Skip to main content
Tag

Northampton

Sunset atBlackwater 2013 Featured Image
Delmarva Storytelling Comes to Machipongo, Va. on Fri., Oct. 3 The Newsroom

Delmarva Storytelling Comes to Machipongo, Va. on Fri., Oct. 3

Author and storyteller Jim Duffy of Secrets of the Eastern Shore will spin fun and fascinating true-life "Delmarva Tales" on Fri., Oct. 3, 2025 at the popular Friday morning speaker series at the Barrier Islands Center in Machipongo, Va. The show begins at 10:30am. It's free, but please register in advance here. The talk will include stories from Duffy's new book, Ordinary Heroes of Old…
August 30, 2025
Dancing Molly Featured Image
Dancing Molly! A Trio of Lady Pirates Make a Fool of Virginia’s Governor, 1883 Way Back Machine

Dancing Molly! A Trio of Lady Pirates Make a Fool of Virginia’s Governor, 1883

The thrilling race that unfolded in a bayside cove on Virginia’s Eastern Shore of Virginia on the last day of February day in 1883 was a cops-and-robbers affair. The steamboat that barreled into that cove was under the personal command of Virginia's governor. His target was a sailing sloop suspected of nefarious criminal activity. It should have been easy. The sloop’s crew had gone ashore…
February 21, 2022
Elisha Lee on the Water near Cape Charles, Virginia
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Sailing the Elisha Lee from Cape Charles to Norfolk Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Sailing the Elisha Lee from Cape Charles to Norfolk

Elisha Lee didn’t make her way to the Eastern Shore until rather late in her life. Built in 1892, she arrived in Cape Charles (Va.) Harbor on St. Patrick’s Day of 1944. World War II was going strong at the time. With so many military bases housed in Hampton Roads, there was a slew of traffic running to and fro across the Chesapeake Bay into…
March 15, 2018