BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Kathleen Hughes
President
Ernie Smith
Vice-President
Susan Sutter
Secretary
Mark Beisler
Treasurer
Directors
David Bednarik
James Behan
Richard Biby
Marilyn Gentry
Bonnie Getty
Stephanie Kenyon
Hans Hommels
Phil Paschall
Patti Psaris
Nick Ratcliffe
Sherry Satin
Miriam Westervelt
Staff
Nancy Doane
Executive
Director
Margaret Good
Assistant
Director, Properties & Land Use Programs
Ann Goode
Manager,
Development Programs
Fran Holmbraker
Fair
Chair
Mary Kenesson
Fair
Assistant
Martha Polkey
Executive
Assistant
P.O. Box 142
40183 Main Street
Waterford, VA 20197
540.882.3018
info@waterfordva.org
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CALENDAR
13 APRIL
Waterford Concert Series: New Century
Saxophone Quartet. 4 p.m., Lucketts
Community Center, 42361 Lucketts Road, Leesburg, VA 20176. $25. Purchase tickets at the Foundation
office before 5 p.m. April 11, or at the door.
15 APRIL
Annual Meeting of the Waterford Foundation. 7 p.m., John Wesley Church, 40125 Bond Street, Waterford.
30 April Introduction to Conservation Easements. 6-7:30
p.m., Oatlands Carriage House, 20850
Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg,
Virginia 20175.
$10, RSVP by April 26.
4 MAY
Reception for Fred &
Carol Johnson. 3-4:30 p.m., Chair Factory, 15502 Second St., Waterford. Contact: Cordelia Chamberlin,
540-882-3578.
5 May
Lecture by Ed Bearss, "Battle
of Buckland Mills." Battlefield
Baptist Church,
4361 Lee Highway, Warrenton, VA
20187
8 JUNE
George Bentley Lecture
Series: Meryl Secrest, 4 p.m., John Wesley Church, 40125 Bond Street, Waterford.
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Biographer Secrest is
Bentley Series lecturer
Meryle Secrest, author of
Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a
Biographer in Search of Her Subject, and acclaimed biographies of Leonard
Bernstein, Salvador Dali, Frank Lloyd Wright, and six others, will be the next
distinguished speaker at the Waterford Foundation's George Bentley Lecture
Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 8. A book-signing and reception will follow her
talk, at the John Wesley Church in Waterford.
In Shoot the Widow,
Secrest writes about her triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search
of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for "a life" is like working one's way through a
maze, full of false starts, dead ends, and occasional clear passages leading to
the next part of the puzzle.
The Washington Post called Ms. Secrest's biography
of Bernard Berenson "a remarkable
tour de force...Scrupulously researched and never boring." For her Frank Llloyd
Wright biography, the Post said:
"Captivating...splendid...absorbing...A life that no novelist could improve on, full
of drama, tragedy, extravagance, and inexplicable luck, both good and bad."
Now in its eighth year,
the Waterford Foundation's George E. Bentley Memorial Lecture Series is named
after the long-time Waterford
resident and preservationist.
The lecture is free and open to the
public, but donations are appreciated. For further information, contact the
Waterford Foundation, 540-882-3018, or consult our website.
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Civil War Historian
to Speak
in Warrenton
Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service and
noted Civil War historian and lecturer, will lecture on the Battle of Buckland Mills at 7 p.m. Monday,
May 5, at the Battlefield Baptist Church, 4361 Lee Highway (at the center of the Buckland Mills
Battlefield), in Warrenton. For
further information contact the Buckland Preservation Society, 703 754-4000 or 540-347-5821.
This event is made
possible by an American Battlefield Protection Program Master
Planning Grant.
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SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 15
Waterford Foundation
Annual Meeting
Dear Friends of Waterford,
After more than a year of planning, permits, and insurance
negotiations, the plan for the rebuilding of the Old School auditorium is ready
for public viewing. Please join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at the John Wesley Church for
the unveiling of the plans for the new Old School auditorium, presented by Bill
Drewer of Quinn Evans/Architects, at our Annual Meeting, at the John Wesley Church
in Waterford.
Before the reception at the Mill, we'll have our official
membership business meeting, where this year's Honorees will be introduced;
committee, officer, and Executive Director reports given; and new Directors and
Nominating Committee elected.
The Nominating Committee (Bonnie Getty, chair; Valerie
Custer, Bruce Cleveland, Ed Lehmann, Phil
Paschall, and Robbie Smith) have come up with an impressive
group of nominations for new Directors, including the following. (Their full
bios are available now at www.waterfordva.org,
were included in the formal invitation mailed to members, and will be distributed at the Annual Meeting):
Charlotte Gollobin
Robert E. Hale
Melanie L. Herman
DeSoto Jordan Jr.
