This week Nova has run an excellent account of the Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in English North America. The program relates that previous to about ten years ago scholars believed that the old fort was gone forever underneath the James River. That is what I heard when I was there in 1970. That was wrong however. The fort is found and with it the story that is told here.
It is a story not of lazy gentlemen but of craftsman that were out to make money fast on the great resources of the new world.
The Native American story is told as well with actual members of the tribes involved taking on historical roles.
The program will add a great deal to your knowledge of the era.
