Friday, June 21, 2013

Civil War In Gloucester, VA - First Shots Fired In Virginia During The War


The above video is from the Daily Press with a history of the first shots fired in Virginia during the American Civil War.  The following videos are produced by us back in 2011 when Gloucester reenacted those famous first shots at Gloucester Point Beach.  

 

These next two videos are simply pictures from the event along with music to go along with the pictures.




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Virginia to preserve Pocahontas home


by Dan Vergano, USA TODAY

Pocahontas, Capt. John Smith and Chief Powhatan get their due Friday in a dedication ceremony that preserves the village site that made them famous.
Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell and Native American tribal officials will dedicate the Werowocomoco (WER-ruh-wo-KOM-uh-ko) site near Gloucester, Va., in a day-long event. Now an archaeological site, the village appears to have held a longhouse, judging from postholes, where Smith famously encountered Powhatan after the founding of Jamestown in 1607.

"One of the most significant archaeological sites in North America, it is where settlers and Native Americans first encountered each other," says archaeologist Martin Gallivan of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
A renowned part of colonial-era folklore (and a Disney movie), the rescue of Capt. John Smith by Pocahontas would have occurred at the site, if it really happened, which historians largely doubt. First recounted in a 1624 book, the story goes that after capturing Smith and bringing him to their chief's longhouse, Powhatan's tribesmen were ready to "beate out his braines," when Pocahontas took his head in her own arms to stop his execution. Smith didn't write about the rescue in his earliest accounts of the colony, but he did provide a description of the location of Chief Powhatan's village and longhouse in later accounts that match Werowocomoco. Already on the National Register of Historic Places, the village was the capital of Powhatan's kingship over Virginia's Tidewater region and will be precluded from residential or business development.

"It's a tip of the hat to the first 15,000 years of the American story," says Charles Mann, author of 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. "Powhatan and the empire he put together were major players in 16th- and 17th-century East Coast history - important in their own right and not just because they were unlucky enough to be descended upon by the English."
In Smith's accounts of his capture by Powhatan's tribe, he describes a chief's longhouse that in its floor layout matches the 72-foot-long-by-20-foot-wide floor plan seen at the site. A longhouse was typically built with trees bent over in a semicircle with woven mats fixed across the top and sides. Some historians say Smith mistook a tribal induction ceremony as a near-brush with beheading in his account of his capture in 1607.

Gallivan and his team have uncovered more than a dozen copper scraps at the longhouse site, ones that chemically match European trade items used by Jamestown's colonists and also found at that site, which was about 16 miles away from Werowocomoco. Werowocomoco was located on a shallow bay on the York River, while Jamestown was on swampy ground on the James River. "Only chiefs controlled copper at the time. Its red color was ritually significant in their mythology," says Gallivan, who will speak at the dedication ceremony.
In 2001, landowners Lynn and George Ripley had collected artifacts on their farm, which led to excavation of the site. "They have been very generous and put up with us ripping up their front yard for 10 years," Gallivan says. The archaeological work was conducted with the input of six Native American tribes related to the Algonquin group descended from Powhatan's tribe.

After 1609, which was a very hard year - "the Starving Time" for Jamestown - fewer and fewer Native Americans appear to have lived at Werowocomoco. Powhatan relocated to villages farther west, for example. The ultimate goal would be to see the site become a national park, Gallivan says. "Jamestown and Williamsburg only tell one part of the story from the colonial era, we could tell another side at Werowocomoco."

http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/2442547  Link back to original story site.





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Song Of The Day - Plastic Vision with Sense of Time - Dance




If you like Dance music, check out this hot track from Plastic Vision titled, Sense of Time.  Great beat that will move your feet.  Best of all, it's free.  Listen to is here first and if you like it, download it and share it all you want.  GVLN, where free really means free.  Check out our games section.  Play free games on our site all you want whenever you want.  We have 6 games for you to play right now.  Just go to the top of the site and click on our games link.  GVLN, more useful by the day.

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Health Tips of the day - Nearly 200 years of food complaints.




The above book was written in 1820.  Nearly 200 years ago.  The author is complaining about additives to foods then that were thought to be unnatural and hence poisonous.  Today the complaints about our food supply continue.  Are they justified?  You be the judge based on all the evidence out there.

