May Faire, A Rural Life: Country Stores, Post Offices & Wharfs
May 2 - May 3
Kick off the Spring season with May Faire, in Mathews County, Virginia, the first weekend of May every year; join us for a community heritage festival.
The 2025 May Faire theme will be A Rural Life: Country Stores, Post Offices & Wharfs.
The county’s 7th annual spring heritage festival will feature a “county fair” atmosphere and will examine our very rural way of life—the people, their histories, their agricultural heritage, and their stories both past and present—focusing on farming, fishing and families.
This year, May Faire will be a two-day county fair-type of event, with crafters, food trucks, and entertainment, a children’s corner, Pound Cake contest, photography contest and the traditional May Pole dance. May Faire is sponsored by the Mathews Museum, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2025. Visit www.mathewsvamuseum.org for information.
We welcome anyone interested in helping develop this exciting event. For more information, questions, contact the chair at [email protected]
The event celebrates Mathews County’s past with a different history theme each year.
