello never had a chance to see Hunt Country Yarn, but Bob thinks he would have been proud. After all, the shop combines his nephew’s lifelong love of teaching with the skill of knitting that Nello learned out of necessity, and then shared with Bob. A moment shared between an uncle and nephew so memorable that it made reappearances in Bob’s life until it became his life. Bob’s life has taken him in many directions and through many waters, and in the end it is stitched together with enough stories and memories for several lifetimes. ❖

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The organization also announced it will invest more than $2.5 million in grant funding for small and large community projects in 2016.

FOCUS AND COLLABORATION When the new foundation was created, the Board of Directors met regularly to determine its mission, vision, strategic plan, funding priorities, and grantmaking criteria. To inform the process, Fauquier Health and the PATH Foundation partnered to conduct a community health needs assessment to identify existing health resources, note service gaps, and determine where the foundation should focus its efforts. The assessment revealed four priority areas for our region: childhood wellness, senior services, access to care, and mental health.

Results of the assessment were reviewed with area organizations at a town hall meeting, allowing for discussion of the findings. But the town hall had another benefit – it also developed into spontaneous discussion and collaboration among nonprofits. These collaborative discussions have continued, and today groups focused on transportation, emergency services, mental health, and food and nutrition meet regularly in the foundation’s offices.

GRANTMAKING In 2015, the PATH Foundation granted $550,000 for projects. It was a great kickoff for the organization. Community support for 2016 includes $1 million in grantmaking – $250,000 designated for Make it Happen! grants available on a rolling basis until funds are exhausted, and $750,000 for annual grants. Funds are still available for Make it Happen! grants, but applications for annual grants are currently under review, with no new applications being accepted at this time.

The remaining $1.5 million of support for the area includes a $1 million grant to the Lord Fairfax Community College planned STEM–H building (science, technology, engineering, math and health). Another $100,000 is allocated for the third year in a row to the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation’s May 3rd “Give Local Piedmont” campaign. The opening of the PATH Resource Center, offering tools and training for area nonprofits, and bringing in speaker Wes Moore (a Rhodes Scholar, White House Fellow and New York Times bestselling author) to high school students are additional supports for the community. Some other initiatives – telepsychiatry, high school giving programs, and student health and nutrition – are currently in development.

TOOLS AND TRAINING FOR LOCAL NONPROFITS Learning the challenges facing area nonprofits has been an important step to the PATH Foundation’s understanding of resources needed to lift up the efforts of these groups. These nonprofit leaders and their key stakeholders have identified a clear need for community investment in the business, professional development, and people within the nonprofit sector.

In response, the PATH Foundation and Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) are excited to launch a new partnership to bring the PATH Resource Center to the region. The Center will offer tools, training, consulting and resources to help nonprofits strengthen their efforts and increase their impacts.

The PATH Resource Center, funded Top two: The by the PATH Foundation, will be Fauquier Education farm. managed and operated by CNE. Located Jim Hankins, farm director, in Charlottesville, CNE is a nonprofit proudly shows off some resource center with 300+ member vegetables. Bottom two: FISH organizations across Central Virginia holiday food baskets.

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Far left: As part of Project Lifesaver, made possible by a PATH grant and anonymous donor, police officers use equipment to help track residents wearing monitoring bracelets – those with dementia, Alzheimer’s, autism , etc. – in the event they go missing. Left: The Fauquier Free Clinic offers medical and dental care to patients in need.

John McCarthy, Chairman of the PATH Foundation Board of Directors; Christy Connolly, President and CEO of the PATH Foundation; Dr. Cheryl Thompson-Stacy, President of LFCC; and Dr. Christopher Coutts, LFCC Provost, Fauquier Campus, at the LFCC gift announcement in February 2016.

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Participating nonprofits can expect business resources, monthly trainings, discussion groups, and a continuously–developing portfolio of programs based on their feedback. Topics will include everything from governance to philanthropy, strategy to community engagement. After a recent PATH Foundation study of volunteer needs in the community, the PATH Resource Center may also include resources for volunteer recruitment and management.

The PATH Resource Center will open in April, continuing discussions with nonprofits on how to best meet their needs. Beginning with office hours 2 days a week, it will be located at 98 Alexandria Pike, Suite 21, in Warrenton.

A NEW NAME AND A NEW LOGO The PATH Foundation was fortunate to have been selected by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, a preeminent brand design firm headquartered in New York City, as the client for an honors class in visual design at the School of Visual Arts, also located in New York City. The college–level class, Corporate Identity and Design, consists of students invited to participate based on their academic achievements.

Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv is known for designing some of the most recognized trademarks in the world, including National Geographic, Chase Bank, NBC, PBS, Mobil Oil, Showtime Networks and Barney’s New York. Most recently, they designed logos for the Library of Congress, and Harvard University Press. The National Archives in Washington,

Fauquier County Public School students in 9th-11th grades will be treated to a visit from Wes Moore, a Rhodes Scholar, White House Fellow and New York Times bestselling author on March 14. Moore’s message of possibility and resiliency resonates through his personal story of lessons learned while growing up in Baltimore and the Bronx. Personal responsibility, as well as the importance of mentorship and support networks, takes center stage in his inspiring remarks. A former member of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army, Moore has been featured on Meet the Press, The Colbert Report, MSNBC and NPR among many other media outlets. His books include The Other Wes Moore and The Work.

