DISPATCH A Newsletter of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation • Spring 2010 Artifacts From Werowocomoco, Capital City, on View at Jamestown Settlement At the time Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, was founded in 1607, the center of power in coastal was about 20 miles away at Werowocomoco, principal residence of Powhatan, the region’s paramount chief. The importance of this location in Virginia Indian history and its role in early contact between Powhatan and English cultures is explored at Jamestown Settlement in “Werowocomoco: Seat of Power,” where artifacts spanning close to 10,000 years are on exhibit for the first time in a museum setting. The exhibition opened May 15 and continues through This scene shows Werowocomoco as it appears today. Bordered by the , Leigh November 15. Creek (left) and Bland Creek (right), the archaeological site is listed on the National Register of Archaeological research since Historic Places and Virginia Landmarks Register. 2001 at Werowocomoco, on the human presence since about 8000 Algonquian-speaking communities York River in present-day Gloucester B.C. Werowocomoco developed as in the Chesapeake Bay region after County, has revealed an intermittent a ceremonial and political center for A.D. 1200 and ultimately played an important role in the development of the Powhatan chiefdom in the 16th century. VIRGINIA INDIAN HERITAGE DAY More than 60 artifacts from Werowocomoco, including stone projectile points and tools and pottery sherds, are exhibited. A selection of archaeological objects from the collections of the Jamestown- Yorktown Foundation and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources complements the Werowocomoco material. Copper alloy fragments dating to the early 17th century offer evidence of trade between the Powhatan In conjunction with the “Werowocomoco: Seat of Power” exhibition and in and English cultures. The copper, partnership with the Virginia Indian community, Jamestown Settlement will including a rolled bead and sheets, is host Virginia Indian Heritage Day on Saturday, June 26. The event will feature of European manufacture and has a the Virginia Intertribal Drum and Dancers, in full regalia, presenting traditional chemical composition similar to copper and contemporary tribal dances. In panel discussions, tribal leaders will explore fragments found at Jamestown. Even the significance of Werowocomoco and what the site means to descendent before Europeans arrived, copper was Virginia Indian communities today. a valuable commodity in the Powhatan culture and was obtained through continued on page 2 Werowocomoco Featured in Jamestown Settlement Exhibition

Among Werowocomoco artifacts on exhibit at Jamestown Settlement courtesy of Robert F. and C. Lynn Ripley are a St. Albans quartz dating to 6800-6500 B.C., a quartzite knife and Townsend pottery vessel sherd from the Late Woodland period (A.D. 900-1600), and a 17th-century copper alloy bead. continued from page 1 monumental architecture, including English established a foothold in trade with other American Indian Ely Mound in Lee County and the Virginia, Powhatan moved his capital groups. Archaeologically found glass Crab Orchard Site in Tazewell County, west to Orapax, a more protected beads, also used in trade, are exhibited both in Virginia, and Chaco Canyon, location on the . near the copper. New Mexico. Representing ceremonial Although Werowocomoco remained The exhibition discusses a central practices are examples of thousand- a place of importance to Virginia idea behind the archaeological research year-old Chaco Canyon Black-on-White Indians for some time after Powhatan’s at Werowocomoco, the concept of painted pottery, including two effigy departure, the site was later occupied “cultural landscape,” understood as the vessels, and, from the Historic Crab by people of European descent. The imprint of past societies on the spaces Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park, a exhibition includes a multimedia and structures they built and modified. Late Woodland period mask made of a presentation developed by Ashley The topography of Werowocomoco bear jaw. Atkins, a member of the shows manmade that Held prisoner at Werowocomoco Tribe and College of William separated the community along the by Powhatan in late 1607, Captain John and Mary anthropology graduate riverfront from a location thought Smith documented his experience in student, that explores the meaning of to have been used for high-status maps and writings. In one account Werowocomoco to Virginia Indians social and ceremonial functions. many years later, he claimed it was today. Archaeologists discovered a large the place where Powhatan’s daughter “Werowocomoco: Seat of Power” structure and a large quantity of copper saved him from death at was developed in cooperation with fragments in this well-defined location. her father’s hand. Werowocomoco’s the site owners Robert F. and C. Werowocomoco is portrayed as location and a drawing of Powhatan Lynn Ripley, the Werowocomoco a symbol of power and authority in seated on a dais Research Group and the Virginia context with other American Indian are shown in Indian Advisory Board. College of sites that feature ceremonial spaces and the Jamestown- William and Mary Assistant Professor Yorktown of Anthropology Martin Gallivan is Foundation’s guest curator. James City County has copy of provided funding in support of this Smith’s Map special exhibition. of Virginia The Werowocomoco archaeological dating project was featured in the May 2007 to 1612, issue of National Geographic magazine the year and in a PBS/NOVA documentary, the map “Pocahontas Revealed.” A three- was first minute video based on the exhibition published. theme, produced in partnership with About WCVE Community Idea Stations, Other American Indian “seats of power” are cited in the Werewocomoco two years can be seen at www.historyisfun.org/ exhibition. Pictured are a Black-on-White painted pottery effigy vessel after the werowocomoco.htm. n in the shape of a bird, dating to A.D. 900-1050, from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, on loan from a private collection, and a Late Woodland period mask made from the upper jaw of a bear, courtesy of the Historic Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park in Tazewell County, Virginia.

