Congratulations and sincerest thanks to Amanda Khalil and Flora & Adam Hanft for everything you do in support of the Preserve’s castles. — Karli & Jim Hagedorn We kept on ascending, with occasional periods of quick decent, but in the main always ascending. Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. — Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897