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Preservation battlefields drive seeks 2025 expansion
Keven Walker of Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation thanks supporters for preserving 7300 acres, opening battlefield parks, and funding a $23000 anonymous year-end gift. The group plans 15 projects to protect 1500 more acres and expand education, with advocacy toward state and local governments as data centers and solar projects threaten sites. The year 2025 aims to open more preserves, restore structures, and deepen public history outreach.
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Keven Walker
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
Why Australians Tackle a 250Year Chateau Restoration
Tim and Felicity, two Australian transplants to France, purchase Chateau de Purnon to restore its 105 rooms and 47 chimneys. The project costs millions, spans generations, and will outlive them, with partial government and private support and a book sales revenue. They live on site, battle a leaking roof, and work with Heritage architects while planning a 2025 wedding. Next week continues the saga.
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James Lagasse
France
Tim
Felicity
Chateau de Purnon
Purnon
Adelaide
Blue Ridge Wine Retreat Launch at Little Washington Winery
Little Washington Winery announces the Ultimate Agritourism Food and Wine Retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains an immersive two day experience starting February with six wine and food classes. Highlights include a Choco Vino Challenge a farm to table dinner and a Vintners Table lunch. Cost is 300 per person includes accommodations and six lessons. Early reservations for February 1 weekend encouraged.
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Blue Ridge
Washington
Little Washington Winery
Ultimate Agritourism
Blue Ridge Mountains
Washington D.C
Littlewashingtonwinery.com
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Donna
Littlewashingtonwinery
Meyerhoeffer wins park's resource management award
Dale Meyerhoeffer, a biological technician at Luray Shenandoah National Park, received the 2023 Director's Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Management in Washington DC on December 11, 2024. He led efforts to protect over 30,000 eastern hemlocks from the hemlock woolly adelgid by insecticide treatments and host-specific biocontrol releases with Virginia Tech researchers, guiding NEPA compliance and monitoring outcomes.
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Shenandoah National Park
Dale Meyerhoeffer
Washington D.C
Meyerhoeffer
National Park Service
Virginia Tech
Rolf Gubler
Shenandoah National Park Trust
America
Nps.gov
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