September Rivah Visitor's Guide - The Rappahannock Record
September Rivah Visitor's Guide - The Rappahannock Record
September Rivah Visitor's Guide - The Rappahannock Record
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Events<br />
Folks enjoy shopping the many craft booths at the annual St. Stephen’s Harvest Festival. <strong>The</strong><br />
festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. <strong>September</strong> 3 at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church at<br />
6807 Northumberland Highway in Heathsville. <strong>The</strong> event offers fresh produce, a bake sale,<br />
children’s activities, demonstrations, crafts, a plant sale and a gospel concert featuring the<br />
Honeywind Bluegrass Boys.<br />
16 th Annual Fairfields<br />
Fall Festival<br />
Burgess, VA<br />
Saturday, October 8, 2011<br />
9 am to 3 pm<br />
Something for everybody!<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
North Carolina Style Pork BBQ sandwich or<br />
platter with coleslaw and baked beans.<br />
Eat in or take out, call 804-453-2631.<br />
Hot dogs and beverages available.<br />
Homemade soups by the bowl or quart.<br />
Bake Sale- pies, cakes, cookies and breads.<br />
White elephant table- could be a hidden treasure!<br />
Silent auction- quality items! Final bid 2 pm.<br />
Live music all day by Cindy Washburn’s<br />
<br />
Interested vendors contact Jim at 804-580-4455<br />
or go to www.fairfields-umc.com<br />
and click on Fall Festival<br />
Ordinary. Held every Saturday.<br />
757-327-0050.<br />
s Mathews Farmers’ Market,<br />
9 a.m.-1 p.m., at historic court<br />
square in Mathews Court House.<br />
Sandy Pait will present a shiitake<br />
mushroom log demonstration.<br />
725-7755.<br />
s Big Bash Open Bass Fishing<br />
Tournament, Beaverdam Park,<br />
Gloucester. 693-2355.<br />
s Oyster Float Building Workshop,<br />
10 a.m.-1 p.m., Aquaculture<br />
Center, VIMS, Gloucester<br />
Point. Sponsored by the Tidewater<br />
Oyster Growing Association<br />
(TOGA).462-3131.<br />
Sunday, Sept. 18<br />
s Memories Program featuring<br />
Sergeant Major Lonnie Martin,<br />
who “looked after” the late Virginia<br />
Puller of Saluda, the wife of<br />
Lt. Gen. Chesty Puller, 2 p.m. in<br />
the Historic Court House, Saluda.<br />
Sponsored by Middlesex County<br />
Museum. Free.<br />
s Book Review, 2-4 p.m., “Settlers,<br />
Southerners, Americans”<br />
by Jimmy Slaughter, at Essex<br />
County Museum, 218 Water<br />
Lane, Tappahannock.<br />
s Wharf To Wharf Swim, Williams<br />
Wharf, East River, Mathews.<br />
Swim 1,400 meters to Hicks<br />
Wharf and back to Williams<br />
Wharf. Food. 725-9685.<br />
s Change Is In <strong>The</strong> Air, 9-11<br />
a.m. Belle Isle State Park.<br />
Monday, Sept. 19<br />
s Bingo, 7 p.m., every Monday,<br />
Middlesex County Volunteer<br />
Rescue Squad, Deltaville.<br />
Wednesday, Sept. 21<br />
s A Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream, 7 p.m. Lancaster Middle<br />
School <strong>The</strong>ater, 191 School<br />
Street, Kilmarnock. Performance<br />
by American Shakespeare Center.<br />
Sponsored by <strong>The</strong> Foundation<br />
for Historic Christ Church. $25.<br />
Reserve seats at 438-6855, or<br />
tgeeson@christchurch1735.org.<br />
s Painting For Beginners With<br />
Mary Jo Beswick, 10 a.m.-3<br />
p.m., <strong>Rappahannock</strong> Art League<br />
fall workshop, Studio Gallery,<br />
Kilmarnock. Workshop continues<br />
Sept. 22. For fees and registration,<br />
435-9309.<br />
s Bingo, 6:45 p.m., every<br />
Wednesday, <strong>Rappahannock</strong><br />
Civic Club (Boosters Club), 8215<br />
Gen. Puller Memorial Highway,<br />
Hartfield.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 22-25<br />
s River, Rhythm & Ride, combining<br />
the Kekoka Music Festival<br />
and the Northern Neck RiverRide,<br />
at YMCA Camp Kekoka on Indian<br />
Creek and Boys Camp Road near<br />
Kilmarnock. For schedules, fees<br />
and registration, go to kekokamusicfestival.org,<br />
or riverride.org;<br />
email info@kekokamusicfestival.<br />
org,or riverride@lancasterva.com;<br />
or call 435-3616 or 435-6092.<br />
Friday, Sept. 23<br />
s Bingo, 7 p.m., firehouse,<br />
Lively.<br />
<strong>September</strong> 23-24<br />
s Steamboatin’, Steamboat Era<br />
Museum, 156 King Carter Drive,<br />
Irvington. Songs, skits. Reservations,<br />
438-6888.<br />
s Market Day. Town Hill,<br />
Colonial Beach. Jackie Guyer.<br />
223-0021.<br />
Saturday, Sept. 24<br />
s Civil War Program titled<br />
African-Americans Fight for <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
Own Freedom, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.,<br />
Gloucester Courthouse Circle.<br />
Reenactors will portray Thomas<br />
Morris Chester, the only black<br />
news correspondent; <strong>The</strong> Robert<br />
Smalls Squadron; Lincoln’s Emancipation<br />
Proclamation as read by<br />
Frederick Douglass; and more.<br />
Black Union troop reenactors will<br />
demonstrate drills, drum lines and<br />
musket firings. Free. 693-2355.<br />
s Women’s Only Firearms<br />
Class, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Middlesex<br />
Sportsmen’s Hunt 6 t<br />
“After we bought the new home, even<br />
after we unpacked all the boxes . . . we<br />
weren’t home until we found our new<br />
Church . . .”<br />
We invite you to join us!<br />
Irvington Baptist Church<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Sunday Place for Everyday Christians”<br />
Handicapped access to every level available by ramps and elevator<br />
Over forty young persons in our Youth Group<br />
Sunday School Assembly-9:45 a.m. • Bible Classes-10:00 a.m.<br />
Worship Service-11:00 a.m. • Nursery Provided<br />
Wednesday Prayer Service-7:00 p.m.<br />
Wednesday night Bible study for Preteens and Teens<br />
Pastor: John Howard Farmer 438-6787<br />
jhf.ibc@verizon.net -- www.rrecord.com/irvchurch.htm<br />
53 King Carter Drive (at Route 200)<br />
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