Historic interpreter Sam Miller lays out medicines and medical tools authentic to the 17tth Century inside the reconstructed fort at the Jamestown Settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The state-sponsored living-history museum tells the story of the Americas’ first British colony, from the arrival of English colonists in Jamestown in 1607 to cultural encounters with Powhatan Indians and other events that planted the seeds of a new nation. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2019.