July 10, 2009 My Home on the Ridge -- Philip E. Taylor When I received a membership renewal this January from Friends of Bluemont along with a letter asking for stories about “your house” I was intrigued. Through the years that I’ve lived in my home, I have heard many stories about the house and [...]
William “Bill” Arthur Kelley, age 68 of Round Hill, VA died June 3, 2009, at INOVA Loudoun Hospital. Born on September 29, 194,0 in Bluemont, VA he was the son of the late Herman “Jim” and Hilda Kelley. Following his father’s footsteps ...
From an interview by Susan Freis Falknor, February 21, 2009 Winnie Kelley: Reminiscences of Bluemont and “Aunt Freddie” Osburn In 1962, Winifred (“Winnie”) Osburn Kelley, who grew up in the Bluemont area, was married in the living room ...
By Susan Freis Falknor Bluemont friends and neighbors mourn the loss of Anne Plaster on February 20, 2009. Anne was an indefatigable, spirited New Englander (University of Maine 1954) who married into an old Bluemont ...
By Susan Freis Falknor In its early 1900s’ heyday, the E.E. Lake Store was home to several different enterprises—a general store, a barbershop, a bank, the post office, and a meeting and dance hall upstairs—a variety of uses that might ...
By Susan Freis Falknor Workmen. Trucks. Mega dumpsters. What is going on at the corner of Railroad Street and Snickersville Turnpike? Bluemont resident Jamie Hogan, who last year purchased the property across the turnpike from the ...
