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December 2024
Bay School Holiday Pop-Up Market
Join the Bay School from November 13th - December 31st for their Holiday Pop-Up Market! Vendors booths will be set up inside the Bay School with some of the most popular artisans, and regularly freshened up with new inventory throughout the season!
Find out more »Antique Southern Quilts Collection Showcase
A special quilting exhibit, “Threads of Our History: Quilts of Mathews Virginia,” will debut at the Mathews Museum, October 5 and will be on exhibit through the end of December. These quilts are from a private collection of an old Mathews family, going back over a century. Mathews is a small, rural southern county sitting on the Chesapeake Bay. The quilts reflect their utilitarian use, in a geographic area that was fairly isolated until the 1950s. The quilts honor a southern tradition of quilting when…
Find out more »Special Presentation by Ocean Products Research
A special presentation by OCEAN PRODUCTS, a company started in Mathews over 60 years ago, and still going strong! Meet the next generation managers and hear their success story. Sawyer Hutson, grandson of RC “Bobby” Hutson will be the speaker. Bobby Hutson started Ocean Products Research, Inc. in 1964 in his back yard. The company is still located in Diggs. OPR was the first company to bring monofilament to the United States, and OPR has been fabricating synthetic net and…
Find out more »Annual Rockfish Tournament
Join the Rotary Club and Morningstar Marina in this year's Annual Rockfish Tournament! With a first prize of $2,000, and $4,000 guaranteed cash prizes, you can win some Christmas money, catch some rockfish, and support a great local organization! Captain Registration is from 5-7 pm on 12/6! $200/ boat entry fee with unlimited anglers.
Find out more »Made in Mathews Open Studio Tour
The Made In Mathews Open Studio Tour offers the opportunity to visit and interact with an accomplished and varied group of working artists and artisans, each practicing thier chosen craft amongst the beautiful rivers and bays of historic Mathews County, Virginia. Our member artists and artisans benefit from a remarkably diverse range of skills, mediums, backgrounds that are as unique as the people who call Mathews County their home. Collectively they produce a staggering array of fine art, textiles, traditional…
Find out more »Donk’s Theater’s Smith Family & Friends Christmas Show
SMITH FAMILY & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS SHOW
Find out more »Empty Bowls
Purchase a beautiful hand-made pottery bowl from Bay School artists, and have your choice of delicious soups, bread and cookies- all for just $20! All of the proceeds go to Hands Across Mathews.
Find out more »2nd Sunday at ETC!
Shopping, Fairy Hair Flare and Two Salty River Chicks Jus Catch'n Up food truck!
Find out more »December 2nd Sunday @ ETC. Vintage!
Come get your *Holiday Sparkle* on at the Fairy Hair event at Etc. Vintage! The Two Salty River Chic's food truck will also be on site. Be sure to swing by for some snacks, shopping and sparkles!
Find out more »Community Christmas Singalong & Concert
Join the Central Village Homemakers for their annual Community Christmas Singalong and Concert, with singing and fun from 3-4 pm, and a cookie social from 4-5 pm! This event is free and open to the public- bring the kids and have a great time!
Find out more »Holiday Open Wagon
Join Gypsy's Wagon for a Holiday Open Wagon event! Visit many vendors in one shop, and enjoy refreshments and treats! The shop opens at 10 am, and is participating in the Main Street Holiday Night Market! You can enter to win a $25 gift certificate with every purchase all day, with two winners to be announced on December 19th!
Find out more »Main Street Holiday Night Market & Tree Lighting
Shops will be open until 7 pm, with refreshments. Pick up a punch-card and find the hidden blue crabs in each shop, and be entered into a drawing for a family prize basket. Carolers will sing along the streets, and Santa will be taking appearances throughout town! Join the carolers for hot chocolate, winner announcements, and tree lighting at Westville Church at 7 pm!
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