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Over the course of the semester, students worked with the firm’s principals, along with PATH Foundation representatives, to create unique visual identities that represent the mission, vision and culture of the PATH Foundation.

“All of us are delighted by the work that our Fall 2015 students accomplished,” said Sagi Haviv, one of the design firm’s principals. “It was an especially talented group of young designers, and the design problem brought to the class inspired great work. The final trademark the foundation chose, a beautiful hand–drawn mark by Bernise Wong, was one of the many terrific designs. Bernise’s logo will be very effective to identify the PATH Foundation in its various communications for many years to come.”

The new logo design reflects the many varied groups, projects and initiatives supported by the PATH Foundation. The individually drawn droplets create a path that works its way to the center, showing collaboration. PATH Foundation President and CEO Christy Connolly said, “Visually this represents what we are doing everyday – coming together with individuals, organizations and local government to make our area a healthier place to live, work and play.”

For more information on the PATH Foundation, visit www.pathforyou.org. ❖

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Part 1, published in February, recounted the origins of Broad Run and Little Georgetown, and the early industry and commerce that originated there. Part 2 starts with the impact of the Manassas Gap Railroad, the churches, and the story of a family that lived there for many years.

Photographed at a July 4, 1932 gathering in the meadow on the White property in Thoroughfare Gap were Addie White (wife of Wesley White) in the car; an unidentified woman in polka-dot dress, and Lila White Drowne. Blurred figure at far left was Dorothy Chloe, Addie White’s granddaughter. House in background, built in 1904-05 for Hugh and Bessie White, still stands in ruinous condition. Courtesy of Helen White Mayhugh.

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road Run was greatly impacted by the coming of the Manassas Gap Railroad, which was completed from Tudor Hall (present-day Manassas) to The Plains by May 1852, and ultimately reaching Strasburg, Va., by October 1854.

Railroad stations were built along the route, including the one at Broad Run - a white frame structure with a slate roof. It had a large freight room, general store (and later post office), segregated waiting rooms, and a loading dock.

The Manassas Gap Railroad figured prominently in the Civil War, and the Broad Run Station was used alternately by Union and Confederate forces.

“Gen. Lee, mounted on his old gray horse Traveler and with his staff rode down to Gen. Longstreet’s headquarters near Broad Run Station, and ordered him to clear the Gap of federal forces,” wrote William Beverley (1852-1937), recalling the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, which took place on Aug. 28, 1862.

The railroad line was rebuilt after the war, and with the trains running again, the Broad Run Station returned to being a community gathering place. “The store had two long, sturdy wooden counters that sloped inward at the bottom to accommodate hoop skirts,” wrote Lelia R. Lawrence in Vol. 34, No. 1 of News and Notes, published by the Fauquier Historical Society (2012).

“Merchandise such as stick candy was sold in glass jars, along with work clothes, washboards, nails and horseshoes stored in wooden bins. One could buy coal, oil in steel drums, canned goods and molasses by the barrel. Many persons from surrounding farms would barter eggs, butter, huckleberries and chickens for sugar, coffee and mincemeat.”

“Cattle herded in droves from surrounding farms – Avenel, Galemont, Cedar Hill and Millbrook – were put in pens at Broad Run Station, and later loaded on passing freight trains,” according to Ms. Lawrence.

By the late 19th century, four passenger trains and two freight trains passed through Broad Run each day. “Farmers in the surrounding fields would hear the 11 a.m. whistle and know it was time to go to lunch. The 6 p.m. whistle was judged an indication to stop work in the fields for the day.”

A post office served the area between Haymarket and Broad Run as early as 1828, and by 1855, there was a post office in Broad Run Station. It closed during the Civil War, but by 1886, the post office was back at the station, under Postmaster Henry F. Robertson, who served until 1897. He was followed by George Burgess from 1897-1901; P. D. Brawner from 1901-1919; and Elizabeth V. “Bessie” Bloxton from 1919-1958.

Serving as postmistress for nearly 40 years, Mrs. Bloxton (1888-1976) was unique to Broad Run for other reasons. Her father, Franklin D. Vaughn,

Top: The Broad Run Railroad Station had changed very little by the time this photograph was taken in the early 1920s.

Locomotives passing through were powered by steam, and took on water from the large tank at the far right. Bottom Left: This 1945 photograph shows Broad Run postmistress Elizabeth V. ‘Bessie’ Bloxton at work behind the counter at the general store in the station. Mrs. Bloxton was the postmistress from 1919 to 1958. Bottom Right: Bessie Bloxton was born in this house next to the railroad station. It was built in the 1870s by her father, Franklin D. Vaughn, and Bessie lived there her entire life.

was a skilled carpenter and builder from Culpeper who came to Broad Run in the 1870s, and built several houses there. These included Millbrook, the Beverley home in the Gap, and his own home just north of Broad Run Station.

It was in this home that Bessie was born, and would live her entire life. She married Stamper Dandridge Bloxton (1875-1931), who worked as a telegrapher for the Manassas Gap Railroad. She ran the general store at the station before being appointed postmistress.