2 Ship Sails Sculpture ‘A Fair Wind’ Greets Jamestown Settlement Visitors A massive bronze sculpture de- Eastern Shore, by a team of 11 artisans The fountain sculpture was fund- signed by nationally prominent wildlife using the “lost wax” method of bronze ed by donations made during “The sculptor David casting. This Campaign for Jamestown Settlement, H. Turner was process involved 1607-2007,” including leadership gifts dedicated May sculpting in clay from The Cabell Foundation and the 15 at Jamestown and wax and pour- late Robert F. Suleski, to the Jamestown- Settlement’s ing 2,000-degree Yorktown Foundation, Inc. Jamestown Quadricentennial molten bronze Settlement’s Quadricentennial Plaza was Plaza, an outdoor, into molds, creat- developed as part of a transformation of flag-lined space ing more than facilities and exhibits in advance of the adjacent to the 75 pieces later 2007 commemoration. n museum entrance. welded together. Comprised of Mr. Turner, three ship masts a native Virgin- and wind-blown ian and graduate sails, the new sculpture – named “A Fair of the College of William and Mary, Wind” – resembles the logo of “Amer- “focused on evoking an emotional con- ica’s 400th Anniversary,” a series of nection rather than on minute details” events in 2006 and 2007 that commemo- in designing the sculpture. The work rated and drew national attention to the includes stylized bronze ropes and 1607 founding in Virginia of America’s riggings that enhance the design and first permanent English colony. The provide structural support. Mr. Turner’s 3,000-pound, 18-foot-long sculpture was more than 60 commissioned sculptures placed in an existing circular fountain, are on public display across the country Sections of the sculpture were transported where jets of water splash up toward the and include “Eagle & Eaglets” at Consti- to Jamestown Settlement by truck from sails. At its tallest point, the sculpture tution Hall, “Trio of Herons” at Vir- Virginia’s Eastern Shore, lifted into place with a crane, and secured to the Quadricenten- rises 17 feet above the water surface. ginia Beach Town Center and “Canada nial Plaza fountain with a stainless steel base “A Fair Wind” was produced at Geese” at Chicago Botanic Garden. anchoring system. Turner Sculpture in Onley, on Virginia’s Cincinnati Society Plate, Naval Trunk Acquired for Yorktown Victory Center A Chinese export porcelain plate Washington’s dinner from a large dinner service purchased service, consisting of more by George Washington in 1785 has than 300 pieces, was made been acquired for future exhibit at the and decorated in Canton Yorktown Victory Center. The plate is and shipped to the United painted in the center with the alle- States on the Pallas a year gorical winged figure of Fame blowing after the new nation had her trumpet and the eagle insignia of established trade with China. the Society of the Cincinnati, whose A small trunk owned by Continen- covering, ornamented with brass tacks. members had served as commissioned tal Navy shipbuilder Captain Tobias Captain Lear was supervisor of the officers in the Continental Army or Lear also was added to the collection. Continental Yard near Portsmouth, Navy during the American Revolu- The wooden dome trunk, just 15 inches New Hampshire, during the Revolution tion. Washington was President long and 9 and built the Ranger, the famous ship General of the Society from inches high, captained by John Paul Jones. its founding in 1783 until his dates to Acquired with private donations to death in 1799. The group 1773 and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, took its name from the Roman retains its Inc., both objects help illustrate exhibit Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a original themes in planned new Yorktown farmer turned patriot-soldier. leather Victory Center galleries. n 3 “Brasse Bracelts” from “Our Native Country”: The West Africa Trade and the Beginnings of English Manilla Manufacture By Thomas E. Davidson, Ph.D. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Senior Curator In 1620 English merchant Richard Jobson made a for sale at home or in Europe. journey up the River Gambia, in West Africa, in search of English traders certainly trading opportunities. During one of his many encounters used manillas when trading with the inhabitants of the region, Jobson recorded seeing a in Africa even in the 16th woman wearing “a pair of brasse bracelts” that “did appeare century, but no one knew to me, to be such as might very well be brought in their that they might be English beginnings, either from London, or some other part of our products at such an early date. native Country.” While the Exeter mold The idea that English trade