Podcasts about jamestown settlement

Jamestown Settlement, VA   In this episode, the FAQ:  How to budget while on your trip? Today's Destination is Jamestown Settlement, VA Today's Misstep- Too much caffeine on an empty stomach.  Travel Advice: Get TSA Pre-check for every flight.   https://www.jyfmuseums.org/visit/jamestown-settlement     Connect with Dr. Travelbest 5 Steps to Solo Travel website Dr. Mary Travelbest X Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Page Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Group Dr. Mary Travelbest Instagram Dr. Mary Travelbest Podcast Dr. Travelbest on TikTok Dr.Travelbest onYouTube In the news  

John Ericson discusses the recent Symposium at Jamestown Settlement entitled: Ways of Being; Evolving Religion and America with Dr. Travis Harris, Visiting Assistant Professor at Norfolk State University. 

America‘a first permanent English settlement went through a rough time. There's probably a lot of guilt and the original settlers could still be dealing with it in the afterlife. It's an interesting place to visit for the history both light & dark. Of course it has its own Lady in White. They are everywhere! Cocktail: margaritas ( National Margarita Day) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paige-johnson86/message

America‘a first permanent English settlement went through a rough time. There's probably a lot of guilt and the original settlers could still be dealing with it in the afterlife. It's an interesting place to visit for the history both light & dark. Of course it has its own Lady in White. They are everywhere! Cocktail: margaritas ( National Margarita Day) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paige-johnson86/message

The colonists were trying to grow a new settlement in a time when miasma theory still ruled, bloodletting was the hottest cure-all, and germ theory was nonexistent. What could go wrong? Well, a lot. Please leave a review or rating if you haven't already done so, subscribe to the show, find us on social media, and share these episodes with friends. You can find the artifact collections mentioned in this episode at www.historicjamestowne.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pineovercoat/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pineovercoat/support

Listen to the full interview with Mary Elliott, curator of American Slavery at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Bill Dodson the owner of 8 Shires distillery sits down to discus his new 1608 whiskey and the history around it with colleagues and historians. Featuring David Givens of Jamestown Rediscovery, Steve Bashore from Mount Vernon Distillery & Bly Straube from Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 hit the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay Colony during August 1635. It is considered to be one of the earliest hurricanes to have struck New England, occurring just 15 years after the settlement at Plymouth rock. Although the hurricane's exact track remains unknown, several historical accounts describe the storm. The storm is first mentioned on August 24, 1635, as it moved rapidly to the east of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia, but did not cause any damage. Massachusetts Bay Governor, John Winthrop, kept a running journal of his experiences in the Boston area at that time. On August 25 he described a storm arriving before midnight on August 25, blowing with “such violence” and “an abundance of rain”. Historian and writer William Bradford, who lived in Plymouth Plantation, stated that the hurricane “was such a mighty storm of wind and rain as none living in these parts, ever saw… It caused the sea to swell to the southward [of this place] above 20 feet right up and down…” Reverend Richard Mather, who was traveling on the ship the James at the time of the storm, recounted strong, shifting winds while aboard the vessel. The hurricane produced a storm surge of 20 ft in Narragansett Bay. Due to strong winds, heavy rainfall, and high tide, hundreds of trees were toppled, homes were destroyed, and ships were blown off their anchors. An estimated 46 people died. The damage to structures and the losses described were similar to the descriptions from the 1938 New England Hurricane, so, historians believe the intensity of the Great Colonial Hurricane was comparable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode: 2055 Viewing America from the edge of its land, or the edge of its future.  Today, mathematics fails to tell us what's inside Virginia.

The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 hit the Jamestown Settlement and the Massachusetts Bay Colony during August 1635. It is considered to be one of the earliest hurricanes to have struck New England, occurring just 15 years after the settlement at Plymouth Rock. Although the hurricane’s exact track remains unknown, several historical accounts describe the storm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with public historian and museum executive Christy S. Coleman. Her museum career started at seventeen portraying enslaved women at Colonial Williamsburg in their living history educational program. She went on to be the Director of Historic Programs before becoming the CEO of multiple institutions including the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, MI, and the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, VA. In our interview we talk about the empathetic value of living history programs, how museums create context in the way they display objects, and Christy’s work as a historical consultant for TV and film. We discuss her work on the recent biopic Harriet (2019) about the life of Harriet Tubman. In January of this year, Christy was named Executive Director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, which administers the Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. To find out more about Christy visit www.christyscoleman.com or follow her on Twitter at @historygonwrong.

