ADISPATCH Newsletter of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation • Spring 2008

Gifts to the campaign financed the acquisition of artifacts for exhibit in ‘The Campaign for Jamestown Settlement’ Surpasses Jamestown Settlement’s new perma- nent exhibition galleries, technology $24.2 Million Goal, Continues Through June 30 components of gallery exhibits and the production of the museum’s introduc- “The Campaign for Jamestown in memory of George tory film1607: A Nation Takes Root. Settlement, 1607-2007,” which cul- Lummis Taylor; Mr. and Revitalization of Jamestown Settle- minates on June 30, has surpassed Mrs. Robert V. Hatcher, ment’s outdoor living-history settings its $24.2 million goal. The achieve- Jr.; James City County; – including a new riverfront discovery ment was announced May 15 at a joint Jamestown 2007, Inc.; area, new structures in the re-created meeting of the Jamestown-Yorktown Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Powhatan Indian village and colonial Foundation Board of Trustees and Archer McMurran III; fort, new replicas of the Godspeed and Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., the Robins Foundation; Discovery, and a ships’ pier shelter Board of Directors and celebrated at a and the Federal Trans- – was substantially funded with cam- gala evening event attended by more portation Enhancement paign gifts. than 250 campaign supporters. Gifts to “The Campaign for Jamestown Settlement, Program through the Campaign gifts and Jamestown The campaign, the largest fund- 1607-2007” funded the acquisition of 165 artifacts Virginia Department of 2007 sponsors supported “The World raising effort in Foundation history, has for exhibit at Jamestown Settlement. Transportation. of 1607” quadricentennial exhibition supported new permanent facilities, “We can all share at Jamestown Settlement from April exhibits and programs at Jamestown an enormous sense of 2007 to April 2008 and are laying the Settlement implemented in time for “The Campaign for Jamestown pride in the world-class facilities and foundation for future special exhibi- last year’s 400th-annniversary com- Settlement” has received contributions programs that were created for our tions. Campaign funds supported memoration of Jamestown’s founding, from 6,900 individuals and institu- guests today and in the years to come,” special events held at Jamestown funded a broad range of educational tions. Leadership gifts of $500,000 said A. Marshall Acuff, Jr., president of Settlement during the commemora- programming initiatives, and contrib- and above were provided by the the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, tive year, including the 2007 Heritage uted to a lasting legacy for future years. Gladys and Franklin Clark Foundation; Inc. “The commitment of our donors Lecture Series, which featured nation- The campaign, publicly an- Dominion and the Dominion Founda- to preserving and communicating the ally renowned speakers Doris Kearns nounced in 2005, paralleled the tion; Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.; the story of our country’s earliest days is an Goodwin and Michael Beschloss and Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s Honorable and Mrs. Elmon T. Gray inspiration.” continued on page 3 now-realized comprehensive facilities master plan for the transformation of Jamestown Settlement, exhibit en- Evening Lectures, Virginia Indian Heritage Event Accompany hancements at the Yorktown Victory Center and a centrally located complex Exhibition of 16th-Century Watercolors by John White to house functions supporting both Three evening lectures and a daytime event museums. The campaign provided are linked to “A New World: England’s First View The entire collection of significant financial support for the of America,” the British Museum exhibition of more than 70 watercolors by plan, which was underwritten princi- the 16th-century watercolor drawings of John John White will be exhibited pally by the Commonweath of Virginia. White opening at Jamestown Settlement July 15. at Jamestown Settlement White’s watercolors, the earliest visual record July 15 through October by an Englishman of the flora, fauna and people 15. The drawings depict the of the New World, are on public display as an Algonquian-speaking people entire group for the first time in more than of 16th-century Virginia, as 40 years and will be at Jamestown Settlement well as people from other through October 15. John White accompanied parts of the Americas and a number of expeditions sponsored by Sir Walter the world, and New World Raleigh to Virginia in the 1580s and was gover- plants and animals. nor of the short-lived colony at Roanoke Island, “A New World: Eng- part of modern North Carolina. land’s First View of America” Lectures are scheduled in Jamestown is