> From: Tarter, Brent (LVA) > The Washington Post...has a story about the discovery > in Jamestown of forensic evidence of cannibalism On May 3 the New York Times posted online a commentary by James Horn of Colonial Williamsburg. He writes, "The discovery, announced this week, of the cannibalized remains of a young settler at Jamestown...reminds us that the first European settlements were no Eden, and that the initial contact of peoples in the New World—native people, Europeans and then, very soon, Africans—was fraught from the first." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/consuming-colonists.html (Please note that I have, until this sentence, crafted this entire report without once mentioning Fort Monroe. But that won't last. Things have gotten worse.) ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html