Staff of Jamestown Rediscovery.


the course of North American history would have been very different. The English may have abandoned colonization here altogether and Plymouth might never have been settled. “This is a world-class archeological site.


We have a wonderful museum and, best of all, a dedicated research and educational team. Rediscovery is who we are and what we do. Bringing visitors to that moment of discovery about Jamestown is truly something to see. When you have a group gathered around an excavation where work is on-going, and archeologists bring something up out of the ground that hasn’t been seen for over 400 years, that’s the true discovery.” The staff of Jamestown Rediscovery


is now busy preparing for the 400th anniversary of the first representative assembly of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, which took place in the Jamestown church July 30, 1619. “It’s not a well understood story, so


that puts more emphasis on us to try and help people understand that story of survival,” Horn says. “The capitol was here for ninety-two years, longer than


Williamsburg. A huge amount went on during that time and this really is the birthplace of modern America. It was also the year the first enslaved


Africans arrived from Angola. So we have these two aspects that are also part of our story. We have this democratic experience and also cultural diversity, and the issues that arise later leading


to aspects of the way people think of one another, react with and to one another are still on-going today. In this regard, the Jamestown story hasn’t ended.”


Special thanks to Dr. James Horn, Dr.


William Kelso, Jamie May, Michael Lavin, and Merry Outlaw and the staff of Jamestown Rediscovery. H


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