Joanne,
You are right about that, we are all caught up in our own interest.  What 
scares me is that many people have no idea of basic history.  I was talking 
with a group of adults, who did not know why we celebrated the 4th of July. 
If these adults (some of whom are parents), are clueless, where does that 
leave the children?

Hopefully, the Jamestown Committee will have educational materials to for 
studets after the event.

Anita

>From: qvarizona <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history         
>      <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
>Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:08:27 -0700
>
>Anita is right.  There wasn't much mention of the Jamestown anniversary in 
>the national media either, but I wonder if it would have made much 
>difference to people who don't read or watch anything outside of their own 
>interest levels.   One example of this  was the two commentators on TV 
>during a nationally televised golf tourney the weekend prior to "that horse 
>race"  in Kentucky.  One noted that the English Queen was coming to the USA 
>soon, and the other asked why?  During the next break in the golf action, 
>an off-camera commentator spoke up to say he could answer the question 
>regarding the Queen's visit.  She was coming,  he announced,  because of 
>the Kentucky Derby. . . after all,  the Queen had always loved horses and 
>owned race horses herself!
>
>
>Joanne
>
>
>
>
>Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]> wrote: They should have had more 
>information going to other areas of the country. I
>am in California, and there was little information coming this way. Had it
>not been for this list, I would have forgotten this was an anniversary year
>for Jamestown. They could have had documentaries, programs to pass out to
>schools, and more information through the internet. This was a missed
>opportunity for historians to reach out to the millions of students and
>immigrants who have little knowledge of this part of our history.
>
>Anita
>
>
> >From: John Frederick Fausz
> >Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> >
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
> >Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:10:18 EDT
> >
> >Hi Everyone:
> >
> >     With only 49 years and 51 weeks left before another Jamestown
> >Anniversary is upon us, it might be interesting to survey our Virginia
> >History interest group members about what they learned about the
> >first colony that was New, Startling, and/or Hard to Accept, ETC.,
> >amidst all of the hoopla during the 400th birthday season.
> >
> >As a published veteran of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, I was struck
> >by how much anniversary trash obscured the few new "treasures" to
> >emerge from a renewed "public interest" in those men and their famous
> >expedition.  There were a few new insights, but most of the true experts
> >were perplexed about the birth of fresh fallacies and the failure to 
>reach
> >consensus on key issues never before in doubt.  PR and the quest for
> >tourist dollars muddied the waters about "where the expedition began,"
> >with the Mind of Jefferson at Monticello, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
> >Louisville, Camp Dubois, St. Louis, the Mouth of the Missouri River,
> >and St. Charles all vying for attention--and thoroughly confusing even
> >the most dedicated teachers trying to make sense of it all.
> >
> >Did the Jamestown Quadricentennial produce similar confusions and
> >contradictions for anyone?  What purported "legacies" are most
> >historically supportable (leave out the politician-speak) and valid for
> >Americans in the 21st century?
> >
> >Have Fun.
> >
> >Best Wishes from St. Louis, where the new Lewis and Clark
> >statue on the Mississippi waterfront was almost totally engulfed
> >by the rising river (a sign, perhaps?).
> >
> >Fred Fausz
> >
> >
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