  The e-book is available for free download on our SlideShare site as well as embedding into your website or there are plenty of ways to share this with others.  We custom designed the cover for this book.
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Whitehouse Culinary Delight, SQUIRREL SOUP - Recipe Of The Day

289/365 SOUP
289/365 SOUP (Photo credit: cheesy42)
Straight from Washington, DC and the Whitehouse comes this culinary delight.  We are not kidding.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) by F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann



Wash and quarter three or four good sized squirrels; put them on, with
a small tablespoonful of salt, directly after breakfast, in a gallon
of cold water. Cover the pot close, and set it on the back part of
the stove to simmer gently, _not_ boil. Add vegetables just the same
as you do in case of other meat soups in the summer season, but
especially good will you find corn, Irish potatoes, tomatoes and Lima
beans. Strain the soup through a coarse colander when the meat has
boiled to shreds, so as to get rid of the squirrels' troublesome
little bones. Then return to the pot, and after boiling a while
longer, thicken with a piece of butter rubbed in flour. Celery and
parsley leaves chopped up are also considered an improvement by many.
Toast two slices of bread, cut them into dice one-half inch square,
fry them in butter, put them into the bottom of your tureen, and then
pour the soup boiling hot upon them. Very good.
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ESPN MLB Updates for June 21st, 2013.

We've Been Whining About ‘Modern’ Life for Over 100 Years

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English: Last panel of the xkcd webcomic "Philosophy". On the xkcd site, it displays with the tooltip "It's like the squirt bottle we use with the cat." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Do you think, thanks to technology, that modern life moves too fast? That email is too fast and frequent, overwhelming the senses and cheapening our correspondence? Or that we've forgotten how to relax (especially in cities) and that we spend too much “family time” staring into our own personal devices, rather than talking or going on long walks?
If so, you’re not alone. In fact, as cartoonist Randall Munroe demonstrates in the comic series xkcd, we've been complaining about the exact same stuff for more than 100 years. Munroe assembled a series of excerpts dating back to 1871 in which authors of the time bemoaned the pace of modern life, pined for days gone by and lamented the decline of human social interaction. 
See below:


What's old is new. Has "modern life" ever not been a pain to the generation living through it? 

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

The Lucy Show - Lucy Puts Up A TV Antenna



The Lucy Show.  Lucy puts up an antenna.  In the days before cable TV, antenna's were used to watch TV that was and in many areas still is, broadcast for free.  Now cable has the best competition ever, the Internet.  Watch the Lucy Show every Thursday right here on GVLN.


Publicity photo of Lucille Ball from the telev...
Publicity photo of Lucille Ball from the television program The Lucy Show. This episode is "Lucy Visits Marineland. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Weekly Arrest Report From Gloucester County Sheriff's Office

