Warrenton Lifestyle Magazine October 2008

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS : Jennifer Heyns Amy Griffin Amy Gable George Rowand Kathy Campbell & April Holmes Davi E. Couk, Jr. Dr. Robert B. Iadeluca

Dear Readers, Arriving home from an overseas trip, I was invigorated when I saw the mockup of this month’s issue. We have some great stories that I am certain you will enjoy. Note the extra emphasis on the women of our community—their creativity and leadership help make the Warrenton area unique.

Jennifer Heyns leads off this issue with her Fall Fever story which showcases her ability to both personalize a story and offer a variety of family opportunities. Take a look at the incredible corn maze photograph and imagine how the owners managed to create it.

Next, George Rowand delivers part one of an insightful look at one of Warrenton’s most brilliant couples, Katherine Neville and Karl Prihram. I had the privilege of listening to Ms. Neville speak at a Rotary meeting and was immediately engaged with her stories. She is releasing her latest book, The Fire, in October with an initial print run of over one million books. After you read Rowand’s article, find out more about Ms. Neville on her website, www.katherineneville.com.

As a growing retirement community, Warrenton and Fauquier County host an array of services for seniors to assist families with the care of their loved ones. Kathy Campbell and April Holmes deliver a pointed story on how these programs have come to the aid of a couple of residents. Fauquier Health System has a complementary article that spotlights respite care.

Amy Gable gives us the scoop in Old Town and Amy Griffin updates us on business movements in the area. Also, there is a well-deserved look at the accounting firm of Scheulen, Patchett and Edwards, P.C. Besides being voted Warrenton’s favorite three years running, this firm has shown exceptional community leadership and dedication during its 25 year history. We are grateful for their continued, unselfish contributions. David Couk, Jr. follows with his unique perspective on the financial markets and offers a few timely recommendations for investors.

Susan McCorkindale’s new book, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl, is uncovered in Jennifer Heyn’s second feature of the month. If the book is anything like her blog, it should be quite entertaining and hilarious. Note the upcoming book signings at The Galloping Grape, Borders and Salon Emage.

Dr. Robert Iadeluca dazzles us with another from-the-heart story that should motivate women everywhere to vote. Whether in writing or in person, Robby, as he is fondly referred to around town, always delivers an entertaining story with an inspirational message.

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The event will include a welcome escort from the County line by the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Department, a salute by members of the Fauquier High School Band, and presentation of the colors by the Fauquier High School JROTC. Lunch and dinner will be prepared by Legends Catering and each Walter Reed participant will be provided a voucher for items of their choice at the Pro Shop.

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By Jennifer Heyns

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he very thing that happens to so many people when spring finally blooms happens to me when summer ebbs into autumn: I start to get fall fever.

Ever since I was a little girl fall has been my favorite time of year. It began with going back to school. Beside the fact that I was one of the nerdy few who actually enjoyed school, fall was when I got to wear all of my new outfits, take crisp morning walks to the bus before getting back into the hustle and bustle of hallways jam-packed with all of the friends I hadn’t seen in months.

As I got older (although I stopped doing that at the age of 29) I began to appreciate fall for much more mature reasons. Now my favorite season brings

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the joy of watching my children don their new duds and greet their long-lost school chums. I can sit on the porch with a cup of steaming coffee enjoying the cool crisp autumn air and the bright changing colors of Mother Nature. I love the scent of the smoky sky as neighbors begin to fire up their wood stoves. And most importantly, I can finally get back to my favorite fashionable self in my sweaters, blue jeans and boots.

Not only does the weather, and my wardrobe, change, but it seems that the attitudes in my family changes as well.

We’re still laid back, not yet worried with all of the plans we need to make for the holidays, but we get very excited at the prospect of fall festivals, cool outdoor events and Halloween. My boys seem to revert back to the sweet babes I once knew them to be, asking for collaboration on making their own unique costumes and coming up with crazy and creative ideas to make them scary or wild.

The cool weather just screams for me to start redecorating my home. Once the initial shock of sifting through my hoards of boxes in the basement abates, I retrieve my pinecone and acorn door wreathes, leaf candles and fall-colored tablecloths and linens.

The boys like to help me hang all of our pumpkins, skeletons, spiders and ghosts around the house in the hopes that Daddy might jump when he first discovers our ghastly new décor.

