The First California Company of the Jamestowne Society will use 2020’s leap year day for a compelling Winter Meeting and Luncheon on Saturday, February 29. Our honored guest, Robert “Roy” Ritchie, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate at The Huntington Library, will discuss Tobacco, Slaves, and Wives: The Growth of Jamestowne.
We will meet at 12 noon at the Brookside Golf and Country Club, 1133 Rosemont Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103-2401 (website: brooksidegc.com – phone: 626-577-4497.)
Dr. Ritchie previously served as the Huntington’s director of research from 1992 to 2011. He is renowned among scholars of early American colonial history and acknowledged in many books for his assistance. The Huntington holds one of the premier Jamestown collections, and he curated it for their September 2007 academic conference, Jamestown at 400.
RSVP by February 14, 2020. The cost is $45. To reserve your place, please make your check payable to First California Company, Jamestowne Society and mail to Governor Julie Plemmons ~ 4080 Hancock Street, Apt 3701, San Diego, CA 92110-5176.
For more information, you can contact her at jpnkids@yahoo.com or 619-207-7006.
Please include your (and any guest’s) name(s), email and phone contact(s) and choose from among entrees: roasted French cut chicken breast or butternut squash gnocchi (vegetarian.)
NOTE: You can enhance your experience with Dr. Ritchie’s talk by first reading Jennifer Potter’s recently published book, The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World, (available in paperback and Kindle editions.) In addition, a few of you might learn about an ancestor. It’s very readable and the author gives our own Bonnie Hofmeyer a credit among her acknowledgements.
