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The 400th anniversary of the Jamestown landing was celebrated. NBC's Bob Faw chose a jaunty royal angle, as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attended the ceremonies. Crowds were drawn "by the majesty of those hats" and one spectator bragged that she had "got the wave down" swiveling one's wrist rather than flapping one's hand.
As ABC's Ned Potter had done on Tuesday, CBS' Mark Phillips took the historical approach, profiling the work of archeologist William Kelso, who has uncovered the fort's foundations on dry land. Previously they were believed washed away under James River mud. That discovery has transformed Jamestown from a "mythological place" known for the "imagined romance" of Pocahontas to a "place of hard history" where more than half the original settlers died, "a place that very nearly failed."
A tedious nitpick about both reports--Faw and Phillips called Jamestown "British" but England and Scotland were not united into Great Britain until a century later, in 1707. Those who landed in Virginia in 1607 would have been English not British.
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