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2008

Ongoing this month:

• House Tours

Special Events

Nov. 1

Cooking Unusual Vegetables
Visitors to Monticello’s Kitchen Garden are unfailingly curious about how to prepare many of the odd and rare vegetables found there. Gabriele Rausse, a chef revered by his colleagues and friends for his ability to simply transform ordinary and unusual garden produce into delicious meals, will introduce participants to surprising curiosities like sea kale, cardoon, and caracalla bean flowers, as well as underappreciated gourmet vegetables such as endive, Florence fennel, fava beans, and crowder peas. Reservations required. Meets at the Monticello Garden Shop's temporary location, 9:30 a.m. $10. Length: 2.5 hours.

Nov. 7

Parts of House Closed in the Afternoon
Because of preparations for a special event, some rooms of Monticello will be closed in the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 7. The last complete house tour will begin at 1:30 p.m. House tours are to resume after 2 p.m. on an abbreviated basis and at a reduced admission price.

Nov. 8

Operations begin at Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center
At 11 a.m., Monticello will begin guest-service operations at the new Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center. The Welcome Pavilion, Monticello Museum Shop and Café at Monticello will be opened to the public and three classroom spaces will be put to their first use. To mark the occasion, Monticello will distribute specially made cookies to the first 2,000 visitors and commemorative T-shirts to the first 500 children under age 12. There also will be a performance by Williamsburg Field Musick, a fife and drum corps that plays music from the 1700s and 1800s.

Nov. 11

Wreath Workshop Reservations Begin
Sign-ups begin These ever-popular workshops, now in their twenty-first year, produce a gratifying and tangible end-product: a beautiful Christmas wreath. Janet Miller, Lou Hatch, and Maggie Stemann Thompson will lead you through the process of making your own. All materials (straw wreath forms, pins, wire, etc.) will be provided, including a cornucopia of natural materials. This three-hour workshop will stretch your imagination and transform any novice into a stylish holiday artist. $45 covers the workshop and all materials. Wreath Workshop reservations can be made beginning on November 11 by calling 434-984-9822 or by purchasing tickets online. Bring your hand pruners. All workshops will be held at the new Smith Education Center.

Schedule

• Thursday, Dec. 4, 9:30 a.m.
• Friday, Dec. 5, 9:30 a.m.
• Saturday, Dec. 6, 9:30 a.m.and 2:00 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec. 7, 11:00 a.m.
• Monday, Dec. 8, 9:30 a.m.
• Wednesday, Dec. 10, 9:30 a.m.
• Friday, Dec. 12, 9:30 a.m.
• Saturday, Dec. 13, 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Nov. 15

Vinegar-making Workshop
Vinegar was an integral ingredient in various Jefferson-family recipes, and there’s more to vinegar, translated literally as "sour wine," than salad dressing. Most people are unaware of the rich ancient and European tradition of using vinegar in cooking, as a food preservative, and even as a wholesome beverage. As well, making vinegar at home is quite simple. Join winemaker and master chef Gabriele Rausse in reviewing the basic principles of vinegar-making, and then learn how to use it in preparing vegetables and meat and in concocting delicious aromatized dressings. Reservations required. Meets at Monticello Garden Shop's temporary location, 9:30 a.m. $10. