This package combines all 4 of the 2009 Jamestown Lecture Series at a discounted price.

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.

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Venturing to Virginia: the Material Culture of Early James Fort and the Bermuda Connection

Presentation by:

Bly Straube
Senior Curator
Preservation Virginia

October 6, 2009, 7 p.m.
Kimball Theatre, Merchants Square, Williamsburg

Archaeological investigations of two early 17th-century New World time capsules – the Bermudan Sea Venture shipwreck of 1609 and the ca. 1607-1624 James Fort in Virginia – have resulted in thousands of artifacts. These materials reflect the supplies of food, weaponry, tools, and trade items that the Virginia Company considered necessary to equip England’s first colony. This presentation will discuss the material culture from each context and what it reveals about provisioning a New World colony. The James Fort evidence for the Bermuda connection will also be addressed.

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Becoming Bermudian: The Atlantic Worlds of Bermuda’s Earliest Settlers, 1609-1630

Presentation by:

Dr. Michael Jarvis
Associate Professor of History
University of Rochester

October 20, 2009, 7 p.m.
Kimball Theatre, Merchants Square, Williamsburg

Dr. Michael Jarvis will lecture on Bermuda’s earliest settlers, the worlds/culture they came from, and the ways that a fusion occurred in the 1610s blending elements and traditions from each in a new Bermuda environment. He will carry the story into the 1620s discussing how Bermuda mirrored and diverged from Virginia during settlement and how Bermuda incorporated and anticipated English Caribbean colonization in the late 1620s.

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Atlantic Landscapes: A Comparison Between the Early Public Building of Jamestown and the Town of St. George

Presentation by:

Richard Lowery and Brent Russell Fortenberry
Saint George's Archaeological Research Project

November 3, 2009, 7 p.m.
Kimball Theatre, Merchants Square, Williamsburg

While it has been easy to acknowledge the connections between Jamestown and Bermuda in terms of the similar groups of people who traversed these respective landscapes, an archaeological account of the Bermuda/Jamestown connection is more challenging. An examination of the first public buildings at Jamestown and the Town of St. George will contribute to the narratives of Atlantic Landscapes from an archaeological perspective. Public sites are where people interacted. Furthermore, these spaces are the nexus of larger networks that stretch beyond Bermuda and Jamestown.

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All 4 lectures:

$45