Aug. 3-Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech (right) and Deputy Secretary Anthony Moore are shown with Fairy Stone Park Manager John Grooms during their visit to the park Thursday.

Source: martinsville bulletin Virginia official impressed with first visit to Fairy Stone Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech (right) and Deputy Secretary Anthony Moore are shown with Fairy Stone Park Manager John Grooms during their visit to the park Thursday. (Contributed photo) Friday, August 3, 2012 By MICKEY POWELL - Bulletin Staff Writer Two and a half years after being appointed Virginia’s secretary of natural resources, Doug Domenech on Thursday made his first visit to Fairy Stone State Park in Patrick County. He was impressed. “It’s a beautiful place,” said Domenech. “It has a different feel than a lot of the other parks. It is very serene.” “It has a historic feel to it,” he said, and in terms of how employees take care of the park, “the upkeep of the facilities really is awesome.” Domenech and his deputy, Anthony Moore, visited Fairy Stone as part of a tour of southwest Virginia’s state parks to learn more about them. Although he has been the natural resources secretary since January 2010, he had not visited Fairy Stone due to other job commitments, he indicated. Covering 4,639 acres, Fairy Stone is the largest of Virginia’s six original state parks. It is now the second largest of the state’s 35 parks.