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POPSJamestown Discovery High Point of Archeaologist Kelso's Life
One rainy autumn day in September 1996, archaeologist William Kelso '71PhD came face to face with one of America's first European settlers. The human skeleton he and his crew discovered during their excavation of Virginia's James Fort, the first permanent English settlement on this continent, lay supine in a large shaft under a leaky protective tent. Near the figure were a few iron nails and faint soil impressions left by the wooden coffin that had decomposed around it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I've never been tall enough to make a slam dunk," says Kelso, whose easygoing, understated manner belies his emotional stake in the discovery. "But I think this is what it would feel like. It's been the highlight of my life." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took the archaeologists fourteen hours to lift the skeleton (removed intact to allow study in its burial position) by
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POPSRestoring Damaged Knees Several groups have explored ligament-like scaffolds using collagen fibers, silk, and composites, but with limited success. The ACL replacement developed by Laurencin's team uses a clinically proven, FDA-approved biocompatible polymer, polyL-lactide (PLLA), which is frequently used in drug delivery systems, biomedical devices, bone plates, and sutures. Laurencin's team uses the polymer to stabilize the knee while the scaffold promotes the regeneration of new ligament tissue. The polymer is an absorbable material: its mechanical properties and mass diminish with time and in a manner that permits a favorable biological response.
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POPSNew Book Announcement: Jamestowne Ancestors 1607–1699 In addition, the book contains details concerning the settlement of the island, a brief history of Jamestown plantations and hundreds and their evolution into the early counties of Virginia, and pen and ink drawings, together with maps of the fort and city of Jamestown.
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POPSNew Book Announcement: Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892 As only three of the immigrant’s sons have been proven to have left surviving male issue in Virginia, and as the issue of these three sons form three distinct lines of descent, they are treated separately...Whatever is known as to unmarried sons, and as to all daughters, is given with their parents. That equal prominence might be given to maternal ancestry, brief sketches of the parentage of wives of the Lees of the older generations are added. Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892 - Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee. With Brief Notices of the Related Families of Allerton, Armistead, Ashton, Aylett, Bedinger, Beverley, Bland, Bolling, Carroll, Carter, Chambers, Corbin, Custis, Digges, Fairfax, Fitzhugh, Gardner, Grymes, Hanson, Jenings, Jones, Ludwell, Marshall, Mason, Page, Randolph, Shepherd, Shippen, Tabb, Taylor, Turberville, Washington, and Others
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POPSNew Book Announcement: Bible Records of Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia In all, more than 1,000 mostly 18th- and 19th-century inhabitants of Suffolk and Nansemond are here rescued from obscurity and further made accessible in the index to Bible records at the back. Nansemond’s genealogical heritage from the records of its surrounding counties—Isle of Wight, Southampton, and Norfolk in Virginia; and Gates County in North Carolina.
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POPSNew Book Announcement: Early Virginia Families Along the James River the main body of the text consists of a chronological series of abstracts giving the name of the Henrico patentee, the location and acreage of the patent and date of settlement, with copious references to family members and owners of adjoining properties, and, most important, the names of the settlers brought over as “headrights.”
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