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Arts, crafts and a multicultural parade
Washington ZooLights Spend the holidays with some furry creatures and scaly critters at ZooLights, which features animal sculptures composed of environmentally friendly lights. Animal houses will stay open during this seasonal event, and gingerbread...Tags: New York City, Religious Festivals, Christmas, New Year's Day, Santa Claus (fictional character)
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Holiday events illuminate the season
The holiday season is upon us. Why stay in this Christmas when there's so much to do? Quit roasting chestnuts and get old Jack Frost off your nose. Bundle up, pack your overnight bag and take a quick trip. We've found some of the best places in and around...Tags: Religious Festivals, Christmas, Hersheypark, Hot Cocoa, Tourism and Leisure
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Journey to Jamestown
My daughter, Isabelle, loves great stories -- especially the ones that are full of gloom. Her favorite movie scene is from Cinderella, when the main character's stepsisters rip apart her lovely pink dress just before the ball, followed closely by one from...Tags: College of William and Mary, Slavery, Cinderella (fictional character), Tourism and Leisure, Historic Jamestowne
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Cornerstone set for new museum
The Virginia GazetteYORK – The ARMY advanced at Yorktown on Friday. During a ceremony outside the Yorktown Victory Center attended by local and state officials, the cornerstone of the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown (ARMY) was dedicated. The 80,000-square-...Tags: Museums, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), University of Virginia, Yorktown (York, Virginia)
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A cradle of slavery on the York
When the director of the Middle Passage port markers project arrives in Yorktown to give a talk about slavery Friday night, she'll find herself in the perfect place. Though Old Point Comfort and Jamestown can lay claim to the first Africans in English...
Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), York County (Virginia), Slavery, Memorial Day, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation adopts new logos
WILLIAMSBURG - Although Friday, when the cornerstone for the new American Revolutionary Museum at Yorktown will be laid, is the big day of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation's board meetings, there was an unveiling Thursday as well. At a luncheon meeting...
Tags: Museums, College of William and Mary, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg
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Virginia residents pay for a day, return all year at Jamestown Settlement
Daily PressVirginia residents can visit Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center an unlimited number of times throughout the entire year for the cost of a single-day ticket. The museums’ American Heritage Annual Pass is available online to...Tags: Museums, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Hampton Roads
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Feedback for 4/30: Jamestown and high school swimmers
The settlers' first landing •Terry: Under the Almanac, you guys have Captain John Smith went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement. That's not what I've learned in school. It's Jamestown. I think you...Tags: Schools, High School Sports, John Smith, Google Inc., Swimming
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Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation offers in-state deal
JAMESTOWN - All Virginia residents can now visit Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, state-operated living-history museums that tell the story of the nation’s beginnings, an unlimited number of times during an entire year for the...
Tags: Museums, College of William and Mary, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Hampton Roads
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Mathews hosts Godspeed ship
MATHEWS — A replica of one of the three ships that brought the first English colonists to Virginia more than 400 years ago will be docked at Williams Wharf Landing on the East River from Friday through Sunday and host tours for Mathews...Tags: Mathews (Mathews, Virginia), Cape Charles, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Mariners' Museum, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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York transforms learning with Discovery Education
The Virginia GazetteOn a recent morning at the Jamestown Settlement, a group of around 40 York County teachers fanned out across the vast campus armed with iPads to shoot video of the James Fort, Powhatan village and the ships Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery. The...Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), Adult Education, Students, Public Schools, Schools
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Early choices spawned slavery in Virginia
From the beginning, the first Africans who began arriving in Virginia in 1619 faced a harder life than the white indentured servants whose labors they shared. Singled out by religion and the color of their skin, they were seen very early on as...Tags: Slavery, Colonial Williamsburg
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