As fond as I am of fall, however, what’s even better is the experience of fall living in Fauquier County. There are so many events that take place in our county in the fall that have become tradition for my family. We may be busy with back to school, sprinting hither, thither and yon for sports and errantly running errands, but there’s always time to take in a few fun family adventures.

One of our favorite family traditions is our annual visit to The Corn Maze in The Plains where we answer themed questions to try to make our way from entrance to exit with as few U-turns as possible - not an easy feat. Then the kids play in their “barnyard of fun” and we take a relaxing hayride through the acreage trying to spot the wildlife that meanders through occasionally.

On the way out, there’s an entire barn filled with farm-made goodies and corn maze souvenirs that we just can’t help but check out, typically taking way too much home with us. For those of you who think you could do it blindfolded and need more of a challenge, try their Moonlight Nighttime Mazes. (www. circleofseeds.com or (540) 456-7339) Just as much fun is the Corn Maze at Cows-N-Corn in Midland. This year’s maze theme is Virginia is for Lovers - the aerial view of the maze is, well, amazing.

Aside from the corn maze, guests can enjoy the play pasture, hand-dipped ice cream, homemade cheeses, and see firsthand what a working dairy farm looks like. Cows-N-Corn will also be hosting Hillbilly Haunted Hay Rides on the weekends, starting on the 17th, a haunted barn and pumpkin picking. (www.cows-n-corn.com or 540-4394806) Another fall activity we always enjoy Fall Fever Continued page 8 Warrenton Lifestyle

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We love visiting the different farms, seeing the animals and sampling the goodies that distinguishes each farm as it’s own unique attraction. Last year my boys were bestowed the honor of helping the Lanes make the day a success at their Alpaca Full Moon Farm. They had so much fun with the animals, the food, the games and all of the visitors.

This year the farm tour will be held on Saturday, October 11 and will feature the southern end of the county and will have stops at a dairy farm, a lavender farm (imagine how great that place must smell!), an Alpaca farm, an equestrian center and a historic farm that is home to hounds of the Casanova Hunt. (www.fauquiercounty.gov/government/ departments/agdev/ or 540-349-5314) This year my boys have decided that they have to have the most awesome costumes known to man, but…they’re too old to go trick-or-treating. Not ready to give up all of the fun and fright of a good Halloween night, I decided to grow my own pumpkin patch so that the kids could invite their friends to come for a haunted hike through the woods and end the evening picking and carving their own pumpkins. Mother Nature decided I should make other plans and I watched my poor plants wither and die.

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he couple, Katherine Neville and Karl Prihram, have lived all over.

He was born in Vienna, Austria, is a college professor who taught at Yale, Stanford, Radford and at Georgetown, and has been titled, “The Magellan of the Brain” for his research into brain functions. She is an author with a new book coming out in October who has lived in more than half the states in America, as well as six countries on three continents. Now they’re both residents of Warrenton, and Warrenton Lifestyles will be exploring the professional lives of these two exceptional people in the next two months. We will start with Katherine Neville.

The writer Katherine Neville was typing furiously on her computer late one afternoon last December as the shadows lengthened and the temperature began to drop. She was on a mission.

“I have to get this into the overnight mail,” she explained as she bundled up for a trip to the post office in Warrenton. “My publisher wants me to send them pages every day, and I have 15 minutes before the post office closes to get this out.”

The pages she was working on have become part of her latest book, titled “The Fire,” which debuts in October. It will join her other books, The Eight, A Calculated Risk, and The Magic Circle, which have been printed in over 30 languages, and which have sold millions of copies, to critical acclaim. In fact, The Eight was voted one of the top ten books of all time in one poll in Spain. The Fire – a sequel to that book – picks up that story line and carries it forward.

“I got the idea for The Fire in 1992, and I seriously started working on it before 2001,” she related. “But I changed 12

everything when the planes hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. My apartment was right across the street from the Pentagon. My neighbors could see the smoke from the Pentagon.”

Neville has an extensive background and interest in the Middle East.

“I used to work for OPEC,” she

Author, Katherine Neville explained. “I worked for the Algerian government from 1972, and the oil embargo started about six months after I started. My company in America got an assignment, and I went there because I could speak French and English. There were a lot of job requirements, and I was the only woman that met them all.

“I worked on the pipeline project in Algeria,” she continued. “They thought that they would run out of oil, but then they found the world’s largest strike of natural gas. The pipeline went under the Mediterranean, and into Italy. I was there for quite awhile.”

