Essex and Middlesex counties are adjacent to one another, and in many ways are quite similar. They share the same geographical setting—the south bank of the Rappahannock River—and families have moved over time from one county to the other. Both counties were supportive of the American cause in the American Revolution, but the two counties reacted to the Revolution in some distinctly different ways. Director Tim Manley of the Essex County Museum and Historical Society will host a discussion of these different responses to the Revolution along with Wright Andrews at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Essex Museum, 218 Water Lane, Tappahannock. Participants in the discussion will include Middlesex journalist and historian Larry Chowning and Robert W. Prichard, vice president of the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society. The gathering is a continuation of a discussion that began with a meeting last November at the Historic Middlesex County Courthouse. The panel will explore the d...