Yes, Employers, I Edit for Content, Too!
Following Ari Marmell's lead, I decided to write to some congress-folk. I should have stayed on target, but after midnight, such focus simply is not in my nature. I decided to look around Mark R. Warner's senatorial website and found myself driven to distraction by the misinformation on his "About Virginia" page. Soon, my correction to Warner's "About Virginia" page dwarfed whatever text I'd written on my original concern. My editorial notes are excerpted below:
Also, I must respectfully complain that the "About Virginia" page on your Senatorial website contains several inaccuracies. It states that "Early European settlers landed in Jamestown in 1607 and established the first permanent colony of the New World," but St. Augustine, Florida was founded 42 years before Jamestown, and it isn't even the first permanent colony in the New World, merely the oldest in what is now the United States. I believe the distinction you claim for Jamestown actually belongs to Santo Domingo. Jamestown isn't even the oldest permanent English settlement in the New World: St. John's, on the island of Newfoundland, is. Jamestown is merely the oldest English settlement in what is now the Unites States of America.
I figured that mentioning Veracruz's status as the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement on the continental mainland was superfluous.
Also, I must respectfully complain that the "About Virginia" page on your Senatorial website contains several inaccuracies. It states that "Early European settlers landed in Jamestown in 1607 and established the first permanent colony of the New World," but St. Augustine, Florida was founded 42 years before Jamestown, and it isn't even the first permanent colony in the New World, merely the oldest in what is now the United States. I believe the distinction you claim for Jamestown actually belongs to Santo Domingo. Jamestown isn't even the oldest permanent English settlement in the New World: St. John's, on the island of Newfoundland, is. Jamestown is merely the oldest English settlement in what is now the Unites States of America.
I figured that mentioning Veracruz's status as the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement on the continental mainland was superfluous.