The Alkmaar Cheese Market has been a tradition for centuries. With fantastic festivities, cheese tastings, and the famous cheese weighing, the Alkmaar Cheese Market welcomes generations of families and newcomers alike to explore the community's traditions.

Poetry provides a unique glimpse into the past, present, and future. The vibrant words written on a page project a scene in our minds strung together by words, emotions, and memories from our own experiences and imaginations.

Photographs of British lighthouses purchased for The Mariners’ Museum Collection in 1936 from Bertram M. Chambers, an admiral in the Royal Navy. Symbolically, lighthouses offer a message of hope and determination when facing adversity.

Mariners’ Park and Lake is a safe haven for wildlife in urban Newport News. With the help of community partners, The Mariners’ works to preserve the habitat of many species and research and catalog native populations.