Feel free to crib when you bring your friends in from out-of-town; these are places that showcase the absolute best of Norfolk, both in its history, and in its new birth, happening all around you.

Talbot Hall is something to celebrate, and its preservation will show our children that living with our history is one of those things that makes being from Norfolk mean something.

The Tide: We were also lucky enough to be in Norfolk the weekend The Tide opened. We walked from The Birch via the Elizabeth River Footpath to the Fort Norfolk station and rode The Tide to Harbor Park. Riding it that night, I had a vision of how Norfolk is going to change in the [...]