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

Friday, August 13, 2010

A Modern Woman...or is she?

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There isn't a lot of "touristy" type shopping in the Poconos, at least not that we could find. We searched high and low for the "junk" shops we usually see on the strip at the shore, but only managed to locate a couple of small gift shops. Our needs are few...we only want a POC sticker for the bubble on George and Wenefrid's car, a Pocono Mountains magnet for the fridge and a couple of tack pins for the collectors in the group, Humphrey and Margaret. To get them, we ventured further to Mount Pocono at the core of the Pocono Mountains and that is where we found the Pocono Trading Company, a store that's been in operation for a loooonngg time. It's run by an allegedly 84 year old woman who claims to have been the proprietess for the last 55 years. I know it's not really possible, but she looked as if she might have been a member of the lost colony. In fact, for a minute there, we suspected that we may have found the missing Virginia Dare but since there are very few 300 year old women still working in the US, it seemed pretty unlikely. In any case, it was there, in her little shop, that we found the items we sought, and a few others as well................






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