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Mark your calendars for the next Osprey Watch Alliance meeting, scheduled for April 19 at the Gloucester Public Library. OWA Center for Conservation biologist and speaker, Michael Academia, will complete training for recording our spring osprey nest observations in the soon to be launched upgraded osprey watch website. He shared...

LANCASTER — On February 24, a sunlit date marked with historical memoirs and oral histories, family and community filled the Lancaster Community Library meeting room for “A Family’s Journey into the Life and Legacy of the Honorable Armistead Stokalas Nickens.” This historical presentation was co-hosted by Brenda Campbell and Francine...

by Michael Kunzinger -  Wednesday, April 10 is National Bookmobile Day. To celebrate, the Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system invites the public to two open house events featuring MCPL’s newly acquired bookmobile. On April 10, the bookmobile is slated to be parked and open for visitors at MCPL’s Deltaville branch 10...

ESSEX—Tappahannock Art Gallery (TAG), 200 Prince Street, Tappahannock will launch “Photos & Fibers,” an exhibit of the work of fiber artist Barbara Brecher and photojournalist Michael Geissinger, on Friday, March 1, with an opening reception on March 8. The exhibit juxtaposes the soft florals of Brecher’s wearable art with the sometimes...

The Osprey Watch Alliance (OWA) announced recently that ospreys are returning to the lower Chesapeake Bay area and sightings have been made in Gloucester County at John’s Point Landing and at Machicomoco State Park. Mark your calendars for the next OWA meeting scheduled for 1-3 p.m. March 28 at...

The Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park will present its final lecture of the annual Turner series on Sunday, March 17, promptly at 2 p.m. Begun in 2019 as pre-season events in January, February and March, these three monthly lectures, offered in DMM’s heated events pavilion,...

LANCASTER—Ben Alford Watford of New Bern, N.C., an African American potter, recently donated one of the many hundreds of face jugs he has created to the RAL Art Center in Kilmarnock to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its founding. This type of pottery was historically produced by members of the...

The stage in the David & Wendy Charlton Center for the Fine and Performing Arts at Christchurch School is abuzz with activity in preparation for the annual winter revue. Under the direction of Mark Parsons, chairman of Visual & Performing Arts, together with associate directors Libby Boyer, Kerry O'Grady, and Jim...

The Steamboat Era Museum (SEM) Second Saturday Speaker Series will continue February 10, with Jennifer Sagan of the Friends of the Rappahannock. The lecture will be held from 2-3 p.m. at SEM, 150 King Carter Drive, Irvington. Sagan will speak on the fascinating world of the eastern oyster. Her talk...

by Holly Horton -  One of the things often uncovered by those who search for historic artifacts in the United States are bottles from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bottles from before 1800 are less common, because there were fewer of them made and because glass was valuable enough to be melted and reused. Middlesex...