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Celebrating
Jamestown
Dateline: 3/21/07
By Kris Bordessa
The year 2007 brings the 400th anniversary of the founding
of Jamestown colony, the first permanent English settlement in
what would become the United States. A group of men called the
Virginia Company sailed from London and after five long months
of traveling over the sea, arrived at Jamestown Island on May
14, 1607. Little did these men know that the task ahead was to
be more trying than they anticipated - the New World proved to
be nothing like London! .... more
When they arrived, there were no buildings
for shelter, no stores, and no familiar faces. What they found
was a wild and untamed land. They faced hardship, freezing weather,
disease, and hunger but the Jamestown colonists worked hard to
make their settlement successful.
It's hard for today's kids to imagine such an undeveloped
area or the effort it took to make it livable. Remember, the
settlers constructed Jamestown without electric saws or drills!
- Hand Drill Scott made when he was about 9 or 10. The
thing really worked, and we had fun with it for years. Called
it our executive play toy, as we left it out on our coffee table
and watched Silicon Valley execs drill a chunk of wood with it.
Kids can get a feel for just how labor intensive it was to
build during the colonial era by trying out an old fashioned
tool called a pump drill.
This drill is named for the pumping action required to bore a
hole. Colonists used pump drills to make holes for pegs in homebuilding
or in other woodworking projects.
This activity is
adapted from Great Colonial America Projects You Can Build
Yourself (Nomad Press) by me, Kris Bordessa, and available
in bookstores nationwide or online. To find out more, visit my website. Visit the
Jamestown anniversary
website for more information on what will be happening to
celebrate.
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- Great
Colonial America Projects You Can Build Yourself!
by Kris Bordessa
- From colonial fashions and trades to biographies on key historical
figures such as Captain John Smith and Thomas Jefferson, this
interactive guide blends engaging activities with facts and trivia
about early America.
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