The Barns of Rose Hill presents a Reading and Book Signing by award-winning Middleburg Mystery Writer Jan Neuharth for her new thriller, The Kill, on Sunday September 12 at 5:00 PM. Wine reception to follow.

The John H. Enders Volunteer Fire Company Social Hall, 9 South Buckmarsh Street, Berryville, Virginia. The Kill is Jan’s third thriller in a series about murder and mayhem in Virginia hunt country. Jan Neuharth's highly acclaimed Hunt Country Suspense Novels capture the colorful lifestyle of the old-money, tweedy, horsey community of Middleburg, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. The fast-paced plots twist and turn through the historic countryside, carrying readers on gripping rides packed with murder, scandal, vengeance, and love—and oh yes, horses! "Whether a gripping read for the sporting enthusiast or a vicarious journey into the world of hunting and hounds for non-riders everywhere, The Kill will keep you turning the pages toward its killer of a conclusion." In & Around Horse Country.

Jan Neuharth, an attorney and avid equestrian, practiced law in Los Angeles before moving to the Virginia hunt country to establish Paper Chase Farms, one of the premier equestrian facilities of its kind. Her debut novel, The Hunt, was a Benjamin Franklin Award finalist and was nominated for a Library of Virginia Literary Award. The Chase won the IPPY Gold Medal for best Regional Fiction and was a Notable Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award. A graduate of the University of Florida and Vanderbilt Law School, Jan Neuharth lives in Middleburg, Virginia with her husband, Joseph Keusch, a former Joint Master of the Fairfax Hunt, and their children. The Kill, the third novel in her Hunt Country Suspense series, was released May 27, 2010
 

The Barns of Rose Hill Presents The Photographs of John Lewis and Dennis Wise
 

7:00 PM Claytonville Farm, 574 Clay Hill Road, Millwood, Virginia.

$75 per person

Cocktails & Hors d’Oeuvres



Generously hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Mazen Farouki
For an invitation please call the Barns of Rose Hill at 540-955-7093.

Barn Again 5K Run & Walk to benefit The Barns

All ages encouraged to come out for this 3.1-mile outing.

The 5K course consists of an out-and-back loop from 101 Chalmers Court (the Joint Government Center) in Berryville, down East Main Street and First Street.

Entry fees: $10.00 for Shenandoah Valley Runners members or $11.00 for non-members if postmarked by September 18, 2010. $12.00 on race day.

Registration from 6:40AM to 7:40AM, with the race starting at 8AM.
Vintage T-shirts available on a first-come basis.
Several simple prizes to be awarded.

Certificate awards will be given to the top three male and female winners overall, and male and female Masters (40 and over).

Awards also for the top three male and female 18 & under, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, and 60 & over.

Third Annual Clarke County Studio Tour
presented by Opus Oaks, An Art Place, The Barns of Rose Hill, and Berryville Main Street.

Hours are 10:00 am – 5:00 pm on Saturday September 25 & 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm on Sunday September 26.

The tour will feature a number of artists and artisans who call Clarke County Virginia their home.  They will be opening up their studios for you to stop in and see their work, chat a bit, and see some demonstrations of their craft.  We have artists who paint in various mediums, potters, sculptures in wood, ceramic, bronze, and stone.  In addition, there are fabric artists, jewelers, photographers, and who knows who might decide to join us. For more information on sponsorship opportunities or to participate please call Berryville Main Street – 540-955-4001. Website: www.clarkestudiotour.org

The Barns of Rose Hill 5th Annual Auction Gala

Eve Watters’s website: www.evewatters.com

Children will be admitted FREE.

