JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT
Saturday
AMENITIES AREA
9:45 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 3:45 p.m. Learn about 17th-century English navigation and how to use instruments such as the astrolabe and crosstaff.
10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:15 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m. Learn about the ship’s pilot, using instruments such as the compass, chip log and traverse board.
VISITOR CENTER
Repeats every half hour beginning at 9 a.m. Last drill is at 5 p.m. One is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. Parking lot. Military drill.
9:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:45 p.m. Classroom A/B. African storytelling by Sylvia Tabb Lee.
10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. Classroom C. Talk compares and contrasts Jamestown with its sister colony, Popham, established in Maine in 1607.
10:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 3:15 p.m. Classroom A/B. 1:30 p.m. Classroom C. A speaker compares three cultures through examining reproduction objects.
10:30 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. Classroom C. Learn about Gov. Berkeley, Nataniel Bacon and the events that led to Bacon’s Rebellion.
10:45 a.m., 12:15 p.m. Classroom A/B. “King James I.” A first-person portrayal by Howard Burnham.
11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. Classroom C. 3:45 p.m. Classroom A/B. A lecture compares the roles of Powhatan, English and Angolan women.
12:45 p.m., 2:15 p.m. 4:15 p.m. Classroom A/B. “John Rolfe, In His Own Words.” A first-person portrayal by Dick Cheatham.
1:15 p.m., 2:45 p.m. Classroom A/B. John Smith, In His Own Words. A first-person portrayal, performed by Mark Schneider.
SETTLEMENT FORT
11:30 a.m., 2 p.m. Tactical drill. Participate in a 17th-century military drill using wooden muskets, swords or pikes.
9:30 a.m., 3 p.m. Learn about the role of the blacksmith in James Fort and some basic blacksmithing principals.
9:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 2:15 p.m., 3:45 p.m., 4:45 p.m. Behind fort. Learn about English and Powhatan games, such as quoits, corncob darts, marries and skunk.
9:45 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:15 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 3:45 p.m., 4:15 p.m. Learn the steps and experience the firing of a matchlock musket.
10 a.m. Participate in a drill and assist in raising the Cross of St. George on one of the bastions in the fort.
10:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 4:15 p.m. Behind fort. Learn the technology of the English, Powhatan and African cultures by using tools from each.
10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. Sword handling. Staff demonstrates sword skills, and visitors participate in a drill using wooden swords.
10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m. Near Settlement Stage. Artillery demonstration. Participate in an artillery drill and experience the swivel gun firing.
10:45 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 3:15 p.m. Behind fort. A comparison of Powhatan and English settler fire-starting methods using a bow drill or flint and steel.
11 a.m., noon. Honor guard drill.
11 a.m., 12:30 p.m. Learn how to cook over an open hearth using traditional English cooking methods. Noon, 2:30 p.m. Rule of law. Learn about the evolving government at Jamestown from 1607 to 1622 through role-playing.
1 p.m., 3:30 p.m. Learn about Anglican Church services during the earliest years of Jamestown Settlement.
4 p.m. “Tales of John Smith.” Learn about John Smith’s role at Jamestown through storytelling.
4:30 p.m. Flag lowering. Participate in a drill and assist in lowering the Cross of St. George on one of the bastions in the fort.
POWHATAN VILLAGE
9:15 a.m.,1:45 p.m., 3:45 p.m. Learn about making and using stone tools such as scrapers, ax heads and points.
9:45 a.m., 3:15 p.m. Learn about Powhatan and English agricultural methods by assisting staff members using traditional tools.
10:15 a.m., 2:15 p.m., 4:45 p.m. Learn how the Powhatan Indians made rope from native plants and assist by twisting your own.
10:45 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 2:45 p.m. Learn how the Powhatan Indians tanned hides to make rawhide, clothes and moccasins.
11:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m. Learn how the Powhatan Indians made tools from the bones of animals.
11:45 a.m., 12:45 a.m. Learn how to cook over an open fire using traditional Powhatan cooking methods.
BOARDWALK
9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. Learn how the Powhatan Indians used native plants for food, tools and medicine.
10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m. Learn about Powhatan hunting techniques. Learn how to shoot a bow and arrow.
10:30 a.m., noon, 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m. Traditional Powhatan warfare methods.
11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 4 p.m. Mapmaking. Learn basic mapmaking techniques used during the early 17th century.
4 p.m. Pier to Parking Lot. Children’s parade. March to the parking lot for a mass honor guard drill and musket salute.
RIVERFRONT
9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. Learn how the Powhatan Indians and Africans made dugout canoes and assist by scraping the char.
10 a.m., 3:30 p.m. Learn about Powhatan and English agricultural methods, assisting staff members using traditional tools.
10:30 a.m., noon, 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. Trade workshop. Learn about English, Powhatan and African trade and participate in an exercise using reproduction tools of the trades.
2 p.m. Virginia’s labor force. Role-play on attempts at profit and effects on labor force.
PIER AND MALL
10:00 a.m. Ships’ arrival. Three ships sail into the basin, with cannon salutes, pageantry and readings from early settler George Percy.
10:30 a.m. Children’s parade. Honor guard marches visitors from the pier to the Mall for artillery and other demonstrations.
JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT STAGE
9:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. Honor guard drill. 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. 17th-century music. Schola Cantorum and the Itinerant Band play.
12:15 p.m., 2:45 p.m. Jamestown-themed ballet. One-hour performance by Richmond Ballet’s Mind in Motion.
