Star power (5/22/2024) - Washington Redskins quarterback Sonny Jurgensen visited Chimney Corner Lawn Mower in Hudgins in May of 1974, as part of a special Wheel Horse promotion. Frank Crittenden, owner of Chimney Corner,… …Lawn party to benefit Trinity Church (5/22/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 20, 1909from the Mathews Journal There will be a lawn party at Mr. Cornelius Hughes’s old home on Wednesday night, May 26, for the benefit of… …
15 years ago (5/15/2024) - The Tour de Chesapeake brings visitors on wheels to Mathews County at this time every year. The tour in 2009 would look familiar to riders today. Below, cyclists Ran Marshall,… …Mr. Ogle Pitcher departs this life (5/15/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 13, 1909from the Mathews Journal After a long but patiently-borne period of suffering with consumption, Mr. Ogle Pitcher departed this life on May 8, at the… …
Building a museum ‘country store’ to preserve a collection (5/15/2024) - Ray Hunley of Mathews has built something close to his heart and history: a room in the Mathews Historical Museum to house his father’s country store collection. A grand opening… …
Remembering the genial storekeeper (5/15/2024) - The death of George L. Sadler of Diggs in 1958 at the age of 85 prompted memories in the Gazette-Journal from “a friend” who told about the storekeeper and the… …
The ‘modern’ kitchen, both today and in the past (5/15/2024) - What features do today’s homeowner want in their kitchen appliances? Stainless steel is the popular way to go, said Jacob McCloud at Hodges & Bryant, Gloucester. “The majority of people… …
Cooking school (5/8/2024) - The area’s first cooking school was held in September of 1988 at Gloucester Intermediate School (which later became Page Middle School, before the April 2011 tornado leveled the building). Co-sponsored… …A narrow escape from drowning (5/8/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 6, 1909from the Mathews Journal While out in his canoe on Monday, May 3, Mr. William Diggs of Winter Harbor was capsized and narrowly escaped drowning.… …
New circuit judge (5/1/2024) - Former Gloucester District Court Judge R. Bruce Long, at right, was sworn in as a circuit court judge in May 2009 by his predecessor, Judge William H. Shaw III, who… …‘The Old Maids’ still looking forbachelors and widowers (5/1/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 29, 1909from the Mathews Journal “The Old Maids” are still hunting the bachelors and widowers. Not being able to captivate the Mathews bachelors, they have decided… …
Garden Tour (4/24/2024) - A little rain in the morning did not dampen the spirits of visitors who viewed the homes and landscapes featured on the Garden Club of Gloucester’s annual Garden Tour in… …Voters are reminded to pay their poll tax (4/24/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 22, 1909from the Mathews Journal Voters do not forget to pay your poll taxes by May 2. Mrs. Clarence White, of Port Haywood, had the misfortune… …
Garden tour (4/17/2024) - Historic Garden Week has become a fixture in Gloucester and Mathews over many decades. Above, in 1991, James Hassell of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities relates some… …Spring brings ballgames, visits,home improvements (4/17/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 15, 1909from the Mathews Journal The M.B.A.C., composed of players from Cobbs Creek and Soles, played a very interesting game of ball Saturday. Score 8 to… …
VIMS expansion (4/10/2024) - In April 2009, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science dedicated two new research buildings on its Gloucester Point campus—Andrews Hall and the Seawater Research Laboratory. Dignitaries taking part in the… …Fishing: some good, some not so good (4/10/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 8, 1909from the Mathews Journal Susan correspondent reports that it seems now that the fishing will not prove so profitably as was expected, some are said… …
‘Daff and Dil’ (4/3/2024) - “Daff and Dil,” longtime staples of the festival, welcomed visitors to the 2014 Gloucester Daffodil Festival parade. The ladies in their true Daffodil spirit are Jean German, left, and her… …Methodist parsonage construction to begin (4/3/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 1, 1909from the Mathews Journal Capt. John White delivered a load of bricks at Horn Harbor last Monday for the Methodist parsonage foundation at Susan and… …
Egg hunt (3/27/2024) - Children raced across Mathews Court Green on Friday, April 1, 1994, to find their fill of the 4,000 chocolate Easter egg candies that were scattered on the ground. The annual… …Springtime in Diggs, oyster supper, quilting party (3/27/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, March 25, 1909from the Mathews Journal Diggs correspondent reports: Springtime is here again we are glad to say, although we have had a very pleasant winter. Mr.… …
Clean Gloucester Day (3/20/2024) - Hundreds of volunteers participated in the fourth annual Clean Gloucester Day, sponsored by the county’s Clean Community Committee, 10 years ago. Volunteers, from left, were Isla, Graeme and Cale Hendricks… …All invited to a box social on Friday night (3/20/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, March 18, 1909from the Mathews Journal A box social will be held at the Bohannon school Friday night, March 2h. All are cordially invited. 100 YEARS AGOThursday,… …
Taking the field (3/13/2024) - Mathews High School’s baseball team took the field in mid-March 2013 for the season opener against Essex, above, while below, members of the Gloucester High team took batting practice before… …Merry spring approaches once again (3/13/2024) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, March 11, 1909from the Mathews Journal Mr. Jefferson Brownley of Laban had the misfortune of bruising his hand very badly a few days ago. We hope, however,… …