Jamestown News

Strangely enough, Jennifer, all of your posts fit together around the Jamestown Theme.

First of all, that is pretty big archaeological news. They weren't really sure where the fort was until this year, and now they have found the whole thing. There have also been some human remains found which indicate the first graveyard...all in all, this is adding up to the biggest archaelogical find in Virginia history, ergo the biggest archaeological find in the history of the Eastern United States.

The silkworm fits in because growing silkworms was the perennial dream for Virginia entrepreneurs seeking to diversify from tobacco. Pigs? Lawsuits against Indians always center upon a charge of pig killing. And endless time had to be spend in building fences to keep pigs out of a tobacco field. The Virginians allowed their pigs to wander, you see, and then got upset when people took advantage of this fact.

All of which shows, I think, that you had to have the emotional and intellectual resilience to know how to light your gas stove if you wanted to settle in early Virginia. At the very least!