This morning's New York Times has an excellent essay on the historical
background by Jim Horn who is, as many of the list know, the vice president
of research and interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg and a scholar of
Jamestown's history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/consuming-colonists.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=all
or
http://tinyurl.com/bnlvkba

Martha Katz-Hyman
Curator
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

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