Winter lecture
The Reedville Fishermen’s Museum 2025 Winter Lecture Series will continue at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, at the Fairfields Volunteer Fire Department, 119 Main Street, Reedville.
The presentation is an oral history video, “The Sinking of the Glenna Fay,” as told by the late Capt. Ray Rogers. His son, Peale Rogers, and Stan O’Bier will discuss the risks and rewards of pound netting.
by Carol A. Muratore
I would like to say “thank you” to all of you who read my articles published last year from the Stories from a Fishing Village series.
I am truly humbled by the many positive comments and the affirmative feedback regarding their impact supporting our local watermen. I am most grateful to the watermen who entrusted me to tell their “stories” and allow me to paint them or the scenes from their workplaces. I didn’t intend to become passionate about this topic. However, the more I learned, the more I knew there was work to be done to protect this one rare industry remaining upon our shores.
You might be curious as to how this “story” began. What is the likelihood that a woman from Boston who likes to paint pictures and had hardly stepped foot onto a boat, care about the fishing industry in the Northern Neck of Virginia? Blame it on a man named Ray….
