DISPATCH A Newsletter of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation • Winter 2013 ‘Jamestown’s Legacy to the ’ Links 17th-Century Capital to Period More than 60 objects destined for exhibit at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will be on display in “Jamestown’s Legacy to the American Revolution,” opening March 1 at Jamestown Settlement. The special exhibition, which continues through January 20, 2014, examines the lives of Revolutionary War-era descendants of people associated with 17th-century Jamestown, the first A sword inscribed capital of colonial Virginia. with the year 1776 Work is under way on the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, which and the name will replace the Yorktown Victory Center by late 2016. The artifacts featured in of the owner, Continental Army “Jamestown’s Legacy to the American Revolution” – a sampling of those to be officer William exhibited in the new museum – include furnishings, weapons, nautical items, McKissack, has documents and commemorative objects. Among them are an American-made a silver pommel saber engraved with the owner’s name and the year 1776, a trunk owned by a in the form of an Continental Navy shipbuilder, and examples of 18th-century Virginia currency. eagle. Over the course of the The exhibition opens with “King George III’s Virginia,” illustrated with an Revolution, the eight-foot-tall portrait of the king in coronation robes, one of several done by eagle became one the studio of Allan Ramsay between 1762 and 1784. From the time he ascended of the symbols to the British throne in 1760, George III worked to strengthen British of the new United States. continued on page 2 $250,000 Challenge Grant From Mary Morton Parsons Foundation Supports ‘American Revolution Museum at Yorktown’ Galleries The Mary Morton Parsons Foun- for the new museum,” said Jamestown- and critical thinking, the new galleries dation of Richmond has pledged a Yorktown Foundation Executive Direc- will feature immersive learning envi- $250,000 challenge grant in support of tor Philip G. Emerson. “The Mary ronments, interactive exhibits and pe- gallery exhibits at the American Revo- Morton Parsons Foundation’s com- riod artifacts. The galleries will segue lution Museum at Yorktown, planned to mitment to this project helps us move into the museum’s two outdoor living- replace the Yorktown Victory Center by forward with critical elements of gallery history areas, a re-created Continental late 2016. planning.” Army encampment and Revolution- The Parsons Foundation will The American Revolution Mu- period farm. Construction work began match 50 percent of up to $500,000 in seum at Yorktown project includes an on the site in 2012. gifts from individuals and private foun- 80,000-square-foot structure that will “This challenge grant helps pro- dations made through November 2013 encompass expanded exhibition galler- vide important momentum to raise the for the American Revolution Museum ies, classrooms and support functions, dollars we need to create a museum at Yorktown galleries. and reorganization of the 22-acre site. that instills in current and future gen- “The grant comes at a crucial time Designed to encourage discussion erations an appreciation of the people, continued on page 2