presented through the col- Settlement’s Robins Foundation Theater at 7 laboration of the British Mu- p.m. on July 19 with Karen Ordahl Kupperman, seum and the Jamestown- Silver Professor of History at New York Univer- Yorktown Foundation and is sity; August 9 with Daniel K. Richter, Richard S. funded in part by donations Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early and grants to the Jametown- American Studies and Professor of History at the Yorktown Foundation, Inc., University of Pennsylvania; and September 20 including commitments with Karen Hearn, Curator of 16th- and 17th- from James City County and Campaign gifts substantially funded extensive improve- the Robins Foundation. ments in Jamestown Settlement’s interpretive areas, Century British Art at Tate Britain in London. Wife of a chief of Pomeiooc and her daughter, John including this new building representing the Anglican Virginia Indian Heritage Day on July 26, White, watercolor, c. 1585. © The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved. church in early 17th-century Jamestown. continued on page 2 Lectures, Event on the development of Jamestown Set- continued from page 1 tlement’s gallery exhibits and outdoor Washington Portrait by Gilbert Stuart re-created Powhatan Indian village. presented in partnership with the Dr. Kupperman, author of The Exhibited at Yorktown Victory Center Virginia Indian community, will honor Jamestown Project and Indians and Virginia Indian cultures with intertribal English: Facing Off in Early America, will Upon acquiring a Gilbert Stuart dance and drum, hands-on children’s present “Roanoke’s Achievement” on portrait of George Washington several activities, and two presentations: “Be- July 19. Although Roanoke did not years ago, Doug Morton asked a con- yond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Yes- succeed as a colo- servator how he knew it was genuine. terday and Today” by Karenne Wood, nial foundation, “Those are Gilbert Stuart eyes,” the a member of the Monacan tribe and it made substan- conservator replied, pointing to a director of the Virginia Indian Heri- tial contribu- distinctive feature of works by the tage Program at the Virginia Founda- tions to English foremost portraitist of late-18th-cen- tion for the Humanities; and “Lega- comprehension tury America. cies of Jamestown,” by Chickahominy of the Atlan- The same Stuart portrait of Chief Stephen Adkins and Upper tic, both in the Washington will be exhibited in the Mattaponi Chief Kenneth Adams. design of colonial Themed museum tours and interpre- Yorktown Victory Center’s Converg- Karen Kupperman societies and in ing on Yorktown Gallery through tive programs will focus on Powhatan understanding September, courtesy of Mr. Morton Indian culture before English contact American cultures. Dr. Kupperman and his wife Marilyn Brown, mem- and through the 17th century and the will explain how the partnership of bers of the Jamestown-Yorktown influence of John White’s watercolors Manteo, the coastal Carolina Algonqui- Foundation, Inc.’s The 1607 Society. portrait, is a head-and-shoulders an man who joined the colonists, the The oil-on-canvas portrait is view of Washington that shows him Renaissance scientist Thomas Harriot, Stuart’s copy of one he was commis- turned slightly to the left but engag- and the painter John White made the sioned in 1796 by Martha Washing- ing the viewer directly with his gaze. record they created uniquely valuable. ton to make along with a portrait The Jamestown-Yorktown Foun- Dr. Richter, author of Facing East of herself. Stuart never completed dation owns a circa-1800 copy by an from Indian Country: A Native History of the two portraits and used the one unknown artist of Gilbert Stuart’s Early America, will present “Tassentasse of General Washington to make “Lansdowne” full-length portrait of in Tsenacomoco: Native People and and sell copies. The two originals Washington. The copy is exhibited the English, 1560-1622” on August are referred to as the “Athenaeum” in the Yorktown Victory Center’s 9. The native people of the Chesa- portraits, named for the Boston “The Legacy of Yorktown: Virginia peake Bay region library that acquired them after Beckons” exhibit. The original, in called Europeans Stuart’s death and now jointly owned the collection of the National Portrait tassentasse, which by the National Portrait Gallery of Gallery, was commissioned as a pres- politely translates the Smithsonian Institution and the ent to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the as “strangers.” Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The British prime minister who helped They called their painting exhibited at the Yorktown negotiate peace with America at the homeland Tse- Victory Center, like the Athenaeum end of the Revolution. Virginia Indian Heritage Day on July 26 will feature nacomoco, which intertribal dance. means something like “the densely Daniel Richter populated land.” Dr. Richter’s presentation will explore Internet Advertising Campaign Draws the political and diplomatic world of Tsenacomoco and how it shaped native Thousands to www.historyisfun.org relations with Europeans from earliest contacts with the Spanish through the The Jamestown-Yorktown Founda- Settlement and the Yorktown Victory sponsored link leads directly to www. outbreak of war with the English in tion has embarked on its first Internet Center in the context of the Wil- historyisfun.org. It also helps boost 1622. search marketing campaign, designed liamsburg area destination. the ranking of the Web site in regular Ms. Hearn, whose Tate exhibi- to increase brand awareness and visits The Internet campaign, running Google searches. Clicks generated tion “Dynasties: Painting in Tudor to www.historyisfun.org and to enhance from March through June, features 50,000 visits to the site in the first two and Jacobean England 1530-1630” the sale of admission tickets. “sponsored links” on the Google. months of the campaign. In addi- earned her a The campaign is part of a compre- com search engine as well as direct tion, 2.75 million “impressions,” when European Women hensive year-round media plan of pre- placement of banner advertising consumers are exposed to banners or of Achievement dominantly print advertising in maga- on selected highly relevant Web sponsored links, were generated dur- award, will pres- zines, newspapers and visitor guides. sites such as The History Channel, ing the two-month period. ent “Painting The plan is comprised of Jamestown- National Geographic and the New The Foundation also participates in Elizabethan Yorktown Foundation-specific advertis- York Times travel section. Spon- in electronic marketing cooperative England: John ing that promotes visits to Jamestown sored links appear when Internet programs with the Virginia Tourism White in Context” Settlement and the Yorktown Victory users enter particular “keywords” in Corporation and the Williamsburg on September 20. Center as well as museum exhibitions a Google search. Area Destination Marketing Campaign Surprisingly little Karen Hearn and events, and cooperative multime- Clicking on a Jamestown-York- that include banner advertising and is known about the dia advertising promoting Jamestown town Foundation banner ad or Google search marketing. artists who worked in late Tudor Eng- land, but the portraits they produced were often rich and intricate. Ms. Hearn will discuss some of the most important images, including those of The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation’s Elizabeth I, and contrast them with primary advertising creative, titled John White’s very different drawings. “Make Room for the Memories” with Advance reservations are recom- an image of the Susan Constant being mended for the free evening lectures. towed by a minivan, is used in banner ads on Web sites as well as in print ads. Call (757) 253-4415 or e-mail rsvp. [email protected].  Jamestown Commemorative Stamp New Educational Endowment Wins Top Honors in Annual Poll Honors Hunter B. Andrews Readers of Linn’s Stamp News, a A gift of $150,000 from Andrews for her generous leading philatelic publication, voted Cynthia Collings Andrews commitment to perpetuat- the U.S. Postal Service’s “Settlement will establish an endowment ing Senator Andrews’ lega- of Jamestown” stamp as the overall for educational program- cy,” said A. Marshall Acuff, favorite stamp issue of 2007. The ming in honor of her late president of the Jamestown- Jamestown stamp also ranked first husband Hunter B. An- Yorktown Foundation, Inc. among 19 commemorative issues as drews, who served 32 years “Her gift will have a pro- best-designed and most important. in the Senate of Virginia found impact on the future Linn’s annual U.S. stamp popular- and 29 years on the James- of the Jamestown-Yorktown ity poll dates to 1948. Voters rate the town-Yorktown Foundation Hunter B. Andrews Foundation’s educational design and importance of issues in Board of Trustees, four as programming.” commemorative and definitive stamp chairman. He was chairman emeritus The Andrews family will be recog- and postal stationery categories. The from 1996 until his death in 2005. nized on a plaque in “The Legacy of Jamestown stamp is only the third “Senator Andrews had an instru- Jamestown” section of the Jamestown single-issue stamp to be selected mental role starting the Jamestown- Settlement galleries. overall favorite since the designation Yorktown Foundation endowment in Recent gifts of $10,000 from AVID was established in 1984. According the early 1980s and in transforming Medical Inc. and the Virginia S. Warner to Linn’s, setenant issues – attached