The Daily Thistle visited the river lawn during dinner to find several students enjoying being outside, being maskless, and enjoying the campus and our river.
Two bald eagles, whom we named, Martha and George, often appear in the tree next to the dock. But when the Osprey returns in the spring, the eagles tend to stay off the river and make their home upon Hoskins Creek. We hope to install new webcams to share more of our campus live.
The name of the river comes from an Algonquian word, meaning "river of quick, rising water" or "where the tide ebbs and flows," the name used by the local Rappahannock tribe.
The Rappahannock is approximately 195 miles long It traverses the entire northern part of Virginia from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west where it rises, across the Piedmont to the Fall Line, and onward through the coastal plain to flow into the Chesapeake Bay, south of the Potomac River.
