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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

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