“President Eisenhower had ordered the Broad Run Post Office closed in 1954, but he forgot that was the address of Congressman Howard W. Smith,” wrote historian Eugene M. Scheel in Crossroads and Corners (1996). “Judge Smith could pork barrel anything, and in this case, he did.”

Following Mrs. Bloxton’s retirement, Mollie Lunsford served as acting postmistress from 1958 to 1960, at which time Elaine Wiser was appointed postmistress. The post office was moved to the stone building in front of the Chapman-Beverley Mill, and a postal trailer was later added to the site.

The post office was moved again across Rt. 55 to Lunsford’s Store, and later occupied the new store built on the site by Earl Burton, where it remains today.

THE CHURCHES AND SCHOOL The histories of the two churches established in Broad Run are unique, but share similar beginnings. Some church members’ involvement with “Benevolent Institutions” caused a doctrinal split within the Broad Run Baptist Church in New Baltimore, founded in 1762.

Following a meeting in June 1837, it was determined that, “…in the opinion of this church, the conduct of such members is in violation of the discipline of regular Baptist churches, and that they are not considered as having any connection with this church,” according to the Broad Run Baptist Church Bicentennial History (1962).

The fifteen “disconnected” members left the church, and started a new church just outside of Little Georgetown on property purchased by John Brown from the Stover family. Mr. Brown conveyed 1.5 acres to the trustees of the new church,

and the Upper Broad Run Baptist Church was built on the site in 1838.

Considered an “Old School Baptist Church,” baptisms were conducted in nearby Trapp Branch, and the revival services and fried chicken and ham dinners held there each August attracted worshippers and local villagers alike. The Upper Broad Run Baptist Church served its congregation until they moved to The Plains in the early 1870s.

The old church building was used as a county public schoolhouse until the early 1900s, after which it was re-sold, rented out and eventually fell into disrepair.

Fortunately, subsequent owners stabilized and remodeled the building as a unique private residence, as it exists today.

Fifty years after the Baptists established their church at Little Georgetown, there was a similar split at Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains (founded in 1855).

The rector, the Rev. James Grammer, “… refused communion to leading members of the congregation who were said to indulge in dancing, gaming and other unsuitable practices,” according to the history of Grace Episcopal Church.

“These modern spirits established the Church of Our Savior in 1887.”

Charles Mackall, who lives at Selby, east of The Plains, recalls that one of these “modern spirits” was his great-greatgrandfather, Robert Beverley (1822-1901).

The small group from Grace built the charming country classic Church of Our Savior at Little Georgetown on property purchased from the Stover family. In 1887, they established the Greenwood Cemetery east of the chapel on property purchased by William Beverley from Ralph Stover, and granted to the church.

Three years later, the name of the graveyard was changed to the Little Georgetown Cemetery.

Over the years, most of the members of the Church of Our Savior passed away or returned to Grace church. The chapel was rented to other congregations from timeto-time, and in later years, the graveyard was managed by the Georgetown Cemetery Inc. In 1967, the chapel and cemetery were acquired by Grace Episcopal Church, and in 1993 a non-profit foundation was established to maintain the chapel and ensure efficient management of the cemetery.

“The cemetery serves diverse needs.

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according the church history. “Little Georgetown Cemetery offers a place of tranquility and peace to all.”

The historic chapel is available for weddings and other special events, and in order to maintain its consecration, one service is held there each year on All Souls Day. A BROAD RUN FAMILY, LONG AGO Hugh Watkins White (1839-1912) was born in Upperville, and served with Col. John S. Mosby’s Rangers. He returned home after the war, and finished learning the cabinet-making trade from his father, Wesley Willis White.

About 1866, he met Elizabeth Jane “Bessie” Jordan (1847-1929), the daughter of Benoni and Jane Jordan, of LaGrange, near Waterfall. They were married in 1869, and lived in Upperville where their first child, Hugh Jordan White, was born.

They moved to Broad Run Station, where their second son, Wesley Lawson White, was born in 1872. Two years later, they moved to “Bee Cottage” (so named for its beehives) in Thoroughfare Gap, where they raised their four sons and three daughters.

Hugh White opened a shop in Little Georgetown, where he repaired and built furniture, using hand tools and a footpowered lathe. He sold honey from the hives at Bee Cottage, and set trap lines and sold the skins to fur companies.

Bessie grew vegetables and gathered eggs from her hen house, which she traded for groceries at the store at Little Georgetown and Broad Run Station.

As they reached adulthood, three of the boys – Hugh, Wesley and Paul – went to Washington to work and learn a trade, but often returned home on weekends.

Recalling the situation at Blantyre, during the 1898 Spanish-American War, a large group of soldiers were sent from Camp Alger near Falls Church to Thoroughfare Gap to recover from the effects of a flu epidemic. A sick soldier from Rhode Island named Robert Drowne was placed in the care of a male nurse at Bee Cottage. During his convalescence, Robert’s mother and younger brother Frederick (1880-1930) came from Rhode Island to visit him.

Fred Drowne and daughter Lila Charity White (1880-1960) fell in love and eloped in 1902, while Fred was in medical school.

He earned his M.D. degree in1904, and opened a medical practice in Rhode Island. They moved to a farm near Richmond, Va. in 1907, where Fred tried

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his hand as a farmer and “country doctor.”

