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A Tale of Two Islands: The Jamestown “Triangle” and the Bermuda Redemption
Presentation by:
Dr. William Kelso
Director of Archaeology
Preservation Virginia
September 22, 2009, 7 p.m.
Kimball Theatre, Merchants Square, Williamsburg
Current archaeological discoveries at the site of the 1607 James Fort at Jamestown, Virginia, a site long considered lost to river erosion, offer new perspective of life and death at the first permanent English colonial settlement. But for the fortuitous arrival of re-supply ships, especially coming by way of Bermuda and London in 1610, Jamestown came within a hairs breadth of becoming England’s second “Lost Colony”. Blending testimony from the earth and eye-witness accounts, this presentation explores the fortified settlement at Jamestown and the effects of the redemptive arrivals of Sir Thomas Gates from Bermuda and Lord De La Warre from London in 1610.
$12
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