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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...

URBANNA—Bay Transit, the public transportation division of Bay Aging, and the RAL Art Center recently announced the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has committed to be a gold level sponsor of the 2024 Art in Transit judged competition. Additionally, Jeffrey Allison, VMFA director of statewide programs and exhibits and...

The Mathews Historical Museum invites you to “fall in love with history” in February, in recognition of Black History Month. After a January closure for renovations, Mathews Museum Movie Night returns Friday, Feb. 16 with a screening of “The Loving Story,” a 2011 HBO documentary that tells the heart-rending...

The 29th annual Gardening in the Northern Neck Seminar will be held April 13 at Lancaster Elementary School, 191 School Street, Kilmarnock. Mary Palmer Dargan, chief executive officer of Dargan Landscape Architects Inc., is one of the featured speakers at the seminar hosted by the Northern Neck Master Gardeners, reported...

The Reedville Fishermen’s Museum (RFM) was recently gifted a 99-year-old traditional Chesapeake Deadrise Draketail with a Dolphin Nose Stern. The beautiful boat, Fannie, is 36 feet in length, has a 6-foot beam and a 2-foot, 6-inch draft, reported executive director Shauna McCranie. The boat was built in 1924 by Charles...

When hundreds of farmers from across the Commonwealth gathered in November for the Virginia Farm Bureau annual convention in Virginia Beach, they had the opportunity to taste something sweet from the Northern Neck. While the area has been long known for aquaculture and viticulture, Honey River Farm is working...

The Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society (MPAAGHS) will meet virtually at 11 am. Saturday, January 13. The meeting will feature a talk by historian Alan S. Taylor about his book, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. This story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake Bay...

Yorktown’s Christmas Market on Main, with artists, food trucks, strolling musicians and antique cars, will be held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, December 2, and from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday, December 3, in Historic Yorktown. The Town Crier “rings in” the market at 10 a.m. on Saturday followed...

The Museum at Colonial Beach is excited to announce that the Christmas House Tour is back! The 21st Christmas House Tour will take place December 9-10 and will feature nine beautifully decorated homes throughout the town, according to Michele Inderrieden with the Colonial Beach Community Foundation. The 21st Holiday House Tour...