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Participants in the Pond Ecology Workshop. “We all live downstream.” It’s a popular catchphrase in conservation circles nowadays, communicating in a nutshell how our waterways connect us all. Homesteaders Howard and Neva Scheier may not have heard it put quite that way when they arrived in Virginia in the 1950s,

Completed in 1738, “Great House,” is largely in its original state and is owned and lived in by direct descendants of Edward Hill I. As you walk up the drive to the “Great House” on Shirley Plantation, it’s hard to miss the three-and-a-half-foot wooden pineapple on the roof. A symbol