Virginia is board of trustees and Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation board of directors. I share our appreciation for friends and partners gathered today and i acknowledge the leadership of the administration, the gen. Assembly, american evolution and jamestown Yorktown Foundation. Our special appreciation to our partners managing historic jamestown, the National Park service, tribal representatives, and members of the descendents of the jamestown society. Today we commemorate the events that occurred 400 years ago. The distinguished speakers to follow me will capture the importance of todays proceedings and the direct influence still felt today. The history and body would be lost if not for the vision and dedication of women. In 1889 mary Jeffrey Gault and cindy Tucker Coleman founded the associate for the preservation of virginia now known as preservation virginia. Their goal was to save and restore disappearing landscape and buildings that embody our colonial tradition. Successfully s
Rediscovery archaeological project. We visited jamestown to see how the history of the colonists is being revealed every day through the history of the artifacts. Bly my name is bly straube, the senior curator for jamestown. That is a project of preservation virginia, the first it is confusing that there are so many jamestowns. Summoning people visit jamestown so many people visit jamestown but it turns out they never went to the real place. There is a jamestown that is a living history museum, jamestown settlement. They have three wonderful ships. They reconstructed a fort and an Indian Village and they have a huge museum over there. That is a state run organization. They get state funding for that. The island itself, the original site of jamestown, is comanaged by the National Park service and preservation virginia. It is an unusual, private, public partnership. The park service owns the majority of the island, 1500 acres. Reservation virginia has around 23. But their acres incorpora
Rediscovery archaeological project. We visited jamestown to see how the history of the colonists is being revealed every day through the history of the artifacts. Bly my name is bly straube, the senior curator for jamestown. That is a project of preservation virginia, the first it is confusing that there are so many jamestowns. Summoning people visit jamestown so many people visit jamestown but it turns out they never went to the real place. There is a jamestown that is a living history museum, jamestown settlement. They have three wonderful ships. They reconstructed a fort and an Indian Village and they have a huge museum over there. That is a state run organization. They get state funding for that. The island itself, the original site of jamestown, is comanaged by the National Park service and preservation virginia. It is an unusual, private, public partnership. The park service owns the majority of the island, 1500 acres. Reservation virginia has around 23. But their acres incorpora
And what that tells us is that we would not be able to electrolysis is this artifact. We would have to mechanically clean it with air abrasion using the aluminum oxide powder under pressure, push through a very narrow carbide tip to blow away that surface corrosion. And its stopping at that black magnatite. But this is a very important artifact, and one that is most likely going to end up in the museum, complete rapier hilt from a fort period building. Bly i have been working on the project since the beginning, since 1994. Gosh, i hope i retire still doing it. Even if we stop the project outside, theyre still would be lots and lots of work to do inside. Actually, archaeology of the future will be working with the collections that have been excavated in the past. And we make discoveries in the lab. Not everything is discovered in the field. People are under the misconception that all of the discoveries are in that moment outside. It happens inside as well, and quite a lot. There is enou
Rediscovery archaeological project. We visited jamestown to see how the history of the colonists is being revealed every day through the history of the artifacts. Bly my name is bly straube, the senior curator for jamestown. That is a project of preservation virginia, the first it is confusing that there are so many jamestowns. Summoning people visit jamestown so many people visit jamestown but it turns out they never went to the real place. There is a jamestown that is a living history museum, jamestown settlement. They have three wonderful ships. They reconstructed a fort and an Indian Village and they have a huge museum over there. That is a state run organization. They get state funding for that. The island itself, the original site of jamestown, is comanaged by the National Park service and preservation virginia. It is an unusual, private, public partnership. The park service owns the majority of the island, 1500 acres. Reservation virginia has around 23. But their acres incorpora