The future American Revolution Museum at Yorktown building, depicted in the model shown above, will contain a 22,250-square-foot permanent gallery space. Private donations, including the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation challenge grant, will support acquisition of artifacts and media components for the new galleries. While construction work, which began at the site in 2012, is under way, the Yorktown Victory Center will remain in operation and will be renamed American Revolution Museum at Yorktown when the project is complete in late 2016. ‘Jamestown’s Legacy to the American Revolution’ continued from page 1 administration in the American colonies, with his American subjects ultimately rising in opposition. In pre-Revolutionary Virginia, agriculture and trade drove the economy. A section titled “Merchants, Planters and Farmers” profiles Mary Cary Ambler, widow of Edward Am- bler, a wealthy Yorktown merchant and planter, and John Ambler II, their son, and Azel Benthall, a small planter and church vestry clerk on Virginia’s Shown are two examples of Virginia currency issued during the Revolution. An eight-dollar Eastern Shore. The Ambler family note issued in 1777 features the new state symbol, a figure representing Virtue with the motto suffered serious financial reverses dur- SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS (thus always to tyrants), which was adopted by Virginia in 1776. A ing the Revolution, while farmers like 1780 note was issued to fund clothing for Virginia troops. Benthall were better able to cope with Artifacts in the collection of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. wartime shortages. Colonel Richard Taylor, who served with the First the United States to victory as commander of the Conti- Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army, and Captain nental Army, Edward Travis IV, who served in the Virginia navy, are fea- George Washing- tured in “Soldiers and Sailors.” Most Virginians who fought ton reluctantly in the war were either militiamen or soldiers of the Conti- accepted the nental Line. Virginia’s small naval force operated chiefly to office of the first keep the state’s rivers and the Chesapeake Bay safe from the president of the British navy and to assist in the transport of supplies for the United States. A Continental Army. life-size statue, “Statesmen and Diplomats” highlights individuals who made in the supported the Patriot cause and the new nation as public of- 19th century by ficials. Arthur Lee served on diplomatic missions to Europe William James This dome-topped trunk was owned by Captain during the Revolution and later as a member of Congress. Hubard after Tobias Lear, who constructed the Continental II was actively involved in events leading up an 18th-cen- Navy ship Ranger, which was John Paul Jones’ to the Revolution, as a member of the Virginia committees tury work by first command. Small trunks like this were used to protect valuable objects and important papers of Correspondence and Public Safety and the Continental Jean-Antoine on sea voyages. Congress. During and following the Revolution, General Houdon, Joseph Martin served as Virginia’s agent for Indian Affairs, portrays Washington as a modern Cincinnatus, the Roman acting as a diplomat between the Cherokee and settlers who farmer who left his land to fight for his country and, after encroached on Indian lands. victory as a general, returned to his farm as a man of sim- The exhibition concludes with an overview of the ca- plicity and peace. reer of George Washington, whose ancestor John Washing- “Jamestown’s Legacy to the American Revolution” ton arrived in Virginia in 1656 and later sat in the House of is supported with grants from James City County, Altria Burgesses at Jamestown. Less than a decade after leading Group and Dominion Resources. n

Mary Morton Parsons Foundation continued from page 1 places and principles that forged our production of films, and reproduction provided momentum for construction nation,” said Sue H. Gerdelman, presi- items – and educational resources. of a farmhouse at the Yorktown Victory dent of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foun- “We are confident that this chal- Center in the 1990s and for new re- dation, Inc., which coordinates private lenge grant will not only help make the creations of the Jamestown Settlement fundraising in support of Jamestown- galleries of the American Revolution ships Godspeed and Discovery in time for Yorktown Foundation programs. Museum at Yorktown rich and full for the Jamestown quadricentennial in While planning and construction children and families to enjoy, but will 2007. Founded in 1988 by Mrs. Mary of the new Yorktown museum has been also raise awareness of the importance Morton Parsons, the foundation gives funded by the Commonwealth of Vir- of private funding in realizing the full financial support principally for capital ginia, gifts and grants from individu- potential of the new museum,” said projects at not-for-profit organizations als, corporations and foundations are Amy P. Nisenson, executive director of in Virginia. providing support for elements of the The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation. For information on how to support galleries and outdoor exhibits – such Previous challenge grants from the challenge grant, call Julie Basic or as acquisition of artifacts for exhibit, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation Carter Sonders at (757) 253-4139. n

