Visit Chesapeake Bay Events

10-4. Guided tours of the 1735 Historic Christ Church. Museum exhibits. Christ Church, Irvington. 804-493-6855

Annual event for children ages 1 to 12. 11 am on oval.
Sponsored by the NN Lodge 32 of the Fraternal Order of Police. No admission fee to participants and parents. Regular admission to Great House tours. Bring your camera. 11am. Stratford Hall.

804-493-8038
http://stratfordhall.org

Sponsored by the Foundation for Historic Christ Church, The Bank of Lancaster, Bay Trust, and The Rappahannock Art League Studio Gallery, Open to all fourth-grade students from Northumberland Elementary School, Lancaster Middle School, and Chesapeake Academy in Irvington.

The fair is designed to promote interest in and research on life in colonial and revolutionary Virginia by the area’s fourth-graders, who study the period as part of their Virginia Studies Standards of Learning.

Exhibits and essays from the History Fair will be on display at the Rappahannock Art League Studio Gallery, Main Street. 10-4. Kilmarnock

http://christchurch1735.org

Traditional Scottish blessing & celebration. Full early April tartan/Scottish church service. Bagpipes & marching parade. 12:30. Christ Church, Irvington. 804-493-6855

http://christchurch1735.org

Sip Mint Juleps and wager on the Kentucky Derby. Watch it on the Big TV and enjoy live and silent auctions.

Great Derby fare donated by local restaurants. Music 3-7pm on the Tavern Complex.
Admission $50 - benefits the Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern Foundation.
Call for reservations by April 30th.

Website
804-580-3377

Popes Creek Plantation will be filled with 18th century activities such as sheep shearing, open hearth cooking, spinning, and blacksmithing. Rangers and volunteers in colonial period dress will be performing farm chores and domestic activities.

The 550 acre National Monument contains the birthsite, a complete commemorative plantation and the Washington family burial grounds.
$4 admission fee for 16 years and older
9am -5pm
George Washington Birthplace National Monument. 804-224-1732

Mother’s Day Buffet. Take Mom out to a special place on her special day. Enjoy lunch, the springtime gardens, stroll the nature trails and treat her to something special at the gift shop.
804-493-8038 $

Lee’s Lieutenants at Stratford Hall. Join us this weekend when Lee’s Lieutenants, Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, will be encamped at Stratford Hall. Meet and talk with Robert E. Lee, as well as Generals Longstreet, Jackson, Pickett and members of General Lee’s staff. Bring your camera and your questions for this famous group of military leaders.
804-493-8038
Stratford

noon-6 pm. Featuring another great lineup of Bluegrass - Stay tuned for more info.

2007 Festival included the Grammy Nominated BLUE HIGHWAY, Old School Freight Train, The Infamous Stringdusters and Barrel House Mama’s! All day bluegrass for only 20 dollars! Games for the kids, vendors, wine tasting, arts and crafts.

All proceeds benefit the Menokin Foundation. Menokin Ruins - the home of Francis Lightfoot Lee - near Warsaw. www.menokinbluegrass.com . 804- 333-1776 $

Exhibit runs from June 15 to Dec. 13, 2008 Wed-Sat 11-3pm

Richmond County Museum. Warsaw, 804-333-3607

Sponsored by the Retired Officers Association. 11:00 am. Christ Church, Irvington. 804-493-6855
http://christchurch1735.org

The Lees and Independence. Honoring Richard Harry Lee, a Westmoreland Co. revolutionary, whose resolution adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress on June 7, 1776 , led to the Declaration of Independence. $
Stratford 804-493-8038

Family fun with Colonial games and crafts. Lemonade and cookies. Church tours and museum exhibitions. Children of all ages welcome. 11-2. Christ Church, Irvington. 804-493-6855

Sun. Sept. 7 National Grandparents Day. The first Sunday after Labor Day is set aside nationally to recognize and strengthen the bonds between grandparents and their grandchildren. Join us for a celebration with a day of events planned especially for them.

Stratford
804-493-8038 $

Select Saturdays in May, June, July, August, September, October
10-1. Reedville Fishermens Museum.

www.rfmuseum.org. 804-453-6529 $