HERE & THERE

HERE & THERE

Judge David Johnson, the author of “John Randolph of Roanoke,” spoke to an appreciative audience gathered at Llangollen in Upperville to discuss his book. Randolph (1773-1833) was an American planter and a southern politician who served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate at various times between 1799 and 1833. The event was sponsored by the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Foundation.

Photo by Leonard Shapiro

Local filmmaker Tom Davenport, with Ken Garrett, at the Middleburg Community Center for a screening of his 1972 documentary “Thoughts on Fox Hunting” featuring the late legendary huntsman Melvin Poe.

Photo by Douglas Lees

The Land Trust of Virginia and Goose Creek Association held “A Forum on Environmental Justice” at The Hill School Performing Arts Center. Professor Mary Finley-Brook, GCA Co-Chair Lori Kennan McGuinness , The Reverend Weston Matthews of Grace Church in The Plains, LTV Executive Director Ashton Cole and Ashburn District Supervisor Michael Turner.

Kerrie Jenkins and Cricket Bedford

Sean Crocker and Jordy Bentley

The always lively Middleburg Tennis Club Winter Tennis Tournament has concluded. Kerrie Jenkins and Cricket Bedford prevailed in the women’s main draw and Jordy Bentley and Sean Crocker won the men’s division. Khris Baxter was honored with the Ann MacLeod Spirit Award and the John Mascatello Warrior Award went to Field Myatt.

Diego Quintanar-Peña opened the Community Music School of the Piedmont’s 15th Annual Candlelight Concert at the home of Nancy and Tom Dungen playing the first movement of Mozart’s violin Concerto No. 2 in D Major. A junior at Highland School in Warrenton, Diego recently won the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition.

Photo by Martha Cotter

Martha Cotter, executive director of the Community Music School of the Piedmont, with Kerry Roszel, a familiar face from the Land Trust of Virginia.

Photo by Leland Schwartz

Foxcroft School recently announced a transformational, multi-generational $22 million gift from four members of the Mars family. Designated for the construction of a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math) wing as part of Foxcroft’s $65 million Building for Our Future Campaign, the gift is the largest ever given to Foxcroft by living donors in its 108-year history. The Mars family donors, left to right, were Charlotte Audrey Rossetter (2012), Pamela Mars Wright (1978), Victoria Beth Mars (1974), and Bernadette Schuetz Russell (2003).