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December 2023
Cookie Decorating
Get ready to jingle and mingle at Under the Stars Farm's cookie-decorating extravaganza! Spice up your holiday spirit with sizzling gingerbread and sugar cookies, all while spreading that delightful Christmas magic! Picture this: you, an expert-led cookie artist, armed with royal icing and a sprinkle of yuletide cheer, crafting your cookie dreams into reality. It's a culinary masterpiece in the making, and the Farm's got the maestro, C.Allen Confections, guiding you every step of the way. But wait, there's more!…
Find out more »January 2024
Mathews Gardening Group Monthly Meeting
Join Mathews Gardening Group on Wednesday, January 24th at 10AM for an insightful presentation on the Use of Native Plants in Shoreline Stabilization: Living Shorelines. What is a Living Shoreline? A Living Shoreline is a management practice that provides erosion control and water quality benefits; protects, restores or enhances natural shoreline habitat; and maintains coastal processes through the strategic placement of native plants, stone, sand fill, and other structural and organic materials. The Middle Peninsula Planning District, comprised of six…
Find out more »February 2024
Movie Night at the Museum: The Loving Story
Join the Mathews Historical Museum for the Reopening/ Inauguration of the Movie Room! The MHM invites you to “fall in love with history” this February, in recognition of Black History Month! After a January closure for renovations, Mathews Museum Movie Night returns Friday, February 16th with a screening of “The Loving Story,” a 2011 HBO documentary which tells the heart-rending story of Richard and Mildred Loving. The documentary details how their marriage changed the fabric of Virginia, and the nation,…
Find out more »History of Williams Wharf Landing: Tales & Artifacts from the Wharf
Join the Mathews Land Conservancy for the next of their Lecture Series, featuring Pamela Muffelman. Pamela, a Mathews local, will discuss the Wharf's history of shipbuilding, tobacco exports, customs house, and more! The event is free to attend.
Find out more »John Warren Cooke — A Publisher and Politician Responds to Brown v. Board of Education
Join the Mathews County Historical Society for “John Warren Cooke -- A Publisher and Politician Responds to Brown v. Board of Education” with Fred Lyon. This free event is open to the public, and refreshments will be served!
Find out more »Black History Month Celebration
Join the Mathews County NAACP for a Black History Month Celebration! Guest speakers, including S.A. Cosby, Allison Thomas, Maria Montgomery Giddens, and Elise Williams, will discuss the history of the Black community of Gwynn's Island, the Black Exodus from Gwynn's Island, and "The Mathews I Call Home," with music provided by the Emmaus Male Chorus.
Find out more »Mathews Gardening Club February Meeting
Join the Mathews Gardening Club for their monthly meeting. This month's meeting topic is Optimized Seed Starting and Seed Swap, with guest speakers Melanie Storrs and Heather and Andrew Fry.
Find out more »What the Eyes Can’t See Lecture
Join the Mathews Memorial Library for a lecture by author Margaret Edds. What The Eyes Can’t See provides a revealing examination of race in the nation, how racism might be addressed and reckoned with, and how we all may find a measure of redemption in listening to one another. Edds will discuss her work and sign copies of the book.
Find out more »March 2024
Movie Night at the Museum: “State Fair”
Movie Night at the Museum, Friday, March 8, will open with a brief historical slide presentation of the nearly 40 years of County Fairs that were held in Mathews beginning in 1901, and lasting up to the early 1940s. That presentation will be followed by the movie, “State Fair,” an American musical film which tells the story of a brother and sister who go to a state fair in Dallas and find good clean fun and romance. The film sets…
Find out more »June 2024
Summer Lecture Series
The Mathews Museum will host a discussion of the use of silver in the colonial period. The presentation will be in the Museum’s newly renovated and updated media room. It is open to the public and there is no charge for this event. The presentation will provide an overview of the history of the use of Virginia silver in the 1700s and 1800s. The guest speaker will be the Museum’s Vice Chair, Tom Karow, who is a silver historian and…
Find out more »Saltwater Learn to Fish Day
Fishing & Learning Stations, children will be required to wear life jackets while fishing. Participants will be asked to sign a waiver. Refreshments provided! Rain or Shine (the fish don’t care)!
Find out more »Presentation: General James Henry Lane: Soldier & Educator
Dr. John A. Coulter II will give a public presentation entitled, “General James Henry Lane: Soldier and Educator” on Thursday, June 13, 2024. He will speak at 7 p.m. at Mathews Memorial Library, 251 Main Street, Mathews. General James Henry Lane, a Mathews County native, was the youngest general in the Army of Northern Virginia. After graduating from VMI, he received a Master’s degree from UVA and worked at six military schools before and after the Civil War. He was…
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