goods might be present was on exhibit at Jamestown in early 17th-century West Africa is hardly surprising, since Settlement, the curatorial by this point in time English trade with the region was well staff here had an opportunity established. What is unexpected about Jobson’s account is to compare that mold with his willingness to identify the bracelets he encountered along a number of examples the River Gambia as probably of English origin. European- of manillas that are in made brass or copper bracelets had been a mainstay of trade the Jamestown-Yorktown with Africa since the 15th century. These bracelets generally Foundation’s own artifact are called by the Anglicized Portuguese name of “manillas.” collection. Because manillas While there is good evidence that manillas were being made were so important to the in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, most scholars African trade, the Foundation More than 200 manillas in the Jamestown-Yorktown have assumed that early manillas are Portuguese products. already had acquired a Foundation collection are In 2007 the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation mounted number of them for exhibit in exhibited (in case at left) in a major international exhibition called “The World of 1607” the “From Africa to Virginia” Jamestown Settlement’s “From in honor of Jamestown’s 400th anniversary. One of the items theater in the Jamestown Africa to Virginia” theater, which uses three-screen borrowed for this exhibition was an artifact recovered on the Settlement galleries. As movie projection and lighting site of the Birdall foundry in Exeter, England, in 1984. This it turned out, none of the with period illustrations and artifact, now in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial manillas in the Foundation’s artifacts to chronicle African collection were large enough encounters with Europeans, Museum, appeared to be a mold for making manillas. The the impact on African culture Birdall foundry where the mold was recovered went out or of the right shape to have and the development of the of business by 1625, so any been produced in the Exeter transatlantic slave trade. object produced from the mold. mold had to date to the Since then, additional research eventually turned up a Jamestown era or earlier. single example of a manilla from a private collection that The historical record must have been cast in a mold that was almost identical to indicates that early English the Exeter mold. Furthermore, this manilla belonged to a trade with Africa wasn’t highly recognized stylistic category of manillas that are known as organized, and until the “Mkporo” manillas in Africa. Mkporo manillas are very rare even in Africa, and no one knows very much about them. This manilla mold, recovered discovery of the Exeter mold from the site of a 17th-century scholars had no compelling Because Mkporo manillas are so rare, and because they are foundry in Exeter, England, evidence that the trade so different in size from most other manillas, most people was loaned by the Royal involved special products assumed that they represented a very early type, but nobody Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery for “The World of made in England exclusively knew for sure. Now we can say with some confidence that 1607” exhibition at Jamestown for the African market. So Mkporo manillas are of 16th or early 17th century date, and Settlement in 2007-08. far as they knew, the English that at least some of them were made in England. trade goods The story of the Exeter manilla mold illustrates that reaching Africa museum exhibits can be important research tools as well as in the early 17th vehicles for public education. Because new sets of eyes got century were to see this important artifact when it was here in Virginia for things like cloth “The World of 1607” exhibition, new things were learned or household about it, and an important but little-known aspect of early utensils that English overseas trade can now be better understood. In the were no light of this new knowledge, Richard Jobson’s speculations different from about the brass bracelets he saw in West Africa in 1620 make the things much better sense. Jobson, like ourselves, lived in a world The Mkporo manilla on the right, from a private collection, was cast in a mold almost identical that English where international trade was a fact of life, and where a to the Exeter mold. The Mkporo manilla is shown manufacturers traveler in a foreign land should never be surprised to see next to a smaller manilla in the Jamestown- were producing something from his “native Country.” n Yorktown Foundation collection. 