June 12, 2023

Virginia Indians knew the Northern Neck peninsula by its villages and bodies of water. The current names of many of those waterways and settlements trace their origins to the Virginia …


May 5, 2023

The Lower Chickahominy area is about as close as you can get to the first steps of English colonialization. As Europeans moved westward and Virginia’s economy grew, plantations were established …


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 …


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 …

bow of a kayak in the foreground with large, 17th century replica ships in the background

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 …


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 …

LOVE Letters at Middlesex County Museum Virginia

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 …

Battle of the Hook Event at the Inn at Warner Hall

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 …

LOVE Letters at Middlesex County Museum Virginia