Educational
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USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage
Mathews Yacht Club 390 Yacht Club Rd., Hudgins, VA, United StatesUSS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage John D. Broadwater, PhD Tues., Nov. 15th | 7 p.m. Mathews Yacht Club | 390 Yacht Club Rd | Hudgins, VA Open to the Public • No Charge • Refreshments will be served The Mathews County Historical Society will host world-renowned underwater archaeologist John Broadwater, author […]
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Tompkins Cottage Museum Open
Tompkins Cottage Brickbat Road, Mathews, VA, United StatesOpen April 1st - October 28th! The cottage, which is headquarters for the Mathews County Historical Society, is named for Christopher Tompkins, a local sea captain, planter, local merchant, and member of the state legislature. He bought the cottage property in 1837 and is the first known owner. Exhibits include a room dedicated to the […]
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Let’s Farm Day!
C.A. & J Farms 5620 East River Rd., Foster, VA, United StatesThis Let's Farm Day will focus on: beekeeping basics, seed starting 101, organic growing basics - how to get your gardens started, planning & growing your own herbal medicine gardens. We will have new Chicks on the Farm and will talk a bit about caring for new Chicks. We will start with a quick tour […]
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Movie Night at the Museum: BLUE GOLD
Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesOn the second Friday of each month, the Mathews Historical Museum hosts a movie that is of historical or general interest to the public. April’s movie, BLUE GOLD:World Water Wars, is a 2008 documentary film directed, co-produced and co-written by Sam Bozzo, based upon the book, Blue Gold: the Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft […]
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Earth Day Community Drum Circle
C.A. & J Farms 5620 East River Rd., Foster, VA, United StatesDrumming, singing, prayers and fun around the fire! There will be Farm Puppets for children, and an interactive activity of creating a Nature Mandala in the sand! There will be health snacks and drinks, plus drums provided, no experience needed. No tickets required, just show up... $10 donation for anyone over the age of 12. […]
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Let’s Farm!
C.A. & J Farms 5620 East River Rd., Foster, VA, United StatesFarm Tour - get ideas: Beekeeping Basics Seed Starting 101 Starting your Gardens - tips & hacks Growing your own Healing Herbs Chick Care Discovery Weed Walk Tickets are available on the website's "Farm Events" page. CA & J Farm is proud to be a Kiwanis Farm! The Mathews Kiwanis will be joing CA & […]
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Hatchery Tours & Tastings
Oyster Seed Holdings 425 Callis Wharf Rd, Grimstead, VA, United StatesLooking for a cool experience where science leads to sustainable culinary bliss?! Join Oyster Seed Holdings for a hatchery tour and tasting running every other Friday, May - August. Get a behind the scenes look at what it takes to put oyster seed in the hands of farmers. On Tour Fridays, there will be 6 tours […]
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Wellness Day
C.A. & J Farms 5620 East River Rd., Foster, VA, United StatesJoin CA&J Farm for their Memorial Weekend Wellness Day! Schedule: 1:15 Herb Talk- All About Your Skin 1:45 Chad Fortney- Discover the Energy of the Stones 2:15 Farm Tour- Feed the Animals 2:45 Healthy Weeds & Foraging Walk 3:15 Drum Fun by the Fire! 4:15 Farm Tour- Feed the Animals Until 5 PM: Explore the […]
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Movie Night at the Museum
Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesLocal Gloucester resident, Mary Bush Shipko, aviatrix and a violinist in the Courthouse Community Orchestra, is guest speaker at Mathews Historical Museum Movie Night, Friday, July 14. Shipko’s remarks will precede a showing of Part II of a movie detailing Virginia’s role in aviation history. “Taking Flight—Stories of Modern Virginia Aviation, 1941 to Present Day,” Part II, is produced […]
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Movie Night: Horatio’s Drive
Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesJoin the Mathews Historical Museum for a free, family-friendly movie night! The Museum is screening the movie "Horatio's Drive." In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the US […]
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Let’s Farm!
C.A. & J Farms 5620 East River Rd., Foster, VA, United StatesJoin your friends at CA&J Farm, for a "Let's Farm!" event, and learn educational farm skills. More details coming soon.
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Movie Night at the Museum
Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesJoin the Mathews Historical Museum for a free movie night! Doors open at 6:30. movie starts at 7 PM. “A Voyage of Discovery,” describes the 1608 travels of Captain John Smith, who, with a small crew, set out from Jamestown on two exploratory voyages and covered the entire area of the Chesapeake Bay. The information […]