4 Teacher Study Tours Debut At Foundation Museums In recent months several groups of Available to groups of 10 or more educators, including U.S. Department of Teacher Study Tour educators, the tours are listed in the Education “Teaching American History” Lesson Plan Topics Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s 2010 grant recipients, have experienced the Government and Leadership Education Planner, at www.historyisfun. org/educational-adventures.htm. The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s new • A Crown for Powhatan “Government and Leadership” teacher Foundation frequently partners with • Virginia Company Instructions study tour at Jamestown Settlement. A Teaching American History grant “Farmer to Soldier” tour will debut at the to the Colony applicants and recipients to provide Yorktown Victory Center in June. • General Assembly Role Play teacher study tours and curriculum- The programs, developed by Farmer to Soldier coordinated workshops. n Foundation education staff, include • Choosing Independence interactive experiences and themed tours • Declaring of the museums’ exhibition galleries and Independence living-history areas and are designed to • Marching to last up to two-and-a-half hours. Each participant will receive a CD containing Independence three lesson plans and resources relating to the study tour theme. “Government and Leadership” focuses on leaders from the Powhatan Indian, English and west central African cultures that converged at Jamestown and the evolution of representative government in the colony. “Farmer to Soldier” spotlights the transition from life as a small Virginia farmer to Revolutionary War soldier and explores the roles Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation instructors drill with of women and African Americans during the American wooden muskets at the Yorktown Victory Center’s Revolution. Continental Army encampment in preparation for leading “Farmer to Soldier” teacher study tours.

Godspeed Undertakes Summer Teacher Four Outreach Voyages Institute Is July 11-16 Jamestown Settlement’s town Hampton, as the city Twenty four elementary and Godspeed, a re-creation of commemorates its 400th middle school instructors from across one of the three ships that anniversary. The event has Virginia have been selected from brought America’s first per- an educational focus, high- 63 applicants to participate in the manent English colonists to lighting Hampton’s history Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s Virginia in 1607, will sail to as a colonial seaport and third consecutive Summer Teacher four Virginia ports this year fishing village and the ecol- Institute, July 11-16. A distinctive to participate in maritime ogy of the Chesapeake Bay. feature of the institute – in addition events and outreach educa- The Jamestown Settle- to tours, workshops and lectures – is tion programming. ment ship will be open for the opportunity for participants to The Godspeed is sailed public tours throughout work in costume alongside historical by a crew of Jamestown- the Norfolk Harborfest and interpreters at Jamestown Settlement Yorktown Foundation Hampton Bay Days events. and the Yorktown Victory Center. staff and volunteers, and This fall, the Godspeed Supported with grants from a its voyages are supported with private will sail into the Chesapeake Bay private family foundation and The donations to the Jamestown-Yorktown and up the Rappahannock River for Ukrop Foundation, the weeklong Foundation, Inc. Lancaster County’s Hospice Turkey institute is provided at no cost to the The first port of call is Norfolk, for Shoot Regatta in October and the participants or their school districts. the city’s 34th annual Harborfest, June Urbanna Oyster Festival in November. 11-13. The event opens with a parade Pre-scheduled maritime education of sail beginning in Hampton Roads at programs will be presented for area During the Godspeed’s absences 10 a.m. on Friday, June 11, and arriv- students on October 8 in Lancaster and from Jamestown Settlement, museum ing at the Norfolk harbor at noon. The November 4 in Urbanna. The Godspeed visitors will have access to the Susan Godspeed will dock at Waterside Marina also will be open for public tours at Constant and Discovery, re-creations for the maritime festival. Yankee Point Marina in Lancaster on of the other two 1607 ships, and the The Godspeed will be a featured October 8 and at the Urbanna Town Elizabeth, representing a ship that made attraction at the 28th annual Hampton Marina during the Urbanna Oyster several voyages to Virginia between Bay Days, September 10-12 in down- Festival on November 5 and 6. 