Locals, tourists and day trippers alike enjoyed a fun-filled summer last year. Pictured, clockwise from left, are attendees of “Party with a Purpose,” a fundraiser to benefit the restoration of the New Point Comfort Overlook, held at Williams Wharf Landing, in Mathews; Gloucester Library held its Summer Reading Kick-Off event at the Main Street Center location, where families could enjoy food, games and music, and also sign up for the library’s summer reading program; Mathews sailor and boat designer Jim Brown talked about his three-year voyage sailing around the tip of South America during a session of the youth summer program at Mathews Memorial Library; Fairfield Foundation summer campers Tanner Rowe and Hayven Melendez, from left, sift through one of two dig sites at the Fairfield Foundation; Professional storyteller Katrina White Brown, center, visited Machicomoco State Park to debut her program on Algonquin and African American fables, “When the Animals Spoke.” Pictured with her...