It was that first-hand, boots-onthe-ground experience that changed her viewpoint about the future of

the world.

“When OPEC did the oil embargo – they called it a boycott – I realized that there was a third future staring at us,” she said. “There was the West, there were the Communists, and because of oil, all these Middle Eastern cultures were going to have economic clout. It reminded me of the French Revolution because it rearranged the power structure. It put power into the hands of the little people, and it also changed the governments. I saw OPEC having that kind of impact.”

Neville has had a variety of careers.

She was an international computer executive and consultant, principally in the fields of finance and energy.

She also has been a commercial photographer, a portrait painter, busboy, waiter, and model. For an author, it seems, everything that happens in one’s life becomes grist for the mill. Born in Missouri, the peripatetic Neville went to school there as well.

“They called me ‘The Sponge,’ because I could absorb so much,” she said.

Her connections extend in an unlikely way to the likes of Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan and other famous authors.

“Dave Barry, Stephen King and Amy Tan have this rock and roll band called ‘The Rock Bottom Remainders,’ and I was invited to play piano in it,” Neville said, “but I was living in San Francisco, coming to D.C., and they had to rehearse constantly, so I couldn’t. They used to play at book trade shows, but now I think that they perform in other places.”

Always artistically talented, it seems, it was while working in New York City that she got some insight into how she Katherine Neville Continued page 14 Warrenton Lifestyle

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wanted to write. “I went to New York City and worked for 5 years, and I started going to night classes at different colleges,� she said. “I got interested in African literature, and I discovered that that was the structure I was looking for in a novel. The writers of African descent were writing the way I wanted to write. I think that it’s because they had an oral tradition, and that we had lost our roots somehow. That really interested me, and I figured it out within one year.�

The earlier results are there for all to see, and the latest book promises to push her career even farther.

The book The 9/11 attacks on American soil led her to change the book she initially had in mind. “After the planes hit the Twin Towers, I said to Karl, ‘Are we at war?’� she recalled. “We walked home, walked into the house, and they said that a plane had hit the Pentagon, and I thought, ‘the book I’m writing is not the book I should be writing.’�

Neville said that it took awhile for her to process the impact of the attacks, on the country and on the book that she had in mind. “I waited two years,� she said, “and then I started writing it again, and I started writing it with the same characters, same plot, but the other ingredients were new. It begins with the Turks trying to capture the Ali Pasha, the most powerful of the Turkish pashas that the Ottoman Sultan set up across the world. They set up fiefdoms and client rulers, and they ran it on behalf of the Ottoman Empire. “Ali [living in what is now Albania in the early 1800s] was the most powerful pasha, and he thought 14

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The book’s settings move around extensively.

“It’s set in D.C., Russia, Colorado, Alaska, and in historical places in Albania, Morocco, Rome, the south of France,” Neville explained. “The director of antiquities of Albania helped me a lot. I got a lot of Albanian research that has never been published. The scenes set in D.C. are in very unusual spots.

There’s nothing on the Mall, nothing at the Capitol. They are mysterious places.

I lived there. I’ve owned a place in Georgetown for 12 years, and I’ve walked everything between Georgetown and American University. There are a lot of unusually interesting places there.”

Writers of fiction often say that the characters they invent often start to take over the book and take it into places that weren’t originally planned. It was that way with The Fire.

“This book was different,” Neville said. “It literally yanked itself out of my hands. It changed itself into something different. I was surprised every week. I created characters who actually exist.

“I think that the one important thing to remember, if you’re an author,” Neville continued, “is if a good idea falls off the shelf, you have to follow it.

And some of mine for this book range from the U.S. Treasury to a child chess prodigy. No matter what, you have to follow the idea.”

She said that what she was writing in the book, and what was going on in real life often overlapped in an incredible way.

“I worked on the book for five years,” she said. “Once I got the background material with what I had invented, current events caught up with my plot, and with what I was writing. I would call my editor and tell him about an event that just happened, and say, ‘That’s in my book!’ and he’d say, ‘Get out of here!’

He said that a lot.”

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Ah, the book tour. The bane of some author’s existence. The tour for The Fire will be extensive.

“We’re going to launch the book in Washington, D.C., which is very unusual,” she explained. “Most of the time they’re launched in New York or California, and I can’t think of a book – except a political book – that has been launched in D.C. The date is October 14, and we’re having a party at a secret location right in the area where part of the book takes place.”

