[VegasBaby]

As a lineal descendant of John Rolfe and Pocahontas myself (they were my 15th generation grandparents), I’ve done research regarding the relationship between her and John Smith. From what I’ve read, Pocahontas regarded John Smith in more of a fatherly manner than as a lover, given he was significantly older than she was. It wouldn’t be unusual to interpret her words as loving him, since she had such a high regard for him. I guess we’ll never know for sure, though.

[Verginius Rufus]

I caught part of a C-SPAN rebroadcast of a talk by Avery Chenoweth, author of Empires in the Forest: Jamestown and the beginning of America. I missed the beginning, but he seemed to be saying that without Pocahontas, the settlement at Jamestown wouldn't have survived, and thought that Pocahontas had saved John Smith's life. It sounds like a valuable book. He said there are plans to make a movie based on it.