in your taped piece mr. kelso mentioned that jamestown gets second billing if you will to plymouth in the mythology or the common knowledge of how the new world was colonized and i wonder if you could elaborate on that. and he also mentioned the lost colony in roanoke that even preceded jamestown. i'm wondering if there's any new work or any new findings down there that's of any interest. and thanks for putting on these type of programs. they're great. >> okay. your first -- the first question was what again? i didn't quite hear it. >> the first question was why does the jamestown settlement in his perception, i guess, quoting you from the -- >> plymouth, yeah, yeah. >> take a second billing to jamestown -- or to plymouth, rather, i'm sorry. >> well, yeah. every year we have thanksgiving that just focuses again on plymouth, it's sort of an automatic thing. in the 19th century, the story of the earliest english settlement began to come from historians out of new england. and there was a lot of focus on that. althou

. >> caller: calling from western virginia, and mr. kelso, i have your book. i epahmadinejnjoyed reading it. when the jamestown settlement took place, the little ice age was going on and the indian people had very little corn. and how did this drought affect the jamestown settlement? and number two, i want to comment on the indian people. you're chose to two indian communities there at jamestown and charles city county, the chick hominy over 1,000 people and the settlement the jamestown and their ancestors. have the indian descendants been involved? do you get feedback, participation, from the indian people there in the community? thank you so much. >> well, i can speak to the second question first. and that, yeah, there's much interaction with our project and the current united tribes. in fact, today there are some members of this tribe on the site demonstrating and some in the original draft of the virginia indians. so, they are as interested in what we are finding here and we find a lot of artifacts that were traditionally inside the fort. so, we know that

in the next hour, we join mr. kelso as he explains how he unearthed the original fort. 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, th