In 1911, the Drownes returned to Warren, R.I., where he was the town doctor.

In the meantime, Lila’s brothers began work on a new home for their parents, in the meadow below Bee Cottage, which was completed in 1904-05. Although expecting their first child (Mary), Lila came home to help with the project.

“It was an elegant house of seven large rooms, a big hall through it, a wrap-around porch that was covered over to make an upstairs porch,” according to the family history written by Mary Drowne Gale.

“It also had a lean-to kitchen with a pass-through to the dining room, and a bathroom. Outside was a large wash house,

Top: The Church of Our Savior at Little Georgetown was established in 1887 by former members of Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains. The chapel and cemetery surrounding it were acquired by Grace church in 1967. Bottom: During the Spanish-American War, sick soldiers from Ft. Alger, near Falls Church, were sent to Broad Run to recuperate.

They lived in tents, or in serious cases, with local families. Courtesy of the Kansas Historical Society.

with a loft higher up than the bathroom, in which there was a storage tank for the water.”

Because their children liked to entertain company in the new house, Hugh and Bessie didn’t move in right away. But due to the deteriorating condition of Bee Cottage, they finally made the change.

Sadly, Hugh died in July 1912, and was buried in the cemetery at LaGrange. It is interesting to note that Bessie received a Civil War veteran’s pension from the

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federal government for Hugh’s service as a Confederate soldier.

After the U.S. entered World War I, Fred Drowne volunteered to serve in the Medical Corps, and Lila and daughters Mary and Christine came back to Broad Run. Bessie needed a new barn for her horse and cow, and Lila – who had already proven her talents as a builder – dismantled Bee Cottage board-by-board, and dragged the lumber down the hill.

There she built a sturdy stable that stood until the mid-1930s, when the property was sold to Addie Flynn, the widow of Wesley White who had married family friend Ashby Flynn. The stable was torn down, and in 1936, a small, singlestory house was built on the site.

Lila and the girls lived in Haymarket until 1920, by which time Fred had completed his military service and was ready to resume his practice in Rhode Island. Ten years later, Mary and Christine had finished school and had jobs, but Fred’s health was failing. Suffering from stomach cancer, he died on June 27, 1930.

By then America was in the Great Depression, and Lila decided to sell the house in Rhode Island and return to Broad Run. That took until early 1935, but in the meantime Lila designed the home she wanted to build there – on the site of Bee Cottage, where she had been born 55 years earlier.

A contractor was hired, who was most impressed with Lila’s design. By August 1935 the foundation was in and the floor beams in place; by December, the house was up, and the stone work for the porch was started. In May 1935, the stone facing was completed, using material dragged down from the quarry on Pond Mountain.

Lila did much of the work herself, including clearing the land, digging the cellar, sanding and varnishing the floors, hanging wallpaper and painting. The water system and septic tank were ready by the summer of 1936, and a coal-burning hot-air furnace installed in the cellar. “(My mother) was 71 when she told me she was getting very tired,” wrote Mary Drowne Gale, who was living in Barrington, R. I. “She said she was going to sell the place and come live with me and George (Mary’s husband) so I could get a job. I didn’t believe her. Then George died in 1951, and in 1952, she did sell the place and came to live with me and the kids.”

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Above: This unique stone house was built by Lila White Drowne in 1935-36 on the site of the old Bee Cottage, and was her home until 1952. It is now the home of Don and Dolly Smith. Courtesy of Helen White Mayhugh.

Right: Bee Cottage, in Thoroughfare Gap, was the home of Civil War veteran Hugh Watkins White and his wife ‘Bessie’ for several years.

In this photo taken in 1898, from left: Mr. and Mrs. White, Alice P. Drowne (mother of Robert and Fred Drowne) Fred Drowne (age 19) and Lila C. White (also 19). Seated on the wall: daughter Bessie White, her dog Stanley, Mary White (age 14), the male nurse attending sick soldier Robert Drowne, and Henry White. Courtesy of Mrs. Helen White Mayhugh, the daughter of Henry White.

Christine Hathaway, in Barrington. In her obituary published in The Fauquier Democrat, she was remembered as the “Last of a Virginia Family,” although her brother Paul White, a resident of Manassas, survived her.

In the 55 years that passed since then, much has changed where the White family lived in Broad Run. The “elegant” house their sons built for Hugh and Bessie lies in ruins, its roof caved in; the Flynn house is still there, but vacant and deteriorating.

Lila’s unique stone house is the home of long-time residents Don and “Dolly” Smith.

ON TO THE PRESENT A newcomer who had a lasting effect on Broad Run was entrepreneur Ralph A. Lee (1893-1963) the Northern Virginia dairy products retailer, who as general manager of the Chapin Sacks Ice Cream Co. is credited with inventing the Eskimo Pie frozen treat.

Mr. Lee retired from the dairy products business in 1943, and purchased

Millbrook, the former Beverley property in Thoroughfare Gap. He found a vein of bluestone under the old wheat field, and established the Millbrook Quarry, which provided materials for the construction of Route 55 and other roads.

After suffering a stroke in 1961, Mr. Lee transferred the mineral rights and later sold the Millbrook property to Nicholas Charles Miller, who owned an asphalt paving company in Alexandria. However, it was discovered that the bluestone was too soft to use for paving, and the water pumps used to keep that section of the quarry open were shut down.

