Feature Articles

The Northern Neck Orchestra (NNO) will present “Warmth in Winter” at 2:30 p.m. February 6 at Good Luck Cellars, 1025 Goodluck Road, Kilmarnock. The concert will feature chamber music performed by the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble (ACE), a dynamic group of young professional musicians based in Richmond. Ace is comprised...

Community invited to try out resurfaced courts weekends, after 5 p.m. on weekdays by Don Richeson -  Middlesex County Public Schools recently had Middlesex High School’s (MHS) tennis courts resurfaced and new nets added. Additionally, pickleball lines were added to two courts in hopes the community could get some more use...

Deltaville’s “Great Decisions” presentations and discussions begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, and will continue the same times each Friday through April 8. Presentations include:    • Feb. 11, Climate Change — Pep Fuller has given presentations on global climate change to the William and Mary Law School as...

A new year, a new start. While some began the first day of the new year purging their homes of holiday decorations, or mapping out plans to achieve new goals and resolutions, or even recovering from antics of the night before, others stepped into the new year by walking...

by Tom Chillemi -  There is plenty of help available for Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck residents looking to improve their land with trees. For planting open land in the Rappahannock River watershed, it is probably best to check with the Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR) about funding opportunities, advises Forester...

by Jackie Nunnery -  When guests enter Lottsburg’s Cygnets restaurant, 2816 Northumberland Highway, they immediately see the bones and character of Watkins General Store, circa 1921. The original wood floors, tin ceilings and shelving-lined walls provide a charming backdrop a century later; and like its retail predecessor, offers a welcoming...

This article was originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of The Rivah Visitor's Guide. by Tom Chillemi -  There is so much to see at the Gwynn’s Island Museum you will probably want to come back again and again. While walking on a Gwynn’s Island beach in the late 1970s, Jean...

by Larry Chowning -  Thomas Calhoun (T.C.) Walker was born an enslaved child in Gloucester County and died in 1953 having made an enormous impact on the future of African-Americans in Virginia and beyond. Born June 16, 1862, in a small cabin on a plantation in Gloucester, Walker was raised by...

The Chesapeake Bay area was once an under-the-radar destination for wine lovers. But over the past decade, there’s been an almost cult-like devotion to wineries in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula as the industry expands and the area offers one of the state’s premier wine trails.  In the past...

by Tom Chillemi -  Building a model boat from wood has many facets. Model builder Don Good of Mathews knows that. It’s a pastime that can take you away from the hum-drum of everyday life. “It’s therapeutic,” said Good. “It’s relaxing and challenging and it keeps me stimulated mentally.” Model building...