There’s an increase of homeless elderly (sketch by J. Flannery)
If you’re looking to make a difference for the less fortunate this Chanukah and Christmas Season, to help the homeless find shelter and the hungry to find food to eat, think about “Mobile Hope” in Leesburg as some Lovettsville folk are doing.
If you need some advice on what to give in the way of food, there’s a “window” into what works best in the winter, on the side of the Lovettsville Historical Society. Continue reading
OCTOBERFEST – PAST CHEER & BONHOMIE
Lovettsville, the Town of Love and community, is suffering the stress of the pull and push of a political climate that challenges the most stoic to retain composure and respect and dignity.
It’s a feeling and challenge experienced more widely than this old German-Irish settlement in Western Loudoun. But there are lessons to learn from recent events.
In the last few weeks, first, one individual altered a business sign to insist on a Trumpian view of a Town Plaza.
After that, a woman shouted and cursed in a local restaurant, Andy’s, that a Guatemalan family visiting a friend and family member should show their passports, leave the country, there were obscenities, get the #%@& outa here, telling the family including a 7 year old, they should not speak in any language but English in this country. The cell phone video has since been widely reported on local nbc tv, Buzzfeed and found its way onto other national news and social media outlets.
There have been various defenses for those offending individuals, corrective steps have been taken, fixing the sign, banning the cursing finger-pointing woman from Andy’s Restaurant, but these remedies only go so far, and they do not alter the offending incidents themselves, no matter how promptly these incidents were corrected by other responsible citizens. Continue reading
The Main House on Georges Mill Road – the Millview House
The ever-present multi-generational George family and the Wire family have a history bound together with an old mill and the parcel’s Main House on Georges Mill Road, just West of Lovettsville.
The fabric of these long family trees is woven together, beginning with John George in about 1750.
Fred George and Fran Wire
Fred George, President of the Lovettsville Historical Society, wrapped his arm around Fran Wire, and said, “Fran is the hardest working 90 year old I ever got to know.”
Fran said, with a chuckle, “Thank you Fred for mentioning my age.”
In the 1750s, John George signed a lease obligating him to maintain the land. Continue reading