According to Kenny Manuel of Broad Run – who along with his father and uncle once worked at the quarry – a hurricane in the 1960s caused the stream to breach the site, filling the quarry with water, and creating an 11-acre lake. Mr. Manuel notes that some of the heavy equipment they operated remains submerged at the bottom.

Today, the 100-foot deep lake is a popular destination for scuba divers and underwater training. The property surrounding it is a busy green recycling facility and dirt brokerage business operated by the Miller family as Millbrook Quarries LLC. The landscape of Broad Run was altered forever by the building of I-66 through

the Gap in the late 1970s. Initial plans called for the highway to pass through Chapman-Beverley Mill, but the public outcry against the destruction of the mill convinced engineers to move the new highway further to the south.

As a result, Broad Run was re-routed, and Route 55 pushed up against Pond Mountain. The little store operated by Anna Lee Manuel for her family near the intersection with Route 600 was demolished, as was the Lunsford’s Gap Grocery. The sites were paved-over, and dynamite was used to break up the huge rock formations that had guarded the south side of the Gap for millennia.

Because area landowners protested the proposed I-66 interchange at Broad Run, it was not built. As one highway engineer remarked at the time, “We’ve often had citizens petition us to have new exits added to the plans, but never before to have them taken off.” This change made it easier for the Broad Run-Little Georgetown Rural Historic District to be created many years later.

Several families living in Broad Run can trace their ancestry back 100 years or more, adding to the long history and unique character of Broad Run. The special feeling they have for the place is something newcomers are quick to notice, and appreciate. ❖

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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t’s been a big year for Hilleary Bogley. The founder and president of Middleburg Humane Foundation (MHF) was recently honored as a 2015 Citizen of the Year by Scott District Supervisor Holder Trumbo and is preparing to break ground for the new MHF state-of-the-art facility just west of Marshall. The new facility, on 23 acres of land donated by Lisa and Zohar Ben-Dov, will vastly increase efficiency and allow MHF to more than double the amount of animals it can serve.

On a journey that started as a veterinarian technician opening a ice-cream parlour in order to raise money to start an animal shelter, Bogley, also a court-appointed humane investigator for Fauquier and Culpeper Counties, says that there’s not much she would change about her life and career path. “I’m very content.

I’m proud of who I am and what I’ve accomplished. I know sometimes I have more four-legged friends than two-legged friends, but I’m okay with that. I think maybe I would have done a couple things differently, but I’m pretty content. Pretty happy.”

Bogley and the Middleburg Humane Foundation save hundred of animals each year through rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming. Just after the historic snowstorm, Bogley sat down with us to discuss the Citizen of the Year Award and her dreambecome-reality for the new MHF facility.

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BR: TELL US ABOUT THE AWARD. WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND? HB: “Well, it took me completely by surprise, I had no idea.

I was asked to attend the board of supervisors meeting and I thought it was in regards to a proposed livestock contract we had been discussing with the county administrator. I went to the meeting and was just completely blindsided, very humbled, and very appreciative that it will hopefully open up some avenues for us to better serve animals in our county. Each district nominates a citizen and I was nominated by Holder Trumbo.

I believe he felt strongly about nominating me because I have worked very hard to build our little shelter into a huge future ahead. I’ve been working diligently for almost four years and closely with county officials to get everything done so we can build a brand new shelter on 23 acres of land that was donated to us. We also really worked hard to get a humane tethering code into the laws of Fauquier County to help chained dogs. One of the saddest things I see as a humane investigator is a dog that is chained 24/7. So we really pushed and worked very hard with the county and were finally able to get a humane tethering code passed just a few months ago. That is a bit of a baby step, we did get everything we wanted, but it’s a baby step in the right direction.”

Above: The new Middleburg Humane Foundation complex building plan. The facility sits on 23 acres just outside of Marshall. Left: The current MHF building. Photo courtesy of Jacki Dyrholm of Furry Paws Photography in Warrenton.

BR: AT WHAT POINT DID YOU REALIZE THAT MHF NEEDED MORE SPACE? HB: “Five years ago or so we realized that we really needed more space. We had the requests and the need for assistance to basically quadruple. It began with the fact that we really needed more space for our horses. Only on four acres, all our livestock and horses have to be in foster homes. It’s kind of an inefficient program when you’re moving animals from foster home to foster home. So that’s where it kind of started, the hopes to acquire more land near us for horses. Then we hoped to build onto our current facility. But then we were given 23 acres which is much better suited to build a state-of-the-art facility.”

BR: WHEN WILL MHF MOVE INTO THE NEW FACILITY? HB: “Everything will move to the new location in phases. The first phase is our livestock facility. We have now been issued all the required permits and we were ready to break ground and then the snow hit us. So that’s a couple weeks out now. We were right there to do it and the snow hit. So we will be in our new shelter, with our livestock and our barns and our sheds, by mid-summer.

And then it will probably be a solid two years before we are able to move the entire shelter over.”

BR: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE OLD MHF LOCATION? HB: “That will be sold. I actually own that farm, so that will be sold. And hopefully someone will love it as much as we have. It’s bittersweet.”

