In front of a White House dinner for all the Nobel Prize winners, President Kennedy said, There has never been a gathering of such intellect in the history of the White House, except possibly when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Science, history, languages, architecture, agriculture, art ... they were all absorbed by President Jefferson.
He designed every detail of Monticello, his house on a mountain top south of Charlottesville, VA. Later he oversaw the creation of the University of Virginia.
No cameras inside of course, but we toured Monticello and then its grounds and his family burial ground with the relatively new monument to him.
Monticello, from the "backyard"
Monticello has around 45 rooms, half of them underground. This is a kitchen of the latter.
Thomas Jefferson's final resting place
A very protective tree within the cemetery. (I want to believe that it watches carefully through the night ... and heaven help anyone who goes over the fence with malice aforethought.)
An appropriate ending to the day, in Culpeper, VA
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