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Right now, that includes 18 separate flights – something Neville doesn’t relish – including a trip to Spain. And there is talk of a movie or two about the twinned books.

“There have been many options for doing The Eight as a movie here and in Europe,” Neville said, “but we will do these two together. If you try to do one, you’re cheating everyone. I’ve worked with some of the top screenwriters, but you’ve got to know which thread to pull out so that the whole tapestry doesn’t falter.”

Katherine Neville’s newest book, The Fire will debut on October 14, 2008. The publisher is Ballantine Books, and the book will be available at local bookstores and on-line at numerous sites.

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f you are one of the many people within our community caring for a loved one who is disabled or ill, you are not alone. Recent surveys have revealed that 80% of older adults in the region who need care receive that care from their families. Family caregivers are an often invisible, yet vital part of long term care system and community support for older adults.

Family caregivers face common problems and similar situations. Some of the most critical challenges are: Avoiding “burn-out,” loosely defined as spending so much time and effort tending to others’ needs that the caregiver becomes emotionally, mentally, and physically depleted.

Learning about community resources, financial assistance programs, caregiver training, and other available services.

Coping with day-to-day events and managing various stages of care. Depending on your situation, you may be adapting to the reversed role of caring for a parent or trying to deal effectively with a loved one who is reluctant to loose independence or even uncooperative.

Connecting with others including medical and caregiving professionals, families, friends, and neighbors. Learning about solutions to common problems.

Staying healthy and thriving in the midst of a stressful lifestyle.

How to manage all this? We can learn a lot from those who have been there. Here is how one caregiver coped, one story among the many in our region:

“It was tough not knowing what was going on and what to do about it.”

In 1990 Bill Werre’s wife was experiencing symptoms which at that time were diagnosed as Parkinson’s disease.

The problem is that there were other symptoms that didn’t fit that pattern. It wasn’t until 1995, about the time Charlotte Werre was no longer able to walk, that the National Institutes 18

of Health diagnosed the disease as Multiple Systems Atrophy, or MSA. This is one of several Parkinson’s Plus disorders. Its symptoms, ranging from loss of motor control to autonomic failure (which affects blood pressure and body temperature), make it challenging to diagnose.

“It was tough,” says Bill, “not knowing what was going on and what to do about it. Some things about this disorder are critical to know, like keeping the person hydrated I just kept harassing people to get information and help.”

Another dilemma for Bill was how to find care for Charlotte so that he could return to work. He had retired in 1995 but soon after started working again at George Washington University. The closest adult daycare program would not accept his wife because she needed to recline for several hours every day due to blood pressure problems.

Finally through the help of the public health nurse Bill found someone who could care for her 3 times a week.

To add to these challenges, he required heart surgery in 1996. Fortunately his daughters lived nearby and were able to help with their mother’s care.

Although Bill Werre pictured here with a handicap accessible van. physically devastated

by MSA, Charlotte was mentally alert and able to communicate almost to the end of her life. When she could still use her hands, Bill remembers, she played Hearts on the computer using the mouse, even though it took hours.

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Bill would need to provide care for the feeding tube site, as well as other personal care. “I couldn’t even stand the sight of blood,” he says, “then I found myself working with a peg tube.

You find out that you can do a lot of things you thought you couldn’t.”

Another issue was helping Charlotte get to appointments after her mobility was so impaired.

If he could get help getting her down the steps and into the car he could manage, but she needed lifting and carrying. He had to ask the Fairfax County Fire Department to help carry her in and out of the house. Eventually Bill purchased a stair lift so that she would not have to be carried. He also purchased other adaptive equipment, such as a lift to help her get in and out of the bath.

Medicare paid for this durable medical equipment.

Although Charlotte was only 55 when she had to stop working, she was eligible for SSDI, Social Security benefits for people no longer able to earn “gainful employment” due to disability. It

took time and persistence to get this financial resource and Medicare, but it was worth the effort.

He never doubted that he wanted to take care of her. “I loved my wife. It’s part of the marriage to take care of her.”

There were several times when he doubted that he could do it, however. These are the times that having support from others plays such an important role.

When Charlotte died peacefully in 2001 Bill was prepared, having known that with her fragile medical condition she could go at any time.

He still grieved for her, and found it tough to adjust to the change: “I’d been caring for her 24/7 and now I had nothing to do.” But eventually he did return to full engagement in his life. He has remarried and is an active volunteer with his church, VolTran volunteer transportation program, Aging Together, and supporting other families going through the same thing.