Jamestown Settlement and the York- Foundation, Inc., also support James- stamps with differing designs – usually town Victory Center into world-class town-Yorktown Foundation educational win the favorite category. museums with a distinctly educational programs. The Camp Foundations The Jamestown 2007 Com- mission,” said Philip G. Emerson, provided $17,000 for educational memorative Stamp & Cachet Project executive director of the Virginia state programs and the Jamestown-Yorktown Committee, a volunteer group led by agency that operates the two history Foundation, Inc., Annual Fund. Don- Dr. Edwin (Ned) M. Logan of Wil- museums. “Under his leadership and ald R. Tharpe contributed $18,500 to liamsburg, had an instrumental role the nation for sale in 2007. for the duration of his service on the Jamestown Settlement’s upcoming “A in securing the issue of the Jamestown America’s 400th Anniversary board, he remained steadfastly com- New World: England’s First View of commemorative stamp, and a first- cachet envelopes affixed with the mitted to protecting and building the America” special exhibition and the day-of-issuance ceremony was held “Settlement of Jamestown” stamp endowment and to broadening the Annual Fund, which also received gifts at Jamestown Settlement on May 11, and hand-cancelled with a Jamestown Foundation’s educational reach.” of $10,000 each from Dominion and 2007. The three-sided stamp, the Station, May 11, 2007, postmark are Proceeds from The Hunter B. An- Dominion Foundation, Cherryl A.C. third in U.S. postal history, represents available at the Jamestown Settlement drews Endowment For Education will and Richard E. Heath, Jr., M.D., and the triangular fort built by the James- Gift Shop. Envelopes are available support Jamestown-Yorktown Founda- the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. town colonists and depicts the three with four different cachet designs from tion educational programs, including For more information about ships that brought them to Virginia in winning entries in a cachet art contest outreach, distance learning and teacher supporting The Hunter B. Andrews 1607. The 41-cent, first-class stamp conducted by the Virginia Department training. Others may honor Senator Endowment For Education and other was distributed to post offices across of Education. Andrews by contributing directly to the programs of the Jamestown-Yorktown endowment. Foundation, call (757) 253-4139 or visit “We are very grateful to Mrs. www.historyisfun.org/supportus. The Campaign gram, enabling Foundation educators continued from page 1 to reach students in all 132 Virginia other noted historians. school districts and in Maryland and Private support was responsible for Pennsylvania during the 400th-anni- Virginia 2007 Community Program innovative programs such as “Quadri- versary commemoration. Campaign centennial Minutes” and the 30-min- gifts funded the 2007 Elementary Success Celebrated ute television documentary Jamestown: Scholarship Program for disadvan- The Virginia 2007 Community Pro- Church, Blackstone National Alumnae Founding of America that aired on public taged school districts in Virginia and gram culminated on March 6 with an Association, the Eastern Shore and Au- broadcasting stations, an electronic the 2008 Summer Teacher Institute. event at Jamestown Settlement’s Robins gusta County on building partnerships classroom, and Web-based educa- Two vital components of the cam- Foundation Theater to recognize super- and creating events and programs for tional materials. Private support also paign were the Annual Fund, which lative accomplishments and dedicate the Virginia 2007 Community Program. bolstered the Jamestown-Yorktown provides support for a variety of mu- a time capsule that will be opened in “Many communities have pledged Foundation’s outreach education pro- seum programs, and the endowment, 2057, the 450th anniversary year of the to continue the programs they’ve which grew by $2.4 million founding of Jamestown. A total of 181 begun and to build on the momentum and will provide long-term communities and organizations, includ- of 2007,” Jamestown 2007 Statewide support for Jamestown- ing three in other states and three in Program Manager Amy Ritchie said. Yorktown Foundation the United Kingdom, took part in the “The impact of the Virginia 2007 Com- educational programs. multiyear program coordinated by munity Program will be felt for years to Gifts made through Jamestown 2007. come in the improvements to recre- June 30 will be credited to Through local outreach commit- ational and tourism facilities, relation- “The Campaign for James- tees, each community created legacy ship building and historical projects town Settlement, 1607- projects and hosted events and pro- that it produced.” 