Feature Articles

There is something to be said about a restaurant that has people lining up the moment it opens and especially so when it happens outside of a weekend rush. No sooner did the door at Dredge unlock and the open flag go up that hungry diners started filing in...

Dan Loman recorded a spell-binding dolphin video using a drone camera flying over fishing nets on Chesapeake Bay, near where it converges with the Potomac River. Loman, who has spent vacations and holiday weekends at his in-laws’ Ophelia cottage since the 1980s, got his first drone camera in 2014,...

  Long before he served with distinction during the Revolutionary War, became our nation’s fifth president and proclaimed one of the most important and notable foreign policy messages in the country’s history, James Monroe was born and raised on an orchard and farm right here in the Northern Neck. Born on...

  Virtually surrounded by water, it is no wonder that Deltaville is known as the boating capital of the Chesapeake Bay and, as such, home to countless marinas and the Deltaville Maritime Museum. And with that easy, casual feel that is “Rivah life,” it is not surprising that visitors and...

Born in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania in the Pocono Mountains, Apolla Roth is a transplant to the Northern Neck by way of Chesterfield. She and her husband owned a small weekend cottage on Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County and when they outgrew it a few years ago, the couple sold that...

With just under 350 acres of land, about 380 residents, one operating restaurant, and more golf carts than cars, one might think Tangier Island can be explored in just a matter of an hour or two. However, the one of a kind eroding island is filled with so much natural...

  Tappahannock holds the distinction as being a gateway of sorts. Although not part of the Northern Neck, for many traveling to the region, arriving in Tappahannock signals that you’ve officially made it to “The Rivah.” It is here where traffic thins, the pace slows and the Rappahannock, with the...

Dickie Hudgins of Mathews Courthouse is one of just a few watermen still around who hangs gillnets for recreational and commercial gillnetters. It is a coastal craft that he learned right out of high school. Soon after graduating from Mathews High School in 1958, Hudgins, 82, went to work on...

Story and photos by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi - Yorktown Pub is more than the name implies. Situated on Water Street, overlooking the state’s most historic beach and the York River, Yorktown Pub is perfect for a girls’ day lunch, a bite while you’re visiting Yorktown or the beach or a date-night...

Interesting history surrounds Mathews County landmark The world once moved by wind on water. As a new nation was forming in America, ships needed help with navigation of Chesapeake Bay. Congress authorized building lighthouses in 1801 and on Jan. 17, 1805, the New Point Comfort Lighthouse beamed from the southern tip of...