September 8, 2011 RSS feed / Editorial

FOR THE RECORD

In the Sept. 1 article, “History of Fort Getty: German POWs to circus by the sea,” the Jamestown Historical Society should have been credited as the source for all three photographs. More...

EDITORIAL

Let islanders decide the future of Fort Getty

Jamestown has had a tough time trying to decide what to do with Fort Getty over the years. Now, the sitting Town Council is attempting to determine how the town-owned park should be utilized. More...

Scattering Seeds

BY JOHN A. MURPHY
jamurphy@jamestownlawyer.com

Let’s deal with facts. You draw your own conclusions. 1. Starting early in the Seventeenth Century, settlers in America began importing Africans for use as lifetime slave laborers, bought and sold as a non-human commodity. More...