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Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains Celebration Set for Oct. 12 Gem Bingol, a Piedmont Environmental Council field representative in Loudoun County for more than 25 years, will receive the Friend of the Mountain honor from the Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains at the group’s […]

From Loudoun Valley High School, our Jane Pratt & Jed Shilling Blue Ridge Mountain Award winner is a young woman, Arya Tadepalli, whose resume is stunning: in addition to stellar performance as a student and as an athlete, Arya has been an active volunteer in […]

Introduction With this and similar posters the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) hoped to usher in a noble new world of national sobriety. Of course, what the WCTU and their allies actually ushered in was a world of violence, corruption, and crime. Loudoun County, and […]

Matthew Soiland of Purcellville, who will attend Virginia Tech College of Engineering and was awarded $1,500 for his exceptional essay, noted that, “Being the honored recipient of the 2020 Jane Pratt & Jed Shilling Blue Ridge Mountains Educational Scholarship will be instrumental in helping me […]

Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains presented their annual Friend of the Mountain Award to the “SWAT Team” of the Loudoun County Preservation and Conservation Coalition (LCPCC) at their annual meeting on November 24, 2019 at Bluemont Vineyard, Bluemont, Virginia. The award reflected efforts beginning […]

Dear Friends of Friends, Recently we lost someone who has been at the core of Friends’work over the past 5+ years.  Jed Shilling, recently retired Friends Board member, died of complications of ALS in California where he had moved in December to be close to his […]