October 9, 2021
Everyone loves a good loop to paddle. It almost always beats an “out-and-back” style trip because you don’t have to double-back and see the same scenery twice. It also allows …
Tag: History
September 27, 2021
It’s a 10-mile journey to paddle all the way around Jamestown Island, located on the James River near Williamsburg. Known to some as the birthplace of America, this historic island …
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September 6, 2021
The Northern Neck is quiet. It’s rural. It’s unassuming. But once you arrive and start to explore this region of Virginia, you kinda get sucked in. Into the simplicity, the …
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November 10, 2019
If, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, we are not makers of history, and rather are made by history, learning more about what came before us could be the most …
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May 29, 2019
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” -William Faulkner Shipwrecks. Pivotal battles. Military hospitals. The site of one of the largest cavalry battles of the Revolutionary War. And …
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March 12, 2019
Like water can shape a shoreline, water can shape a community. All across the Middle Peninsula, the waterways have done just that – connected its earliest settlers to the land …
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