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Upcoming 10-10-24

Corn maze

The Northern Neck Farm Museum/Luther Welch Agricultural Center, 12705 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, will host a corn maze through October. The maze is open from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays.

The fee is $5 per person with a $20 maximum per family; ages 3 and younger are free. Closed-tow shoes are required.

Family Feud

Northumberland Public Library (NPL), 7204 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, will host a  friendly Family Feud event from 5-7 p.m. Friday, October 11. Food and drinks will be provided.

Teams of five are urged to sign up. Audience members are also welcome.

History forum

The John H. Hunt II Chesapeake History Forum will return Saturday, October 12, to Historic Christ Church & Museum, 420 Christ Church Road, Weems, with “East Virginia Blues: The Bay and Beyond.” The program will begin at 4 p.m.

Tickets are $75 and include fresh seafood, craft cocktails, a light supper and dessert. To purchase tickets, visit ChristChurch1735.org.

Second Saturday

RAL Art Center, 19 North Main Street, Kilmarnock, and the Writers Guild of Virginia will hold a Second Saturday social series from 5-7 p.m. Saturday, October 12, with refreshments, music, books to browse and a workshop. The featured speaker will be Ann Eichenmuller, author of The Writing RX.

Latin jazz

The Rappahannock Concert Association will present QuinTango at 3 p.m. Sunday, October 13, at the Northumberland High School Performing Arts Theater, 201 Academic Lane, Heathsville.

Admission is by subscription, or single concert ticket, $35; students free. To purchase subscriptions or tickets, go to www.rappahannockconcerts.org.

Shuckin’

Tickets are on sale for the Lancaster Virginia Historical Society’s ninth annual Shuckin’ on the Lancaster Green Oyster Roast fundraiser on November 9, featuring steamed and raw oysters, Lancaster chicken stew, bean soup, hot dogs, adult beverages and music by Toby & Larry.

The fee is $65 if purchased by October 17, or $70. Raffle tickets are available for $5 for a 50/50 drawing with a prize of up to $1,000. Purchase tickets at LancasterVaHistory.org or 462-7280.

History lecture

The Mathews VA250 Committee will host author Phillip Hamilton, PhD, at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 17, at the Cobbs Creek Arts Center, 61 Cobbs Creek Lane, Mathews. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Mathews Historical Society and the Mathews Museum.

Hamilton will present “Life, Death and Victory in Revolutionary Virginia: George Washington, Henry Knox and the Yorktown Campaign,” discussing the little-known relationship among George and Martha Washington and Henry and Lucy Knox.

Power in Pink

Bon Secours Rappahannock General Hospital (RGH) will celebrate the “Power of Pink” with a breast cancer awareness event from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, October 17, at Irvington Baptist Church, 53 King Carter Drive, Irvington.

The event will include education, social a, vendor resources, heavy hors d’oeuvres and door prizes. This event is free and open to the public. To register, call 435-8325.

Reach for the Stars

The 2024 Capt. William H. Knull Community Service Award winners will be recognized at Reach for the Stars on Thursday, October 17, at the Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Neck, 517 North Main Street, Kilmarnock. Honorees will include Tonya Carter, Jack and Susan Moore and Dr. Bernard “Trey” Davis III.

The event will open with a cocktail hour at 5 p.m. and will be catered by Ma Margaret’s House Bed & Breakfast. Tickets are $100 per person or $750 for a table of eight. To purchase tickets, visit bgcnn.org or call 435-9696 Ext. 104.

Senior gathering

Irvington United Methodist Church, 26 King Carter Drive, Irvington, hosts a senior gathering from noon-1:30 p.m. on second Tuesdays. Share lunch, bingo and fellowship.

Open Mic Night

Literacy Connect will sponsor Open Mic Night from 7-9 p.m. October 18 at the Lancaster Community Library, 16 Town Centre Drive, Kilmarnock. The theme will be “Someone Who Made A Difference in My Life.”

Poems, essays, song, dance and visual art presentations should be no longer than three-and-a-half minutes in length. Registration is required, contact Allener Baker-Rogers, 484-843-4281 or literacyconnect@lancasterlibrary.org.

Fall festival

The Northern Neck Farm Museum/Luther Welch Agricultural Center, 12705 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, will hold a fall festival from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. October 19.

The festival will feature exhibits, equipment, corn maze, hayrides, pumpkins, Master Gardeners community garden. Admission is $10, including corn maze; closed-toe shoes required.

