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April 2024
Mathews Farmers Market
The Market takes place every Saturday, April through October on the Courthouse Green from 9 am to 1 pm. Food, flowers, and gifts galore! Our vendors feature a variety of fresh vegetables, along with homemade bread and bakery goods, eggs, and meat. In addition, our vendors offer plants, flowers (potted and bouquets), handmade crafts, clothing, and jewelry. You are also likely to find handmade ceramics, soaps, yarns, and various types of artwork. Bring the entire family (including pets) for all to…
Find out more »Spring Community Cleanup
Calling all community members! It's almost time for our Spring Community Cleanup! Join us April 13 at 8 am to help beautify Mathews! Meet us at the Mathews County Visitor & Information Center at 239 Main Street to pickup your bags, vests, gloves, grabbers, nets, and snacks! We encourage community organizations and civic groups, as well as individuals, to participate- it's a fulfilling and fun day! If you've adopted a highway, it's the perfect day to clean your stretch of…
Find out more »Historic Garden Week
The Garden Club of Gloucester and Mathews is sponsoring this year's Garden Week tours! Gloucester will have two separate tours this year, each requiring its own ticket: the Saturday tour will feature three homes and the new Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester, and the Sunday tour will feature a multi-acre garden with sculpture throughout. Each tour is an art lover’s delight. Their owners have cultivated beautiful gardens and collected paintings, sculptures, and objets d’art in their travels. Visitors will want…
Find out more »Markets on Main
Join us for an extended market on the third Saturday of each month, April-August! Vendors and artisans, food specials and live music will be on Main Street from 10 am-3 pm!
Find out more »Family Art Festival
Come create with the Bay School! A day of artistic fun in The Bay School Backyard - art activities, live music, food vendors, raku firing, and beer from Gloucester Brewing Company- fun for all ages! Bring your favorite lawn chairs, and be ready to dance and groove to live music on the Bay School's backyard stage while enjoying lunch from Hungry Hungry Arrow. Or take part in the annual Raku Firing Fundraiser while you are there! Proceeds from this event…
Find out more »Party at the Wharf Summer Series
Join the Mathews Land Conservancy at Williams Wharf for the Party at the Wharf Summer Series 2024! Gates open for the events at 5 pm, with live music from 6-9 pm! The event is family-friendly, and kids 12 and under are free. Tickets are $5 (except for the 5/18 event, which is free for all), with a cash bar and food trucks at all events. Bring a lawn chair- cooler not permitted. Bands and Food Truck Listing: April 26 Robbie…
Find out more »Gwynn’s Island Race
4m Run, 10m Ride or Run/Ride Duathlon: Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County is the host site of this annual race. Join runners & riders in this unique tour of one of Virginia’s special locations – then hang around to enjoy the music & food. 4 mile road run Starting and ending at the Gwynn’s Island Civic League, the route follows quiet backroads around the island, with a constant view of the water. The race course is 4 miles and the…
Find out more »May 2024
25th Annual Tour de Chesapeake
Located in Mathews, VA, on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay, the Tour de Chesapeake cycling event, now in its 25th year, offers rural, flat roads that all lead to water. There are 4 concise routes, each around 25 miles, which take cyclists from our own Gwynn's Island to Bethel Beach to the New Point Lighthouse. Each route has fully stocked rest stops, SAG support and lovely views galore! You may ride any route as many times as you like to add…
Find out more »June 2024
3rd Annual Party with a Purpose
Join the Mathews Rotary Club for its 3rd annual Party with a Purpose! This year's event benefits The Owens Center at the Mathews Land Conservancy, and features music by the Roadducks, and food by On the Flip Side and Coastal Thirst! Tickets include one drink, and can be purchased at MCVIC, Chesapeake Bay, Haskins Bayside Auto, and from all Mathews Rotarians.
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 »Family Port Fun Day!
Join Mathews Parks & Facilities for a Family Fun Day at Port Fun Park! There will be activities on the new basketball courts, lessons and play time on the pickleball courts, an adult fitness trail, playground activities and the Mathews Memorial Library's Trail Tales! There will also be vendor giveaways and snow cones from Pelican's Snoballs.
Find out more »20th Annual Highland Games & Picnic
Games, picnic, prizes, + a free shirt for registered kids. Featuring the Kilmarnock Pipe Band. Register online: https://www.mathewslibrary.org/library-services/forms/highland-games-registration
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