BR: TELL US ABOUT THE NEW FACILITY. WHAT SPECIAL FEATURES WILL IT HAVE? HB: “[The new location] will have a spay-neuter clinic, a grooming salon, a retail shop, and adoption facility. Everything will be much more efficient and we’ll be able to help a lot more people and animals. All of our cats will be housed in quality cat housing, they will not be housed in cages which is really wonderful. So we’ll have an entire cat wing. The dogs won’t have the standard dog kennels; we’re building what we call indoor-outdoor dog suites. We have different sizes and they will have the ability to go in and out, but it won’t be the typical three foot by six foot run, each will have his own little room and a little double pane door that goes to an outside enclosure as well. The spay-neuter clinic is really important. That will be a tremendous asset. It will be much easier on our animals because currently we have to load them in a van and transport them to a veterinary hospital every week to get surgery and then come back. It’s just not very efficient and harder on them as well.”

BR: WILL YOU HAVE A FULL-TIME, ON STAFF VETERINARIAN? HB: “It depends on our funding. I think we’re going to have to start out with strictly volunteer vets. If we are able to obtain the funding via grants or some other type of donation, we would love to have the on-staff veterinarian, but we are certainly right now thinking we’re going to be opening with a volunteer veterinarian.”

BR: HOW MANY ANIMALS DO YOU ANTICIPATE BEING ABLE TO HELP WITH THE NEW FACILITY? HB: “We project that we would be able to, at minimum, be able to help at least 50% more than we are now. We also anticipate expanding our foster program which will also allow us to help more animals. Currently we specialize in the rescue and rehabilitation of animals, so a majority of our animals come to us through cruelty cases, neglectful situations, and willful releases. We also do help some of the surrounding shelters with transfers (if they have an animal that they have not been able

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to adopt out or if they no longer have the space). We currently have not been providing services for owner-releases (I’m moving and I have to give up my dog), that’s where the county shelter comes in. But we have, just in the past couple of months, been entertaining the idea of expanding our foster care program in the near future so we can help take in animals that just need to be re-homed.

The animals we work with typically need extensive veterinary care and behavioral enrichment. So hopefully our numbers will double.”

BR: WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO IN THE FUTURE FOR MHF? HB: “I think it’s just being able to help more animals and more people. This is a tough profession and it’s something I’m very passionate about and absolutely love, but you can’t save them all, you can’t help them all. I want to be able to do more.

You always want to be able to do more.

This facility is just going to be so much more efficient. I think that’s the most exciting. And two years sounds like a long time, but it really isn’t. It will go quickly.”

BR: HOW DID A YOUNG VET TECH TRANSITION TO BECOMING A HUMANE INVESTIGATOR? HB: “Well, interestingly, even when I was very young, I always had an interest in animal shelters. I knew that I wanted to open a shelter from when I was very young. I volunteered at a lot of shelters in my teens and twenties and what I saw was that often the county shelters didn’t have the time, space, or resources to help animals that needed the extra time. So that’s why I opened Middleburg Humane.

I opened Middleburg Humane twenty years ago. I first moved back to Virginia

twenty-eight years ago. I was helping at an organization called the Equine Rescue League. I helped Pat Rogers get that up and running. I was doing some work in the horse slaughter industry. I was trying to bring some public awareness to the inhumane transport of horses destined for slaughter, so the commercial transport of these animals. I was very frustrated with things that I would see at the weekend slaughter sales. And some of the laws that were enforceable were only through the USDA. Well the USDA doesn’t typically work on weekends, so there was this viscous cycle and circle of not able to get anything done.

A women I ran into at the ERL, she was taking the course to become a humane investigator in Virginia. At the time it was like a state program. That is how I became aware of the program and that is why I became a humane investigator. To help the horses in the slaughter industry, initially. Then I branched off from the ERL because I really wanted to offer assistance for large and small animals.

And that’s when I started Middleburg Humane Foundation.

BR: WHEN YOU OPENED SCRUFFY’S ICE CREAM PARLOUR TO RAISE MONEY FOR OPENING A SHELTER, DID YOU IMAGINE IT WOULD BECOME ALL THIS? “Well, I had hoped so. It took me six years. When I opened Scruffy’s I thought, “I’ll be able to raise money for the shelter.” And ice cream parlours just don’t bring in a lot of money, but what it helped me so was gain community support, people got to know me and that I’m very passionate, very hardworking. It took six years to figure that out and we first bought the little farm in Marshall, it had been lived in by two little sisters, Elsie and Lucy Millman, they were school teachers

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and they lived into their 90’s. The place had been abandoned, unlived in for several years, so it was a wreck when we first bought it. We bought the farm in April, 1994, and opened in September.

Elsie and Lucy both passed within days of each other in the local nursing home that same year. I was told they were very happy to know that their farm would be used to help animals. So looking back on it, I’m just very humbled by how far it’s all come. I think the organization has a big future ahead long, long past me.”

