. >> my name is blithe straub, i'm the senior curator for the jamestown rediscovery project. it's a project that started in 1994, it's a project of presservation virginia, the first statewide preservation organization in the united states. it is confusing that there are so many jamestowns and many people visit jamestown, and it turns out that they never went to the real place, you know, the place where all thes hadtry happened. so, there's a jamestown that's a living history museum, the jamestown settlement and they interpret jamestown and they have three wonderful ships and they've reconstructed a fort and and indian village and they have a huge museum over there. that is thea state-run organizan and they get state funds for that. the island itself, the original site of jamestown, is co-managed by the national park 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 virginia has around 23, but their 23 acres incorporates the site of the original fort. t