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A missing 'star' in Jamestown
Special to The Los Angeles TimesDespite her legendary status, Pocahontas is all but ignored. VIRGINIA Jamestown, Va. — RACHEL SECAN came to Jamestown wearing her Pocahontas costume and pink snow boots. She was hoping to see something about her favorite Indian princess. Why...Tags: Gardens and Parks, The Pilgrims, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), John Smith, Air Transportation
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Cornerstone set for new museum
The Virginia GazetteYORK – The ARMY advanced at Yorktown on Friday. During a ceremony outside the Yorktown Victory Center attended by local and state officials, the cornerstone of the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown (ARMY) was dedicated. The 80,000-square-...Tags: University of Virginia, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Arts and Culture, Yorktown (York, Virginia), Museums
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A cradle of slavery on the York
When the director of the Middle Passage port markers project arrives in Yorktown to give a talk about slavery Friday night, she'll find herself in the perfect place. Though Old Point Comfort and Jamestown can lay claim to the first Africans in English...
Tags: Memorial Day, Social Issues, Yorktown (York, Virginia), Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Slavery
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Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation adopts new logos
WILLIAMSBURG - Although Friday, when the cornerstone for the new American Revolutionary Museum at Yorktown will be laid, is the big day of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation's board meetings, there was an unveiling Thursday as well. At a luncheon meeting...
Tags: Arts and Culture, College of William and Mary, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Colonial Williamsburg, Museums
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Virginia residents pay for a day, return all year at Jamestown Settlement
Daily PressVirginia residents can visit Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center an unlimited number of times throughout the entire year for the cost of a single-day ticket. The museums’ American Heritage Annual Pass is available online to...Tags: Arts and Culture, Hampton Roads, Museums, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
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Feedback for 4/30: Jamestown and high school swimmers
The settlers' first landing •Terry: Under the Almanac, you guys have Captain John Smith went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement. That's not what I've learned in school. It's Jamestown. I think you...Tags: High Schools, High School Sports, Swimming, Sports, John Smith
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Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation offers in-state deal
JAMESTOWN - All Virginia residents can now visit Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, state-operated living-history museums that tell the story of the nation’s beginnings, an unlimited number of times during an entire year for the...
Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Arts and Culture, College of William and Mary, Hampton Roads, Museums
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Mathews hosts Godspeed ship
MATHEWS — A replica of one of the three ships that brought the first English colonists to Virginia more than 400 years ago will be docked at Williams Wharf Landing on the East River from Friday through Sunday and host tours for Mathews...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Cape Charles, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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York transforms learning with Discovery Education
The Virginia GazetteOn a recent morning at the Jamestown Settlement, a group of around 40 York County teachers fanned out across the vast campus armed with iPads to shoot video of the James Fort, Powhatan village and the ships Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery. The...Tags: Students, Teachers, Adult Education, Hampton Roads, Teaching and Learning
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Early choices spawned slavery in Virginia
From the beginning, the first Africans who began arriving in Virginia in 1619 faced a harder life than the white indentured servants whose labors they shared. Singled out by religion and the color of their skin, they were seen very early on as...Tags: Social Issues, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Slavery, Colonial Williamsburg
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Revolutionary impact of the Revolution
Nearly 232 years after Washington's momentous victory over the British at Yorktown, it can be hard for modern-day Americans to gauge the immensity of the changes unleashed by the Revolution. The war itself was just one of many ways is which daily life...
Tags: Symbols and Symbolism, England, Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Anglicanism
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Taking the Kids: Lighting up the holidays
Ready to light up the holidays? I'm not talking about the strings of holiday lights you are busy hanging around your house. (Why is it they're always so tangled when you take them out?) I'm talking about holiday light displays that seem to go up...
Tags: Museum of Science and Industry, Mystic Seaport, Museum of Natural History, Festive Events, Religious Festivals
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