Especially to celebrate St. Patrick -
The Barns of Rose Hill with support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation and the Virginia Commission for the Arts Presents
EVE WATTERS

Saturday, March 13, 7:30 PM
Enders Social Hall, Buckmarsh Street, Berryville
$10.00

"Take one accomplished singing harper…
Add a storytelling gift described as 'absolutely enthralling'...
Blend in wonderful songs, sounds, and tales by the score… Sprinkle with high spirits; Season with wit and wisdom… Gently touch hearts; Stir in audience participation…"

With Celtic harp, storytelling, and an array of instruments, Eve Watters celebrates timeless tradition with new spirit and sparkling style, to resonate with all ages. Tales-with-a-twist interlace with ancient airs, songs in a dozen languages, and historic harps, Native-style flute, concertina, banjo, autoharp, pennywhistle or dulcimer.

"…your music moved the whole event into the realm of the magical…"


Eve Watters has sustained a multi-faceted career in harp, folksong, and storytelling. This modern-day bard has had the opportunity to perform for diverse audiences at hundreds of community, corporate and private venues during two decades of extensive travel throughout Virginia, in 17 states, and in Britain and Australia. Now in her ninth year as a Virginia Commission for the Arts Touring artist, Eve is a two-time Governor's Award for the Arts nominee. She has been a Virginia Artist-in-Education since 1986. She is the University of Virginia Health System's first Musician-in-Residence.
 

FILM & FILMMAKERS FOCUS ON HISTORY & RACE IN “MOVING MIDWAY”

January 24, 5PM, Powhatan Auditorium in Boyce
(Most of the following was written by Ellen Maguire and appeared in the Washington Post on March 3, 2009.)

Godfrey Cheshire, a Manhattan film-critic-turned-director, and Robert Hinton, a professor of Africana studies at New York University, will be in Boyce on Sunday, January 24, to present and discuss “Moving Midway”, a documentary by Cheshire and Hinton which played at the New Directors/New Films festival in New York last year. The film, discussion and wine reception get underway at 5PM at Powhatan School auditorium. The event is free to the public.

This Martin Luther King Day event marks the third Barns of Rose Hill and Josephine School Museum collaboration. The documentary focuses on Midway, a one-time North Carolina tobacco plantation’s Greek revival-style house, built in 1848 on land that has remained in one family since 1739. The plantation house was being relocated a few miles to escape the encroachment of interstates and superstores. Cheshire, whose ancestor owned Midway, was filming the journey, with the added ambition of mapping the complex cultural legacies of Southern plantation life.

In a coincidence that Cheshire calls “miraculous”, he spotted a letter by Hinton in the New York Times Book Review. Cheshire knew the surname—it was the same as Midway’s original owner, one of Cheshire’s forebears. A phone call revealed their shared heritage. Both men had grown up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and both trace their ancestry to Midway. Cheshire’s great-great grandfather owned Dr. Hinton’s grandfather, a slave.

Cheshire and Hinton began an intense conversation about history and race. Hinton, who has a doctorate in history from Yale, joined the documentary’s team off-screen as an associate producer and historian. Archival footage and interviews trace the evolution of the Southern plantation from its birth as a cornerstone of the Southern economy into a celluloid icon.

Sponsorships for this event are invited and would be welcome. Contact the Barns at 955-7093.

The Barns of Rose Hill Benefit Performance of DOUBT at WLT

a parable written by John Patrick Shanley & directed by M. Scott Wood. Wine & Cheese Reception – 7:30 PM - Curtain – 8:00 PM Winchester Little Theatre 315 W. Boscawen Street, Winchester. Tickets $25 All proceeds to benefit The Barns of Rose Hill.

For more information please call 540-955-7093.

“Coming to the Table: Creating a New Legacy”

4:00 PM Sponsored by the Barns of Rose Hill & the Josephine School Community Museum - this program was initiated by descendants of slave-holders and descendants of enslaved people together with the staff at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Connected descendants, Will Hairston and George Hairston will share their experiences.  Amy Potter, director of the program will speak about creating a space for racial reconciliation. Josephine School Community Museum 303 Josephine Street Berryville, Va. Refreshments will be served following the talk.

For more information please contact Janet Eltinge at 540-837-9969.

Fall Reading Series
                        
Sunday, 4:00 PM
Grace Episcopal Chapel
North Church Street, Berryville

Launch of Reflections of Clarke County, Virginia,  reception for artists and the public Book signing and sales of new book celebrating Clarke County artists.

