Description
This week on Tidewater Talk, Brodie and Co catch up on everything from new hobbies to big local news around Coastal Virginia. We look back at our conversation with Mollie Alaire from Choose Joy Farm, talk about the recent nor’easter and the unusual salt-related power outages it may have caused, and react to the city’s plan to turn the longtime Dairy Queen on 17th Street into a police substation. We also share a few thoughts on how these local projects take shape and what they mean for the community.
In our Strange and Odd of Tidewater segment, we dig into the story of Willoughby Spit and the legendary 1667 “Harry Cane” storm that may have helped shape it, plus the fascinating origins of the word “hurricane.” We also run through the latest weather, including a cooler and more comfortable forecast for the week ahead, highlight our latest “Where or What in Tidewater” mystery featuring Norfolk’s waterfront pagoda, and wrap up with Tidewater Tips for the weekend, including Hunt Club Farm’s haunted attractions, an improvised ghost story show at Push Comedy Theater, Suffolk Peanut Fest, and a hoedown at the Virginia Beach Farmers Market.
Where in Tidewater
- This week's place is a tower, and it was a gift from the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
- It sits on the Elizabeth River waterfront. It was dedicated in May 1989 as a gift to Virginia from Taiwan, and at its feet there's a koi pond, stone lanterns, and a garden of Asian plants.
- It's a red-and-gold pagoda in downtown Norfolk, right by Nauticus. And here's the fun part: the pillars it stands on aren't Asian at all. They used to hold up a giant molasses tank built by the Southgate Molasses Company in 1918.