Brides and grooms, estimable estates, and the very best autumn benefits in Hunt Country.
By Vicky Moon
The recent groundbreaking for the $4.4 million 13,000-square foot National Sporting Art Museum. Turner Reuter, Jacqueline Ohrstrom, Clarke Ohrstrom, Manuel Johnson, Charles Akre, Jacqueline Mars, and Betsee Parker at the 1804 Federal brick Vine Hillon the west edge of Middleburg. The center will open in 2011 with “Afield in America: Four Hundred Years of Animal and Sporting Art, 1585- 1985.”(Photo courtesy of the Sporting Library by Dee Dee Hubbard)
NUPTIALS OF NOTE
Julie Martin and Charley Matheson tied the knot recently after a long courtship. The bride’s mother, Diane Martin, and her sisters Mia Glickman and Suzanne Cooke, were in attendance as well as the bridegroom’s brothers and sister, friends, and other family members at an elegant reception at the couple’s home, “RoseBank.” The newlyweds, who share a love of horses, have been documenting their fox hunting forays, with Julie carrying a video camera on horseback –quite a feat while galloping over hill and dale.
Richmond native Janie Covington and Andrew Motion, a local gentleman/ estate agent with Sheridan-MacMahon Ltd., have announced their engagement and will soon join the Mathesons as prominent Hunt Country newlyweds.
REAL ESTATE NEWS
“The Oaks,” the 215-acre estate formerly owned by philanthropist and environmentalist Joan Irvine Smith (as in the Irvine Museum, University of California/Irvine, etc.) has been sold. Some will recall that Smith’s late former husband, Cappy Smith, was a legendary dashing horseman and a master of the Orange County Hunt.
