We spent Saturday at Jamestown, because, if it's good enough for the Queen.... We'd had to skip it on our jaunt to Williamsburg & Yorktown, which turned out well for us, since between then and now a brand new museum has been built. The tour is highly recommended (though we happened to choose the hottest, most humid day of the year --103 F!), and I was impressed with the museum --blessedly free of PC cant. We stopped to watch a little film about various artifacts of African origin found in the area, and it's the first time I've seen any such "education resource" refer to Christianity in a neutral way (there's a Portuguese rosary chaplet where the beads are ebony carved into skulls) and to black tribal complicity in the slave trade at all. Everything was presented simply & factually --very "that's the way it was." See, it can be done!
Our tour guide was a hoot, drawing the kids in by assigning them roles ("You, Sir, you missed Church on Sunday, so you won't be eating today"). She also informed us we had no business complaining about the tour outside because the Queen had done it before us in heels and at age 81. "The most dynamic person I've ever met," she said. Prince Philip not looking well, however. In case you were wondering.
