Jamestown holds at least one conference a year. Check the APVA
website for when it is held.

On Feb 21, 2006, at 16:34, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> 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
>
> I

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