The Bruton Parish graveyard is one of America’s oldest cemeteries. Listen as Anne Conkling—church guide at Bruton Parish Church—describes the church, its graveyard, and colonial burial practices.

Historian and archaeologist Ivor Noel Humes tells the few details known of the early English colony established on Roanoke Island in 1587. Following on a series of unsuccessful colonization attempts, the "Lost Colony" mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind only the word "Croatoan" carved on a fort gate.

Colonial Williamsburg staff archaeologist Meredith Poole discusses excavation at the Williamsburg Ravenscroft site, where archaeologists are using the "Frenchman's map," a map showing the layout of Williamsburg in the 18th century, to guide their search for the remains of structures.

Interested listeners can learn more about the Ravenscroft Archaeological Project by exploring the project's website.

Colonial Williamsburg author Mike Olmert discusses the significance and preservation of colonial-era outbuildings, which included structures such as kitchens, laundries, dairies, privies, smokehouses, offices, dovecotes, and icehouses. Olmert focuses on the window onto social norms and expectations and onto indentured and enslaved life that these structures reveal.

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Dr. Scott Stephenson, director of collections and interpretation for the American Revolution Center at Valley Forge, discusses his discovery of 18th-century Native American beadwork in private ownership in Scotland. He talks about how difficult it is to find intact collections, with both the documentation of the pieces' origins and the pieces themselves together in one location.

Colonial Williamsburg manager of museum education discusses the work behind a museum walking tour called "Migrating Cultures," which looks at artifacts brought to the British colonies by colonists or made by them in styles reminiscent of those in their countries of origin.

To discover more about the art on display at Colonial Williamsburg, peruse the The Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums website.

Colonial Williamsburg manager of African American programs, Tricia Brooks, discusses the primary sources used in exploring colonial viewpoints on slavery and race in Williamsburg programming.

Click here to discover more about the African-American colonial experience.

Senior Architectural Historian Carl Lounsbury tells the story of Williamsburg's Capitol's reconstruction, early in the 20th century. The architects overseeing the reconstruction at the time focused more on issues of aesthetics and polished completion than on social historical accuracy.

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Director of Educational Program Development Bill White describes Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trip program, the resources connected with it and the vision behind it, and how it may be used by educators. Colonial Williamsburg also offers a number of other resources for teachers.

The Governor's Palace is a Williamsburg icon. Chief Curator Emeritus Graham Hood discusses the work involved in reexamining the furnishing and decoration of its period rooms, to make them as historically accurate as possible.

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