Saturday, May 19th – 9am – 2pm

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Ready! Set! Go! What an awesome 2nd Annual Deltaville 5K we have in store. We’ve learned quite a bit from our first race and received great input from our participants.

Hear’s what’s new for this year:

. USTAF Certified Race Course
. Automated Race Timing Chips on Bibs
. Wider Course
. Multiple Starting Waves
. Medals for all participants
. Awards for top winners
. Kids Fun Run (12 and under)
. Packet Pickup & Registration also on Friday

Go to http://www.dvlrace.com for all the details.

Saturday May 5th – 10am – 4pm and Sunday May 6th – 10am – 4pm

Annapolis Yacht Sales – Chesapeake Yacht Sales – Gratitude Yachting Center – Norton Yachts

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            The Rappahannock River Railroad Club will again set up a display of model trains this year in the Philippi Fellowship Hall. Children of all ages will delight in watching the model trains circle their tracks.

 On Friday evening, December 9th, the first cruise will leave at 4:30 pm from the Philippi parking lot with a hayride to the town dock. This is 30 minutes earlier than usual and allows riders to see a beautiful sunset and the lighted Christmas decorations.

  The charter boat Tortuga, owned and captained by Bubbie Crown will take passengers for a tour of both branches of Jackson Creek. Tortuga, a 57’ twin engine charter boat, carries forty passengers at a time.  Tickets can be purchased in advance for cruises at 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, and 7:30 pm at Nauti Nell’s, J & W Seafood, and Parts City. Tickets are limited to 40 passengers per cruise and are a real bargain at $5.00 for adults (13 and up). Tickets for children, 12 years and younger, are free, but every child must have a ticket and be accompanied by an adult. Tickets include home made cookies and apple cider after the cruise.

Those residents on Lover’s Lane and on Jackson Creek are asked to decorate their homes for our visitors.  Deltaville will be in the spotlight this particular evening and we want to make an impressive showing. The DCA needs help collecting tickets, loading passengers on the hay wagons, for setting up and serving cookies and cider, and also at the dock loading passengers. A large supply of homemade cookies will also be needed. If you can share your time or talents, please contact Bob Walker at 804-694-9139, Raynell Smith at 804-815-3102, or Marsha Norton at 804-815-1071.   

            In case of threatening weather, cruises will be rescheduled for Saturday, December 10^th   , same time and place. Call Nauti Nell’s to confirm a cancellation-776-9811.

At Oyster Festival Nov. 3^rd-5^th

^{by Bill Powell}

The hard working F. D. Crockett, pride of the Deltaville Maritime Museum, will be carrying the message of the history of Bay watermen, their fisheries and their boat building methods to Urbanna at the end of next week. Gosh, you may even find out what the heck a “buyboat” is.

The Crockett will arrive at Upton Point on Sunday afternoon, October 30th. Her gracious lines can be viewed from the Urbanna Town Marina dock from Sunday evening through Wednesday. On Thursday she and the Reedville Fisherman Museum’s “Elva C.” and their respective crews will join together as part of the Oyster Festival “Education Day.”

During “Education Day” these restored classic buyboats will present a hands-on program for students on the role of buyboats in the Chesapeake Bay during the past century.  The  4^th and 7^th grade students from Middlesex, Aylett Country Day School, Ware Academy and Chesapeake Academy will all participate in this opportunity to learn by seeing and doing. Education Day is reserved for the students and is not open to the general public.

Chuck McGhinnis, Museum Boat Shop Director and board member will be coordinating and organizing the program for “Education Day”.

“For a lot of these students, this may be the only chance they have or will have to actually walk on and experience a piece of our Bay history. We want them, when the day is over, to have a feel for what our watermen did and what it was like to work on the water. This is what our Museum and its outreach is all about.” Chuck pointed out.

On Friday, November 4, Oyster Festival opening day, the Crockett will have crew aboard from 10am-5pm for full tours and Q & A. Saturday hours will be from 9am-4pm. She will return to the Deltaville Museum on Sunday.

Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park, an all volunteer, all donation, non-profit organization, is located in Deltaville, VA. at 287 Jackson Creek Road. To get to the Museum and Park, follow Route 33 through Deltaville and turn right across from the Shell Station. Holly Point Nature Park is open all year from dawn til dusk. The Museum area is now a wi-fi hot spot. The Museum itself is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm and Sunday 1-4pm.

To find out more about the Museum, its offerings, open hours, events schedule, event tickets, donate, become a member, donate or volunteer, visit our new website at www.deltavillemuseum.com , or Google “Deltaville Maritime Museum”. You may also e-mail the Museum office at: museumpark@oonl.com, write to Box 466, Deltaville, VA or call at 804- 776-7200.

“Scary Halloween” at Maritime Park Monday.

By Willie Werewolf, Resident Museum paranormal

From the ghostly apparitions of the “Field of Screams” to the twisted, tortured, moan-filled pathways of the “Wailing Woods”, the Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park will put on her best “Haunted House” look for “Scary Halloween in the Park” from 6-8pm this coming Monday Oct 31^st, Halloween Day. Dress up the whole family! There’s room for everyone.

Too timid or too young for the really scary bits? The area around the Museum, Events Pavilion and Bistro will be lit up and decorated for those of you not quite ready for the perils of the dark woods.

There’s be plenty of well lit parking in the Museum’s spacious lots. The Sheriff’s Department is graciously handling the parking and providing the large portable area lights for “Scary Halloween”.

There will be lots of candy from Museum volunteers, local businesses, individual volunteers, and from other local organizations as well. They will all be in costume, lined around the Pavilion area. “Coastie”, everybody’s favorite cute little robot boat will be stuttin’ her stuff under the Bistro roof.. Toot, Toot!  “Coastie” appears courtesy of the US Coat Guard Auxiliary.

Two hay wagons will offer a constant flow of scream filled rides through Holly Point Nature Parks “Field of Screams”(Wildflower Meadow) and the “Sinister Saplings” of the West woods. Be prepared, ghostly apparitions of all descriptions lurk in the shadows.

Volunteers are urgently needed to help with everything from set-up on Sunday and Monday, to costuming up for the Woods and Fields. Call Lynn or Don Burnett at 776-0727 or David Moran at the Museum office, 776-7200. As of this article, the stations in the Woods and Field are still unfilled! Call in and sign up. Every person makes a difference.

Set up will begin after 12 noon on Sunday the 30^th and continue from 9AM until 5PM on Monday.

This weeks local businesses and individuals who have already volunteered to help are: Brown’s Marine, Norview Marina, Stephen Blue, Parts City, Latitudes,

Hammer Time, Savita Pets, Gone Coastal, David & TC Moore, Susan Dunaway and Jeanne Johansen.

Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park, an all volunteer, all donation, non-profit organization, is located in Deltaville, VA. at 287 Jackson Creek Road and on Mill Creek off Jackson Creek. The Museum is now a wi-fi hot spot. . To get to the Museum and Park, follow Route 33 through Deltaville and turn right across from the Shell Station. Holly Point Nature Park is open year round from dusk til dawn.

To find out more about the Museum, its offerings, open hours, events schedule, event tickets, donate, become a member, donate or volunteer, visit our new website at www.deltavillemuseum.com , or Google “Deltaville Maritime Museum”. You may also e-mail the Museum office at: museumpark@oonl.com, write to Box 466, Deltaville, VA or call at 804- 776-7200.