Lori Kimball
Walter A. Music
Tom Simmons
We'll
say good-bye and heartfelt thank yous to another group of impressive people who
are stepping down from the Board this April: Jim Behan, Mark Beisler, Rich Biby, and Marilyn Gentry. Earlier in the year
Edith Crockett, Ed Good, and Mary
Ann Naber resigned, and recently Ann Goode has resigned to take up her new
position as Manager of Development Programs for the Foundation. Join us to
thank them for all their hard work.
Invitations have been mailed. The 2007 Annual
Report of the Waterford Foundation will be available at the meeting. I hope to
see you there. While only members can vote, everyone is invited. Bring your neighbors
who may want to get involved with the Foundation's many upcoming events and
activities. All are welcome.
Best,  President
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Fair wins county
tourism award
The Waterford Foundation's Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit
was awarded the 2007 Tourism Event of the Year Award by the Loudoun Convention
& Visitors Asso-
ciation at its annual meeting March 25.
More
than 30,000 visitors from 34 states came to the village of Waterford
for its 64th annual Fair the first weekend of October 2007, finally
blessed with clear skies after two previous rain-filled
weekends, in 2005 and 2006.
Attending
the ceremony were Foundation President Kathleen
Hughes, Executive Director Nancy Doane, Fair Chairman Fran
Holmbraker, and Margaret Good, Assistant Director for Properties and Land Use.
Fair
Chair Fran Holmbraker, above, poses with the pewter plate awarded at the
event.
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Saxophones
to resonate
in next series concert
Music
from the New Century Saxophone Quartet will fill the auditorium of the Lucketts Community Center at the second in the
Waterford Concert Series performances, at 4 p.m. April 13. A quartet of
saxophones--soprano, alto, tenor, baritone--is a perfect vehicle for a versatile
repertoire from Bach to Bernstein to today's composers.
The Quartet
has won critical acclaim for recordings and performances of Bach's The Art
of the Fugue, works by 21st century composers, and jazz. This concert puts
the Quartet's "elegant musicianship" and range on full display. This concert is
sponsored by Loudoun Mutual Insurance Company.
If you have not yet purchased
tickets, you can do so by phoning the Waterford Foundation office until 5 p.m.
April 11, or you can purchase them at the door after 3:30 p.m. the day of the
concert. Tickets are $25; children under 12 are admitted without charge.
"The program should be very intriguing," reports
Concert Committee co-chair Cordelia Chamberlin. "The first half has an
alternation of-not-often heard Bach fugues and two contemporary selections the
first of the David Lang etudes and a work by John Fitz Rogers. The second
half consists of a Glazunov piece, perhaps the most romantic saxophone quartet
of the romantic period, followed by two more modern selections--Gershwin
and Piazzolla."
Visit the
Waterford Foundation website to view the program and explore a link to an
interactive website that encourages children to understand what a fugue is.
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Bluebird monitoring begins at farm
A team
of local villagers, Loudoun
Valley High
School students, and members of Loudoun Wildlife
Conservancy set up the Phillips Farm Bluebird Trail on Easter Day. The
trained team will be monitoring activities in nine nest boxes over the next
five months, carefully collecting data for the Virginia Bluebird Society, which
tracks population trends.
Folks enjoying the Phillips Farm may see
bluebirds perched on the boxes, but are asked not to disturb the
boxes during nesting season, which starts now and continues through the end of
August. The bluebirds' color was so remarkable to Henry David Thoreau
that he described this species' coloring as "carrying the sky on its back."
For more information on citizen monitoring of bluebirds go to the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy's bluebird monitoring web page.
Nicole Ballard and her father,
Larry Ballard, are volunteer
bluebird monitors for the Phillips Farm
Bluebird Trail
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Johnsons
to be honored
Please join us for a reception at the Chair Factory from 3
to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4, to meet and thank Fred and Carol Johnson
for their recent generous donation to the Waterford Foundation of numerous
pieces of Waterford and Loudoun County
furniture (including the ladderback chair pictured here). Come and discover what Waterford's
early chair makers were producing before the Civil War and how their style
evolved as the nineteenth century moved to a close. See the several one-of-a
kind pieces that the Johnsons have donated, and raise a glass in appreciation
for these gifts. Fred has promised to share some of his extensive knowledge about the pieces. so come and have
some wine and snacks and learn about local furniture.
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