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SALISBURY, MD---On the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, we are often reminded that what made the Virginia Company a success was tobacco, a crop that would become the staple of the Colonial Chesapeake.

On the Eastern Shore, however, tobacco found itself competing with other crops and other ways of making a profit.  Furs and timber, grain and pork, smuggling and cloth-making--all of these contributed to the early economic diversity of Delmarva.

Dr. Elizabeth Ragan, an archaeologist in ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½'s Anthropology Program, will discuss this economic diversity at the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture on Saturday, April 28, at 4 p.m.

This lecture, titled "More Than Tobacco:  Economic Opportunities in Early Colonial Delmarva," is free and the public is invited. The Nabb Research Center is located at the East Campus Complex of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ in Room 190.  For more information call 410-543-6312 or visit the Nabb Web site at .