Where are you in Newport News? I live between Hilton Village and the Mariners Museum. Nice to know there is a fellow FReeper!
I used to live in NN; worked at the NNS&DDCO as an apprentice many years ago. Lived downtown on 51st, 52nd and in a storefront on Jefferson Ave ? Lived in some apts on the backside of Hilton Village. Take it back that was Jeff; lived in a storefront on Huntington, later on we lived in a storefront on Warwick across from the Blue Star Diner just south of Hilton Village; was in a Christian rock band,etc.
Had some really good times there- was back visiting about 5 years ago.
God Bless, used to cruise my bike around where you live, I remember a little bridge by a park there with concrete lions at either end, sound familiar?