2021 brought a notable amount of ups and downs for the Lynchburg community. With the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine, people attempted to resort back to a sense of normalcy,
âI think your house is on fire,â they told her.
Bart, who had been staying less than half a mile away from her Amherst County home with her mother, began frantically dressing as more phone calls came in.
âAnd I get back over to the sanctuary and the house was totally engulfed,â Bart remembered.
Bart, a former Sweet Briar College professor, left her comfortable and clean office job 17 years ago to start Sanctuary Farm Everlasting Care, a safe haven for rescued animals of all kinds. Only recently had she applied to become a 501c(3) nonprofit.
Now smoke, flames and debris had taken it over.