Join us for the inaugural "Honor the Heroes 5K Run" on Saturday, April 26 at 9:30 AM at Compass Entertainment Complex. This race is dedicated to honoring our local first responders who selflessly serve our community every day. The event will feature a fun and challenging course suitable for runners of all ages and fitness levels. Participants will enjoy music, refreshments, and the camaraderie of the community, all while raising funds to support our brave firefighters, police officers, and EMTs.

The race fee is $25 with a $2.50 sign-up fee, and all proceeds will go toward equipping local first responders with essential resources and training. Our goal is to raise $2,500. Registration ends at 11:59 PM on Friday, April 25, so don’t wait to sign up.

This event is pet-friendly! All pets must remain on a leash during the race. Lace up your running shoes, bring your friends, family, and furry companions, and let's run for our heroes!

Sign up here! https://tinyurl.com/edwsk3y6

At the Rappahannock Indigenous Conservation and Education Center at the Cat Point Creek Unit of the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge

https://gcvirginia.org/historic-garden-week/tours/northern-neck/#tour

Join us on Saturday, May 10th for the Dahlgren Trail's landmark bike event - the Trailblazer! This non-competitive community bike ride begins at the trailhead located at 10431 Bloomsbury Road. The ride turns around 4 miles later at 9274 Comorn Road and returns to the starting area, for a total of 8 miles. Anyone not wishing to ride this distance can turn around and return to the starting area at any time.

To better serve our community's bike riders, the Friends of the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail, a 501c3 non-profit organization, is conducting this event as a fundraiser. Please consider a donation along with the $5 event registration. You can also support this effort by ordering a limited edition event shirt through our online store.

Mother's Day Celebration
Saturday, May 10, from 10 to 5
Saturday will be the day before Mother's Day. Have a lovely day shopping for the special woman in your life and purchase a delicious, shaved ice from Kona Ice food truck. The first twenty-five moms will be given a beautiful rose.
Unique Antiques Mall

9600 James Madison Parkway
King George, VA 22485
540.625.2006

Enjoy afternoon tea with Lady Frances Berkeley, a powerful female figure in 17th-century Virginia politics. Berkeley was the wife of two governors (and a treasurer of the colony) and famously went to England to support her husband, Governor William Berkeley, during Bacon’s Rebellion. She later became a leader of the “Green Spring” faction, an influential political group in the colony until 1680. Her high-profile role in politics was unusual for women of the time.

Bringing Lady Berkeley to life, Dr. Amy Stallings’ portrayal provides insights into the everyday world of women in the Virginia colony. Her interpretation explores gardens, medicine and the many responsibilities colonial women undertook to manage a household. Tickets: $45.00 includes afternoon tea with an array of delicious finger foods and sweets. ChristChurch1735.org.

Janie Meneely and Rob Van Sante will present a mix of traditional music, tontemporary ballads, humor and sing-alongs. The concert is a fundraiser for the Claud W. Somers, the museum's 114-year-old skipjack. Admission is $20 per person for museum members or $25 for non-members. Children 12 and under will be admitted free. Food and beverages will be sold. Please, no outside food and no dogs.

Two of America’s leading historians join forces for a special program inside Christ Church that explores one of the enduring themes in the American experience: the struggle for religious liberty and its enshrinement in the First Amendment. Join presidential historian Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky and humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson for a discussion of the history of the First Amendment and Virginia's unique role defending freedom of religion.

Chervinsky is the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon and author of multiple award-winning books. Jenkinson is the author of thirteen books and the host of Listening to America (formerly The Thomas Jefferson Hour). They regularly appear together on Listening to America and will bring their witty banter and love of history to the Historic Christ Church community.

The setting may seem ironic. When completed in 1735, Christ Church stood as the antithesis of religious liberty. Its triple-deck pulpit, seating arrangements and massive scale and refinement represented an idealized vision of the Church of England’s authority and traditional role in Virginia. Yet it was here and at churches, courthouses, and public and private spaces across the colony that Virginians’ landmark struggle for religious freedom took shape.

For Jenkinson, religious liberty is “Jefferson’s greatest hit.” Jenkinson insists that in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom Jefferson was right to argue that “liberty of conscience, liberty to think what we think, write what we want to write, say what we want to say, is the key to all other liberties.” Indeed, Jefferson believed the constitutional freedom of religion to be “the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights.”

Tickets: $125.00 includes cocktail hour before the presentation and a light supper in the courtyard following. Series ticket includes three HCC 2025 Speaker presentations : $175.00

Brookvale May Day Celebration

Join many local groups on May 17, 2025 for Brookvale May Day! The Save Brookvale Historic Committee is hosting a May Day-themed event at 36 Primary School Circle, Lancaster, VA, 22503. The application process for a historical highway marker is underway. If approved, the historical highway marker dedication will be the same day as the May Day. Our fundraiser, for both events, will be held on May 17, 2025.

To donate money to this cause, go to their GoFundMe page.

The Rappahannock Concert Association presents The Rat Pack - Impersonator Group Tribute Show. Relive the days of the Rat Pack with Las Vegas' most famous entertainers and a band as they appeared live in the Sands Hotel Copa Room. The tribute to Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, and Dean Martin is a brisk 1 1/2 hours of sheer entertainment. The tribute show has been running in Las Vegas for over 20 years. It is the only Vegas-based show with national touring companies. There have been over 7,000 performances in over 40 states and 4 foreign countries! To purchase tickets ($35 each) and/or read more information about this concert, go to rappahannockconcerts.org or call 888-210-8006. Students are free.