Showcasing visual, literary, ceramic, and textile work by Clarke County Artists
 

Please choose shipping/pickup option: Shipping ($5) $40.00 Will PickUp $35.00

Duo Caluda to Perform in Berryville
Classical guitar and piano program features SU faculty

"Ghouls & Goblins Halloween Dance"

Saturday, 8:00 PM
VFW Hall
425 S. Buckmarsh Street, Berryville
Music by The Electric Company of Annapolis, MD
Costumes encouraged, masks provided...
$50 in advance - contact info:
Wendy Clatterbuck 540-837-2128
 

"Two Valley Poets"
Fall Reading Series

Sunday, 4:00 PM
Grace Episcopal Chapel
North Church Street, Berryville
Readings by Clarke County poet Wendell Hawken and Rappahannock County poet Mary-Sherman Willis.

Wine reception and book signing and sales afterwards
 

Fall Reading Series

Sunday, 4:00 PM
Grace Episcopal Chapel
North Church Street, Berryville
Tulley Holland
Winchester resident, and his new mystery novel, MONEYBAGS
Wine reception, book signing and sales afterwards
 

"World Class Blues - Boyce, VA"

On Saturday July 19^th the award-winning Blues team of Paul Rishell and Annie Raines will present “The Long Road Home”, a program of regional blues styles including the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont Triangle, and others.

“Listen to the simmering joy these two bring to the blues and you can almost see the mystical line that separates the timeless from the merely old. They clearly adore the vintage charms of early blues masters like Charley Patton, Ma Rainey, and Blind Lemon Jefferson, but there is nothing archival about the sweet muscle and urban sass they bring to their arrangements. Rishell is a wonderfully convincing singer - and such a hot guitarist that he taught both Susan Tedeschi and Michael Tarbox. Raines plays the harmonica like she was born with one in her mouth. On their undulating whoop of a new album, "Goin' Home," they wear classic blues tunes like a second skin, and their own songs feel right at home beside them.” Boston Globe, October 4, 2007.

The program, sponsored by the Roots of American Music Series as a benefit for the Barns of Rose Hill, will take place on Saturday July 19 at 7:30 PM in the Powhatan School Auditorium, Boyce, Va. Admission is $20.00. For reservations, more information, or directions please call: 540-955-4001.

The Roots of American Music Series is sponsored by Berryville Main Street, with funding assistance provided by Marion Park Lewis Foundation- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities - National Endowment for the Arts.

Proceeds will go to “raise the barns” & restore two dairy barns in downtown Berryville as a community & cultural arts center.

8:30AM - Noon

Grace Episcopal Church
Fellowship Hall
Berryville






For information and to register contact Blue Ridge Hospice at 540-536-5210 or visit www.blueridgehospice.org.

The Barns of Rose Hill and Blue Ridge Hospice Community Program:
"Intimate Journeys – Guide to Care Giving in the Final Months of Life"

Hospice educator, author and speaker, Betsy Murphy, FNP, CHPN, will be the presenter for a half-day program on end-of-life care on Friday, June 6, at Grace Episcopal Church in Berryville. The event will focus on caring for individuals in the final months of life from the perspective of the caregiver. The program will be of interest to the general public, clergy, as well as healthcare and health-related professionals.

Sponsored by The Barns of Rose Hill and Blue Ridge Hospice, the event represents a collaborative effort between the two organizations to benefit the community. A variety of sponsorships are available for individuals and businesses wishing to support the program. Contact Diana Kincannon at 540-955-7093 for additional information. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be offered for healthcare professionals. Lending support to help underwrite the program to date are: Hazen Wilson/J. Douglas Moler Insurance Agency, Roseville Veterinary Clinic, Annandale Millwork, Veramar Vineyards, Carter +Burton Architecture, Diamond Auto Spa, Shenandoah Sand, Omega Drywall, Ltd., and Foreman Builders.

