John Smith

'The Fiddler on Pantico Run' is a genealogy adventure

2012-11-03 10:30:00

-------------------- The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, a Search for Family Joe Mozingo Free Press: 304 pp, $25.99 -------------------- Joe Mozingo's captivating debut, "The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African...

Jill Lepore's 'Story of America' an engrossing journey

2012-10-20 12:55:00

-------------------- The Story of America Essays on Origins Jill Lepore Princeton University Press: 416 pp, $27.95 -------------------- For Jill Lepore, a Harvard history professor and New Yorker staff writer, the story of America is part myth,...

The Oscars on TV: Feb. 17 - 27

2011-02-17 16:35:28

Paper, scissors, Plymouth Rock -- how did the Pilgrims turn second place into first?

2009-11-24 16:33:50

A missing 'star' in Jamestown

2007-04-22 00:00:00

Despite 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...

Battlefield Virginia

2008-05-28 11:23:04

From the heavy guns of a seacoast fort through battle-scarred Yorktown and the swampy outskirts of Richmond, the Virginia Peninsula tells the story of a massive war campaign and the evolution of warfare. Along this finger of land cut by the York and...

From Jamestown to us

2007-05-12 00:00:00

AS WILLIAM STRACHEY, later secretary to the little colony of Jamestown, put it in his account of the settlement, "Captain [Christopher] Newport � had sight of an extended plaine & spot of earth, which thrust out into the depth, & middle of the channel�....

Chesapeake Bay's idyllic isle

2004-06-06 00:00:00

The vintage Capt. Eulice left tiny Onancock at 10 a.m. sharp, its polished deck dotted with a handful of locals heading home and tourists, standing out with their getaway moods and cameras strung about their necks. Destination: tiny Tangier Island in...

What's in a name? | Virginia as "Old Dominion"

2013-05-20 00:00:00

Virginia's distinctive nickname, Old Dominion, may have its roots in the beheading of an English king. Then again, maybe not. "While the name clearly refers to Virginia's status as England's oldest colony in the Americas, it is impossible to trace the...

Cannibalism at Jamestown wasn't isolated

2013-05-03 15:03:00

WILLIAMSBURG – If the shock of learning a 14-year-old girl's corpse was cannibalized at Jamestown during the brutal "Starving Time" of 1609-10 weren't enough, take solace – or horror – in knowing her case was not an isolated one. On...

Scientists find evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, America's 1st permanent English colony

2013-05-01 12:46:30

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, Va., survived harsh conditions by turning to cannibalism. For years, there...

Feedback for 4/30: Jamestown and high school swimmers

2013-04-29 18:28:34

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...

Royal by blood or marriage: Blood. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and was to wed Kocoum, a brave warrior from the tribe. Uninterested in Kocoum, Pocahantas ends up meeting Englishman John Smith, with whom she falls in love.

2012-06-21 13:08:29

Virginia Take a lesson from Capt. John Smith, the English sailor who, after braving the Atlantic, stepped ashore at Virginia Beach, Va., on April 26, 1607, and ventured north to help colonize Jamestown, one of the first settlements in America.

2008-05-07 18:03:00

Pick of the Month Through Jan. 4: A Colonial Christmas. Experience 17th and 18th century holiday traditions. A Jamestown Settlement film and interpretive presentations compare and contrast 17th century English Christmas customs with how the season may have been observed in the colony's early years.

2007-08-14 12:56:13

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