2007,” and a final report grams that showcased their unique of the campaign and full history and culture and contributed to list of donors will appear the overall success of America’s 400th in the Jamestown-Yorktown Anniversary. Every region in Virginia Foundation, Inc., 2007-08 was represented, and Virginia 2007 annual report. communities were highlighted on the 2006-2008 Official State Transportation Map. Private gifts ensured that Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation outreach education programs reached students in all of Virginia’s 132 school districts The March 6 event included in the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years. remarks from representatives of Falls  given extra training and provided with hunting shirts and leggings. Although The Role of the Militia some minutemen companies did see combat early on against Governor Dunmore, within a year the special During the Revolutionary War minute companies had been merged back into the regular militia establish- By Edward Ayres, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Historian ment. By 1777 the Virginia militia’s du- ties consisted mostly of suppressing loyalists, preventing slave uprisings, If I was called upon to declare upon Oath, whether the Militia have been and serving as a pool of potential most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter. recruits for the Continental Army. – George Washington, September 1776 Evidence of militia activity is scarce and usually fragmentary, but one way to learn what militiamen actually did Even before the struggle for the militia during the Revolution, with 17th century was a period of experi- during the Revolution is to study their American independence ended, two a special emphasis on Virginia as a test mentation and improvisation as the applications for pensions, submitted contrasting views of the role of the case. settlers struggled to gain a foothold decades after the war. Because the Revolutionary militia had emerged. From the earliest years of English in the New World. During the suc- records from Amherst County, Virginia, Popular opinion, remembering the gal- settlement, colonists had depended ceeding decades, the colony’s evolving are relatively complete, they provide a lant stand of the Minutemen at Con- on local groups of part-time citizen militia system was refined, reorganized, good example of what kinds of duties cord and Lexington, held fast to the soldiers to defend themselves from the and continually tested in combat. a typical militiaman might perform. ideal of the brave citizen soldier as the Indians or at times to maintain law and Forced to defend themselves with little Amherst militiamen played a variety mainstay of defense. Other Americans order. By the time of the French and or no outside help, the colonists had of roles during the years 1775-1782, however, including many Continental Indian War, American colonists had developed an effective and well orga- some being called up for as many Army veterans, derided the militia’s come to rely more on British troops nized militia system that by the 1670s as four or five tours, which usually reputation for fleeing in the face of and volunteer provincial units for encompassed nearly all able-bodied, lasted about three months each. Many the enemy. The early histories of the protection, but even though the militia adult males. Amherst men served as guards at the Revolution also tended to minimize system had deteriorated, Americans As threats to the colony dimin- barracks near Charlottesville where the contributions of the militia, and held fast to their faith in the concept ished, the Vir- one acclaimed account of the war, writ- of the citizen soldier. Beginning ginia militia largely ten as late as 1929, even referred to with the Stamp Act crisis and extend- ceased to be an “the utter failure of the militia system.” ing throughout the Revolution, the effective combat More recent studies however have Americans’ experience with the British force. By the early gone a long way toward revising this Army only strengthened their hatred 1770s, the militia’s predominantly negative assessment of of standing armies as implements of primary function the role played by the militia during monarchy and tyranny and a threat to was to maintain the war for independence. Although civilian government. public order, and the relative effectiveness of the Revolu- Although George Washington and one historian has tionary militia varied from state to state others frequently complained about described local and year to year, this newer scholarship the shortcomings of the militia, some militia musters as has explored and described some of Continental Army officers like Na- something “of a the crucial achievements of the militia thanael Greene had come to a more joke” since many that had been previously unexamined. realistic