Make NOTE

Make NOTE

If it’s Labor Day weekend, then it’s time for the 123rd Warrenton Horse Show, August 31 to Sept. 4. As part of the festivities, a silent auction tent will feature treasures of all kinds. Thursday evening Sept. 1 highlights the $500 Hogan Horse Transport Schooling Jumper; $500 Children/Adult Jumper and $1,500 Jumper Classic; Friday features Local Hunters and two Warrenton Horse Show Derbys, each worth $1,500. Saturday evening Sept. 3 includes the $5,000 Warrenton Toyota & Miller Toyota Hunter Classic and Sunday Sept. 4, there will be Foxhunter classes starting at 10 a.m. They include Warm Up, Junior Field Hunter, Fox Hunters, Hunting Pairs, Ladies Hunter Hack, Junior Hunter Hack, Gentleman’s Hunter Hack, Hunting Staff, Ladies Side-Saddle, Fox Hunter Corinthian Class, Hunt Teams and the Hunt Night Championship. Warrenton Horse Show grounds are located at 60 E. Shirley Ave. For more information, call 540-347-9442 or visit warrentonhorseshow.com. Admission: adults $10, children under 12 free.

Join the Goose Creek Association on Saturday, Sept. 10 for canoeing the Goose Creek and a litter clean-up. Details: info@goosecreek.org

This just in from Oak Spring Garden Foundation. They are offering open registrations for 2022 Fall Tours on Thursday, Sept. 22 and Friday, Sept. 23. The landscape and the doors to the late Bunny Mellon’s walled garden will be open for visitors to experience Oak Spring in its early fall glory. Visitors will also see the foundation’s Biocultural Conservation Farm on the adjacent Rokeby Farm property, right in the midst of the fall harvest season. As Mrs. Mellon once said, “Once you fall under the spell of gardening—of growing things, of putting together colors, textures, forms, heights, materials—you will carry forever a cure.” Details: info@osgf.org.

The Virginia Piedmont Heritage Foundation is hosting its 24th annual conference on the Art of Command in the Civil War, Friday, Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. to Sunday, Oct. 2 at 5 p.m. at the Middleburg Community Center. A panel of nationally renowned Civil War scholars will explore the momentous events that took place during the Second Battle of Manassas. Learn about the culmination of the Northern Virginia Campaign in the summer of 1862, and discover the thoughts behind the strategy of Generals Pope and Lee as they encountered one another on the same ground fought over a year earlier in 1861. Speakers and topics include: Jim Burgess - “Changes to the Interpretation of the Second Manassas Battle over the Years”; John Hennessy—”Architects of Defeat: Pope and McDowell at Second Manassas”; Kevin Pawlak—”August 27th, 1862: A Critical Day in the Second Manassas Campaign”; Jeffrey Wert—”Toward Greatness: Lee and His Army from the Seven Days to Second Manassas”; Allen Guelzo—”The Unhappy Fate of General Fitz John Porter”; Scott Patchan— ”From Dred Scott to Chinn Ridge: The Story of Supreme Court Justice John McLean and his Son, Colonel Nathaniel McLean”; John Hennessy—”Revisiting ‘Return to Bull Run’: Reflections After Thirty Years” and Eric Wittenberg—”General Stuart’s Role in the Second Manassas Campaign.” Full registration includes Friday and Saturday talks, Saturday night dinner, and Sunday battlefield tour. Partial registration includes Friday and Saturday talks. Additional tickets to Saturday’s dinner are also available. Details: call 540-687-6681.