What helped him manage during those years of struggling to get a clear diagnosis, looking for help, managing hands-on

Juggling work and caregiving is increasingly common throughout the country. It is estimated that nationwide almost $36 million is lost in productivity due to the challenges facing family caregivers.

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Anxiety comes in many forms. Panic Attacks express themselves as palpitations, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath or a chest pain.

Another form is OCD where the sufferer has uncontrollable obsessions and compulsions such as thoughts about contamination, an extreme need for orderliness or persistent doubts whether an important action had taken place.

Social phobia is characterized by an intense fear of situations where embarrassment might occur, e.g. public speaking. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder might occur after a serious accident, a criminal assault, or a natural disaster.

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care, and having to witness his wife’s deterioration?

Many important supports came from Bill’s connecting with others: His family made a big difference, sharing the care and supporting him and Charlotte. Also, he took the initiative in finding information and resources: “I was able to find others dealing with the same or similar diseases, especially through the internet,’ he recalls. “It’s been like an on-line support group.” He’s become an expert in gathering needed information and can show you a notebook full of important information on MSA and related disorders.

A grief support group was also very helpful. He and Charlotte started attending one group in 1996, to help them cope with the losses they were both experiencing.

Another help was getting involved to help others: He found an outlet by joining the National Caregiver Alliance and serving on a task group on discharge planning.

What did he learn from this experience that he can share in advice to other family caregivers?

“The Internet is a good source of information and support.

I found web sites about these disorders to be very helpful.

“Learn about resources and know your rights. When you want to apply for Medicare, don’t call – file for it – because file date determines when benefits begin.

“Support groups, including grief support, can really help.”

All in all, what did the experience of caregiving do for him? “It changed my outlook on life,” he says. “I learned that government can’t take care of everything, but volunteers can’t either. It has to be a mix.”

It is clear from this example that family caregivers need and deserve support. As Bill learned, caregivers need to know where to get help, how to cope with emotions, often how to provide hands-on care, and how to take care of themselves.

Fortunately there is a series of classes for family caregivers that will address just these topics.

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Two Aging Together partners, Fauquier Hospital and Roberts Home Medical, have teamed up to offer a series of workshops for family caregivers on October 30 in the Sycamore Room at Fauquier hospital. These workshops will run from 1:00-5:00 pm. Participants can attend as many as they choose. The topics are: General Caregiving skills, Home Safety, Community Resources and Caring for the Caregiver.

There is no charge for the classes but registration is required.

To register or for more information call Barbara Crierie at 540316-2630.

Other resources are available too: Adult Day Health Care is available in Warrenton at the Warrenton Community Center. Contact Molly Snurr at 347-2797.

Support groups are another important resource for family caregivers. Below are current support groups in this area: Alzheimer’s Support Group of Warrenton 1st Wednesday of each month 10:00-12:00 Warrenton Adult Day Care Center Contact: Molly Snurr 347-2797 Caregivers Support Group, Warrenton 4th Wednesday of each month 3:30-5:00 Oak Springs Nursing Home Hospital Drive, Warrenton Contact: Leslie Jackson 347-4770 St. Stephen’s Caregivers Support Group 1st Thursday of each month 6:30 – 8:00 8536 Greenwich Rd. Catlett, Va. 20119 Contact: 788-4252

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A good start for the fall season is First Friday, October 3rd, 6-9pm on Main Street in Old Town, where the merchants are waiting to serve you.

The shops will be open later, entertainment will be provided by Bipolar Bill, restaurants will feature specials and local artist will be out painting the colors of autumn.

A petting zoo, compliments of local 4-H clubs, will be open to all children. Buy Fresh Buy Local growers will have the latest in fall fruits, veggies and other delectables. The Partnership for Warrenton Foundation will be selling mums. The gorgeous 10 inch pots are affordable at $10 each.

October 4th is Old Town Warrenton’s second annual Fall Side Walk Sale. Come up and get in on the best buys of the season. Most of the local merchants are participating and have been busy marking prices down for the event.

Stores open at 10:00 a.m. so get an early start.

To get a head start for Halloween costumed participants can join in the annual parade down Main Street, Warrenton on Saturday, October 25, 2008. The event is sponsored by The Fauquier Bank and Fauquier Health. The parade will begin at the corners of Main and 5th Streets at 12 noon.

