By Susan Freis Falknor Before they left for their new home in North Carolina, long-time Bluemont residents Don and Linda Corley donated this beautiful antique rocking chair to Friends of Bluemont. This picture shows a little ...
By Susan Freis Falknor Born in 1930, Martin Mitchell is one of the village’s longest-term residents. He is reputed to know more about what happened in Bluemont over the past eight decades than perhaps anyone else. His life spans ...
By Les Querry Good friendships have marked the Blue Ridge Mountain community of unique historic homes since before the turn of the last century. Sometimes these relationships leave traces. Mrs. Huntington was Frances Carpenter, ...
By Rick Gleason, Director The renovations that the citizens of Bluemont have been working toward since the concept of changing the old school house into a Community Center began in the late 1980s have been completed. Bluemont Community ...
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 ...
The Snickersville Academy, Bluemont’s first school and church has stood for almost 190 years and was restored by Friends of Bluemont (now Bluemont Heritage). It was used as a church for about a quarter century, remained the only ...
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” — ...
By Annabel Hughes I never found Carrington House, Carrington House found me. When I first saw pictures of the house in the summer of 2003—sent to me in the mail by a realtor in Middleburg when I was living in Washington, D.C.—I’d never ...