Jamestowne and across the Wide Missouri.  At the risk of inflaming passions,
this is the second notice that I have received in the last week which
reflects the early 19th phenomenom where Virginia sent (many of) its best
peoples out of the State.  Given the upcoming Jamestowne Commemoration, it
is depressing to see so little driven by Virginians and Virginia
Institutions.

- re this forwarded EMail, our New England Bretheren, following their
success of "firsting" Thanksgiving et al  have once again gotten the jump on
us once again by telling us about our climate -- and Jamestowne.
- The earlier announcement a seminar at Shenandoah U, though very full and
lotsa topics, and indeed had some very fine Virginia Institutions
represented -- Library of Va, VMI, Sweet Briar, Poplar Forest, James
Madison -- had to defer to the U's of Missouri, Syracuse, and Delaware for
the single session on very early AKA Jamestown-times Virginia.
- My request (plea?) some weeks ago for ANY Jamestowne program in ANY
Virginia Institution invoked only one response -- a pointer toward a
"virtual Jamestowne" Virginia Tech -- which has not responded to my inquiry.
Maybe its more 'virtual' than we think :))
- The venerable Jamestowne Society has been notable in its lack of
visibility, and I hope has deep-sixed their earlier proposal to dis-inter
Pocohontas and bring her remains back to Virginia.

The only two glimmers of some hope that I see are (1) the fine ongoing work
that archaelogists like Kelso and Straub are doing at Jamestowne, and (2) a
Jamestowne-Yorktown organization which has some noble objectives, and at
least has gotten into the spirit of the times by offering membership in the
"1607" Society if you plunk down $1607 (I think I have the numbers right.)

For all of us, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a
joyuous time.  If I might borrow from the goals of the Moravian Music
Foundation, "To PRESERVE, SHARE and CELEBRATE"  -- in this case, what
Jamestowne has meant and means to America, and indeed the world, today.  I
sure don't see much of it.

Randy Cabell



----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: [VA-HIST] "Jamestown and the Little Ice Age"


>I am cross-posting this from the H-SHEAR list to make the Jamestown folks
> aware of it.  For a fee one can order the paper on-line.  Details below.
>
> HW
>
> Subject: Early American History seminar at MHS.
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:21:45 -0500
> From: Seth Vose <[log in to unmask]>
>
> The Massachusetts Historical Society announces the fifth meeting of its
> 2005-2006 season of the Early American History Seminars.
>
> Thursday, March 2, 2006
>
> Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University:
>
> "Jamestown and the Little Ice Age"
>
> Comment: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Tufts University
>
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