Events - Saturday, May 1

MAY FAIRE 2021 Celebrating Our Mathews Water Heritage

May 1, 2021
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Join us Saturday, May 1, 2021 on the Court Green and inside the Museum!

We will continue to develop the program that we’d planned to unveil in 2020, “Celebrating our Mathews Water Heritage.”

*our food vendors and wonderful crafts booths will be back

*our Mathews Farmers’ Market will once again be a part of our festivities

*”Conversations” with some of our county’s watermen will take place at 11:00 at the Court House

*a boat show will take place outside

*a model boat show will be inside the Museum

*an art show of items and art by our watermen and demonstrations of watermen’s arts, such as net mending, crab pot making and other crafts.

*outside, a demonstration of kayak boatbuilding

*our wonderful children’s corner will be available

*our traditional May Pole dance performed by the Bayside Youth Ballet

* and inside at the Museum, we will be seeking out names and photographs for our developing database of Mathews watermen.

So mark your calendar for next year and plan to join us. Meanwhile, we will be featuring other activities in the museum throughout the year and will be keeping you up to date via email. And visit us at www.mathewsvamuseum.org and on Facebook.