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Most long-held historic narratives have the Jamestown colony threatening the Powhatan from the outset, making them unremittingly hostile in turn, but that was not the case. The Powhatan hoped to make the Strangers into allies, and even absorb them, not realizing until too late that the English intended to do the same to them. Chief Powhatan's people knew they had numerous advantages over the foreigners in the first few years after 1607. First and foremost, the native people outnumbered them by more than 500 to 1 in the colony's first two years. Not until the 1620s would...
...sprayed with chemicals at least once. In other regions, like the upper Midwest, most big farms don't grow any vegetables for local markets, conventional or organic. Instead, they produce commodity crops like corn and soybeans for sale to food processors. At a large Hugo's grocery store in Jamestown, N.D., last summer, I noticed only one local product: flour, which is milled in-state from local wheat. But there were organic apples and oranges from out of state...
...first evening in Jamestown, before giving in to Applebee's, I had asked Ryan, the clerk at my Holiday Inn Express, if any there were any local restaurants nearby...
...Frontier Fort is why Applebee's exists. Its food is more consonant with the local culture - the main offerings are beef and bison, which are both raised within a very short drive of Jamestown - but my meal was prepared with indifference. My bison sirloin was so tough and flavorless that I couldn't finish it; the fries tasted of old grease. And apart from the two deer heads on the wall, virtually every other decoration at Frontier Fort was supplied by national beer companies; the clockface read "Miller Lite, A True Pilsner Beer." The undersalted cole slaw was delivered...
...Eventually I did have a good local meal in Jamestown. In fact I can highly recommend The Brass Rail, downtown, which serves local beef cooked properly and decent ribs (not "Riblets," whatever they are, which Applebee's pushes). But I will go back to Applebee's in the future. I will order only beer to drink, and I will avoid everything but the basics - hamburgers and salads. But it will taste the same every time, and it will feel like it's supposed to, a neighborhood that's nowhere and everywhere...