Who, you ask?

Whad'ya mean "who's Virginia Dare?"



What are you, some kind of half a moron or something? Well, in spite of your obvious lack of a basic elementary education in American History and a clearly inferior intellect, we will explain just what led us on the search for Virginia Dare and exactly who she was.



In 1587, a group of approximately 115 English settlers, including women and children, landed on the beach of what is now known as Roanoke Island, NC. When supplies ran low shortly after their arrival, John White, their leader and Grandfather of Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born on American soil, decided to make the trip back to England for assistance. Due to the fact that most of England's ships were fully engaged in defending the country from possible invasion by Spain, his return was delayed and when he finally arrived back at the island, all trace of the colonists were gone, but for the word CROATAN, carved into a tree.



In the last 400 years, many theories have been presented as to just what may have happened to the colonists; from their being beset upon by a nearby tribe of Croatan Indians, to an epidemic illness, to the following (and our personal favorite) so eloquently offered by our own "George Martyn". On a scorching August day at Roanoke, similar to one the colonists may have experienced, he sagely surmised, "Ya know what?! I know what happened to those people. I think they packed up and left this place because it's too f@#king hot!"



Likely as "George's" well thought out hypothesis would seem to be, our human curiosity compels us to dig deeper into the mystery of the disappearance of these brave pioneers. It is therefore that we dedicate this year's vacation to discovering...............



"Where, Oh Where, is Virginia Dare?"



email us at: lookingforvirginia@gmail.com

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

It's That Time of Year Again!





Hello Blog Readin' People,
Well, here we are again!! It's Blog time! And this is Margret, opening up the entries for our annual trip! This year, we think we've got a new lead on the location of Virginia Dare, and so, instead of heading south, we're going north to continue our investigation. And of course, there is a completely scientific reason for our destination change!

Here's how it all went down:

First of all, if you know anything about the Roanoke Colony, you know they all mysteriously disappeared, with nothing left except for the word "CROATAN" carved in a tree. (Creepy, I know.) So after weeks of analyzing this word earlier in the year, I discovered a lead we decided to follow.

It it started off like this:

I had written the word "CROATAN" and it had been staring me in the face for hours, but I didn't have one idea. Then finally, inspiration struck. After chugging a whole coffee, I started to take apart the letters and putting them back together. I ended up with the symbols circled in Green at the very top of the diagram. (See Diagram above). I put them together and got this: "P(backwards)C(backwards)OONOZ"

My First Thought: "Another false lead."

My Second Thought: "Maybe the symbols are Greek..."

My Third Thought: "Where's my Greek to English dictionary..."

I spent weeks searching through that dictionary until I realized that the symbols looked like English letters. So I took a break to think. I took my imaginary dog for a walk, stared at the wall, watched paint dry... and then it hit me! They were letters in an anagram! (Anagrams are letters in a word mixed up and can be rearranged with a little thought.) I ended up with the only word that made sense, "POCONOZ". (But of course the "P" and "C" were backwards.)

(Other tries to the anagram: ZONCOPO, COPONOZ, and CAT.)

It looked a lot like "POCONOS", which of course is a mountain range in Pennsylvania, and the name of a Native American tribe.

So, I reversed the "P" and "C", changed the "Z" to an "S", and ended up with "POCONOS."

The only conclusion to make was either the members of the Lost Colony all moved to the Poconos, of they were killed by the Pocono Indians. So, our unanimous decision was to go there and find out!

So here we are now, preparing for our trip to the Poconos. We're leaving Saturday!

Keep Readin,
Margret
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