. >> we are speaking live with bly straub and bill kelso from historic jamestown and taking your phone calls. and we'll also read tweets if you use the handl handle @cspanhistory. this is patricia, go ahead. >> caller: thank you for this program. i, too, have read your book, mr. kelso, and found it very interesting. i have two comments. one is relating to the previous caller. my husband is descended from pocahontas and john rolf through pocahontas' grandson -- granddaughter, excuse me, jane rolf, who married a man called robe robe robert bowling. a few moments ago the commentator said to you this was the church where pocahontas married john smith. and as you know more than i, it was john rolf she married. but i notice that a great many people make that mistake, thinking that pocahontas married john smith. it's a pity about that. i think john rolf kind of gets pushed to the background. thank you very much for this program. it's of great interest. >> thank you, patricia. let's go to ft. lauderdale, david's on our line in ft. lauderdale, hi, david, go ahead. >> caller: hi, dr. kelso, i wo

. >> we have a question on twitter, bill kelso and bly straube, what would you like to see happen at dig sites when you have finished your research? >> well, i can just speak to the site itself. we spent a lot of time trying to interpret the footprint that we find below ground of buildings and the shape of the fort and all without doing total reconstructions, we go to a point where we really don't some of the things the way the building looked. my first desire when i first came to this area 50 years ago was to come and walk on the grounds, walk the site of this first fort in 1607 fort, and i was told it was washed away in the river. and we can now do that. we'd have to do some three-dimensional markings for it to be interpreted. i hope people can come here and understand the really hallowed place automatically by what we've put on the landscape. i don't know you might have more to say on that. >> we are going to spend the next half hour with bly straube and bill kelso, live from jamestown. >> we are taking your questions. here's warrenson, virginia, charlie, go ahead. >> caller: than

and we visit bly straub in the archaeology lab to help reveal what life was like inside jamestown fort over 400 years ago. >>> i'm bill kelso, i'm the director of the jamestown rediscovery project, archeological project. it's been going on for 18 years. and what i'm going to do is to give you sort of lecturettes at different places about the property, and talk about a little bit about the history of jamestown, a little bit about geography, and a little bit about the history of the project. and then we'll go to each of the sites that are open right now, the trenches, you were promised this is in the trenches, so we're going to get in the trench, at least one of them, and you are on one of the few islands you can be on in the james river. that's one of the reasons it was chosen as the first colony. we're about 35 miles from hampton roads, or the opening to the ocean. the river goes forever into the mountains of virginia and gets different names and different branches. but at richmond, there are water falls. and it's not navigable from here to there. and that was important, because the co

turn down your set there and go ahead with your question or comment for bill kelso or bly straub. i'm going to put you on hold, lou. bill kelso, we just showed your book, "the buried truth." how long did that one take you to write? >> well, it came out in '06. so, it's always -- it's always in production, really, and a revision, too. i'm working on a revision of that because we found so much but that basically tells the story the way i saw it. and, i mean, it was -- since we started the project in 1994, i guess you could say it took 12 years. >> the caller a few minutes ago calling and saying he was in 1966 trying to find jamestown. do you find a lot of amateur archaeologists telling you much of the same thing? >> no. i've kind of thought what he was saying it's so confusing here because there's other types of jamestowns around here. and the signs are just everywhere, and it's confusing for a visitor to come in. that may be what he was up against. >> let's try lou in bridgeport, ohio. go ahead. >> caller: yes. i thank you for taking my call. i was wondering, it's -- settlers of ja

. >> my name is bly straub. i'm the senior curator for the jamestown rediscovery project and that's a project that started in 1994. it's a project of preservation virginia. the first statewide historic statewide preservation association in the united states. it's so confusing that there are so many jamestown and many people visit jamestown and it turns out that they never went to the real place, you know, the place where all the history happened. so, there's a jamestown that's a living history museum, jamestown settlement, and they interpret jamestown and they have three wonderful ships and they've reconstructed a fort and an indian village and they have a huge museum over there. that is a state-run organization, so they get state funding for that. then the island itself, the original site of jamestown, is co-managed by the national parks service and preservation virginia. so, it's an unusual private/public partnership that goes on here. the park service owns the majority of the island, 1,500 acres. preservation