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America turns 400 next month, and Virginia is throwing a big bash for the occasion.

If you’re not one of those tour book-toting, history documentary-watching types, you may be wondering: Why all the hype? What’s so special about a soggy strip of marshland in Virginia where a motley crew of English colonists in 1607 founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America?

Well, you’ll never know unless you take the time to explore Jamestown first hand. And what better occasion to make the trip than anniversary weekend from May 11-13 at Jamestown’s Anniversary Park in the Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown historic triangle.

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