Jamestown in the American eye: a colony and its commemorations.(THE NATION)(Jamestown, Virginia)(Viewpoint essay)

National Review | June 11, 2007| | Copyright

EVENTS larger than oneself sometimes jostle awake a feeling of awe--my heart atwitter, this must have been the cause, for little could seem as momentous as last month's celebration of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, Va., the oldest permanent Anglophone settlement in America.

The importance of the May 1607 landfall of 104 men and boys has long been recognized, and its commemoration has a history of its own. In 1907, one million people streamed to Virginia, where Teddy Roosevelt praised the kernel of American ingenuity found in the early colony. In 1957 Jamestown ...

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