2 Private Gifts, Grants Provide Critical Support for New Yorktown Museum, Educational Programs Educational Programs American Revolution Museum at Yorktown With a $30,000 grant from the Charles S. & Millicent P. The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown received Brown Family Foundation, the sixth consecutive Jamestown- significant support with $28,000 (part of a $40,000 grant Yorktown Foundation Summer Teacher Institute will take that also supported educational programs) from the Camp place at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory family foundations, $25,000 from the Robins Foundation for Center in 2013, which has been proclaimed “The Year artifact acquisition, and $10,000 of the Teacher” by Virginia Governor Robert F. from Mr. and Mrs. Page H. Sutherland for elements of outdoor McDonnell. Correlated with the interpretive exhibits. Virginia Standards of Learning While construction of the American and national curriculum objectives, Acquisitions Revolution Museum at Yorktown is un- the institute emphasizes interactive, for the American Revolution Museum at der way, planning is moving forward inquiry-based methods of teaching Yorktown are made entirely for new gallery exhibits and relocation American history and includes the op- with private funds, and one of and enhancement of the Continental the most recent is a “Highland”- portunity to work in costume alongside style, all-metal flintlock pistol. At Army encampment and Revolutionary historical interpreters. The Jamestown- the time of the American Revolution, War-period farm. Research for prin- Scottish Highland regiments in the cipal exhibit themes and design of the Yorktown Foundation Teacher Institute, British army were equipped with scheduled for July 7-12 this year, is pistols of a distinctive style and con- galleries and the outdoor areas have struction. These pistols, unlike most pistols of been completed. The Jamestown- provided at no cost to participants or the time, had metal rather than wooden stocks. their school districts. Yorktown Foundation is continuing to acquire artifacts for exhibit in the new museum galleries, The elementary school scholarship program is supported thanks to private donations, and has contracted with Cortina with gifts of $15,000 from the Wells Fargo Foundation, $10,000 Productions of McLean, Virginia, to produce media compo- from the Huston Foundation, and $10,000 from the Camp nents of the galleries, including short films about the chang- family foundations. The program provides outreach and on- ing relationship between American colonists and Britain, site education experiences for students and teachers, including communication in 18th-century America, two key American workshops for “hands-on” history teaching techniques, in Vir- victories in the Revolutionary War – the 1777 Battle of Sara- ginia school districts where a significant number of students toga and the 1781 Siege of Yorktown – and the development participate in free and reduced-fee school lunch programs. of the United States Constitution in the 1780s.

Working with historical interpreter Lynn Williams (left) during the An experiential film in the new museum galleries will transport 2012 Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Summer Teacher Institute, visitors to the battlefield at Yorktown in 1781. Private funds are Pamela Clark of Arlington County prepares dough to be baked in a supporting production of gallery films. Devon oven at Jamestown Settlement’s re-created 1610-14 fort.

3 4 Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc. Judy F. Wason Appointed, Board Gains Two New Directors H. Benson Dendy III Reappointed Hunter A. Applewhite of Richmond and Ann G. Gray to Foundation Board of Williamsburg were elected to four-year terms, through Judy F. Wason of Williamsburg was appointed and 2016, on the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., Board of H. Benson Dendy III of Richmond reappointed by Governor Directors. The Foundation, Inc., is a not-for-profit entity that Robert F. McDonnell to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation coordinates fundraising to benefit programs of the James- Board of Trustees for terms through June 2016. town-Yorktown Foundation. The board re-elected Mr. Dendy to a two-year term as Mr. Applewhite is director of corporate advertising and chairman at its semi-annual meeting in November. Suzanne public relations for Dominion Resources. Prior to joining O. Flippo of Glen Allen was re-elected vice chairman; Janet Dominion in 1996 he was associate director of The Com- D. Howell of Reston, secretary; and M. Kirkland Cox of Colo- munity Foundation of Richmond. He is a member of the nial Heights, treasurer. executive committee of the Richmond Ballet and the board Mrs. Wason was for nearly two decades a development of trustees of the Historic Richmond Foundation. executive for non-profit organizations in Hampton Roads Mrs. Gray is an educator who worked as a school psychol- and Richmond. She currently serves on the advisory board ogist for Newport News City Public Schools and volunteered of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher New- as a court-appointed special advocate. She also has served port University. Mrs. Wason held leadership positions in on the College of William and Mary School of Education Virginia gubernatorial campaigns in 2009 and 2001, and in development committee. the 1980s managed campaigns for U.S. senators representing Continuing to serve as Jamestown-Yorktown Founda- Virginia and was a special assistant for intergovernmental tion, Inc., officers for 2013 are Sue H. Gerdelman of Wil- affairs in President Ronald Reagan’s administration. liamsburg, president; Jane T. Kaplan of Williamsburg, vice Mr. Dendy, a member of the Jamestown-Yorktown president; Clifford B. Fleet of Richmond, treasurer; and Mari Foundation board since 1984, has been chairman since 2008. Ann Banks of Gloucester, secretary. A. Marshall Acuff, Jr., of He is president of The Vectre Corporation, a government n Midlothian is immediate past president. relations and economic development firm based in Rich- mond. His past public service includes vice chairmanship of New Fabric Furnishings the federal Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission and membership on the state’s Jamestown 2007 Steering Adorn 17th-Century Bed Committee. He also has served as Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth and secretary to the governor’s Cabinet. n

