Draft Interpretive Plan Join the adventure! - Captain John Smith ...
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Notes<br />
Project Title Year<br />
Initiated<br />
Patuxent<br />
Encounters<br />
<strong>Interpretive</strong><br />
Trails:<br />
<strong>John</strong> <strong>Smith</strong>’s<br />
Adventures<br />
on <strong>the</strong> James<br />
Speaker<br />
Series and<br />
Calendar of<br />
Events: “<strong>John</strong><br />
<strong>Smith</strong>’s<br />
Chesapeake<br />
– Nine<br />
Perspectives”<br />
Exploring <strong>the</strong><br />
Landscape of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Early 17 th<br />
Century<br />
Chesapeake<br />
“Survivor:<br />
Jamestown”<br />
“The Old New<br />
World: Recreating<br />
a<br />
Chesapeake<br />
Indian Village”<br />
2006 Jefferson Patterson Park<br />
and Museum, St.<br />
Leonard, MD<br />
Early Implementation Projects<br />
Site/ Organization Project Description Date Completed Ongoing<br />
2006 2007 2008 2009<br />
A multi-faceted program about Patuxent<br />
Indians and <strong>Captain</strong> <strong>John</strong> <strong>Smith</strong> includes: pre-<br />
European village, wayside exhibits, print and<br />
web-based materials, seven-part speaker<br />
X<br />
series, and a two-day festival coinciding with<br />
<strong>the</strong> arrival of <strong>the</strong> shallop.<br />
2006 VA Department of<br />
Conservation and<br />
Recreation, Richmond,<br />
VA<br />
2006 Coordinated by Calvert<br />
Marine Museum,<br />
Solomons, MD<br />
2006 NPS, PA State<br />
University, <strong>Smith</strong>sonian,<br />
CBMM & Historic St.<br />
Mary’s City<br />
2007 Virginia Living Museum,<br />
Newport News, VA<br />
2007 First Landing State Park,<br />
Virginia Beach, VA<br />
<strong>Interpretive</strong> auto and water trails with signage,<br />
maps, and collateral materials regarding<br />
<strong>Smith</strong>’s explorations in Virginia during 1607-<br />
1609. More than 35 points of interest interpret<br />
<strong>the</strong> early colonial experience in <strong>the</strong> region. A<br />
website links to educator resources.<br />
Collaboration of eleven Gateways in Calvert<br />
and St. Mary’s counties offers <strong>John</strong> <strong>Smith</strong>’s<br />
Chesapeake speaker series. Informative<br />
calendar lists <strong>the</strong> nine presentations and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
Gateway <strong>Smith</strong>-related programs for 2007.<br />
X<br />
Web-based program uses photorealistic<br />
landscape visualization technology to allow<br />
visitors to track <strong>Smith</strong>’s journeys, learn about<br />
<strong>the</strong> native American inhabitants, and explore<br />
dramatic changes in <strong>the</strong> Bay through time.<br />
This highly interactive exhibit explores how<br />
difficult life was for early European settlers in<br />
Virginia, and how different <strong>the</strong> Chesapeake<br />
environment was four hundred years ago as<br />
compared to today.<br />
X<br />
In a joint effort with <strong>the</strong> Nansemond Indian<br />
Tribe, <strong>the</strong> park developed an au<strong>the</strong>ntic Virginia<br />
Algonquian Indian Village that includes a<br />
chief's house, a sweathouse, and areas<br />
X<br />
devoted to food preparation and crafts.<br />
<strong>Interpretive</strong> materials focus on <strong>the</strong> culture of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Chesapeake Indians and <strong>the</strong>ir connections<br />
to <strong>the</strong> Chesapeake Bay.<br />
X<br />
X