Next Meeting
2020 Fall Meeting: Saturday, Febaruary 20
Where: Zoom Meeting; Norma Keating, Lt. Governor, First California Company at normakeating@earthlink.net or 714-319-5994
Time: 1100 AM
Program: Jamie May, the Director of the Voorhees Archaearium Museum: Jamestowne Rediscovery: Interpretation in the Voorhees Archaearium Archaeology Museum
Monthly Archives: December 2010
The Virginia colonists’ first recorded Christmas
By Martha W. McCartney “Old Christmas” was not an easy time. Although nothing is known about the Virginia colonists’ very first Christmas, commemorated on January 6, 1608 (“Old Christmas”), it is likely that the cold and hungry settlers huddled together … Continue reading
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Twelfth Night in Colonial Virginia
By Martha W. McCartney Although no written records have come to light describing how colonial Virginians decorated their houses-of-worship during the Christmas season, at least one English song makes reference to the “Holly and Ivy, Box [boxwood], and Bay, Put … Continue reading
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