By Leonard Shapiro Country ZEST It’s official. The iconic Middleburg Training Center (MTC), built by Upperville philanthropist and Thoroughbred breeder Paul Mellon in 1956, has been sold to the U.S. Army’s Caisson Detachment, best known as “The Old Guard,” that will re-purpose the 149-acre facility to train horses used in military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. The sale closed on Thursday, August 6, the same day the Army had already scheduled an evening town hall m

The Middleburg Community Center welcomes Alchemy Ballet's Pop-Up Company’s Midsummer Nocturne on Saturday, August 22 at 3 p.m. The one-hour performance will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. Presented as the culmination of Alchemy Ballet's week-long Pop-Up Company intensive, “Midsummer Nocturne: Minkus to Mingus, Chopin to Copland,” celebrates the extraordinary talents of young dancers and special guest artists in a vibrant program that moves seamlessly from

Photos by Leonard Shapiro The Middleburg Museum sponsored a lively and informative program recently at the Middleburg Community Center to celebrate the 289th birthday of Lt. Col. Leven Powell (1737 –1810). Powell was the founder of Middleburg as well as a Virginia planter, merchant, Continental Army officer and Federalist politician who served several terms in the Virginia House of Delegates. Some of Powell’s living descendants were in the audience for an event that included