Halloween festival

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Rappahannock, 366 James Wharf Road, White Stone, will host an Old Fashion Kids Fall & Halloween Festival from 3-5 p.m. October 19. The River Pal Puppets will entertain.

The event also will include bobbing for apples, a cake walk, games such as pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern, toss the bean bag, barrel train rides and a bounce house. There will be a special area for toddlers and young children in the scarecrow patch where they can play with small scarecrows, a sand box and a small ball pit. Costumes welcome.

Seafood boil

The Northern Neck Farm Museum/Luther Welch Agricultural Center, 12705 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, will hold a seafood boil beginning at 5 p.m. October 19.

Tickets are $50 per person. Purchase tickets from any director or call 450-2373.

Historical societies

The Northumberland County Historical Society (NCHS) and Lancaster Virginia Historical Society (LVHS) recently announced their upcoming meetings will both feature a presentation by author Susan Anthony-Tolbert, Ph.D., about her recent book, Almost in the Clouds! The Story of the Miskimon Fire Tower, Miskimon, Virginia.

Anthony-Tolbert will speak at 2:30 p.m. October 20 at the NCHS, 86 Back Street, Heathsville, followed by light refreshments. She also will speak during the LVHS annual meeting, which begins at 4 p.m. October 22 at the Lancaster Community Library, 16 Town Centre Drive, Kilmarnock.

Boo Bash

Trunk or Treat Boo Bash will be held from 5-7 p.m. October 24 at the open-air pavilion on the Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern campus, 73 Monument Place, Heathsville.

This county-sponsored event will include free Halloween candy, handed out from the trunks of vehicles, plus games, music, prizes, hot dogs and ghoulish surprises, reported Corinne Becker. Children should wear their Halloween costumes.

Oyster roast

Heathsville Masonic Lodge #109 A.F. & A.M. will hold an oyster roast from 2-5 p.m. October 26 at Cowart Seafood, 755 Lake Landing Drive, Lottsburg. The menu will include roasted oysters, hamburgers, hot dogs, bean soup and beverages.

Tickets are $40 per person. For tickets call Todd Jones, 724-0589, or Slater Rice III, 450-8100. Tickets also will be available at Lilian Lumber Company and the door.

Resources Fair

The Northumberland County Department of Social Services will hold its annual Resources Family Fun Fair “Spooky Edition” from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. October 26 at the Northumberland Family YMCA, 6348 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville.

This free event will offer a boxed lunch, a costume contest, video games, hay rides, pony rides, bounce houses and door prizes. Celebrate Halloween and learn about community resources.

Barbecue

Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern, 73 Monument Place, Heathsville, will hold a Take-out Barbecue Dinner from 4-6 p.m. October 27. Tavern member Sid Mace, a certified North Carolina BBQ Master, will make pulled pork, barbecue sauce and “Jack Daniels” baked beans. The meal also comes with Tavern-made potato salad and coleslaw, a bun and brownies.

The fee is $25. Tickets must be purchased in advance at www.RHHTFoundationinc.org, or The Tavern from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays.

Chamber concert

The Northern Neck Orchestra’s chamber music concert series will continue on November 10 at Grace Episcopal Church, 303 South Main Street in Kilmarnock. Tickets are $35 and may be purchased at www.northernneckorchestra.org or the door.

The concert of music for violin and piano will begin at 2 p.m. and will highlight music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok and Edward Elgar.

Bay concert

Concerts by the Bay will present Kate Voss and the Hot Sauce at 3 p.m. November 17, at the Harry M. Ward Auditorium, Mathews High School, 9889 Buckley Hall Road, Mathews. Admission is by subscription, or $30 at the door; students free.

Christmas show

The Kilmarnock Museum recently announced a bus trip to the Old Dominion Barn Dance Christmas Show on December 14 to see Wilson Fairchild and Hunter Owens. A chartered coach will depart from Chesapeake Commons in Kilmarnock at 11:30 a.m. and return by 10 p.m. A nonrefundable $135 fee includes roundtrip fare, seats to the show and snacks on the bus.

The bus will stop for dinner on the return trip at Nick’s Spaghetti and Steak House in Shacklefords. Dinner is not included in the fee. To reserve a seat, call Mary Brent, 238-8738, or Ashburn, 296-0930. Cash or checks payable to Kilmarnock Museum is expected at time of booking.

Rotary

The Rotary Club of the Northern Neck meets for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. on second and fourth Wednesdays at River Counties Community Foundation, 834 Rappahannock Drive, White Stone. 

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