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| Arrival of the First Africans Program |
| Saturday, August 2, 2008 |
| 2:00 p.m. |
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Special programs, including living history interpreters, highlight the arrival of Africans to Virginia in 1619.
Dr. Heather Williams, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helps Historic Jamestowne commemorate the arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown in August 1619 with her presentation of "Acquiring Literacy, Acquiring Freedom: Education Among Enslaved and Freedpeople in the American South." This presentation will be followed by a signing of Professor Williams' book, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.
Jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and APVA Preservation Virginia.
(See also 9 August and 16 August.) |
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| Cost: Entrance fee; free to card-carrying APVA members |
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| Arrival of the First Africans Program |
| Saturday, August 9, 2008 |
| 2:00 p.m. |
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Special programs, including living history interpreters, highlight the first arrival of Africans to Virginia in 1619.
Mr. Alexander Tucker of the Tucker Society and descendant of William Tucker, the first recorded African American born in the American colonies, presents a timely discussion on the important and increasingly popular research of African American genealogy.
Jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and APVA Preservation Virginia.
(See also 2 August and 16 August.) |
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| Cost: Entrance fee; free to card-carrying APVA members |
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| Summer Speaker Series, APVA Northern Neck Branch |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
| 6:00 p.m. |
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Everyone is invited to attend this fourth of the Branch's annual APVA Summer Speaker Series.
Thane Harpole will present Menokin archaeology.
For more information visit here.
Dress is casual. |
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| Cost: Just bring a covered dish of food to share |
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| Location: | Dabney Wellford Hall
St. John's Church
Warsaw |
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| Arrival of the First Africans Program |
| Saturday, August 16, 2008 |
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Historic Jamestowne Highlights Arrival of First Africans at Jamestown On Saturday, August 16, 2008, Historic Jamestowne will conduct special walking tours commemorating the anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619. The 45-minute program will be offered at 11:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. and will focus on the events that brought the first Africans to Jamestown and the contributions of early Africans and African Americans at Jamestown.
This event is co-sponsored by the National Park Service and APVA Preservation Virginia.
About the First Africans at Jamestown
In mid-August 1619 John Rolfe wrote in a letter that “20. and odd Negroes arrived…” at Point
Comfort aboard a Dutch man-of-war. Traded for provisions, these 20-some Africans were
loaded onto another ship and brought to Jamestown and placed into servitude. Like their
penniless English counterparts, these first African settlers in Virginia were destined to spend a period of at least seven years in indentured servitude before gaining freedom. By the third quarter of the seventeenth century, however, term servitude evolved into bondage for life, or slavery, for many Africans in the colony.
(See also 2 August and 9 August.) |
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| Cost: Entrance fee; free to card-carrying APVA members |
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| Summer Speaker Series, APVA Northern Neck Branch |
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| 6:00 p.m. |
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Everyone is invited to attend the fifth of the Branch's annual APVA Summer Speaker Series.
Gretchen Goodall will present a program on Stratford Hall. Visit here.
Dress is casual. |
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| Cost: Just bring a covered dish of food to share |
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| Location: | Dabney Wellford Hall
St. John's Church
Warsaw |
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| Special Exhibit of Recent Artifact Finds |
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - Saturday, January 31, 2009 |
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Four remarkably significant decorative object artifacts found by archaeologists this summer will be displayed in a special exhibit at the Voorhees Archaearium Museum: a copper pendant that may depict a Powhatan Indian, an initialed solid gold ring likely once worn by one of Virginia's first assemblymen, a brass ornamental counterweight for a coin scale, and a medallion commemorating the English knighting of a Dutch prince. "These finds are clearly symbolic of significant chapters in the Jamestown story: the first representative democratic assembly, the free economy, the military nature of the settlement, and English-native relationships."
Active excavation will continue throughout this year's dig season weekdays, weather permitting. Visitors are invited to come and view the excavation and share in the moment of discovery. |
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| Cost: Entrance Fee |
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| Location: | Historic Jamestowne Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Archaearium Museum |
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| Rockbridge Community Festival, APVA Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch |
| Saturday, August 23, 2008 |
| 9:00 a.m.-3:00p.m. |
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The Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch will have a booth at the Rockbridge Community Festival.
The exhibit will feature the shell of a log structure to be reconstructed for the event by Branch Trustee Peter Drake and a collection of old building tools and architectural artifacts. The Branch also will display photographs of log structures in Rockbridge County that will be included in a book by local photographer and author, Ann McClung. The Branch will use the exhibit to promote its proposl for the designation of the Buffalo Creek area of the County as a Rural Historic District and a Branch-sponsored tour of the area on 27 September.
Downtown Lexington turns into an arts and crafts festival featuring food, live musical entertainment and fun for all! |
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| Location: | Main Street
Lexington, VA |
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| Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Tour |
| Sunday, June 1, 2008 - Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| 11:00 a.m. |
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This 30-minute tour of the original 1607 James Fort site is conducted by an APVA Preservation Virginia archaeologist. Learn how historical archaeology was used in 1994 by Dr. William Kelso to rediscover the once-lost fort site and how it is still used today by staff archaeologists to locate features of the fort's interior and artifact treasures. (Tour will not be given on 4 July.)
The site is jointly sponsored by the APVA and the National Park Service. |
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| Summer History Camps at Smithfield Plantation |
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - Friday, August 8, 2008 |
| 9:00 a.m.-12:00p.m. |
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THE FOODS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY!
This is an excellent way for your child to learn history and have fun doing it while keeping busy during the summer.
The one-week sessions are for rising 3rd through 6th graders. Cost is $110 per child for one week, $200 oer child for two weeks. $10 discount for each additional family member attending. APVA members may apply a 15% discount to their total amount due.
Weeks 1 & 3. Food from 1565 (Native Americans and early settlers) through 1783 (end of the American Revolution). Explore foodways from the late woodland period through the Revolutionary War. Highlighted will be European contact with the Native Americans, changes brought about by the introduction of slavery, and the extension of Tidewater planter culture to Southwest Virginia.
Weeks 2 & 4. Foods from the end of the Revolutionary War to the present. Explore foodways during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Industrial and Agriculture Revolutions, World Wars 1 and 2 and how modern conveniences of today have changed food patterns. |
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