appraisal of the value of these men were “un- These historians note that the role part-time soldiers by the end of the of the militia is easily misunderstood war. While the militia could not be and that it has to be judged by differ- counted on to stand up to trained, ent standards than those applied to a regular forces, it could and often did professional military force. As part of perform other important roles that The role of the militia during the American Revolution its long-term exhibit planning pro- were less obvious but crucial elements is interpreted at Yorktown Victory Center special events. cess, the Yorktown Victory Center has in the winning of independence. During the Liberty Celebration in July, visitors are begun researching the role played by The roots of the various militia invited to train as members of a citizen militia. Above, systems that developed a historical interpreter attired as a militaman in hunt- ing shirt and leggings leads visitors bearing wooden in the North Ameri- muskets in a drill. At left, militia re-enactors present a can English colonies musket-firing demonstration at an October Yorktown reached far back to Victory Celebration event. Anglo-Saxon Britain. All able-bodied free- the British soldiers taken prisoner at men could, in theory, Saratoga were being held. Others were be called up for tempo- called out to fight Indians on the fron- rary service by the king tier or to relieve state forces at nearby to defend their com- garrisons. Some tours involved noth- munity and the king- trained, unarmed, and uninterested.” ing more glamorous than gathering dom from invasion. As The situation changed dramatically in provisions or driving herds of cattle. the earliest successful the spring of 1775 with the outbreak of Most Amherst militiamen saw English settlement in open hostilities between the Americans little real action until 1780 when they North America, the Vir- and British forces. By the summer were called on to provide men to fight ginia colony immedi- of 1775, the Virginia Revolutionary in the Carolinas. One ill-fated com- ately faced the problem government had established a three- pany was at the Battle of Camden in of how to defend itself part military establishment consisting August when the men broke and ran More than 3,000 Virginia militiamen, under the command of Governor Thomas from possible Spanish of regular full-time soldiers, a militia away along with the rest of the Virginia Nelson, were present at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781. Almost half of attack as well as from composed of most free white males, and North Carolinia militia. Another them were stationed across the river at Gloucester to make sure the British did the native inhabitants. and a smaller, elite militia group to be company of Amherst militiamen was not try to escape to the north. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation collection The first quarter of the called “minutemen” who were to be continued on next page  Noteworthy GODSPEED SAILS TO PLANNING FUNDS APPROVED NORFOLK, CAPE CHARLES FOR NEW YORKTOWN VICTORY CENTER Following a visit to Norfolk for the city’s annual Harborfest maritime fes- The Virginia General Assembly tival June 6-8, Jamestown Settlement’s has authorized the expenditure of Godspeed will sail to Cape Charles on $3 million, beginning July 1, to plan Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The ship replacement of the Yorktown Victory will participate in an event-opening Center with an expansive facility that parade of sail would locate visitor services, exhibition in Hampton galleries, classroom and event space, Roads harbor and support functions in one building on June 6 and and improve access to outdoor inter- will be open pretive programming. Comprised of to the public $1,590,000 in revenue generated by from noon to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation 6 p.m., June 7 and $1,468,000 from the Common- and 8, at the wealth of Virginia general fund, the Norfolk wa- money will enable the Foundation to terfront. The proceed with securing architectural, Godspeed will engineering and exhibit design ser- welcome visi- vices. tors from 11 The planning money is an impor- a.m. to 6 p.m. tant milestone toward implementing on June 14 in the Foundation Board of Trustees’ Cape Charles. decision last year to replace the Victory In the Godspeed’s absence, the Eliz- Center as the best long-term solution 2009 SPECIAL EXHIBITION TO FEATURE abeth, representing a ship that made to addressing visitation growth and NEWLY ACQUIRED MAP OF BERMUDA several voyages to Virginia between maintenance costs and maximize site 1613 and 1625, will be open to James- utilization, while allowing the existing A 1633 map of Bermuda recently acquired for the Jamestown-Yorktown town Settlement