“It’s very interesting to see if [the site] can ever be revealed enough to be able to compare that to Jamestown,” Kelso, who spent about 15 years conducting research at the first permanent English colony in North America, told the Star–Exponent in 2007 while in the area for a Germanna reunion. “We want to see the story unfold. I will be a cheerleader for Germanna because I want to see what’s there. I'd be interested to see how the Germans were able to build in the wilderness and how they were able to cope with the environment as compared to the English a hundred years earlier.”