News and Media

Media Contact: Angel Johnston, Communications Manager
Email: hjmedia@preservationvirginia.org
Phone: (757) 229-4997 x124

press releases

October 28, 2021Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Receives Virginia Tourism Corporation Recovery Marketing Leverage Grant for Tourism Marketing
October 25, 2021Margaret Gunn and Ken Levine Offer Their Genealogical Expertise to Jamestown Rediscovery’s Online Research Database
October 7, 2021Tales of Hallows Eve: A Haunted Evening at Historic Jamestowne
October 4, 2021Jamestown Rediscovery Celebrates Virginia Archaeology Month at Historic Jamestowne
August 25, 2021Jamestown Rediscovery Launches New Online Series of Virtual Tours
July 28, 2021The Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Welcomes New Trustees
May 5, 2021National Campaign Launched to Protect Jamestown’s Iconic Church Tower
September 28, 2020Jamestowne Society Sponsors James Fort Barracks Rebuild at Historic Jamestowne
August 10, 2020Jamestown Rediscovery Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Fund Development of New Virtual James Fort Project
November 15, 2019Merry Outlaw Curatorial Conservation Fund Established

media coverage

January/February 2025 Issuearchaeology magazine: colonial companions
June 29, 2024new york times: famine drove jamestown settlers to eat native dogs, dna reveals
March 14, 2024vpm news focal point: indigenous virginia
January 31, 2024virginia gazette: protecting the past
October 12, 2023bloomberg green: climate change threatens 400-year-old jamestown and its buried secrets
September 23, 2023virginia gazette: an excalibur moment
November 24, 2022cbs evening news: climate change threatens to sink historic colony
May 4, 2022washington post: jamestown named one of the 11 most endangered sites by national trust
July 24, 2018the grave in the chancel
May 1, 2013forensic anthropology & archaeology confirm survival cannibalism in 17th-century north america