By Susan Freis Falknor Years after the idea was first suggested, work to convert the old Bluemont grain elevator into a telephone tower seems to be approaching an end. Using an enormous crane, workers are moving the big boxes of ...
By Mark Zalewski We have made a lot of progress on stabilizing the Snickersville Academy, Bluemont’s first school, built in 1825. Investigation inside the south wall has discovered a major cause of the weakening of that ...
By Susan Freis Falknor Born in 1925, raised in Airmont, schooled in Bluemont, and now a resident of Berryville, Roberta Underwood has a gift for storytelling. In her December 1, 2011 interview, she talked about her early life on her ...
By Susan Freis Falknor In Part 2 of her reminiscences of growing up in the Bluemont area, Roberta Underwood recalls personal impacts of the outbreak of World War II had on this part of the “homefront”: having to give up her ...
By Susan Freis Falknor Intro Published in the Blue Ridge Leader February 4, 2012: “Precious, precious memories” is how Marie Scott describes growing up in Bluemont, in an on-line illustrated article on the “website for Bluemont” — ...