FRIDAY, AUGUST 8th

Dedication of Stained Glass Window

          The Right Reverend James J. Shand, Diocese of Easton

          Featuring Original Oratorio score - ‘Sassafras Dawn’

          Composed and conducted by Michael Strauss

      

6:00 pm - Social Hour and Dinner - Shrewsbury Parish Hall

Opening Remarks:  Roy Crow, President, Kent County Commissioner

          Keynote: ‘Setting the Stage: The World As It Was’

                         Helen Rountree, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Old Dominion University

Senior author of John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyaages, 1607 - 1609 takes us to that moment in time in                 1608 ‘setting the stage’ for the weekend.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9th

8:30 am - The Gathering: Coffee, Donuts & Concurrent Sessions - Shrewsbury Parish Hall

Setting the Stage II:  It All Began Here

The Reverend Thomas R. Hughes, Jr., Shrewsbury Parish Church

and Willie Balderson as Anas Todkill

My Trip on the Chesapeake

Mark Schneider as Captain John Smith

Looking for Smith’s Steps

John Seidel, Ph.D.

Archaeologist, Washington College

The Maps of the Era

Edward Papenfuse, Ph.D.

Maryland State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents

The John Smith Chesapeake Trail

John Page Williams

    

1:30 pm - Reenactment of John Smith’s landing at Turner’s Creek; a gateway site of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Water Trail

            

Relive the 1608 landing of John Smith.  See the John Smith Shallop,

meet the crew and the welcoming of the ’Naturals’ (Native Americans)

Hear John Smith read again the Psalms -- 400 years later.

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Life on the Eastern Shore before John Smith

Experience the Native American presence in the New World.

A Shallop Adventure

Colleen Whitlock, Sultana Projects, Inc.

John Swain, Shipwright

Learn about the history and building of the Shallop                                                

                                    from the shipwright responsible for its inception.

                                    Photo courtesy of Sultana Projects, Inc.

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5:00 pm - Free time for Dinner in Kent County

8:00 pm - “SMITH!  Being The Life & Death Of Cap’n John”

Ivor Noel Hume, Playwright

Norman James Theatre - William Smith Hall

Washington College

Experience the final hour of John Smith’s life in this original work commissioned by the Jamestown 400 Foundation.

From the original playbill:  Captain John Smith, the legendary savior of the Jamestown colony, was born in 1580 in the english county of Lincolnshire.  After leading a flamboyantly adventurous life, he died in London on June 21, 1631, of an unspecified illness ...  The recollections of his life discussed in this play are all drawn from his own words and from those of his contemporaries ... 

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10th

10:00 am - Dedication of John Smith Memorial Chapel, Shrewsbury Parish Church

Bishop Shand and Father Hughes, presiding

Original Choral Presentation - “Great Is The Lord”

Kevin A. Wekke directing the Shrewsbury Institute Ensemble

2:00 pm - “SMITH!  Being The Life & Death Of Cap’n John”

    Ivor Noel Hume, Playwright

    Final performance!