Members and friends of the Goose Creek Association (GCA) recently gathered at Somerset Farm, the home of Elizabeth and Bill Wolf, to celebrate the 2016 Golden Goose Award. This year’s honoree is David Ward, who actively volunteers for the Virginia Save Our Streams monitoring, Loudoun Watershed Watch and GCA. Ward inputs stream monitoring data for use by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. The GCA has sought to protect the area water and countryside for over forty years.
Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville will host its 57th Annual Hunt Country Stable Tour on Memorial Day weekend, May 28 and 29, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. The Middleburg Training Track will be open Saturday only from 7 a.m. to 10 am.
Morning rains did little to dampen the enthusiasm of another gathering at Glenwood Park for the 96th edition of the Middleburg Spring Races.
by Chelsea Rose Moore As the oldest event of its kind in the country, the…
Barbara Roux checks email and sips coffee in her spacious, sparkling white kitchen as dawn breaks one chilly mid-April morning at St. Bride’s Farm near Upperville. Since moving to this area with her husband, David Roux, from Woodside, California six years ago, she’s embraced its rich tradition and history.
by Jim Wofford Second of Two Articles Middleburg’s Jim Wofford won a team silver medal…
David Lohmann, owner of Abernethy and Spencer Nursery and Greenhouse in Purcellville, is no doubt delighted that spring has arrived. Even more likely, he’s more than a little relieved that winter is finally gone.
In the center of Upperville, there’s a small stone building that was constructed around 1800. Originally a tavern and then cycled through a variety of other uses as a real estate and law office, an archery supply shop and an interpretive center, it recently was renovated for its current use as a wine shop.
Alexa Wiseman’s involvement with the Upperville Colt & Horse Show began as a spectator. Growing up in Washington, D.C., her family would make the drive to Upperville and sit on the grassy hill to watch the Grand Prix every year. She began riding at the Rock Creek Park Horse Center and as a pre-teen, switched from spectating to competing.
By Leonard Shapiro Gray Carr Griffin has done sales and marketing for major companies, once…