The parade will culminate at The Fauquier Bank Plaza where trick and treating will begin. Children may then trick or treat down Main Street stopping at participating businesses.

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ne of the most exciting days of my vicarious life is quickly approaching. On October 7 Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl graces the shelves of Borders and other fabulous bookstores across the nation and its author, Susan McCorkindale, is a Fauquier County gem and one of my dearest friends.

In fact, not only is she a local and personal treasure, her book is all about her experiences learning how to live the country lifestyle right here in our fair county. She moved to rural Upperville about three and a half years ago after spending half a lifetime and a glamorous career in the very bustling metropolises of New Jersey and New York, leading her to believe (at least at first) that she could only be, at best, a farmer faker.

Her book is 350 pages of fall-down-funny anecdotes of her adventures on the 500-acre cattle farm she and her family now run.

It’s hard to explain without giving it all away, but Susan’s sense of humor is as divine on paper as it is in person.

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I remember when she first moved here, she looked rather frightened and pale - I believe she was in a state of shock for the first several months.

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I can recall several outings with our friends - and to be sure, we are a raucous group (proof in chapter 37) -

having a grand time, laughing all the while and Susan would suddenly shout, “Stop - I have to write this down!” And she would.

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poring over every page, it was like reliving the first couple of years of knowing Susan, but this time I get to see what she was thinking during her trials and tribulations on the farm.

And I have to tell you, she is a riot both outwardly and inwardly.

Confessions begins with an accounting of what Susan’s life was like in New Jersey, with her crazy hectic commute to her hoity-toity job in New York. She had quite the life up north. Although I must admit, it sounded like she was involved in just as many shenanigans up there as she is down here. It turns out, though, that as suited as she was for the fastpaced city life of power lunches, ad deadlines and marketing programs, it just didn’t suit her, despite her penchant for looking pretty in haute couture pinstripes.

All burnt out and nowhere to go, Susan’s husband convinced her to pack up the Durango and head south in the winter of 2005, where the couple agreed to live on and manage her brother-in-law’s cattle farm.

Something she never in her wildest dreams expected she would be doing….something she never expected she would continue to do even after she got here. It was like a whole new world for her here and Susan uses her quick wit and wellplaced alliteration to recount all of her faux pas and new discoveries on every page of her book.

Now that she has been properly embedded into our community and culture she admits that she has found Farm Girl continued on page 28 Warrenton Lifestyle

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on the farm, from which the book was born. Whether you’ve met her or not, life on the farm really does agree with her high-pitched hilariousness comes her and there are several things about through her writing loud and clear life in northern Virginia that she could and you’ll soon find yourself feeling never live without now. like you were there, too, at each of her “I couldn’t give up the beautiful Confessions. views,” she mused, “I love it here, which One of the best things about is something I didn’t really expect. I having a local author is that you can fought moving here tooth and nail.” get to meet her and have a friendly, What she lovingly (or maybe it smiling face and sweet city twang to was laughingly) describes in her book bring to mind as you peruse the pages as “Country Time” is also something of her book. Susan has planned several Susan has come to cherish. It took a book signings in the good while for her to immediate area including slow down to the more The Galloping Grape on tortoise-like pace we October 9th from 5 - 7 natives have come p.m., Borders Books and to know as second Café on the 18th from nature. noon to 3 p.m., and Salon “I love the space Emage on November 6 and the pace of life from 5 - 7p.m. here,” she confessed, “I am looking forward “You don’t really to my book signings as appreciate it until you much as I am to the leave here for a while, book’s premier,” Susan but then you start gushed, “they’re just like to feel closed-in and little parties, and I love a claustrophobic.” party.”

While New York While Susan will City is known as the be galloping about the city that never sleeps country on a book tour and is famous for its and God (or Oprah) exciting night life, willing, television and The author posing with one of her many new friends.

Susan admits that it’s radio interviews later got nothing on the this year, she will also be planetarium show working on her second she enjoys nearly every night outside she just didn’t get when she first came set of Confessions. As exciting as all of her 110-year old farm house that she to Fauquier County, like the allure of this is for Susan, she confessed to me calls Nate’s Place (not giving this one The Tractor Supply, the country-casual that she’s losing sleep lately just waiting away - if you want to know who Nate fashions and the integration of horse to hear more good news. is, you’ll have to read the book. Hint: Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm and hound into our daily lives. it’s not her husband, kids or brotherFor those of you more like Susan, Girl is being reviewed in the movie in-law.) She and her husband, who she who are fairly new to living in a rural production arena and has the possibility calls Hemingway in her book, like to sit setting, her stories may be like a walk of becoming a film. So… I had to ask outside under the stars and just stare at down memory lane, reminding you of the age old question: the night sky.

