Feature Articles

  Preserving the spirt of animals is a skill mastered by Matt Jones of Whitetail Taxidermy at Miller’s Tavern in Essex County. Whether a shoulder mount or a full size display, the animals look alive. The eyes of Jones’ mounted coyote and bobcat are piercing. The deer or elk heads...

Joining the selection of Boar’s Head sliced meats, Burton creates mouth-watering signature sandwiches with 12-hour, slow roasted and seasoned beef brisket and corned beef brisket. It was only fitting I began and ended my meal at Sweet Tooth Cafe in Gloucester Village with a sweet treat. The restaurant and bakery...

We asked. You voted. Once again, our readers let us know what makes the Rivah special in our 7th annual Best of the Rivah Contest! From wineries to oysters, chicken to bait, art to ice cream and much, much more… you have chosen our area’s favorites. Thank you for helping us...

by Larry Chowning - When you go to Guinea Neck expect to see white rubber boots, to be called “Darlin’ ” by man or lady and to dodge fiddler crabs that are scrambling about the marshy roads. There is, however, a lot more to Guinea. Guinea Neck is a peninsula...

A walk in the woods takes on a whole new meaning in Warsaw where a path in The Enchanted Forest leads hikers on a magical quest. The challenge is to follow the winding trails and spot all of the characters hidden among the trees. Thor, Harry Potter, Winnie the Pooh,...

  After growing up and living in our beautiful slice of heaven here in the Northern Neck for 24 years, I thought I had covered nearly every square inch of our riverside peninsula. Boy, was I wrong. After spending the day with Lisa Hull, the economic development and tourism coordinator...

There is something to be said about a restaurant that has people lining up the moment it opens and especially so when it happens outside of a weekend rush. No sooner did the door at Dredge unlock and the open flag go up that hungry diners started filing in...

Dan Loman recorded a spell-binding dolphin video using a drone camera flying over fishing nets on Chesapeake Bay, near where it converges with the Potomac River. Loman, who has spent vacations and holiday weekends at his in-laws’ Ophelia cottage since the 1980s, got his first drone camera in 2014,...

  Long before he served with distinction during the Revolutionary War, became our nation’s fifth president and proclaimed one of the most important and notable foreign policy messages in the country’s history, James Monroe was born and raised on an orchard and farm right here in the Northern Neck. Born on...

  Virtually surrounded by water, it is no wonder that Deltaville is known as the boating capital of the Chesapeake Bay and, as such, home to countless marinas and the Deltaville Maritime Museum. And with that easy, casual feel that is “Rivah life,” it is not surprising that visitors and...