[Illustration: _Photo courtesy National Park Service._ Baking Oven Used At Jamestown Three Centuries Ago The earthenware baking oven shown was restored from over 200 fragments found during archeological excavations at Jamestown. In use, heated stones were placed inside and left until the walls of the oven were hot enough for baking. Sometimes the oven was placed directly on the embers. With the small thick door in place, heat was retained for considerable time--the domed top reflecting the heat down on the bread or cakes that were being baked.] "Harvesting" Ice [Illustration: Research on painting by author. Photo courtesy National Park Service. "Harvesting" Ice At Jamestown About 1640 _Conjectural Painting_ Although not a commodity in the strict sense of the word, an icehouse was indispensable in preserving certain products. Archeological explorations at Jamestown revealed that icehouses were built on the island over 300 years ago. Ice was "harvested" during the winter months, and often remained in storage as late as September or October. It was used for cooling bottled wines, "firming" butter, and keeping fresh certain foods, such as fish, meats, and dairy products. In the illustration men are carrying ice to the circular-shaped, brick, icehouse. In the distance a man is sawing ice.] A Happy Home In Jamestown [Illustration: Research on painting by author. Photo courtesy National Park Service. A Happy Home In Jamestown _Conjectural Painting_ The early Jamestown settlers were self-sufficient to a large degree when they arrived in the New World, and so they remained. Cut off from communication with the mother country for long periods of time, they had to rely upon their own resources. If they needed a thing they usually had to make it with their own hands or do without. These homemade objects--including cloth, pottery, tools, woodenware, furniture, brick and tiles, and many household accessories--were well-made and extremely practical. Many items made in the home were not entirely lacking in beauty.] SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Bailey, Worth. "Joseph Copeland, Seventeenth Century Pewterer." _Antiques_, April, 1938. 188-190. ----"Lime preparation at Jamestown in the Seventeenth Century." _William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine_, 2nd series. January, 1938. 1-12. Bruce, Philip Alexander. _Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century._ New York, 1935. 2 vols. Forman, Henry Chandlee. _Jamestown and St. Mary's: Buried Cities of Romance._ Baltimore, 1938. Harrington, J. C. _Glassmaking at Jamestown._ Richmond, 1952. 48 p. ----"Seventeenth-Century Brickmaking and Tilemaking at Jamestown, Virginia." _The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_, January, 1950. 16-39. ----"Some Delft Tiles Found at Jamestown." _Antiques_, January, 1951. 36, 37.