“In the movie about your life, who the zooming pace of city life and all of “It really is like diamonds in the the bizarre things you found upon first plays you?” sky,” she noted, “In New York all of the Without a second’s hesitation she arriving here. buildings are lit up and they’re pretty bellows, “Kate Hudson!” and when Some of you may already be but you can’t really see the sky.” familiar with Susan’s work. She’s had asked why, she explained very seriously, Naturally, learning to appreciate several Guest Column spots in the “Because in all of my dreams, I look the beauty that surrounds her took some weekend section of the Fauquier Times- just like her.” time and some obstacle navigating. For Democrat over the past couple of years And Hemingway? Which hunk a city girl, it was difficult for Susan to and has a hilarious blog about living should have the privilege of playing Farm Girl continued from page 26

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get over the lack of shopping options, cell service and Internet speed that the rest of us have long since resolved ourselves to.

For those of you who are like me, it’s very comical to see this beautiful fish out of water swim up upon our shores and flop about for a while trying to learn how to walk upon the land (watch out for that cow patty) like the rest of us. And, trust me, she doesn’t mind. Confessions is all about Susan laughing at herself over all of the things

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Would it be Matthew McConaughey?

George Clooney? Robert Downey, Jr.?

No. No. Mrs. McCorkindale has her eye on one Mark Wahlberg.

Although I have no doubt that every Hollywood studio will be fighting over the rights to Susan’s book, I know there’s no way anyone could say what she has to say any better than she can.

And, I may be a little biased, but I think everyone should go buy the book - one for yourself, one for your sister, your mom, your co-workers, your cousins, your friends. But I digress, to put it as Susan would.

Now, for the really important matter: in Confessions - The Movie, who will play me?

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Scheulen, Patchett & Edwards, P.C. treats their clients with great respect in an extremely professional, efficient and detail-oriented atmosphere. Their sincere concern and care for their clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; financial and personal welfare is considered a rare find in business today. This personal attention is the primary reason that the firm has been successful, allowing it to grow from a three person office to sixteen employees and a

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“We are honored to be recognized and grateful that the needs of those who are ill, dying, and bereaved are receiving national attention,” said Danielsen. “It is our sincere hope that through this article, individuals will reach out to get the help and support they need and that others will be moved to volunteer their time to this important cause.”

The seeds for SCSM were planted in 1984. While standing at her dying mother’s bedside, Danielsen overheard hospital patients crying to God. “There were no chaplains on duty and the hospital staff did not want to bother local ministers late at night,” explains Danielsen. “I wanted to help.”

Danielsen took a class for hospital volunteers and enrolled in a formal chaplaincy training program. She worked in a hospital and hospice care before earning her ministerial credentials with the Assemblies of God and becoming a health-care chaplain. She hopes to one day establish a national and international resource center that provides ministry, training, and retreat for the ill, dying, and bereaved.

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disabled World War I veteran back from combat in France. Throughout their married life until her death in 1930, she was active in the American Legion Auxiliary and spent much of her time composing patriotic poems and essays for publication in various periodicals.

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to pay bail. Her lawyer paid the bail, this keeping her case from the Supreme Court. She was indicted in Albany but the Rochester District Attorney, seeing the handwriting on the wall, asked for a change in venue because a jury might be prejudiced in her favor. At her trial the judge instructed the jury to find her guilty without discussion but did not imprison her when she refused to pay, this denying her the chance to appeal. Â She dedicated her life to woman suffrage.

