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November 2022
USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage
USS 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 of USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage, for a talk about the Monitor’s sinking, discovery, and eventual designation as our nation’s first national marine sanctuary. Broadwater…
Find out more »April 2023
Tompkins Cottage Museum Open
Open 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 history of Mathews County which serves as a gift shop, two rooms representing a home from the 1840s to the 1900s, and a room dedicated…
Find out more »Let’s Farm Day!
This 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 of our Farm before we start the Sharing & Learning! There will be a Discovery Weed Walk too! There will be light refreshments out, but…
Find out more »Movie Night at the Museum: BLUE GOLD
On 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 of the World’s Water, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The book examines the environmental and political implications of our planet’s diminishing water supply, suggesting that future…
Find out more »Earth Day Community Drum Circle
Drumming, 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.
Find out more »Let’s Farm!
Farm 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 & J Farm, working with the Kinship Club, creating & building...Projects & Smiles! The Kiwanis do this well! https://www.kiwanis.org/home https://www.facebook.com/MathewsVAKiwanis
Find out more »May 2023
Hatchery Tours & Tastings
Looking 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 with 6 people per tour starting at 5pm. Your ticket gets you an oyster tasting and a tour through the hatchery with a staff member…
Find out more »Wellness Day
Join 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 Gardens, Farm & Meditation Areas, Enjoy the Yellow Barn Store, Create in the Hive, Relax & Breathe! Refreshments-Games-Nature Therapy Chad of Alternative Energy Healing of West Point,…
Find out more »July 2023
Movie Night at the Museum
Local 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 by Dave Miller of Miller Productions of Virginia. Miller is a prize winning independent film maker who is now focusing his efforts on Virginia stories and…
Find out more »August 2023
Movie Night: Horatio’s Drive
Join 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 in a "horseless carriage!" Doors open at 6:30 PM, movie begins at 7 PM.
Find out more »Let’s Farm!
Join your friends at CA&J Farm, for a "Let's Farm!" event, and learn educational farm skills. More details coming soon.
Find out more »September 2023
Movie Night at the Museum
Join 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 he recorded about the indigenous peoples and the landscape introduced the region to those back home in England hoping to expand the colony, eventually triggering…
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