Well, I'm from New York. Our version of early colonial history outside of New England was "and then they colonized the island and Virginia Dare was born and apparently they all died but there was the word Croatoan carved into a tree trunk the end. Let's talk about the Dutch!"

Always thought it was a creepy story, really.

Me, too, Katie, except for the part where I'm from New Jersey.

Well, I'm from New York. Our version of early colonial history outside of New England...

I'm always shocked (if not at all surprised) by just how state-chauvinistic the history we teach to kids is. In Virginia... well, who says colonial history had to involve New England at all? It was "We were first! Don't listen to that pilgrim stuff! Virginia was here first... well, okay, there were some folks in North Carolina who all died off anyway, so they don't matter, because Virginia was the first real colony. And then some people got to Massachusetts. Later...."

Anyway, in NC, Virginia Dare is huge, huge stuff. Every kid gets the story as much as I got John Smith and Pocahontas.

"and then they colonized the island and Virginia Dare was born and apparently they all died but there was the word Croatoan carved into a tree trunk the end. Let's talk about the Dutch!"

You never got the fun mystical stuff? That's too bad.

Apparantly I'm the only one here who read Tales of the Slayers, Vol 1, where Virginia Dare is a Slayer.

No, I read it as well. But I knew the story before I read the book.

Anyway, in NC, Virginia Dare is huge, huge stuff. Every kid gets the story as much as I got John Smith and Pocahontas.

We get Daniel Boone in Tennessee, and Ben Franklin and Dinah Shore in Franklin County.

You never got the fun mystical stuff? That's too bad.

Non-sectarian mysticism at a Catholic school? NSM.

We get Daniel Boone in Tennessee, and Ben Franklin and Dinah Shore in Franklin County.

Wow, I hadn't realized Dinah Shore was that old. Her looks really held up pretty well.

We got the San Juan Pig Wars.

And, umm. The Oregon Trail.

Wow, I hadn't realized Dinah Shore was that old. Her looks really held up pretty well.

Heh. I think she'd dead now, dude. Plus she's from my country or whatever, and we have a Boulevard named after her.

Apparantly I'm the only one here who read Tales of the Slayers, Vol 1, where Virginia Dare is a Slayer.

That's the book version right? I have the graphic novel, but haven't read the short stories.

Wasn't Darla from Roanoke, though, and isn't it insinuated that she and the Master wiped out the colony?

Hard to believe that Victor, the house she was in was way, way too nice for an early colony like Roanoke.

But historical accuracy was never too big on ME's priority list...

Also, the subtitle in that scene said "The Virginia Colony", or something like that. I'm not sure that would include Roanoke.

Well, the Viriginia colony would have been founded after Roanoke disappeared...