US history buffs will be sitting on pins and needles when archaeologist,
Nicholas M. Luccketti and the First Colony Foundation release their findings about the Lost Colony of Roanoke. US school children should be familiar with the story of the lost colony, especially those of us from Virginia and North Carolina.
For everyone else, Roanoke is an island in what is now Dare County, North Carolina, in the Outer Banks. It was the site of the Virginia Colony, England’s first settlement in North America. Established in the late 1580’s, it was governed by this cat named John White. Even more famous than White, is his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, (the original missing white girl) the first English child born in the “New World.” (Her parents named her after the Virginia Colony). So, to make a long story short, after setting up the colony, John White sailed back to England on a supply run, in the middle of a war, and when he got back a few years later, things were eerily quiet. So, White was all . . .
“Where y’all at? Where y’all at? Where y’all at?”
But all he heard was his echo because the colonists were never found. All that was left when they disappeared were carvings of the name “Croaton” in a fence post and the initials, CRO, in a tree. They vanished without a trace, but the legend lived on, and today, Luccketti and his team are going to hopefully shed some more light on what may have happened to Roanoke colonists.
Me, I choose to believe the alien abduction theory. Fox Mulder would undoubtedly agree with me.
However, something tells me that Scully’s quasi-Vulcan, killjoy ass is probably going to be vindicated, because the evidence that Luccketti’s team turned up is likely to point to the colonists having split up and mixed in with the indigenous tribes.
Either way,