BR: BEING A HUMANE INVESTIGATOR AND SEEING ALL THE HEARTBREAK YOU HAVE, HOW DO YOU COPE WITH THAT? HB: “I think it’s the people that make it harder than the animals, to be honest with you. It’s a never-ending job. I have a lot of love in my life and I have a wonderful fiancee who’s very supportive and I love music and I go and see music with my friends on a pretty regular basis (laughs), and it’s very healing for me. I don’t know if that sounds silly or not. But it’s just something that keeps me very grounded, it’s like my church. That’s what keeps me going. I’m really blessed that I

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can kind of switch it on and switch it off. I can deal with what I have to do and I don’t have nightmares about things. It certainly saddens me. Just prior to this storm, always with a storm, I get a bunch of calls from people that are concerned about animals that they knew about but they didn’t think about until the big storm is coming and then they get really concerned. So the day of the storm, on Friday afternoon, I was out stuffing dog houses with straw and giving dogs some help who are living in metal barrels and things. It is hard sitting in my warm house thinking of those guys. So say a prayer for them and hope they can make it. But I’ve done a lot of improvements and awareness over the last 25 years, so as long as it continues to get better, you just gotta focus on the good stuff.

BR: HOW MANY HUMANE INVESTIGATIONS DO YOU GO ON A WEEK? HB: “It really, really varies. I can have three plus calls in a day.

And sometimes I’ll have three calls in a week. So it really, really varies. It tends to come in clumps. It’s been quiet for a couple of weeks. As a humane investigator my goal truly, truly is to help people. If you hear someone out there talking about me, it’s because they didn’t like what I had to do. I’m here to help you.

I try to make a difference and educate people. But occasionally we do have to seize animals.”

BR: HOW DO YOU RECEIVE INFORMATION FOR A POTENTIAL INVESTIGATION? HB: “Often it’s a call of concern that comes directly into Middleburg Humane. Or maybe somebody has given someone my cell phone number and they’ll call me directly. Sometimes people will call the local SPCA and the SPCA will refer them to me. Sometimes animal control will refer them to me as well. It’s a ittle bit of everything.”

BR: HOW MANY HUMANE INVESTIGATORS ARE IN THE COUNTY? HB: Sadly we are a dying breed. The state cut the funding for the program and discontinued the program in about 2003.

Unless you were appointed in a county (with a program) prior to 2003, they don’t have any more. Last I heard, there’s about eight active humane investigators in the entire state. So, it’s quite sad.

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animals and help with medical expenses and things, it can be quite expensive. Because it is a volunteer position. I am not paid to be a humane investigator in this county.

BR: IN ALL YOUR YEARS OF WORKING WITH HURT AND ABUSED ANIMALS, WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT ANIMAL OWNERSHIP? “I’m frustrated that people still purchase animals and don’t do their research first. I understand if people want a particular breed and have their heart set on that breed. And maybe they don’t want to adopt, maybe they don’t want to go to a rescue. At least do your research and make sure you’re purchasing through a reputable breeder who really is taking good care of the parents, that you’re not buying an animal who’s going to have horrific problems. It just shocks me that people still buy animals that are mass produced.”

BR: WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR YOURSELF 5, 10, 15 YEARS IN THE FUTURE? HB: “I hope to still be a part of Middleburg Humane. I would hope for the organization that we could become more financially secure and that we could bring in more staff that could allow us to go one step up like we need to do. Even though we are the Middleburg Humane Foundation, we operate basically from fundraising event to fundraising event. We have not been blessed with a lot of donations, except for the land donated for the new facility. We have to keep raising money. In five to 10 years I’d love to see the organization more financially secure so that I don’t have to wear as many hats. I would hope that we could bring in and groom the next generation.” ❖ All dogs featured in photographs for this article have been adopted. If you would like to learn more about Middleburg Humane Foundation including donations, volunteering, the grooming salon, thrift shop, or animal crisis intervention, please call or visit their website at 540-3643272 or middleburghumane.com.

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By Debbie Eisele

rom the moment you step foot on the sidewalk leading up to the restaurant, customers note the inviting atmosphere that The Front Porch in The Plains offers its patrons. During business hours, diners gather on the front porch of the restaurant to enjoy a cocktail, an appetizer or a full meal. No matter the season.

Architecturally, the edifice is made of an appealing wooden structure that has been remodeled and green rated. All the lighting is high efficiency and LED. Salvaged wood from the remodeling process was re-used in the interiors as much as possible. The markings of the old staircase displays like a piece of art on the interior wall. Even the to-go boxes are made of recycled material.

Tammy Layne, one of the two General Managers at The Front Porch, started her career in the restaurant industry in the mid 1980’s at Black Walnut in Middleburg. A Northern Virginia native, she now resides here in Fauquier County. Initially, Layne admits to having a career outside the industry but moved into this field because she “loves food and people.” She explains that her mentor, Chef David Gedney at Element in Front Royal taught her a great deal and has influenced her career path.

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McCusker (Marketing) round out the professional team that influences the overall experience for customers at The Front Porch. When discussing the name of the business, all three individuals explain that the name was “a battle” initially. The original thought was to name it EIEIO (think of the song) to represent the farm fresh ingredients.

“The name The Front Porch just made sense and we embraced it,” explains Myer. “Our atmosphere creates a place where everyone knows everyone.

It’s a home away from home,” Layne describes. “It’s comprised of people from all different backgrounds and they converse with one another in a comfortable setting. On really nice days customers can’t get a seat on the porch because it’s so full.”