1613 and 1625. n 5 Noteworthy Annual Fund Receives $10,000 Gift Sculpture Placed on Legacy Walk Don and Linda Baker of Williamsburg have renewed at Jamestown Settlement their membership in General Washington’s Council of The A bronze sculpture by Pamunkey Indian artist Kevin 1607 Society with a gift of $10,000 to the Jamestown-Yorktown Brown, titled “New World Resurrection,” has been placed Foundation, Inc., Annual Fund. As members of General on Jamestown Settlement’s Legacy Walk Washington’s Council, the Bakers will be recognized on bordering the open mall outside the signage in the Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory museum’s visitor services and gallery Center entrance lobbies. Mrs. Baker is a member of the complex. The sculpture was created in Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors. partnership with Jamestown 2007, the agency that coordinated the state’s role in Delegates Jones, Sherwood Appointed commemorating the 400th anniversary of to Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Board the founding of America’s first permanent Virginia Delegates S. Chris Jones of Suffolk and Beverly English colony. Mr. Brown sculpted the J. Sherwood of Winchester were appointed by House of Del- preliminary work in plaster at Anniversary egates Speaker William J. Howell to the Board of Trustees Park during America’s Anniversary Week- of Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, succeeding Phillip A. end, May 11-13, 2007. Hamilton and Frank D. Hargrove, Sr. The six-foot-tall sculpture is in the Delegate Jones has represented the 76th District in the form of a totem atop a representation of House of Delegates since 1998 and currently chairs the James Fort. “My hope is that the public General Laws Committee. He previously served as mayor will view this piece and come away not just and vice mayor of the City of Suffolk. Last year he was with an appreciation of the hardships en- named “Suffolk’s First Citizen” by the Suffolk Rotary Club. A dured by both Colonists and Indians,” Mr. graduate of the Medical College of Virginia School of Brown said, “but an appreciation of our shared histories that Pharmacy, Delegate Jones is president and pharmacist of make us uniquely American.” Bennett’s Creek Pharmacy located in Suffolk. Delegate Sherwood has represented the 29th District Homeschool Program Participation since 1994 and is the senior woman in the House of Del- Sets Record in 2009-10 School Year egates. She currently chairs the Militia, Police and Public Participation in the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s Safety Committee and the Public Safety Subcommittee of homeschool programs reached a pinnacle in the 2009-10 Appropriations. She has served on the Frederick County academic year. A special ticket for homeschool families, Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission and was offered during a two-week period in the fall semester and named Winchester Business and Professional Women’s Club one week in the spring semester, provides unlimited admis- “Woman of the Year” in 2005. Delegate Sherwood is the sion to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory former co-owner of Sherwood Christmas Tree Farm. Center and the opportunity to pre-register for optional student hands-on classroom programs and family guided Emerson Named Distinguished Alumnus tours of the museums’ outdoor living-history areas. Dates are Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Executive Director coordinated with Colonial Williamsburg so that out-of-town Philip G. Emerson has received the Randolph-Macon College participants can attend homeschool programs throughout Society of the Alumni’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Historic Triangle. was keynote speaker at the annual Society of Alumni Awards Together, this year’s sessions brought 6,872 parents and Banquet. A 1981 graduate of Randolph-Macon, he joined children to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation museums, the Foundation in 1986 and became executive director in the highest number in the program’s eight-year history. The 1991. He previously worked for The Mariners’ Museum, the next homeschool session is scheduled for September 11-26. Virginia Travel Council and Luray Caverns Corporation. Visit www.historyisfun.org/Homeschool-Programs-2.htm for more information. Gutierrez Elected Virginia Association of Museums President Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Senior Director of Museum Operations & Education Joseph A. Gutierrez, Jr., was elected in March to a two-year term as president of the Virginia Association of Museums, the premier organiza- tion for museum professionals in Virginia. Mr. Gutierrez has served on the VAM Council since 2005 and most recently was vice president for planning and resources.