$10,000 Grant Benefits Annual Fund; Baker Victory Challenge Continues The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation contributed $10,000 to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., An- nual Fund, which provides support for a variety of pro- grams at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, including artifact acquisition, collection conserva- tion, special exhibitions, public programming, and on-site and outreach education programs. The Baker Victory Challenge encourages Annual Fund growth by matching new and increased gifts of $500 or more, up to a total of $100,000. As of December 31, 2012, nearly $50,000 had been raised. The challenge, issued by New drapes, hand-sewn by Jamestown-Yorktown Foun- Linda and Don Baker, longtime supporters of the James- dation staff and volunteers, hang from the canopy of a town-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., will continue through 17th-century oak bed on exhibit in the Jamestown Settle- June 30. For more information, visit www.historyisfun.org/ ment galleries. The hangings are of linen fabric with victory.htm or call (757) 253-4139. n wool embroidery in the 17th-century style, and the bed is covered with a velvet bedspread. The bed, with its elabo- rately carved headboard and posts, and fabric dressings are representative of fine furnishings imported by wealthy Virginia planters from England during the 1600s.

5 ‘Anna’s Adventures’ Educational Video Series Takes Kids on Historical Journey The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation is serving up on video and editing equip- historical fun for kids with “Anna’s Adventures,” a series of ment. After the pilot’s suc- educational videos available on the historyisfun.org website. cess, production of the series The work of the Foundation’s outreach education and continued. Topics are devel- special services video production team, the series began in oped through observations of Anna learns the purpose of Revolutionary War drums 2011. Five episodes are hosted by Anna Hower, now 12, who what most interests children and military commands in the takes viewers to Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Vic- at the two museums and input “Drums and Drills” episode of tory Center interpretive areas to learn about colonial games, from educators, curators and “Anna’s Adventures,” set in Powhatan foodways, 17th-century mapping and cartography, historical interpreters who the Yorktown Victory Center’s re-created Continental Army Revolutionary War drums and military drills, and 18th-centu- interact with young visitors. encampment. ry food preparation Future episodes are planned and preservation to cover life aboard a 17th-century ship, Revolutionary War techniques. espionage, historical clothing and simple machines. Activity sheets “Anna’s Adventures” (http://www.historyisfun.org/ accompany each annas-adventures.htm) complements an array of educational episode to allow materials on the historyisfun.org website designed to reach viewers to try some students and teachers across the nation and enhances the of the activities Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s offerings on colonial that Anna demon- America. n strates in the videos, Young viewers are invited to join “Anna’s such as playing a Adventures,” an online video series, to learn about aspects of early colonial America. nine-men’s morris Development Staff game or making a Powhatan Indian dish. The series, which also offers supple- Leadership Restructured mentary information on each historical topic, is promoted Julie Westhafer Basic and Carter S. Sonders have assumed for use by teachers in their classrooms to enhance lessons on new leadership roles in the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s early American history. development office. Ms. Basic has been named senior director “Anna’s Adventures” initially began as a training proj- of development, and Ms. Sonders has been named director of ect by the Foundation’s video production team, comprised principal gifts. of outreach education staff and volunteers. The group Ms. Basic, who was acting development director during developed a pilot episode as a new way to teach history to a the past year, will be responsible for overall direction of pri- young audience, while it worked to sharpen individual skills vate fundraising by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., in support of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s museums and educational programs, including major gifts and the An- Yorktown Curator Named nual Fund. Ms. Sonders, previously chief development officer, Martha B. Katz-Hyman has joined the Jamestown-York- will focus on securing major gifts. town Foundation team planning exhibits for the American Ms. Basic joined the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation in Revolution Museum at Yorktown, with primary responsibility 2000 as Annual Fund director and became senior develop- for providing