Laura Thorpe, a regular at the restaurant, says, “In the heart of a healthy community is a meeting place where people can commune and enjoy good food and libations together. They need a vacation for just an evening. Like in (the TV show) Cheers; ‘Go Where Everyone Knows Your Name.’ That’s what it’s like here.”

Adding to the welcoming environment, Layne and Myers ensure special details go into each customer’s experience.

The entire team shares the same fundamentals - enjoying the work and making people feel special. From Chef Jason Von Moll, to the entire culinary team and service staff, the ideology behind customer service is what makes their business successful. “Chef Jason has a favorite saying that ‘happy people make happy food,’” explains Myers. “We have so much laughter coming from our kitchen. Our entire team displays effort

and we all get along, that is one of our keys to success.” On any given visit, you’ll probably meet the culinary team and servers Mica, Ed, Connor, JP and Peter.

Layne mentions, “We go above and beyond to ensure the customers have what they need.” Providing blankets so customers can continue sit on the porch in the cold weather is just one example of how the team at The Front Porch go above and beyond for customers.

Layne describes the importance of being actively involved not only with customers, but within the community.

“We donate to churches and farmers markets. Little things pop up and we try to help as best we can in the community.”

The Front Porch typically attracts food enthusiasts, but oenophiles and art lovers will also enjoy the experience. Pieces of art from Longview Gallery in DC are routinely rotated through the business and are available for purchase. Unique, handcrafted products are also available to buy. Myers notes, “Each piece has it’s own story. We do not use big vendors.

Artistic, unique items are personally selected for retail purposes.” The wine selection features vineyards from around the world, so deciding which one to try may be the toughest decision for some.

“Even those who enjoy a libation of a different kind, there are options such as the list of classic cocktails, which changes seasonally,” explains Layne.

Prior to opening, the management team had to determine the type of food the restaurant would serve. “We didn’t want to reinvent the wheel.

We wanted to keep it simple,” Myers explains. Layne interjects that “good

food and knowing what’s on your plate is important. We decided on comfort food with a dash of special.”

The main attraction is, of course, the food. Myers and Layne source their food from local farmers. “Our pork comes from Cerdonia Farm in Strasburg and our chicken and eggs come from Whiffletree Farm,” Myers details. The menu changes seasonally, but the favorite dishes are always available. Both Layne and Myers share their favorite menu items. Myers admits that “Ed (sous chef) makes amazing sandwiches daily and I am in love with a new sandwich every day.

Yesterday’s Turkey Croissant creation was amazing.” McCusker opines, “Tomato Basil Soup and Flatbread Pizza are my favorites.” Layne discloses her favorite as “the Grilled Caesar Salad with Salmon on the side. I ate it every day for about two months.”

In the future, Myers and Layne wish to become an even bigger part of the community. “Expanding The Side Porch, across the street from our current location, is part of our plans. This new venture will enable us to host events.”

Whether you are stopping in to visit The Front Porch for the atmosphere, the food or the drinks, be assured your experience will offer friendliness and a sense of coming home. Layne and Myers jovially admit, “We want to know our customers by name and we give out about ten thousand hugs a day!” ❖

Debbie Eisele is Jill-of-all-trades including writer, editor, certified horticulturist, education advocate, President of the Board of Directors for Allegro School of the Arts, wife, and mother of twins. When she’s not busy saving the world, she enjoys a cup of coffee and being in the great outdoors.

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Engaging in community work used to be a tedious, but necessary, assignment for me. As a freshman in high school, I needed to start adding volunteer hours to my résumé.

However, in the process I began to forget what it actually means to be an active participant in my community.

Until recently, I couldn’t seem to take away anything from an experience that might literally change someone else’s life.

Around early December, I signed up to help my church run their annual holiday basket drive. Through fundraising and prior preparedness, volunteers would prepare 300 bags filled with different food items the night before the event. The following morning, contacted families would arrive at the church, eat a breakfast prepared especially for them, and claim their baskets. The bags included different foods that would substitute for a holiday meal, such as turkey and cranberry sauces.

When I first walked into the fellowship hall, I noticed the amazing abundance of food backed up by the windows, and the hundreds of people congregated around different stations, packaging each item and sending them in bags down a little assembly line. The first thing that popped into my mind when I witnessed this operation was how incredible it was to be in the presence of all of this food, and how not one bite of it would

pass any of our lips. To be surrounded by this large mass of sustenance and not even feel the slightest urge to consume any of it made me feel guilty; conversely, someone else was surely in immediate need of it.

Everyone spent hours carrying the filled bags of food down to the ground floor of the church, where they would be distributed the following morning. It was arduous work, and many of us stopped to take breaks. However, from the youth to the adults, each one of them was willingly taking an evening out of their schedule to endure hard work so another family could enjoy a meal together. It was actually a refreshing activity.

If I had spent that entire night thinking only of how greatly the hours would stand out on my résumé, I would be missing the point of the volunteering.

When I considered how much time and energy was actually concentrated on this project, it helped me realize that my own personal gains are not the goal of working. The hours might help me get to a four year institution in the future, but volunteering helps me develop as a more mature individual today. ❖

Joseph Kim is a freshman at Kettle Run High School. He is new to Broad Run Lifestyle magazine, but very excited for the opportunity to share his thoughts and stories. Joseph is also a talented cartoonist and often creates original artwork to accompany his stories.

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