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Willwyn Farm

189 acres $5,150,000 Middleburg – Ideal horse and/or cattle farm; 5 barns, 40+ stalls, fenced paddocks & 3 tenant houses. Equipment sheds. Great ride out with miles of gravel roads and trails. Pond & Beaver Dam Creek. Piedmont Hunt territory.

21 acres $1,900,000 Purcellville – Stately c. 1780 stone house with 5,300 sq ft of updated living space. Timeless features remain such as walnut 3-story staircase, heart pine flooring and 5 fireplaces. Guest house, bank barn with 9-stalls / 8 paddocks. FIOS and a backup generator.

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Thomas Lloyd and Bryan Huffman came to the Daffodil Show at Buchanan Hall for a successful trip to sign copies of their book Bunny Mellon Style.

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5 acres $950,000 The Plains – Pristine brick rambler, wooded and private. Renovated, with 4 BR / 4 Full BAs. 1 BR / 1 BA lower level walk-out suite with kitchenette. 2-car attached garage, rear deck & fenced back lawn area, detached Workshop/Shed.

1.49 acres $735,000 Upperville – 3 BR/2BA Cape nestled down a side street in the quaint village of Upperville. 2,300 sq ft of living space with an open floor plan. Wonderful location within walking distance to the Bluewater Kitchen, Hunter’s Head, post office, churches and more

Moving can make it hard to find community. Which is why it’s so important to choose a local agent who is well connected with a wealth of experience. When you choose Cricket, prepare yourself to make new friends and fall in love with Horse Country.

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Aaron Locke, an eighth grader at Auburn Middle School, received the Howard Grove Memorial Herdsman Award at the Local 4-H and Future Farmers of America members at the 63rd annual Fauquier County Show & Sale. More than $110,000 of prize livestock was sold.

Cricket Bedford Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia

(540) 229-3201 THOMAS & TALBOT ESTATE PROPERTIES Opening The Door To Horse Country For Generations 2 South Madison Street | PO Box 500 | Middleburg, VA 20118 Office: 540-687-6500 | thomasandtalbot.com Offers subject to errors, omissions, change of price or withdrawal without notice. Information contained herein is deemed reliable, but is not so warranted nor is it otherwise guaranteed.

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Former Washington Redskin quarterback Joe Theismann served as the master of ceremonies for a gala dinner at the Stone Tower Winery in Leesburg recently that capped the two-day “Virginia Vine” event benefitting the V Foundation. The seventh annual program, including a cocktail reception at the Middleburg Barn, raised more than $900,000 for cancer research. It brings area donors together with the region’s top cancer researchers to learn about the latest breakthroughs, The V Foundation was founded in 1993 by legendary college basketball coach Jimmy Valvano, shortly before he died from adenocarcinoma.

Photo by Sarah Bullard

Ryann Bradshaw is graduating from Kettle Run this year after participating in Fauquier County Show & Sale since age nine. She took top honors as Supreme Beef and Supreme Lamb Showman, as well as Reserve Grand Champion Steer.

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Middleburg area native Erica Gudino has been awarded a $3,000 scholarship from the Virginia Library Association Scholarship Committee to continue her studies in library science. Erica, 22, is a graduate of Claude Thompson Elementary, Mar-shall Middle School, Fauquier High School and Roanoke College and has served as a mentor at Middleburg’s “A Place to Be.” She and other scholarship winners will be honored at the annual awards and scholarship banquet at the VLA Conference in Norfolk in October. She currently works as a library assistant at the Wil-liam R. and Norma B. Harvey Library’s Peabody Special Collections at Hampton University.


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LETTER from PARIS: Someone’s in the Kitchen with Roma, Just Not John

6min
page 70

DOC WEEK MIDDLEBURG

2min
page 69

Country ZEST & Style Summer 2022 Edition

1min
page 68

Coming of Age With Room Service Please

3min
page 67

Art of the Piedmont

1min
page 66

A Modern Link to Early 1900s Farming

4min
page 65

Tales from The Hunt Field: Melvin Poe and the Big Red Fox

3min
page 64

Nutrition That Makes Great Sense for Horses

3min
page 63

Pooch Perfect at Four Leaf Clover Bakery

3min
page 62

LOSING A LOCAL LEGEND

6min
pages 60-61

HORSEY NEWS & NOTES

1min
page 59

A Fargis Golden Rule: The Horse Comes First

5min
page 58

Middleburg Horseman Helps Jockey Make Kentucky Derby History

3min
page 57

Sporting Pursuits

1min
page 56

A Day in the Life at Upperville 2021

2min
page 54

Country ZEST & Style Summer 2022 Edition

4min
pages 52-53

VINEYARD VIEW: Melanie Natoli Makes Wine, and History

4min
page 51

Warrenton Sports a Glorious New Restaurant

3min
page 50

Perspectives on Childhood, Education and Parenting: That Sixth Sense May Not Be What You Think

3min
page 49

A One-Stop Shop at Upperville Farm and Feed

3min
page 48

Everyone Just Tickled About Pickleball

3min
page 47

Middleburg’s Mount Defiance: A Battle in Your Backyard

3min
page 46

PROPERTY Writes: A Whitewood Road Renovation for The Ages

2min
page 45

MODERN FINANCE: A Not So Stable Stablecoin

3min
page 44

PAMPER PERFECT PLACE FOR THE BRIDE

4min
page 43

90 Percent Half-True, a collection of short stories by Keith Patterson

2min
page 42

Laurie Crofford: Managing a Park for All People

3min
page 41

HERE & THERE

1min
page 40

Back in Middleburg and Always Giving Back

3min
page 39

Matt Blunt: From A Missouri Governor's Mansion to Middleburg

4min
page 38

Some Enchanted Evening: Windy Hill Gala 2022 - Subtle and Creative

2min
pages 36-37

PINK IS THE COLOR OF THE DAY

1min
page 35

David Mars is Salamander Resort’s New General Manager

3min
page 34

Middleburg Safeway Celebrates

4min
page 32

From Aldie to Hamilton, a New Home for Mattingly’s

3min
page 31

Cherishing the Bull Run Mountains

3min
page 30

The Hill School: A Day at the Races

1min
page 29

A Pinch of Time Can Help Save the Day

3min
page 28

A Golden Opportunity Once in Fauquier County

5min
pages 26-27

For Sandy Danielson, It’s All About the Art

3min
page 24

Singing the Praises of a Reluctant Coal Miner’s Daughter

2min
page 23

THIS & THAT

1min
page 22

A Mysterious Writer Loves Her Virginia Wine

2min
page 21

Middleburg Spring Races at Glenwood Park

1min
page 19

Donna Devadas: It’s All Memorable

4min
pages 16-17

GOING FOR THE GOLD

1min
page 14

Fighting Food Insecurity in Loudoun One Acre at a Time

4min
page 12

For Lt. Shaun Jones, The Beat Goes On

3min
page 11

Fox & Pheasant Expands Exponentially

2min
page 10

Some Movie Magic Created at Hill and Foxcroft

3min
page 9

A Special Delivery for the Middleburg Post Office: 20118

3min
page 8

Out in Africa: On Behalf of Man and Beast

5min
page 6

FLOWER POWER ON DISPLAY

3min
page 4

SWAN DIVE

3min
page 3

Middleburg Horseman Helps Jockey Make Kentucky Derby History

3min
page 57

For Jim Donegan: A Lifelong Love Affair With Trees

4min
pages 52-53
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