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June 2016
4-H Science & Technology Day Camp
Dates: June 28-30, 2016 Time: 8:30am-4:00pm Ages 9-13 and Teen Counselors 14-18 (free) Cost $40 for three full days of science experiments, using new technology, and creating and learning through engineering projects. Campers need bagged lunch.
Find out more »July 2016
4-H Archery and Outdoor Adventure Day Camp
Dates: July 7-8, 2016 Time: 9:00am-3:00pm Ages 9-13 and Teen Counselors 14-18 (free) Cost $20 for two days of beginner archery and hands-on activities to teach campers about the environment and best practices for interacting with nature. Campers need bagged lunch.
Find out more »4-H Cloverbud Day Camp
Dates: July 11-15, 2016 Time: 8:30am-4:00pm Ages 5-8 and Teen Counselors 14-18 (free) Cost $25 for five full days (thanks to MCF grant funding) of learning about the Wacky World of Water! Campers will have themed activities, story time, outdoor play, and art time at the Bay School. Nutritious lunch is provided every day!
Find out more »4-H Animal Science Day Camp
Date: July 26-28, 2016 Time: 8:30am-4:00pm Ages 9-13 and Teen Counselors 14-18 (free) Cost $40 for three full days of learning how to give different kinds of shots, close wounds with sutures, and will get to work with various kinds of animals. Campers need bagged lunch.
Find out more »Meditation Painting Demonstration at Mathews Country Galleria
Artist author Mary Montague Sikes will demonstrate her art journey into the world of meditation with a presentation at Dara LeBlanc-Haynes' Country Galleria on Brickbat Road, Wednesday, July 27, 1 to 2 p.m. Questions to follow. All Admission proceeds to Mathews/Gloucester Care Clinic.
Find out more »August 2016
4-H Junior Camp
Date: August 15-19, 2016 Ages 9-13 and Teen Counselors 14-18 ($100) Cost $235 (scholarships available) for this weeklong overnight 4-H camping experience at Jamestown 4-H Center! Classes include woodworking, sailing, archery, riflery, low ropes, creative arts, swimming & water sports, wilderness survival, and more! All meals, lodging, transportation, programming, & t-shirt included. SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR MATHEWS YOUTH!!!
Find out more »September 2016
Antioch Rosenwald Museum open for visitors
Come tour Mathews' historic Antioch Rosenwald School before the Rosenwald documentary film event!
Find out more »Rosenwald -documentary on Historic African American Schools
Rosenwald film screening and discussion with Antioch School alumni and the National Historic Preservation Trust. In the early 1900's, Owner and CEO of Sears & Roebuck, Co. Julius Rosenwald used his considerable wealth to build more than 5,000 schools for the benefit of African-Americans in the South. After the schools were desegregated, most of these "Rosenwald" schools were lost and today only 10% of the original structures are still standing. Mathews County is lucky to have one of the few…
Find out more »October 2016
Author Talk @ the Mathews Memorial Library
"On The Back Roads Again: More People, Places and Pie Around Virginia" Richmond Times Dispatch columnist Bill Lohmann and photographer Bob Brown have been on the road again. You can follow them on their journey down the back roads which led them, among other places, to Mathews. Come along for the ride and enjoy Bill's stories and the world of Virginia through the camera lens of Bob.
Find out more »November 2016
“Traveling to Cuba”
Traveling to Cuba will be the topic presented by Ed Tillett at the Mathews Maritime Foundation speaker meeting. His extensive travels to Cuba over the past 17 years culminated in a book titled, Cuba Bound, The North Coast: Ports of Entry and Anchorage. Ed is an award winning film and video producer, author and journalist. His initial travels to Cuba resulted in a film documentary produced with the University of Richmond’s Dr. Mike Davison that examines the relationships between American…
Find out more »December 2016
Prehistoric Indians of Mathews County and the Chesapeake Bay area
Professor Martin Gallivan of the College of William and Mary will give a talk on the prehistoric Indians of Mathews County and the Chesapeake Bay area. Dr. Gallivan is perhaps best known for leading the archaeological investigation of Chief Powhatan’s home village of Werowocomoco. He has written several books on Virginia Indians and his most recent book, the "Powhatan Landscape" was published in August. His lecture will focus upon a number of the issues raised in the book, including an…
Find out more »February 2017
Eyes On The Prize – Part 1
An award-winning documentary series on the civil rights movement that illuminates the struggle for racial equality and social justice in America.
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