Actually, the last GREATEST excitment was when Lee gave up and the North
won. Now that was fun.
Ray B.
Randy Cabell wrote:
> Very well said. Maybe its just my getting older, but I also now
> really want
> to look into Virginia and family things within the larger context of what
> was going on.
>
> re the biggest "excitement" and the hope that Jamestowne things will
> heat up
> as we approach it, I say Amen. Lets see...... our biggest excitement
> was...... hmmmmm..... I'm hardpressed to think of any GREATEST since
> (reading of) Col. Mosby welcoing Gen. Sheridan to the northwest corner of
> Virginia by burning his supply train, north of Berryville.
>
> Randy Cabell
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> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Anniversary celebrations in the 21st century
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>
>> I attended that conference in 2004 sponsored by the Omohundro Institute
>> and
>> I thought it was interesting mainly because it did put Jamestown in a
>> global
>> context with information on other European nations, West Africa and the
>> Native
>> Americans that were here before the arrival of the British. Jamestown
>> did
>> not happen in a vacum, the whole world was on the move and surely to
>> understand
>> Jamestown and the world that was created here can be better understood
>> with
>> the backdrop.
>>
>> I don't know but I am going to assume that when we finally get closer to
>> 2007
>> there will be other conferences held in Williamsburg &
>> Jamestown.......and
>> I
>> will be very appeciative if as a " local history buff" I am able to
>> attend. I
>> will say that the Jamestown 2007 Steering Committee has their work
>> cut out
>> for them because locally the biggest thing to happen in the area in the
>> last
>> couple of years is the opening of the Bass Pro Shop off of 64, maybe
>> that
>> has now
>> be surpassed by the BRAC Commissions decision to close Fort
>> Monroe....let
>> the
>> Condo building begin.
>>
>> Selma Stewart
>>
>> In a message dated 2/21/2006 9:23:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>>> What are we "celebrating," exactly? The Omohundro Institute of Early
>>> >American History and Culture sponsored a very DEEP scholarly confer-
>>> >ence in 2004, almost ignoring Jamestown itself by placing it in global
>>> >context with West African tribal traditions circa 1607, etc. The only
>>> >conference on the Jamestown Commemoration website that I saw was
>>> >focused on modern democracy. Better not go there.
>>>
>>
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