curatorial support in developing media ele- ment officer in 2009. She previously held development posi- ments for the new exhibition galleries. tions at the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Com- As an independent curator since 2008, Ms. Katz-Hyman prehensive Cancer Center and Mary Baldwin College and has has worked with historic sites and museums from Virginia a bachelor’s degree in communications from Hollins Univer- to New Jersey, including the American History Workshop on sity. Ms. Sonders has been a member of the development staff interpretive planning for a major history exhibit at the Smith- since 1994. She previously worked in development positions sonian’s National Museum of African American History and at The Memorial Foundation in Charlottes- Culture. She is co-editor of World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the ville and the College of William and Mary and is a graduate of Material Life of Slaves in the United States, published in 2011. the University of Mary Washington with a bachelor’s degree in Ms. Katz-Hyman worked at the Colonial Williamsburg historic preservation. Foundation from 1985 to 2008 as an assistant and associate “Fundraising in support of the future American Revolu- curator and, most recently, as an architectural conservation tion Museum at Yorktown will be a priority of the develop- project manager. She has a bachelor’s degree in American ment program,” said Foundation Executive Director Philip Studies from Simmons College in Boston and received her G. Emerson. “Carter and Julie had critical roles in the very master’s degree in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown successful ‘Campaign for Jamestown Settlement, 1607-2007.’ Graduate Programs of the State University of New York at Their proven leadership skills and institutional knowledge are Oneonta. n invaluable assets as we move forward.” n

6 New Citizens to be Recognized March 9 In 2013, Godspeed in Ceremony at Jamestown Settlement to Undertake Four For the second time, the James- from countries across the globe will Outreach Voyages town-Yorktown Foundation is partner- take the Oath of Allegiance to the ing with the Williamsburg Chapter United States in the museum’s Robins A visit to Mathews County in April National Society Daughters of the Foundation Theater. is the first of four outreach voyages American Revolution and U.S. Citizen- The citizenship event was first planned for Jamestown Settlement’s ship and Immigration Services to host held at Jamestown Settlement in Godspeed in 2013. Over three days, a Certificate of Citizenship ceremony March last year. This year’s ceremony April 26-28, at Williams Wharf, the at Jamestown Settlement for children begins at 2 p.m. and is open to the Godspeed will host education programs of naturalized citizens. On Saturday, public on a space-available basis. n for Mathews County students as well as March 9, as many as 50 young people public tours. The Godspeed, a re-creation of one of the three ships that brought Amer- ica’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607, is scheduled to participate in Norfolk’s annual Har- borfest maritime event June 7-9, begin- ning with a parade of sail leading to the Norfolk waterfront. The ship will host education programs and public tours during fall voyages to Henricus Historical Park, September 21-24, and Virginia’s Eastern Shore, with visits to Onancock October 19-21 and Cape Charles October 25-27. Participants in last year’s Certificate of Citizenship ceremony at Jamestown Settlement take The Godspeed is sailed by a crew the Oath of Allegiance. of museum staff and volunteers, and its voyages are supported by private ‘From Africa to Virginia’ Theme Reflected donations. n in February Lectures, Interpretive Programs February’s “From Africa to roles, spirituality, and acts of resistance developed in the Chesapeake Bay re- Virginia” theme at Jamestown Settle- and accommodation. gion and the adaptations specific to the ment and the Yorktown Victory Center Lorena Walsh, author and former Chesapeake that Africans had to make includes two Sunday afternoon lectures long-time historian at the Colonial to survive. at Jamestown Settlement. Williamsburg Foundation, will present The lectures begin at 2 p.m. and Patricia Samford, director of the “Development of Slavery in the 17th- are included with admission. Advance Maryland Archaeological Conservation Century Chesapeake” on February 24. reservations are recommended by Laboratory, will speak February 10 on Dr. Walsh will discuss the evolution calling (757) 253-4572 or e-mailing “The Archaeology of Slave Quarters in of techniques for managing enslaved [email protected]. n Colonial Virginia.” Dr. Samford will Africans before the institution was fully examine what recovered artifacts and other physical remains of sites where enslaved people once lived, in combi- nation with historical research, can reveal about material circumstances as well as family and community, gender

