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
>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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