"The past is not dead. It is not even past."
I never tire of that William Faulkner quote, proved anew in the "Nova" documentary "Pocahontas Revealed," written and produced by Matthew Collins, and produced and directed by Kirk Wolfinger and Lisa Quijano Wolfinger. They use old documents and maps, meticulous re-enactments and insights from historians and archaeologists at work now.
The Pocahontas legend is, by definition, one of America's oldest. She was a key figure in the founding of Jamestown, Va., the first successful British settlement in the New World. The Jamestown fort was built and barely survived starvation, ravaging illness and hostile locals, exactly 400 years ago.
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