Feature Articles

The Northern Neck Master Gardeners (NNMG) and Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) will host the 27th Gardening in the Northern Neck seminar (GNN) virtually on March 20. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s seminar will be be held from  8:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m via Zoom. The theme is “Be Intentional: Create Livable, Edible,...

The Gloucester Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department announced that there will be an in-person Gloucester Daffodil Festival this spring. This year’s event, called “A Little Gem of a Festival,” is scheduled for March 27 and 28 along Main Street in Gloucester. It is centered at 6504 Main St. and...

The Northern Neck Orchestra (NNO) will present an entertaining and informative series of free online videos hosted by music director Michael Repper with the first of four talks premiering Tuesday, March 2, on YouTube. A new program will debut every two weeks through April 13. All videos will be available...

by Tom Chillemi -  Sonia Honaker has seen a lot during 50 years at her riverfront home in the upper reaches of the Piankatank River. Eagles and ospreys live here and fish these waters hunting in early morning and late afternoon until dusk. The numbers have improved for the ospreys but...

This article was originally published in the June 2013 issue of The Rivah Visitor’s Guide.  by Larry Chowning -  The Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula have proved to be powerhouses in the development of wooden deadrise boat construction, and the era has lasted from the 1880s well into the 21st century. There...

The Northern Neck Nutshell Racing Association is working hard to grow the fleet—literally. Racers Bill England and Art Gilbert are now building two of the 9’6” sailing prams in England’s shop in Burgess. “It’s a ‘Field of Dreams’ sort of thing,” said Gilbert. “If we build it, they will come....

Get ready, get fit and glide into a fitness activity that is the first of its kind on the Middle Peninsula. Riverside Wellness and Fitness Center – Middle Peninsula will offer a new Glide Fit program at its Gloucester location.  Picture improving your fitness above the water on what looks like...

Historic Christ Church & Museum will host architectural historian Dr. Carl Lounsbury via Zoom at 10 a.m. February 10 for “Church Building in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” A historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for over three decades and an adjunct associate professor at the College of William and Mary, Dr. Lounsbury...

For Middle Peninsula taxpayers who wish to have Taxaide prepare their taxes, packets may now be picked up at the Deltaville Public Library, the Cryer Center in Locust Hill or the Urbanna Public Library. Taxaide reps ask that you take only one packet for each tax return to be...

This article was originally published in the Fall 2015 issue of The Rivah Visitor’s Guide. by Larry Chowning -  In the summer of 1961, just off Stingray Point in the Chesapeake Bay, 12-year-old Robert Allen “Beady” May hooked a 75-pound stingray, a catch of a lifetime, and a fishing moment that...