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- "The Lost Colonies :How Jamestown Beat the Odds"
- Summary: The United States celebrates its 229th birthday on July 4th. But how close we came to flying the flag of a different country...
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Review of The Lost Colonies?:How Jamestown Beat the Odds
Dmae Lo Roberts
Posted on June 25, 2005 at 03:33 PM
A rather upbeat Marketplace-type piece on how we're not French. In this short 2:30 piece, Producer Nancy King gives background on how all the early colonies had to find something to trade in order to survive. Early colonies might well have been French or Spanish than English if colonies such as Jamestown hadn't found a product they could send back to England and thus keep themselves commercially viable. This is a different kind of 4th of July piece that gives thought to the funding or our founding fathers. An entertaining and informational drop-in for stations...