Celebrating Jamestown

The Washington Post has a description of many of the celebrations that took place at Jamestown yesterday to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of English colonists at the first permanent colonial settlement in Virginia. They also have a very interesting slideshow. My personal favorite is slide number 10 which shows the docking of one of Jamestown's reproduction sailing vessels docking. Who knew they had rubber dinghies with outboard motors back then? (If you read through the article, the "soldiers" were also drilling near a row of port-a-potties, which got a laugh from the crowds.)