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(Forgive, that took longer than i thought, met an 11brovo and had to visit.)
Couple of things right off the bat, the Colonial Farm has been closed now for more than two years. Can get into more of those details later. It is a very interesting story, but from first hand knowledge there was no formal/functioning relationship beyond geographic neighbors. We were not three minutes away, more like thirty feet across the road. There is a little more that can be said about that, but the CMCF was not the same “Farm” as the actual training facility/ies Farm/s related to the CIA.
John Podesta did work at our farm (an actual working farm and pre-Revolutionary reenactment of colonial life), but he was a weirdo from the start. Like many people, he probably thought he was auditioning for Agency work which was not true, at least NOT through the Colonial Farm.
Kenneth Starr was a ‘Friend of the Farm’ but not on the board. However, his SPOUCE was. Again, like many people, they both probably thought they were training to be super secret agents or something, but again, no.
Kloman, served on the board (again, i thought he was a weirdo within minutes of meeting him) but the MOMENT he was charged with molestation at the Potomac School (about a mile away), he was removed from the board before sunset.
Some time back, here at QR someanon infered Nellie Ore had some relation of interaction at the CMCF. Myself, i had several HAM friends around over the years and we put up various homemade antennas… but personally never saw Nellie at the CMCF
The most curious common thread MOST everyone who visited, volunteered or worked at the farm was spoken or unspoken inference… believing that they were somehow interacting with CIA in someway or another. More than half the population of McLean (i lived there almost thirty years), was actual and/or IMAGINED affiliation with the Agency. Most everyone fancied imagining themselves Spooks… even the analysts.
If there is interest in the story, i can dig a bit deeper on some of the other names of the listing in the image and try to bring into the conversation. Just wanted to wedge some worthy clarity between shitty people who haunted the farm vs. the actual good and honest farm that was.
“Would you like to know more?”
Conceived in the late 60s, opened in the early 70s, The Farm at Turkey Run, aka Colonial Farm at Turkey Run (named after the creek, later name changed in recognition of large donor Dr. Claude Moore (yet another ODD sort himself)) located near the north end of the George Washington Mamorial Parkway, was envisioned by the National Park Service to be an answer/echo to Mount Vernon located at the south end of the GWMP.
Among several dealbreaking issues that ultimately closed the Colonial Farm (one of the only privately-operated Open-to-the-Public Parks inside the Department of Interior National Parks System… was the FACT that we did not rely upon taxpayer money to operate. We ran the farm on direct donations, contributions, farm sales, and volunteers. Rarely more then ten employees at any one time over fifty years, and sometimes as little a ONE! Hundreds of annual volunteers… attending tens of thousands of visitors to the park. MILLIONS of visitors since the early 70’s
I think we made the NPS look like fools, and they were jelly, covetous, and embarrassed. The last years trying to negotiate renewal of the land lease were literally daywalkingnightmarish. Yet all good things come to an end, and i for one don’t miss the NPS on bit.
Ive written so much text. Stopping here.