As a delegate to the National Labor Congress, she persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for women and equal pay for equal work, although the men at the conference deleted the reference to the vote. Later she spoke before the New York State teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; convention at Troy, and at the Massachusetts teachers convention, arguing for coeducation and claiming there were no differences between the minds of men and women. She became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1892, the year of my motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth. Susan B. Anthony died in 1906 and although it took fourteen more years for popular opinion to catch up with her, she paved the way to the voting booth for all women now preparing to cast their ballots on November 4th. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter signed the Susan B. Anthony Coin Act into law. She was the first woman to be honored by having her likeness appear on a circulating United States coin. Â We are now witnessing a historical presidential campaign. The 2008 race has many firsts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a woman, an African-American, and for the first time in 80 years neither a sitting president nor vice president is seeking the presidency. For the first time in the history of the United States, we have a woman Speaker of the House. Women of all political persuasions are extremely excited. However, research has indicated that there is no such thing as a feminine monolithic vote. Women do not necessarily vote for women nor are they single issue voters. They consider numerous ideas, issues, and ideologies. Â Traditionally women were thought to gravitate toward domestic issues such as health care and education while men were thought to be concerned primarily about war and the economy. Since 2002 this no longer applies. While health and education continue to occupy their concerns, equality in the business world and raising the minimum wage are moving toward the forefront. Almost half of the women voters surveyed stated that having more women in public office would change the situation in Washington. Â Over the past 25 years, the gender gap has become a defining feature of our American elections. However, even within the feminine vote there are further divisions and categories. When speaking of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;woman vote,â&#x20AC;? of whom do we speak? Are we referring to women entreprenours who own approximately 10 million firms? Unmarried women See Voting on Page 44 October 2008

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The increasing number of women who are having children beyond the traditional childbearing years? Junior-Seniors aged 50 to 64, many with children living at home? Each category has its own specific interest. The grandmother sees the occupant of the Oval Office through different eyes from the married mother of two young children. The blue collar? The white collar? Â When I was born, the population, according to the U.S. Census was 106 million. When I became old enough to vote, the population had grown to 133 million, not too great a growth.

Now that I am 88 it has exploded to approximately 300 million and the population of women slightly exceeds that of men. I submit, however, that the significant figure is not the total population of women but the percentage of that population who vote. According to the census, in the 2004 presidential election, more than half of women between the age of 18 and 24 did not vote.compared to only 29 percent of women aged 65 to 74 who did not vote. The reasons for the smaller vote in the younger group?

They cited illness or disability, too busy or a scheduling conflict, lack of interest, and not liking the candidates or the campaign issues. Â The Twenty Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution , ratified on July 1, 1971, standardized the voting age to 18. This was the era of the Vietnam War when the rallying cry was that anyone old enough to fight should be old enough to vote. The percentage of women in the military was increasing.

Now we are engaged in a different war and the increase of women soldiers has grown exponentially. Nevertheless, as indicated above, the majority of those women in that age group did not vote in the last presidential election. In that same election 20 million single women did not vote. Â This is a highly significant group.

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They are less likely to own their own homes and, as the only breadwinners, are more likely to be working full time.

There are 48 million unmarried women in America today. Â My mother and Susan B. Anthony would have been both pleased and concerned. Pleased at the political awakening of American women but concerned that â&#x20AC;&#x153;talking the talkâ&#x20AC;? may not be sufficient to move this republic into a healthy direction. Ms. Anthony traveled, lectured, and canvassed across the nation despite constant opposition and abuse. My mother, despite a painful illness, wrote and had published numerous articles urging her readers to exercise their rights. Â Will todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s women â&#x20AC;&#x153;walk the walkâ&#x20AC;? by registering and voting?

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Old Town Athletic Club has finally moved into their new space on Walker Drive and had a grand opening to show off their beautiful new facility. Horizon Real Estate has moved its relatively young business from North Fifth Street to a new space at 211 Broadview Avenue.

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Bare Woods has changed its name to Real Woods & Home Furnishings. They hope it will make it easier for people to understand what they really do. I can tell you from personal experience that it is the best place to get solid wood furniture that will last a lifetime. You can finish it yourself or have them finish it to just the right color to fit your home. It will save you a lot of time running around to locate that one piece, because they can get just about anything that you could want.

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It is a new bank that has been started by a lot of familiar faces from the old Marshall National Bank, because they did not want to see the personal attentions of a community bank disappear. We have two other businesses opening; Neibauer Dental will be moving into a space near Borders and an Indoor Tennis Center is being built at the intersection of Oak Springs and Broadview. Owner Jack Schore says the new tennis facility will be ready in November.

Amy Griffin is the owner of inFauquier.com, the most comprehensive online directory of consumer businesses located in Fauquier County. Maps to all the businesses can be found at inFauquier.com and check out the What’s New page for more business happenings in the entire county. You can reach her at (540)347-4922 or amy@inFauquier.com with your questions or any tidbits you hear about local business.

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