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<br /> <br />I~ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />JA1\IESTO\VN & <br />YOHKTO\VN <br /> <br />Nearby Jamestown and Yorktown <br />were home to some of the first British <br />settlements, Today, a high-tech gallery <br />at the Jamestown Visitor Center displays <br />an eng-aging portrait of the cultures that <br />converged here from 1607 to 1699-Native <br />American, British and African. Look for <br />the only reliable image of Pocahontas, <br />quite different from the Disney version, <br />and an interactive film about the slave <br />trade. Outside the center, in a recreated <br />Powhatan Indian village, "settlers" (aka <br />interpreters) are planting crops, processing <br />hides and weaving fishing nets. The three <br />sailing ships docked on .the river are full- <br />size replicas of the ones that carried the <br />colonists to Virginia in 1607. <br />Twelve miles from WiIliam'burg, <br />the Yorktown Victory Center was built <br />on the site of the last battle between <br />the colonialists and the British, Head to the <br />shops and restaurants at nearby Riverwalk, <br />or sail on the lOS-foot schooner Alliance, <br />which cruises the York River with an old- <br />time waterman who recounts his stories, G) <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />II <br />I <br /> <br />,I <br />'I <br /> <br />50 g SPRING 2011 <br /> <br />... <br />