Word: yeardley
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...Harvard grads are at it again. Perennial slacker Bart causes Springfield to lose the Olympic Games, and as punishment he must pitch in at a retirement house. Wacky antics are sure to ensue. Voices of Dan Castelleneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer. Guest voice of Jack Lalanne...
...farm is hardly distinguishable from its neighbors along the James River. There are fields of soybeans, corn and peanuts; well-fed cattle roam the pastures. Only its name seems special: "Flowerdew Hundred" has survived almost intact since 1618 when it was chosen by its first owner, Governor Sir George Yeardley, in honor of his wife, Temperance Flowerdieu ("hundred" is an old English land division). But now Flowerdew Hundred has acquired unexpected fame: within its boundaries, diggers have discovered the remains of one of the earliest English plantations in the New World...
...moved Flowerdew out of bucolic obscurity is a shrewd, self-taught archaeologist named Leverette Gregory. He suspected that Flowerdew might still harbor relics from the original Yeardley settlement, which is known from old chronicles to have been founded shortly after the first settlement at nearby Jamestown. Thus Gregory asked the farm's owners, New York Investment Banker David A. Harrison III and his wife, for permission to do a little spadework. He soon found pieces of exposed sandstone that were not native to the area and clearly cut and shaped by human hands. A little digging suggested that...
...ROGER YEARDLEY...
...aware that self-government by means of popularly chosen representatives had its beginnings in Virginia, under Governor Yeardley, in 1619, nearly two years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, and eleven years before the Puritans arrived...
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