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Newport News, Virginia
May 4 & 5, 2007
Hours: May 4 - 6pm - 9pm
Hours: May 5 - 10am - 5pm

The John Smith shallop will appear at the “Come Home to Newport News” festival.  The festival will be held in a five block area of downtown Newport News from the West Avenue Library to Victory Landing Park.  Highlights include the John Smith shallop, the replica ship Godspeed, and an evening concert in Victory Landing Park with a fireworks show.  There will be free shuttle bus service available from satellite parking areas.  Admission is free. 

 

The origins of Newport News' unusual name may be dated back to the Starving Time of 1610, when the first Jamestown colonists left to return to England in desperation. As they left the colony, they encountered Captain Christopher Newport's ship in the James River off Mulberry Island.  Through Newport, the colonists learned that reinforcements of men and supplies had arrived, and that the colonists need not abandon Jamestown. Thus, the story goes, the City was named for Newport's good news.
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