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and two water courses that tumble through the hardwood stands. (Sixty-six acres of river frontage along the Potomac was shielded from development more than a decade ago by an earlier easement Mrs. Pickens gave to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, specifying that the banks and flood plain will be maintained in a natural state.)
Mrs. Pickens took an unusual route towards guaranteeing the security of what she deemed valuable. “I will sell my farm,” she told the developers anxious to buy this chunk of prime property in booming Eastern Loudoun. "But I will sell only if you meet my terms, not just on price but on protection of what is precious about this land.”
Vinton Pickens is just the fifth owner of the "old, old property” that was granted to Thomas Lee by Lord Fairfax in 1719. It’s been farmed steadily in the intervening centuries, first in tobacco and later in grain, hay and livestock.
She and her husband were not farmers by background. He was an AP reporter who covered the White House during the Hoover administration. “I tell people that, and I might as well be saying Andrew Jackson!” Mrs. Pickens said, laughing. “Both are back there some
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