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Event CalendarUpcoming special events are shown. Scroll down for future months. No events found | | June Theme Month: "Seed to Stalk"  June 1-30 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory CenterAmerican agriculture of the 17th and 18th centuries is examined through comparison of Powhatan Indian and European methods of planting and cultivating crops grown for sustenance and crops grown for profit. Visitors can tend and water gardens and learn about the many practical uses of herbs and plants. |
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| | African American Heritage Day Saturday, June 7 Jamestown Settlement African storytelling, music, dancing, genealogy workshops, children's activities and historical museum exhibits explore the origins of the first documented Africans to arrive in Virginia, in 1619, and the important role of Africans and African Americans in the development of Virginia. Presented in partnership with the Virginia African American Forum. |
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| | Family Day: Planting a Settlement Saturday, June 14 Jamestown SettlementThrough guided gallery tours and a special children's gallery brochure, learn about the English, Powhatan and west central African family member roles in planting and harvesting crops. Participants can make plant prints using types of plants grown by each of the three cultures that converged at Jamestown. Pre-registration available at (888) 868-7593 toll-free, (757) 253-4939 or group.reservations@jyf.virginia.gov. |
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| | Liberty Celebration Friday-Sunday, July 4-6 Yorktown Victory Center
 Tactical drills, military exercises and role-playing demonstrations salute America during the Fourth of July holiday special event. Visitors can learn about the sacrifices of our nation's founders, including those who signed the Declaration of Independence.
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| | Family Day: Jamestown Trailblazers Saturday, July 12 Jamestown Settlement
Discover stories of John Smith, Pocahontas, Queen Njinga and other 17th-century "trailblazers" through guided gallery tours and a special children's gallery brochure. Families can make a compass rose to guide them on their own adventures. Pre-registration available at (888) 868-7593 toll-free, (757) 253-4939 or group.reservations@jyf.virginia.gov.
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| | "A New World: England's First View of America" July 15-Octobert 15 Jamestown Settlement
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An Indian Werowance,
or Chief, John White,
watercolor,c. 1585.
©The Trustees of the
British Museum.
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The watercolor drawings of John White, the earliest visual record by an Englishman on the flora, fauna and people of the New World, are presented in an exhibition from the British Museum. White accompanied a number of expeditions sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh to Virginia in the 1580s and was governor of the short-lived colony at Roanoke Island, part of modern North Carolina. Scenes of the Algonquian-speaking people of the region, as well as other parts of the Americas and peoples of the world are among the more than 70 White drawings in the exhibition. Companion lecture series at 7 p.m., Saturdays, July 19, August 9 and September 20. Reservations recommended at (757) 253-4415 or rsvp.lecture@jyf.virginia.gov.
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| | "A New World" Lecture Series: "Roanoke's Achievement" by Karen Ordahl Kupperman 7 p.m., Saturday, July 19, Robins Foundation Theater Jamestown Settlement
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Professor of History at New York University and author of The Jamestown Project and Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America, will present "Roanoke's Achievement," the first in a companion lecture series to A New World: England's First View of America special exhibition from the British Museum featuring the watercolor drawings of John White. Reservations recommended at (757) 253-4415 or rsvp.lecture@jyf.virginia.gov.
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| | Virginia Indian Heritage Day Saturday, July 26 Jamestown Settlement Intertribal dancing and drumming, panel discussions, themed museum tours and hands-on children's activities honor Virginia Indian cultures and their important legacy in America. Presented in partnership with the Virginia Indian community. |
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| | Pastimes of Colonial Virginia August 1-31 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center
%20-%20JS%20Fort%20ninepins%20game.jpg "Pastimes (Aug) - JS Fort ninepins game.jpg") Theme month explores music, games, storytelling and other diversions of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia through hands-on activities and interpretive programs. Visitors can play corncob darts, ninepins, quoits, mancala and nine-men's morris.
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| | Curator Gallery Tours Saturday, August 2 Jamestown Settlement
Curator-led tours provide an in-depth look at the history, artifacts and re-created structures in expansive museum galleries that tell the Jamestown story. The 75-minute tours explore the Powhatan Indian, English and African homeland cultures and their interaction in 17th-century Virginia and other key gallery themes, including early industries and evolution of societal institutions. Tours begin at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Pre-registration available (757) 253-4970 or rsvp.tours@jyf.virginia.gov.
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| | "A New World" Lecture Series: "Tassentasse in Tsenacomoco" by Daniel K. Richter 7 p.m., Saturday, August 9, Robins Foundation Theater Jamestown Settlement
Daniel K. Richter, Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America will present "Tassentasse in Tsenacomoco: Native People and the English, 1560-1622," the second in a companion lecture series to A New World: England's First View of America special exhibition from the British Museum featuring the watercolor drawings of John White. Reservations recommended at (757) 253-4415 or rsvp.lecture@jyf.virginia.gov.
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| | Family Day: Pastimes and Pleasures Saturday, August 9 Jamestown Settlement
Explore aspects of children's work, education and play in the 17th century through guided gallery tours and a special children's gallery brochure. Families can make and play games of corncob darts and nine-men's morris. Pre-registration available at (888) 868-7593 toll-free, (757) 253-4939 or group.reservations@jyf.virginia.gov.
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| | "A New World" Lecture Series: "Painting in Elizabethan England" by Karen Hearn 7 p.m., Saturday, September 20, Robins Foundation Theater Jamestown Settlement
Karen Hearn, Curator of 16th- and 17th-Century British Art at the Tate Gallery in London, will present "Painting in Elizabethan England: John White in Context," the final program in a companion lecture series to A New World: England's First View of America special exhibition from the British Museum featuring the watercolor drawings of John White. Reservations recommended at (757) 253-4415 or rsvp.lecture@jyf.virginia.gov.
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| | Children's Day Saturday, September 27 Jamestown SettlementA festive day of children's 17th-century games, music, juggling, stilt walking, magic, puppet shows, storytelling and hands-on crafts. |
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| | Legacy Lecture: "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond Saturday, October 11 Jamestown SettlementJared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient, will discuss his Pulitzer-Prize winning and internationally best-selling book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Robins Foundation Theater; book signing to follow until 9 p.m. Reservations recommended at (757) 253-4415 or rsvp.lecture@jyf.virginia.gov. |
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| | Yorktown Victory Celebration Saturday-Sunday, October 18-19 Yorktown Victory Center Military life and artillery demonstrations mark the 227th anniversary of America's momentous Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown, on October 19, 1781. To experience Continental Army life firsthand, visitors can enroll in "A School for the Soldier," try on uniforms, drill with wooden muskets and join in other hands-on military activities. Special programs also are held in Yorktown and at Yorktown Battlefield, administered by the National Park Service. |
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| | Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia Thursday-Saturday, November 27-29 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory CenterVirginia foodways are featured during this three-day event beginning on Thanksgiving Day. At Jamestown Settlement, learn how food was gathered, preserved and prepared on land and at sea by Virginia's English colonists and Powhatan Indians. At the Yorktown Victory Center, learn about typical soldiers' fare during the American Revolution and trace the bounty of a 1780s farm from field to kitchen. |
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| | A Colonial Christmas December 20-January 4, 2009 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory CenterHoliday traditions of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia are recalled through special interpretive programs. At Jamestown Settlement, a film and guided tours compare and contrast English Christmas customs of the period with how the season may have been observed in the difficult early years of the Jamestown colony. At the Yorktown Victory Center, hear accounts of Christmas and winter in military encampments during the American Revolution and glimpse holiday preparations on a 1780s Virginia farm. |
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