Table of Contents

Features

4  Rural Paradise Lost?
Is Loudoun near a tipping point?
BY MITCH DIAMOND

11  Historic Villages of Loudoun
Waterford: Standing the Test of Time
BY MARGARET GOOD
Lucketts: Preserving the past together 
BY MARTHA POLKEY

18  The Revival of Regional Wear
Fibershed’s environmental and economic transformation of the textile industry
BY SOPHIE KIDD

22  The New Ag School
The next generation of Loudoun’s farmers
BY JENILAINE MOONEAN-FABBIOLI

26  Loudoun’s Woodland Wonder
A treasured resource for residents and wildlife
BY BENEDICT LENHART

36  Tales of Two Mapmakers
The passion of Eugene Scheel and Yardley Thomas
BY PAMELA BALWIN AND LEE LAWRENCE 

Departments

7  Rural Roads & Byways
Greener Pastures
BY DANIELLE NADLER

31  Recipe Box
The Black Walnut Harvest
BY JASON DONAHUE

33  An Eye for Beauty
Bygone Barns of Loudoun
BY SOPHIE KIDD

42 Protecting Our Lands
Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains
BY LAWRENCE MALONE

47  Legacy Farm Families
Making Hay While the Sun Shines
BY WIB MIDDLETON