FOODS & FEASTS OF COLONIAL VIRGINIA
SPECIAL EVENT TICKET
 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center
November 24-26, 2011

• Visit November 24-26, 2011, as Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center celebrate  foodways of 17th- & 18th-century colonial Virginia during a special 3-day event.
  
  
• Special programs show 1600s-cooking techniques of Powhatan Indians and English colonists, methods used by Revolutionary soldiers to cook rations in an earthen kitchen and 1780s farm dishes prepared over an open hearth.
  
  
  
• Museums feature gallery exhibits and outdoor re-creations of a Powhatan Indian village, three 1607 ships, and colonial fort at Jamestown Settlement, and a Continental Army encampment and 1780s farm at the Yorktown Victory Center.
  
  
• At Jamestown Settlement, experience a special exhibition developed in cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "The 17th Century: Gateway to the Modern World," featuring 65 artifacts from European, Asian and African cultures, beginning November 16, 2011.
  


• PLUS! With every History is Fun for the Holidays ticket purchase, receive a FREE voucher for a VIP Shopping Coupon Book at Williamsburg Premium Outlets and a Historic Yorktown Rewards Card.
  


• Visit Jamestown Settlement one day. Come to Yorktown Victory Center the next! Seven days of unlimited admission.
  
  
  
• Adults only $20 -- Kids (6-12) only $10. Save 20% on the price of individual admission.
  
  
  
• Kids under 6 are Free! Parking at both sites is Free!
  

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This Thanksgiving holiday, explore foodways of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia during “Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia,” a three-day event November 24-26 at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center.  

At Jamestown Settlement, learn how food was gathered, preserved and prepared on land and at sea by Virginia’s English colonists and Powhatan Indians. Visitors will be able to see venison, turkey and other game roast over an open fire, while stews of corn, beans and squash cook in clay pots in the re-created Powhatan Indian village. Visitors can learn how the Jamestown colony was provisioned by hauling cargo aboard re-created ships, and within the re-created colonial fort, learn about the culinary skills English colonists brought to Virginia, including the processing of an entire pig into hams and bacon, and the preservation of meat with salt. 

At the Yorktown Victory Center, learn about typical soldiers’ fare during the American Revolution and trace the bounty of a 1780s farm from field to kitchen. Among the highlights, visitors to the Continental Army encampment will see how soldiers turned meager rations of dried beans, salted meat and hard bread into nourishing soups and stews during the war, and on a re-created 1780s farm, witness the bounty of field and garden transformed into stews, pies and breads. Farm interpreters also will share preservation methods of the farm harvest for the long winter ahead.  

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