The Show Boat’s coming: Essay recalls excitement when the James Adams Floating Theatre came to town (8/6/2025) - EDITOR’S NOTE: Betty Ann Murray Richardson, born at Willliams Wharf in 1928, sometime during her life wrote of the delight she and everyone experienced when the James Adams Floating Theatre… …
Learning to swim (8/6/2025) - For many years, the Mathews Chapter of the American Red Cross offered free swimming classes during the summer. As a two-week session ended in 1995, students, from left, Amy Gregg,… …Lighthouse keeper welcomes aboard his family (8/6/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, Aug. 4, 1910from the Mathews Journal A select party, consisting of Capt. Joseph Gayle and family, Mrs. John F. Jarvis’s family, Mr. Willie Jarvis and Mrs. Clarence… …
Auxiliary members (7/30/2025) - The Gloucester Sheriff’s Auxiliary completed its first month of duty in July 1984. The members took training twice a month, bought their own uniforms, and assisted with patrols. Shown are… …Claim purse, glasses, and cabbage plants (7/30/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 28, 1910from the Mathews Journal Lost: On Sunday night a black leather folding purse, containing a dollar bill, a number of coupons and some valuable papers… …
Not one ounce of plastic in that car! (7/24/2025) - Sometimes it is educational to look at how things were done in the decades before plastics entered every aspect of our lives. Sharp-eyed Regina Smith, our staff member who compiles… …
Chamber award (7/23/2025) - Kristin Stewart, who had recently graduated from Mathews High School, received a $500 scholarship in July 2000 from the Mathews Chamber of Commerce at the organization’s annual picnic, held at… …New game of foot ball comes to Peary (7/23/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 21, 1910from the Mathews Journal Peary correspondent reports: Master Robert Hudgins, who has been visiting his uncle, Mr. William C. Thomas of Baltimore, has returned home.… …
Paying for war (7/16/2025) - Germany had surrendered a month earlier, but efforts continued nationwide to fund the continuing fight against Japan in World War II. In June 1945, Gloucester women operated a war bond… …
Reading award winners (7/16/2025) - Children winning awards in the Gloucester Library’s summer reading program in 1980 included, from left, Elizabeth Hall, JoElle Barrack, Aileen Musante, Kathy Cartwright and Jennifer Schroeder. Prizes were given to… …Good news for a hot July (7/16/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 14, 1910from the Mathews Journal Mrs. Jennie Gwynn of Redart will leave shortly for Middlesex, where she goes to assist the Rev. Mr. Moffitt in a… …
Library vignettes (7/9/2025) - Mathews Memorial Library, a significant entity in the county for nearly a century, has enriched the local experience in countless activities. Here are three photos featuring long-term librarians who preceded… …Minister picks corn on July 1 (7/9/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 7, 1910from the Mathews Journal Susan correspondent reports: Rev. J.A. Winn of East Mathews charge, is not only a good preacher, and worker in the “Master’s… …
Who knows? (7/9/2025) - This photo is made from a negative with “Ware Junior Choir 1959” written on the exterior. So far we have not been able to find the photo used in the… …Summer brings visits, picnics and the Fourth (7/2/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 30, 1910from the Mathews Journal Little Alfred White, who is spending some time with his grandmother, Mrs. C.F. Drisgill of Diggs, is very sick at this… …
Patriots walk? (7/2/2025) - John Shackelford holds aloft an American flag that he and his friends, John Moore and Thomas Silver, found in July 2009 on their way from Enfield Road to Main Street… …
Remembering Jo Ann Davis (7/2/2025) - More than 150 people gathered on June 30, 2009 to designate the Gloucester postal facility as the Congresswoman Jo Ann S. Davis Post Office. The First District member of Congress,… …
The sorting table (6/25/2025) - Pound net fishermen in Mathews, from left, George Burroughs, Johnnie Frank Johnson and L.W. “Snooks” Burroughs, sorted the day’s catch in June 1989. The men brought their catch to the… …
First shots (6/25/2025) - According to a historical marker erected by the National Park Service’s Chesapeake Gateways and Watertrails Network, the first shots in the Civil War in Virginia were fired on May 3,… …A fine time at Sunday gathering (6/25/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 23, 1910from the Mathews Journal Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hutson of New Point entertained a large crowd on Sunday last. Among the number were: Miss Pansy… …
Nurse comes home to Mathews (6/18/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 16, 1910from the Mathews Journal Miss Eunice Hudgins has returned to her home to spend some time with her parents at Grimstead. Miss Hudgins is a… …
Who knows? (6/18/2025) - We could use some help from our Gloucester readers. This is a photo of the Gloucester Choral Society from around 1976, and thanks to Christine Wesson, we have names of… …
Adoption papers (6/18/2025) - Gloucester Clean Community coordinator Sara Delo, left, presented signs in June 1988 to individuals and representatives of groups who had adopted roads to keep clean of litter. From left are… …Gloucester tops Tappahannock 11-9 (6/11/2025) - 100 YEARS AGOThursday, June 11, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette The Gloucester baseball team journeyed to Tappahannock yesterday and beat the Tappahannock team by the score of 11 to 9. Two… …
GOP primary (6/11/2025) - Voting officials Shirley Snow and Eunice Hyer, at left, and voter Pat Almond share a light moment as Howard Almond, right, voted in June 2010 at the Piankatank District polling… …