Homeschool students at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center. 6 Special Events Engage, Acknowledge Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Donors Special educational and social opportunities are offered the Ages event. After refreshments, they were treated to a throughout the year to Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation private tour of select military camps and invited to handle donors in appreciation of their support of museum reproductions of historical weapons. programs. Donor benefits are in effect for one year from the Members of Lord de la Warr’s Associates and General date of a gift. Washington’s Council dined with General Washington, A series of recent events acknowledged members of The portrayed by Ron Carnegie, on May 6 in the Yorktown Victory 1607 Society giving clubs – Captain ’s Companie Center’s re-created Continental Army encampment. (donors of $1,607-$2,499), Marquis de Lafayette’s Circle Much more is planned for the remainder of 2010: ($2,500-$4,999), Lord de la Warr’s Associates ($5,000- “Shindig at the Settlement” on June 10 will feature $9,999) and General Washington’s Council ($10,000 music by the Rhondels of Virginia Beach. In appreciation and above). of their support, donors of $500 or more will In anticipation of Jamestown receive two complimentary tickets to this event Settlement’s special exhibition at Jamestown Settlement. Tickets also will be “Werowocomoco: Seat of Power,” members available for purchase. of The 1607 Society participated in a February Half of proceeds from the September 1 25 outing that featured dinner at the Carrot “Wine on Wednesdays” event at the Williams- Tree restaurant in Yorktown, followed burg Winery will benefit the Jamestown- with a lecture by College of William and Yorktown Foundation, Inc., Annual Fund. The Mary Assistant Professor of Anthropology event is open to the public for an admission fee Martin Gallivan at the Virginia Institute of $10 per person. of Marine Science in Gloucester County Two fall excursions are planned for about the archaeological research at At Jamestown Settlement’s members of The 1607 Society. The “Virginia the Werowocomoco site. 1607 Society Military Through the Ages event, Presidential Homes Tour,” September 21-23, members also were guests at a May 13 pre- 1607 Society members Dottie will include tours of Monticello, Montpelier exhibition-opening celebration at Jamestown Nichols and Anne Symroski and Ash Lawn-Highland, a tour and dinner at examine weapons and talk with Settlement. Donors of $250-$1,606 were re-enactors representing the Barboursville Winery, and accommodations at invited to a May 18 exhibition reception. American Revolution and World Keswick Hall. “Washington, D.C., During the On March 4, donors of $2,500 or more War I. Holidays,” December 7-9, will feature a “Happy experienced a unique opportunity to view Holidays” concert by the National Symphony the rare 1776 broadside of the Declaration Orchestra, with Marvin Hamlisch conducting, of Independence on exhibit at the Yorktown at the Kennedy Center and a private tour of the Victory Center and discuss text selections National Cathedral. from this historic document with College of To learn more about giving clubs, William and Mary Pullen Professor of History upcoming events, and what donations support, James P. Wittenburg. visit www.historyisfun.org/giving.htm or call Members of The 1607 Society spent Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., Annual the afternoon of March 20 at Jamestown Fund Director Christina Dominguez at Settlement’s annual Military Through (757) 253-4139. n Bequest Will Establish Chiricotti Education Endowment Fund Audrael and Yorktown Foundation programs with a Foundation, Inc., whose work is so criti- John Chiricotti planned gift. cal to preserving our nation’s history.” have included “One of our greatest gratifications The Chiricottis’ future gift will the Jamestown- is to leave a legacy benefitting an orga- endow educational opportunities for Yorktown nization in which we so firmly believe,” schoolchildren, teachers and visitors of Foundation, the Chiricottis said. “Such are our feel- all ages at Jamestown Settlement and Inc., in their ings towards the Jamestown-Yorktown the Yorktown Victory Center and in will, establish- Foundation. 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Dispatch Volume 24, No. 2 Printed May 2010 Deborah Padgett, Editor Holly Winslow, Designer Marketing & Retail Operations Calendar June 1-30 revealed that Werowocomoco was a anniversary of America’s independence. Tools of the Trade uniquely important place long before Visitors can see in the museum Theme Month the rise of the Powhatan chiefdom. galleries a rare broadside printing Jamestown Settlement & See story on page 1. of the Declaration of Independence Yorktown Victory Center dating to July 1776 and, during a Implements June 26 special interpretive program, learn used in colonial Virginia Indian Heritage Day about the sacrifices of Americans who Virginia for Jamestown Settlement sought to be “free and independent” farming, Virginia Indian tribal leaders will from Great Britain. fishing, explore in panel discussions the hunting, significance of Werowocomoco and August 1-31 defense, what the site means to descendent Pastimes of Colonial Virginia navigation Virginia Indian communities today. Theme Month and building The Virginia Intertribal Drum and Jamestown Settlement & are examined Dancers will present traditional and Yorktown Victory Center through interpretive programs and contemporary tribal dances. Presented Games, storytelling and other hands-on activities. in partnership with the Virginia Indian diversions community. of 17th- and Through November 15 18th-century “Werowocomoco: Seat of Power” July 3-4 Virginia are Special Exhibition Liberty Celebration shown through Jamestown Settlement Yorktown Victory hands-on Artifacts from Werowocomoco, Center activities and the capital of the Powhatan Indian Tactical drills, interpretive chiefdom at the time English colonists military exercises programs. Visitors can play corncob arrived in Virginia in 1607, are on and role-playing darts, ninepins, quoits, mancala and museum display for the first time. demonstrations nine-men’s morris. Recent archaeological research has salute the