The Journal • 11th June 2022

Brown-Shugart House: A local legend welcomes a new family

Built in 1883 by Forrest Washington Brown, a prominent Charles Town attorney, the elaborate façade of the house is typical of many houses built during the Victorian period.

The Journal • 11th June 2022

Belle Vue

Built on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River in Shepherdstown in 1773 by Revolutionary War Captain Joseph Van Swearingen, Belle Vue was originally a one-and-a-half-story stone house. The second story, built of brick, was added twenty years later.

The Journal • 10th June 2022

A new lease on life: Seven generations later, Smithfield Farm descendents revive the family home

Shortly after the 1988 restoration began, a Smith descendant may have disturbed some freely roaming ghostly inhabitants, although she’s not fully ready to admit that the encounter was spiritual in nature.

10th June 2022

Bedington Light House: A peaceful country farmhouse beckons with the deceptive lure of tranquility

The property was originally part of the Lick Plantation owned by Peter Light, Sr., who, in 1790, deeded 366 acres to his son, John Light.

10th June 2022

How the other half lived: The Peter Burr Living History Farm interprets another side of Jefferson County history

When Bill Theriault looks at the 18th Century log and frame dwelling known as the Peter Burr House, he sees many things: the product of the historic struggle of an underdog, an architectural gem that is somewhat an anomaly in this region, an intriguing set of mysteries and discoveries that has yet to unfold, and a community stage.

The Journal • 10th June 2022

Locust Hill: 135 years after the battle, a weary brick shell stands as the only monument

The mansion ruins stand dilapidated and ghostly, yet still elevated, strangely juxtaposed above a sprawl of freshly built golf course houses just outside of Charles Town.

The Journal • 10th June 2022

Good Bones, Good Future: Couple lovingly rescues and revives historic home after it sustains major fire damage

A 1996 fire had ravaged the historic stone and brick house, built in three sections beginning circa 1800. The interior sustained extensive damage: a collapsed first floor, holes in the roof and major smoke damage throughout. The house was bulldozer-bound. And then came Jeff.

The Journal • 10th June 2022

Revival: National Park Service site offers expert advice in historic furnishings

Whether you’re visiting Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield parlor or The National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, the furnishings and exhibits you see have probably at one time or another been handled by the Harpers Ferry team of experts who provide services that include research, planning, acquisition, installation and post-installation support.

9th August 2019

Precious Provenance

A local jeweler amasses a mini-museum of iconic beauty -- and if diamonds are a girl’s best friend, Christopher Rankin is a fabulous matchmaker.

C21 Redwood Realty • 31st May 2010

Winning with Day 1 Mortgage - Andy

Providing clients with a truly extraordinary experience is only possible with the right partners for title and mortgage. This realization drove us to create Day 1 Mortgage. In this series, we celebrate how the relentless agents of CENTURY 21 Redwood Realty partner with the loan officers of Day 1 Mortgage to win contracts while others fall short. We sat down with Scott Boeser of The Boeser Group based in Redwood’s Arlington, Va. office and Day 1 Mortgage loan officer Steve Salvatore to talk about their recent transaction with a client who pulled a “mission impossible” and won a competing contract situation using VA financing.

The Journal • 19th January 2021

Mountain Stage: Where the musicians come to play

West Virginia’s Larry Groce has a knack for pickin’ em. Artists, that is. Musical talents with true star quality. And he’s able to find a star early in its formation, when the pressure and temperature and gravitational pull of the body is so strong that it begins to glow, eventually becoming large, bright and hot. Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Counting Crows.

Project HOPE • 9th July 2021

Humanitarian Work Is Where My Heart Is

“I’m not sure whether I follow wars, or wars follow me,” says Project HOPE’s president and CEO, Rabih Torbay. His reference is to the light-hearted banter that his friends engage him in as they have observed his career path. They tease him, but in reality, they all realize the seriousness of the circumstances in which Torbay has lived and worked.

18th January 2021

Introducing Laura Bush

Written by Wendy Kedzierski - This was the introduction of Former First Lady, Mrs. Laura Bush, spoken by Richard Clark, who was the Chairman of Project HOPE’s Board of Directors and retired chairman of Merck & Co., Inc. Mrs. Bush was the keynote speaker at Project HOPE’s 60th Anniversary Gala in October 2018, held at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC.

Middleburg Life • 18th January 2021

Paradox of a Painter

“I’m nearly deaf. I’m nearly blind. And I’m an artist.” – Tim Chambers It’s late summer in the Shenandoah Valley, and landscape and portrait artist Tim Chambers heads out of his studio at sunrise, armed with paint and canvas to record the morning light. The foreground is golden sunlight glistening on 19th-century silver metal roofs; the background is pure pink sky met by blue-gray Blue Ridge Mountains.

Valley Homes and Style • 18th January 2021

CUT! Costume and the Cinema

Featuring 43 costumes depicting five centuries of style, “Cut! Costume and the Cinema” is on view for the first time in the mid-Atlantic region. Costumes in the exhibition are borrowed from the renowned British costume house Cosprop Ltd. Six of the films featured in this selection have received Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design.

Project HOPE • 8th March 2019

Semira's Story: Giving Up, then Giving Back

Semira Kidane is an inspiration to her village in Ethiopia. The 35-year-old mother and volunteer Community Resource Person (CRP) walks around with her toddler happily strapped to her back, cheerfully greeting her community, offering a listening ear and guidance to those who need health services—particularly those who think they may be infected with HIV.

Project HOPE • 10th September 2021

With Treatment, A Father’s Life is Renewed after HIV and TB Diagnosis

Adunga Kifle served as a soldier in the Ethiopian army for 13 years, trained for combat, ready for battle. But nothing could prepare him for the fight of his life as he faced the concurrent diagnoses of HIV and TB.

Project HOPE • 21st December 2018

60 Years of HOPE: A Legacy of Care

For six decades Project HOPE’s lifesaving work has been an indispensable force in global health, building a unique legacy and training successive generations of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers in developing nations that lack advanced infrastructure. Our driving ambition has been to place power in the hands of local health care workers to save lives across the globe. Our new visual identity represents the personal connection of hands that help – the hands of partners like you. Over

Project HOPE • 19th July 2019

Saving the Newborn in the Dominican Republic

Overcrowding, severe health problems and inadequate or nonexistent health facilities are a way of life in many communities across the Dominican Republic. Dominican mothers and their babies face difficult odds: this country has one of the highest neonatal mortality rates (babies who don’t survive past the first 28 days of life) in Latin America.

Project HOPE • 27th December 2018

A Grandmother's Journey in Namibia

63-year-old Nora Thomson makes her monthly five-mile walk to the local hospital. She is going blind and takes the tiring trek with 14-month-old great-granddaughter Pemai strapped to her back, but she has little choice. She travels dutifully to secure the life-saving antiretroviral therapy medication (ART) that is essential for her and her grandson, 13-year-old Santi. Both are HIV-positive, so without this medicine they would face sickness and eventually a slow, miserable death.