Jamestown Landing Day
Saturday, May 10

Jamestown Settlement

All Day. Hands-on History and Interpretive Demonstrations. Visit the re-created Powhatan Indian village, 1607 replica ships and colonial fort and a riverfront discovery area to take part in hands-on programs and presentations, including artillery, canoe making and navigation.

All Day. In First Person. Meet re-enactors portraying King James I, John Smith and John Rolfe.

10 & 11 a.m., 1 & 2 p.m. Tour the Museum Galleries. Take a guided tour of expansive gallery exhibits that tell the Jamestown story in the context of the Powhatan Indian, English and African cultures that converged in the 1600s. More than 500 artifacts from 17th-century Europe and Africa and Virginia archaeological items are exhibited.

10 a.m. Ships Arrival and Children's Parade. A cannon salute welcomes the arrival of the replicas Godspeed and Discovery to the ships' pier. A children's parade will progress to the mall lawn for special entertainment.

10:15 a.m., 12:30 & 3:30 p.m. Women of Three Cultures. Explore the roles of the African, English and Powhatan women in 17th-century Virginia through an interactive presentation.

11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Exploration: Then and Now. Compare 17th- and 21st-century methods of exploration during an interactive classroom program led by a Jamestown Settlement historical interpreter and former NASA astronaut Kathryn Thornton. Dr. Thornton is a veteran of four space flights and undertook a space walk during the Space Shuttle Endeavor mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993.

11:30 a.m., 1:45 & 4 p.m. 17th-Century Faire. Discover 1600s-style entertainment - music, magic, juggling, puppetry and other amusements of the period.

11:45 .m., 1:15, 2:45 & 4:15 p.m. Jamestown and Popham. Classroom programs explore two English colonies that were established in North America in 1607. Jamestown survived as America's first permanent English colony. Though short-lived, Popham in Maine is the source of valuable information about early English colonization.

12:45 p.m. & 3 p.m. 17th-Century Music.  John Tyson and Howard Bass play madrigals and popular 17th-century music from city, court and countryside on lute and recorder.