Refreshments and registration begin at 8:30 a.m. The program begins at 9 a.m. and concludes by noon . Cost is $25, which includes all program materials and a copy of the speaker's book on end-of-life care. The agenda will also include a brief presentation by Blue Ridge Hospice on the value of music and pet therapy in patient care.

A resident of the Middleburg area, Betsy Murphy has worked in hospice care for 23 years in the Washington metropolitan area. Trained as a family nurse practitioner and certified as a hospice and palliative care nurse, she found the field of hospice work of great interest and has devoted her career to improving end-of-life care for patients and their families. In recent years, Murphy's focus shifted from hands-on nursing to an educator's role, teaching nurses, social workers, and the general public, to more effectively work with patients.

Widely published in nursing journals and a frequent speaker on hospice care, Murphy was prompted to write her own book, Guide to Caregiving in the Final Months of Life, after watching caregivers struggle to understand how to serve as an advocate for their loved ones.

In 1993, Murphy was honored as an Outstanding Woman in Medicine by the Loudoun Board of Supervisors. She was again recognized in 1997 and 2003 as an Outstanding Woman of Loudoun.

Benefit Concert for The Barns of Rose Hill Featuring
“Where’s Aubrey”

www.wheresaubrey.com
Doors open: 7:00 PM
Concert:7:30 PM
Powhatan School Auditorium
Boyce, Virginia 

Concert admission will be $10 per adult at the door
with no charge for children. Seating is limited.

Advance tickets will be available at JV Music in Berryville.
For more information please call Susan Bailey at 540-955-3736www.barnsofrosehill.org     540-955-7093
 

“EarthFest in Rose Hill Park & the Barns of Rose Hill”


The lower section of the barn will house the many green vendors displaying their products and free educational seminars ranging from solar and wind technology to how to grocery shop for a greener lifestyle. There will be a children’s learning tent, a recycling center, an outdoor organic cafe and a special play about Walden Pond presented by the drama club at Clarke County High School to further educate about the environment. The event will also feature live music by James Leva and Purgatory Mountain. A special Earthday CD release by local groups with songs about the environment will be available at the event as well.

The event is being sponsored Go Green LLC. For more information please contact Cheryl Anne Ash, Go Green LLC, Construction With a Conscience, 540-974-0728.

Website for more info: www.vvalley.com/earthfest

“Arts Festival - Pottery Show & Sale & Demonstrations”

10:00 am - 4:00 pm Fortune Island Pottery, 994 Crums Church Road Berryville, Virginia. Sponsored by Shenandoah Potters Guild & Barns of Rose Hill. There will be a wood kiln firing demonstration, plus lots of great new pottery and other art available. Refreshments available for purchase.

Directions from Winchester: Go Rt. 7 East toward Berryville, turn left at Crums Church Road (632), go one mile and turn right onto our driveway. A white sign "Fortune Island Pottery" is posted.

There will be someone standing about halfway to the house
to lead to the parking area.

January 21 & 24, 2008



"Wit, Will and Walls:
The Betty Kilby Fisher Story"

For More Information:  click here

The Barns of Rose Hill to Host Public Screenings of Documentary on Desegregation in the Shenandoah Valley

The mission of the Barns of Rose Hill is to create a community and cultural arts center in Clarke County.   They are well on their way to breaking ground to restore the barns in downtown Berryville, but they continue their dedication of service to our citizens even before they have a roof over their heads!  Just such an event will be offered to the public, free of charge, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, "Wit, Will and Walls: The Betty Kilby Fisher Story", a short documentary film produced by Shenandoah University Television, will be shown at The Josephine School Museum, 303 Josephine St. Berryville, Va. on Monday January 21st at 7:00 PM.

In addition to the showing at The Josephine School Museum, the films will also be shown on Thursday January 24th at Johnson Williams Middle School, and at the Clarke County High School for Clark Hansbarger's Cultural Diversity class and club.  Due to limited space, only the screening at 10:00 AM at the middle school will be open to the public. Please contact the Johnson Williams Middle School at 540-955-6160 for details.