Museum interpretive programs throughout February focus on the culture of the first known Africans in Virginia and the experi- ence of people of African descent in colonial America. At right, arrayed in a dugout canoe in Jamestown Settlement’s re-created Powhatan village are examples of Powhatan-, African- and European-style axes and an oyster shell for scraping out the canoe. Africans, like Europeans, made tools of metal, and African and Pow- hatan techniques for building watercraft and houses were similar. Displayed in the Yorktown Victory Center’s re-created Continental Army encampment is a representation of a coat worn by formerly enslaved people who joined the British 33rd Regiment of Foot. 7 Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation NONPROFIT ORG P.O. Box 1607 U.S. POSTAGE Williamsburg, VA 23187-1607 PAID Yorktown, VA Permit No. 2441 The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an educational institution of the Commonwealth of Virginia accredited by the American Alliance Address Service Requested of Museums, fosters through its living-history museums – Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center – an awareness and understanding of the early history, settlement, and development of the United States through the convergence of American Indian, European, and African cultures and the enduring legacies bequeathed to the nation.

Philip G. Emerson, Executive Director

Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, until 6 p.m. June 15 - August 15. Closed December 25 and January 1. (757) 253-4838 • (888) 593-4682 toll-free www.historyisfun.org

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Calendar February 1-28 March 16 -17 June 1-30 From Africa to Virginia Military Through the Ages Seed to Stalk Theme Month Jamestown Settlement Theme Month Jamestown Settlement & Hundreds of re-enactors depicting Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center centuries of military history join forces Yorktown Victory Center Interpretive programs highlight the with modern-day American agriculture of the 17th culture of the first known Africans in veterans and active and 18th centuries is the focus of Virginia and the experience of Africans units to demonstrate interpretive programs. in colonial America, with lectures camp life, tactics at Jamestown Settlement at 2 p.m., and weaponry. The February 10 and 24. event features a “four See story on page 7. centuries of artillery” demonstration at Third Annual ‘Party March 1-January 20, 2014 noon both days, on the Pier’ is June 22 “Jamestown’s Legacy to the American children’s parade Revolution” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Special Exhibition “Party on the Pier” returns to and military pass-in- Jamestown Settlement on Saturday, Jamestown Settlement review at 3 p.m. Sunday. Tells the stories of Revolutionary War- June 22. Tickets for the evening era descendants of people associated May 11 event, featuring food and enter- with 17th-century Jamestown, the Jamestown Day tainment, will go on sale this first capital of colonial Virginia, and A jointly sponsored event at Jamestown spring. Proceeds from “Party on features artifacts acquired for exhibit Settlement and Historic Jamestowne the Pier” benefit the Jamestown- at the future American Revolution Military and maritime demonstrations, Yorktown Foundation, Inc., Annual Museum at Yorktown. family-friendly tours and activities, and Fund, which supports educational See story on page 1. traditional entertainment mark the programming at Jamestown 406th anniversary of the 1607 founding Settlement and the Yorktown of Jamestown, America’s first permanent Victory Center. English colony.