Archive: 2012
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Foxcroft, Norwood Take Top Prizes at K2M STEM Summit
Dozens of high school and middle school girls spent last Saturday engineering brick walls, mixing chemical solutions, solving genetic and forensic quandaries, a…
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Foxcroft Junior Earns National Photographic Honor
Olivia Jane Johnson, a junior at Foxcroft School, recently was selected as a finalist in Photographer's Forum's 32nd Annual College and High School Photography…
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Finally, A Dog Groomer Who Understands
If there is one thing a dog cannot abide, it's being cooped up in a dark, distant cage while waiting for a bath and a haircut. Those little rooms filled with cr…
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Family Values?
There has been a lot of loose talk about "family values" in recent months – on the campaign trail, in the newspapers, on the airwaves and in some of America's h…
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Daisy the Pig at Middleburg Community Center
On a recent and surprisingly snowy March morning, the Middleburg Community Center welcomed Farmer Paul Minor of Bristol, Connecticut, and Daisy, the world's mos…
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Creighton Farms Opens Beautiful Clubhouse
Years of preparation for discriminating members concluded this month with the opening of the Clubhouse at Creighton Farms. Widely regarded as the Washington D.C…
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Courage
After yet another breaking of bread with old school Republican friends, the question remains: whatever happened to political courage? "Off the record," bless th…
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Congressman Frank Wolf Kicks Off New "Waterford Books & Wine" Series
The Waterford Foundation recently announced the re-launch of its popular author lecture series. Originally named the George Bentley Lecture Series, after the lo…
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Albert's Corner
I'm just a little distracted. Spring has sprung and I'm beyond excited. Spring fever has me itching to write about long-awaited games of fetch, sunny morning wa…
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A Delicate Drink of Cool, Clear Water
If you've ever closely observed a thirsty horse delicately breaking the surface of a pool of water, you will understand and appreciate the magnitude of the wond…
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A Creek Runs Through Us
From the trickling of time, the creek that runs through our Hunt Country carried the Indian name Cokongoloto and Gohongarestraw, meaning the "river of swans or…
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Middleburg Eccentric March 2012, Volume 8 Issue 12
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Witch Hazel
Witch hazels are large shrubs that flower in fall or winter. Their name is derived from the old English word "wice" which means pliant or bendable, also the roo…
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Where You See It Changes What You See
I've seen plays produced at a dozen theaters within thirty miles of Middleburg, including five productions in the last three weeks, and the other night, as I wa…
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Water, Political Boundaries, and ICPRB
What kind of a title is that? Has this guy completely lost it? You know, sometimes I have to laugh to keep from crying. We live in Virginia. Virginia has laws,…
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The Blackburn Murder - Part 8: Expectations
This is the story of the 1854 murder of VMI Cadet Tom Blackburn, the trials that followed, and the impact of those events on young men and women who would all t…
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Shocks and Aftershocks
In the past thirty days, Middleburg's new Police Chief announced that he was retiring after half a year's service, Town Council voted to replace veteran Town At…
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Saylor to Chair The Loudoun Laurels
Dr. Kathleen "Kitty" Saylor, CEO of REHAU North America, Inc., will serve as the new Chair of the four-year-old non-profit Loudoun Laurels. A founding member of…
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Sanders Family Sings Again at Wayside Theater
The Sanders family is late. They been on hiatus from the gospel music circuit on account of Uncle Stanley being in the penitentiary, but now he's out and they'r…
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Racism and the Free Press
On the Sunday before President's Day, racist remarks of the most vile sort were slipped onto the Loudoun Times website by a person or persons unknown. They appe…