It’s a girl!!! In this brief episode, I lay out out the basic scheme of what next chapter is going to include: King James I’s reign, The Virginia Company (up until its dissolution), and the Jamestown Settlement. At the very end, we will conduct a survey of the Northeast Woodland Indians. Enjoy!

From the Quaker Ancient Burial Ground in London Grove Township, Pennsylvania, I’m processing the anger left still grinding from my visit through Virginia and an ancestor that owned slaves as well as the Jamestown Settlement and the summer of the first shipment of slaves as well as the Tobacco Brides coming into the colony. I reflect on the damage that sources toxic masculinity and wonder if there’s a difference between those that are traumatized and then become conquerors and those that have always been on top and defend their position. www.mywytchyways.com

Tug Of War comes from the Island of Andros in The Bahamas, and continues the tradition of a clever trickster animal getting the best of bigger and brawnier bully beasts. Our monkey is named Timmy, thanks to a listener and Patreon named Caleb. We come to you from Jamestown, Virginia, where we've just toured Jamestown Settlement, an amazing museum complex featuring meticulous recreations of a Powhatan Indian village, a colonial fort, and three ships that brought settlers over in 1607 -- among them Captain John Smith. In recent days, we've also toured Thomas Edison's old laboratories in West Orange, NJ, with tools and equipment still almost as he left them. We took a beautiful helicopter tour over Newport, Rhode Island. And we tried our hand at throwing hatchets at targets at Bury the Hatchet in Cherry Hill, NJ. Just another typical month in the lives of touring thespians. Follow all of the Activated Adventures on our new site for off stage shenanigans. We hope you have a great Thanksgiving. Happy listening, Dennis (Narrator, Elephant) and Kimberly (Timmy, Whale)

"The Crowded Hut" is a Yiddish tale about a man who lived with his family in such a dwelling, and liked to complain because it was too cramped. He sought the advice of a wise old woman (or a Rabbi in some versions) who offered some rather unorthodox advice. This story seemed, for reasons that become apparent on listening to it, to be appropriate for Thanksgiving, which is the day on which this episode is being posted.Several years before the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by settlers in Massachusetts, another group of rugged immigrants established the first English colony in the new world by the James River in Virginia, a settlement near present-day Williamsburg that came to be known as Jamestown. Since 1957, Jamestown Settlement has provided visitors a colorful glimpse into the beginnings of our nation. The site features not only an extensive indoor museum, but also replicas of Fort James, the Powhatan Indian Village, and the three ships on which the colonists arrived. Hands-on activities include opportunities to "steer" one of the ships, and to help dig out a dugout canoe, which the Native Americans fashioned from logs with the aid of fire.If you come here before April 2008, you can view a major, one-time, yearlong showcase called "The World of 1607". To commemorate the colony's 400th birthday, the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation sent word to other nations that they were seeking artifacts from that time frame for a special exhibit. They expected SOME response, but they were absolutely SWAMPED with items from all over -- too many to exhibit at once, so they were divided into four parcels, to be displayed in rotation. It's amazing to think that while John Smith was struggling to get a new country started, Shakespeare was in his prime.The Settlement portrays the experiences and contributions of three cultures: the English, the Native American, and the African. Slaves on a ship bound for Central America were seized by British privateers (a fancy word for pirates with a permit) and redirected to Virginia, where their forced labor helped the new civilization survive and thrive. Their chapter in the story is often given scant notice in the history books, so it's especially welcome to see so much coverage of it here.We do hear a great deal about the Native Americans, of course, but what we hear is often wrong. The chief of the Powhatan Indians was not named Powhatan (accent on the first syllable, if you please); that's just what the settlers called him, after the tribe itself. And that romance between John Smith and Pocahontas? Forgeddaboutit! (What? You mean Disney got some things wrong??) Actually, when John Smith arrived, Pocahontas was only 8 years old. We also asked our guide (and they have many knowledgeable guides here, many in period costume) about the legend of Pocahontas saving him from execution at the last minute. Wasn't that really a staged initiation stunt or some such? Well perhaps, he said. But note that John Smith (yes, that was his real name) traveled to several countries, and kept lengthy journals; and it seems that just about everywhere he went, he reported that some princess had saved his life. Hmmm... Looks like he may have been a fellow spinner of folktales himself.Happy Listening!Dennis (old man), Kimberly (old woman) and Zephyr (narrator) assisted by various beasts