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Article: Jamestown unearths 400 years of history; Party to include East Coast sail and salute.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2004
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Byline: Christina Bellantoni, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
HISTORIC JAMESTOWNE, Va. - Organizers are busily piecing together Jamestown's 400th anniversary even as archaeologists here each day unearth new shards of the history that the 2007 celebration will endeavor to tell.
Historians and organizers of the quadricentennial say there is much more to the country's first permanent English settlement, on the banks of the James River, than the popular stories of Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas passed down through generations in Virginia.
For example, Colonists said one of the New World's first Thanksgiving prayers after they landed here in the spring of ...