In the 1400 block of George Washington Memorial Highway
A man was observed on June 8 at 10:35 p.m. near the northbound side of the Coleman Bridge. When contact was made, he had slurred speech, emitted the smell of an alcoholic beverage and was unsteady on his feet. Joseph Richard Prete, 56, of Urbanna, was arrested on a charge of public swearing or intoxication.
In the 14800 block of George Washington Memorial Highway
A report was received of a petit larceny that occurred on June 9 at the Glenn's 7-Eleven when a customer left his money clip containing less than $200 on the counter after making a purchase. When he realized it was gone, he contacted the store and was later advised the money clip had been found and placed under the counter. The money clip was missing from the under the counter, however.
In the 7800 block of Ware Neck Road
A traffic stop in the area of Ware Neck Road and Route 14 on June 9 at 11:56 p.m. resulted in the arrest of Jason Lane West, 26, of Gloucester, on charges of driving while intoxicated, first offense, with a blood alcohol content of between 0.08 and 0.14, possession of marijuana, first offense, and possession of a controlled substance.
On George Washington Memorial Highway
A traffic stop on June 9 in the area of Route 17 and Camp Okee Drive resulted in the issuance of a summons to Michael Brandon Teter, 26, of Mathews, on a charge of driving with a revoked license, first offense.
In the 5300 block of Clay Bank Road
A resident reported on June 9 property damage that occurred between 10:30 a.m. on June 8 and 1:30 a.m. on June 9. The rear storm door had broken glass. No entry was made to the residence and damage was less than $200.
In the 6700 block of Main Street
Deputies received a report on June 9 of damaged property at Edgehill Shopping Center. A woman parked her vehicle and heard the rear window break after getting out. The cause of the breakage is unknown.
On George Washington Memorial Highway
A vehicle registered 110 mph while a deputy was running stationary radar on June 9 at 3:57 a.m. in the area of Bacon's Lane and Route 17. The driver failed to stop resulting in a vehicle pursuit that concluded in Mathews County. Kevin Richard Ladd, 29, of George Washington Memorial Highway in Gloucester, was arrested on charges of eluding police, endangering persons or police.
On Trails Lane
A reported assault on June 9 at Thousand Trails Campground resulted in the arrest of Heidi Marie Strange, 22, of Partlow, on a charge of assault and battery of a family member.
In the 6800 block of Waltons Lane
Walmart employee noticed on June 9 a woman placing items in her purse and leaving the store. Heather Ann Elizabeth Ashe, 18, of Moores Point Road, was arrested on a charge of shoplifting. The items were recovered.
In the 6400 block of Corr Street
A traffic stop on June 9 resulted in a summons or driving with a revoked license, first offense, being issued for Warren Adam Metzger, 23, of Main Street in Gloucester.
In the 6800 block of Waltons Lane
A shoplifting report was received from Walmart on June 9 at 5:14 p.m. An employee observed a man and woman attempting to leave the store with a Dell computer and shoes in a shopping cart, with the combined value of the items exceeding $200. An off-duty Gloucester County Sheriff's Office deputy saw the incident and was attempting to assist. Additional deputies arrived and Antwan Deshawn Valentine, 24, of Norfolk, was charged with grand larceny and obstruction to justice. Also arrested was Christina Kasha Bryant, 23, of Suffolk, on charges of resisting arrest and grand larceny. Bryant was also served with warrants from Virginia Beach related to credit card fraud, and from Chesapeake and Norfolk related to probation violations
Deputies received a report on June 11 at 2:45 a.m. of a suspicious vehicle driving slowly. Contact was made with the driver at the stop sign. Rosalee Melberg, 44, of Woodside Street in Hayes, was issued a summons for driving with a suspended license, first offense.
In the 6400 block of Village Woods Court
A resident reported on June 11 a larceny from the back porch of a residence. Two Mongoose BMX bicycle were taken sometime over the previous two days. The value of the stolen bicycles exceeded $200.
In the 6600 block of Main Street
A business reported on June 11 a burglary that occurred overnight. Forced entry was made through a window at Ware Neck Produce. An undisclosed amount of change was taken.
In the 6100 block of Allmondsville Road
Deputies received a larceny report on June 11 from an unlocked vehicle that occurred between June 1 and June 10. A GPS was taken with a value exceeding $200.
In the 10800 block of Buchanan Lane
A resident reported on June 11 a credit card fraud in which is Langley Federal Credit Union credit card had fraudulent charges on May 8 for $110.53 in South Carolina.
In the 9600 block of Ban Road
A resident reported on June 11 a larceny from an unlocked vehicle parked at a residence that had occurred sometime over the past five days. A Ruger .380 caliber pistol was taken with a value exceeding $200.
In the 7500 block of Hospital Drive
Deputies received a report on June 11 at 5:49 p.m. of a disorderly person at Riverside Walter Reed Hospital. An intoxicated woman was walking into the rooms of patients and disturbing them and refused to follow instructions. Mary Margaret Haywood, 59, of Gloucester, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.
In the 6200 block of Ark Road
While placing a man into custody for an outstanding warrant from Hampton, a search revealed a smoking device with residue on him. James Purnell Randall, 53, of Indian Road in Gloucester, was arrested on a charge of possession of cocaine.
In the 8000 block of Ark Road
Deputies received a report on June 11 of an assault. The victim's vehicle was also damaged by rocks being thrown at the vehicle while it was in motion. Kimberly Megan Millen, 27, of Ark Road, was arrested on charges of assault and battery of a family member, destruction of private property and throwing a missile at a moving vehicle.

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