The film was produced by filmmaker Paulette Moore of Berryville with a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. 

The documentary, featuring scholars from across the country, including Dr. Warren Hofstra, Stewart Bell Professor of History at Shenandoah University, examines the life of Shenandoah University alumna Betty Kilby Fisher, who was just 13 years old when she was a plaintiff in a 1958 case to desegregate Warren County (Va.) Schools.  The activism that her family embraced and the subsequent violence they endured for their beliefs shaped Kilby Fisher's life and the lives of those around her. Ray Crawford, a local poet and doctoral candidate in political science at Howard University, performs original, poignant poetry throughout the film.

A companion film called "In My Grandmother's Footsteps" will also be presented at each of the screening events. Produced by Shenandoah University student filmmakers, Kevin and Nick Matheson and Cody and Hallie Penwell, the work features 16-year-old Tanesia Fisher, Kilby Fisher’s granddaughter who portrays her grandmother in dramatic scenes in “Wit, Will and Walls.” 

Betty Kilby Fisher, filmmaker Paulette Moore and SU student filmmakers will be at each location for the film and discussion.

“These films present an opportunity to honor the spirit of Dr. King by helping to facilitate public reflection on the issues of race and class that still divide our communities,” Moore said.

For more information on the screenings please contact Janet Eltinge at 540-837-9969.

October 6, 2007



This Ball is being held in conjunction with Virginia’s Jamestown 400th Year anniversary, as we celebrate our state’s long heritage in the making of history.

The Barns of Rose Hill and Berryville Main Street Present
The Heritage Ball
In Berryville, Virginia

Please join Dance Master Tom Spilsbury
for an evening of English Country Dancing

on

Friday, September 7, 2007 from 8:00 o’clock to 11o’clock
At The Social Graces Dance Studio
850 West Main Street

Music by Julie Gorka, Becky Ross, and Bruce Edwards
Hors D’oeuvre, punch, home-made cakes and confections will be served
Tickets $40; couples $75

May 11, 2007

 

Local Businesses Support Hospice/Barns Conference in Berryville

             Recognized speaker and hospice staff chaplain, Hank Dunn, will be the presenter for “The Journey to Letting Be,” a half-day workshop on Friday, May 11, at Grace Episcopal Church on North Church Street in Berryville. The conference will focus on the holistic needs of patients and families in discussions on end-of-life issues, and is open to healthcare professionals and the public.

            Local individuals and businesses supporting the event include: $1,000, Hazen Wilson; $200-$250, The Battletown Inn, Farland Capital, Inc., First Bank of Strasburg, Mercer Oil, SunTrust Mortgage, Berryville; $150, BB&T, Berryville, Broy & Son Pump Service, Carter+Burton Architecture, Hobert & Kerr, PC, Jim Barb Realty, Inc., Veramar Vineyard, Winchester Medical Center Foundation, Yount, Hyde & Barbour, PC; and contributing supporters, Bon Matin, Costco, Food Lion, Martin's, Starbucks, The Daily Grind, Light House Restaurant, Main Street Bistro, Sponseller's Florist, and Winchester Book Gallery.

            Sponsored by The Barns of Rose Hill and Blue Ridge Hospice, the event represents a collaborative effort between the two local organizations. Members of The Barns are working to restore several old structures to revitalized space as a community-based center for the arts in Berryville's downtown area. Now celebrating its 25^th year, Blue Ridge Hospice serves the City of Winchester, Frederick, Clarke, Page, Shenandoah, Warren and western Loudoun counties by making quality end-of-life care available, as well as offering support to those affected by grief and loss.

            To help explain end-of-life decisions to patients and families, the speaker put his experiences to print, publishing several books on the subject. Hank Dunn's Hard Choices for Loving People has more than two million copies in print and is being used nationwide in hospitals, hospice communities, and nursing homes. Dunn's second booklet, Light in the Shadows: Meditations while Living with a Life-Threatening Illness, is now in its second edition.