visitors along with the museum building to remain open dur- Foundation collection will be exhibited in “Jamestown and Bermuda: Virginia Susan Constant and Discovery. ing the construction process. Company Colonies,” March 1- October 15, 2009, at Jamestown Settlement. The special exhibition will focus on the 400-year history of Bermuda, settled in 1609 24 VIRGINIA EDUCATORS as the result of a shipwreck that inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and also ex- The Role of the Militia TO PARTICIPATE IN SUMMER plores governmental, religious and trade connections between England’s second continued from page 4 TEACHER INSTITUTE permanent colony in the New World and its first – Jamestown, Virginia, founded in 1607. ordered south in March 1781 to Twenty four educators from across The map by Willem Blaeu includes an extensive list of Bermuda landholders. support General Nathanael Greene, Virginia have been selected from 83 A cartouche depicts Neptune, standing astride the English Royal Arms, bearing a but arrived too late to take part in the applicants to participate in a James- trident in one hand and a Dutch ship in the other. Battle of Guilford Court House. town-Yorktown Foundation Summer When Virginia was invaded begin- Teacher Institute July 13-18. The ning in January 1781, the Amherst weeklong program correlates with the militia was called out numerous times Virginia Standards of Learning and JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN SENATOR COLGAN, as the British seemed to march at will includes tours of Jamestown Settle- FOUNDATION RECEIVES GIFT DELEGATE PUTNEY throughout large areas of the east- ment and the Yorktown Victory Center OF JAMESTOWN ARTIFACTS JOIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ern and central regions of the state. as well as Historic Jamestowne and Gary D. Eyler has given the James- Two members of the Virginia A number of Amherst County men Yorktown Battlefield, presentations, town-Yorktown Foundation a collection General Assembly have joined the reported having served under the workshops, and opportunities to work of artifacts found on Jamestown Island Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Marquis de Lafayette in the summer in costume alongside the Founda- about 1930 by B.E. Steel, who had Board of Trustees. Senate President of that year, and some fought in the tion museums’ historical interpreters. leased then-privately owned property Pro Tempore and Finance Committee Battle of Green Spring against Lord Interactive teaching methods will be for the purpose of making it a tourist Chairman Charles J. Colgan of Manas- Cornwallis. As Generals Washington emphasized, and participants will take attraction. In the process of demol- sas succeeds retired Senator John H. and Rochambeau arrived in Virginia home a kit of reproduction artifacts to ishing and building structures, Steel Chichester. Delegate Lacey E. Putney in September to begin the siege of use in their classrooms. came across numerous artifacts from of Bedford succeeds retired Delegate Yorktown, Amherst militiamen, along The Summer Teacher Institute is the 17th century, including clay pipe Vincent F. Callahan, Jr., in the board with those from many other counties, supported with gifts of $50,000 from bowls and metal buckles. Mr. Eyler position reserved for House of Del- were called up to support the regular the Jamestown 2007 Commemorative acquired the collection from the Steel egates Appropriations Committee army. Many of the elderly men who Stamp & Cachet Project Committee family in the 1990s. He also gave to chairman. Mr. Callahan remains on applied for pensions beginning in the and $20,000 from The Ukrop Founda- the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation the Foundation board as its co-chair- 1820s proudly proclaimed that they tion. An additional $50,000 from the a Yeocomico ware bottle, an example man, transitioning to a trustee-elected were present at the “surrender of Lord Stamp & Cachet Project Committee of pottery made by Virginia Indians in position. Cornwallis.” will go to the Jamestown-Yorktown the late 17th century using traditional Senator Colgan has been in the By the end of the Revolution, Foundation, Inc., endowment for edu- techniques and materials to copy the state Senate since 1976 and represents some Continental Army officers had cational programming. shapes of European vessels. the 29th District. Delegate Putney has learned what the militia could – and The Foundation also partners an- been a House member since 1962 and could not – reasonably be expected to nually with the Colonial Williamsburg represents the 19th District. do. Although the militia was seldom Teacher Institute, and a representa- able to stand up alone to British regu- tive of Colonial Williamsburg assisted lars, it nevertheless made a number of in the selection process for this year’s important, even vital, contributions to Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation winning independence. institute.

