Cantrell visits historic Jamestown

Cantrell is the daughter of Warren County resident Quim Bryant, and the late Irene Bryant.

The theme of this year’s institute was based on a major exhibition at the Historical Society marking the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

Titled ‘Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings,’ the exhibition interprets the early English, French and Spanish settlements in what would become the United States and Canada. Some of the country’s leading scholars, including Pulitzer Prize winning historian Alan Taylor, made presentations to the teachers.

The highlight of the week-long institute was a field trip to Jamestown, where teachers met with Dr. William Kelso, chief archaeologist for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Kelso, who has been featured prominently in National Geographic magazine and on the History Channel, is credited with uncovering the site of the original Jamestown settlement in the early 1990s. Since then, he and his team of archaeologists have retrieved more than a million artifacts and the skeletal remains of many of the original settlers.

For more information on this program visit the Web site at www.vahistorical.org.