 To get the real story about our nation's earliest days, you need to look well beneath the surface in Virginia along the James River. "Under that, you go back over 250 years and you get to the 1607 level," says archeologist William Kelso, as he leads CBS News correspondent Joie Chen on a walk over dirt from that time. Kelso has pulled from the sandy soil one million pieces of evidence from the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Make no mistake, this was not Disney's version of Jamestown with its singing Pocahontas and tow-headed John Smith. There was a Pocahontas — daughter of the great Chief Powhatan — and there certainly was a John Smith. But that story we learned as kids about how she begged her father to spare the dashing English captain, his gratitude blossoming into Colin Farrell's steamy big-screen moment in "The New World," is hogwash, according to historian James Horn. ...
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