About the Program
Hobson Woodward, associate editor of the Adams Papers, recounts the travels of William Strachey, an English poet who was bound for Jamestown in 1609. The ship he was aboard, the Sea Venture, went off-course during a hurricane and landed in Bermuda where Strachey kept a year-long journal containing reflections on the New World. He would eventually reach Jamestown, which he recounted in dire terms. William Starchey's journal would be later used as the basis for William Shakespeare's The Tempest. This event was hosted by 1699 Isaac Winslow House in Marshfield, Massachusetts.