Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 5.1 (November 1997)

From the Editor . . .

Due to various production problems, this issue of the Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter is appearing several months late. My apologies. None of these production problems have to do with the changed look of the banner, masthead, or the creation of our new dingbat (the icon used to fill space at the end of some articles). These changes were all done by Amy Natale, the Roanoke Colonies Research Office’s graduate assistant for the year. Natale is studying professional and technical writing who has brought her design experience to the newsletter.

The long promised Roanoke Colonies Research Office World Wide Web site is also now up and running. The URL for the site is http://www.ecu.edu/rcro/. The site features information about the office, electronic versions of the Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter, and a bibliography of Roanoke colonization-related sources. The bibliography is very much a work in process that can use your help. If you notice that a specific work of value is not listed or that an item is cited incorrectly, please let us know.

Another web site that may be of interest is the course syllabus for an undergraduate honors seminar I am teaching, “Roanoke Island and the ‘Lost Colony’ over the Past 410 Years.” The URL is http://www.english.ecu.edu/english/shields/2011/2011.htm.

The Roanoke Colonies Research Office has produced produced a brochure, a copy of which has been included along with this issue. If you would like to share the brochure with people who may be interested in our work, feel free to write and ask for more copies. We will gladly send as many as you ask for.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held a conference October 3-4, 1997, to celebrate the coming publication of the third edition of William P. Cumming’s The Southeast in Early Maps, first published in 1958. Revised and enlarged by Louis De Vorsey, the new edition will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in May 1998 with 33 new maps and map details as well as new section on Native American maps. The cost will be $85.00.

A new collaborative online exhibition Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas has been developed with materials drawn from the collections of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation; the Rosenbach Museum & Library; the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Special Collections; and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The exhibit features, among others, the works of Richard Hakluyt and Theodore de Bry, including the 1590 de Bry edition of Thomas Hariot’s Briefe and True Report. This virtual exhibition is located at http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/ gallery/kislak/index/cultural.html.

John W. Docktor, has developed a World Wide Web site Cartography—Calendar of Events, including the section “Cartography—Calendar of Exhibitions.” The site is located at http://www.cyberia.com/pages/jdocktor/.

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