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Thanks Jaynie, I really enjoyed that site, Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaynie Martz" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 1:33 PM Subject: 2004 Jamestown Rediscovery article > Daily Press article exerpts: > > "Archaeologist Bill Kelso's worst nightmare was that the naysayers had it > right. > That the palisaded fort constructed by Capt. John Smith and the first English > settlers on the banks of the James River in 1607 had long ago washed away > into > the currents." > "In April 1994 he sunk a shovel into the ground in search of America's > birthplace > and turned up such a rich array of finds that what he originally imagined > as a > decade of work seems much nearer its beginning than its end. > Just last summer he and his colleagues uncovered the last elusive wall > of the > triangular fort, mapping its boundaries with unquestionable certainty for > the first > time. They looked on in wonder as the remains of a long, remarkably > sophisticated > row of dwellings emerged from the dirt nest to this wall, painting a > picture of a > frontier colony that looks more like downtown Elizabethan London than a > rough-hewn > pioneer outpost. Somewhere in the center of this painfully defined 1.1 > acre space, > he says, lies the target he's been looking for all along.....the heart of the > settlement...the common store, the guardhouse, and especially the church > where > the first representative assembly met." > > http://www.apva.org/jr.html