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Address Service Requested The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an educational agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia, administers Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, history museums that tell the story of the nation’s beginnings from the 1607 arrival of America’s first permanent English colonists in Virginia to the American Revolution and the formation of the new nation. The museums are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 6 p.m. June 15-August 15) daily year-round, except Christmas and New Year’s days. For more information, call (888) 593-4682 toll-free or (757) 253-4838 or visit www.historyisfun.org.

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Volume 22, No. 2 Printed May 2008 Calendar June 1-30 July 4-6 Lectures Seed to Stalk Theme Month Liberty Celebration Jamestown Settlement Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center Yorktown Victory Center Robins Foundation Theater, 7 p.m. American agriculture of the 17th and 18th centuries Tactical drills, military exercises and role-playing Reservations recommended at (757) 253-4415 is examined through comparison of Powhatan Indian demonstrations salute America during the Fourth of or [email protected]. and European methods of planting and cultivat- July holiday. Visitors can learn about the sacrifices ing crops grown for sustenance and crops grown for of the nation’s founders, including those who signed “A New World: England’s First View profit. Visitors can tend and water gardens and learn the Declaration of Independence. of America” Series about the many practical uses of plants. More on pages 1 and 2. July 15-October 15 June 7 Special Exhibition July 19 - “Roanoke’s Achievement,” Karen Ordahl African American Heritage Day “A New World: England’s First View of Kupperman. Jamestown Settlement America” August 9 - “Tassentasse in Tsenacomoco: Native African storytelling, music, dance, genealogy work- Jamestown Settlement People and the English, 1560-1622,” Daniel K. shops, children’s activities and historical museum The watercolor drawings of John White, the earliest Richter. exhibits explore the origins of the first documented visual record by an Englishman of the flora, fauna Africans to arrive in Virginia, in 1619, and the im- and people of the New World, are presented in an September 20 - “Painting in Elizabethan England: portant role of Africans and African Americans in the exhibition from the British Museum. More on page 1. John White in Context,” Karen Hearn. development of Virginia. Presented in partnership with the Virginia African American Forum. July 26 Legacy Lecture Virginia Indian Heritage Day October 11 - “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” presented Family Days Jamestown Settlement by Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Jamestown Settlement Intertribal dance and drum, special presentations, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Starting times 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. hands-on children’s activities, and themed museum Themed guided gallery tours, special children’s tours honor Virginia Indian cultures and their im- August 2 gallery brochure and make-and-take craft activity. portant legacy in America. Presented in partnership Curator Gallery Tours Pre-registration available at (757) 253-4939. with the Virginia Indian community. Jamestown Settlement, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Curator-led, 75-minute tours provide an in-depth June 14 - Planting a Settlement August 1-31 look at the history, artifacts and re-created structures Learn about English, Powhatan and west central Pastimes of Colonial Virginia Theme Month in expansive museum galleries that tell the James- African family member roles in planting and har- Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center town story. Pre-registration available at (757) 253- vesting crops. Music, games, storytelling and other diversions of 4970. July 12 - Jamestown Trailblazers 17th- and 18th-century Virginia are shown through Discover stories of John Smith, Pocahontas, Queen hands-on activities and interpretive programs. September 27 Njinga and other 17th-century “trailblazers.” Visitors can play corncob darts, ninepins, quoits, Children’s Day mancala and nine-men’s morris. Jamestown Settlement August 9 - Pastimes and Pleasures A festive day of children’s 17th-century games, music, Explore aspects of children’s work, education and juggling, stilt walking, magic, puppet shows, story- play in the 17th century. telling and hands-on crafts.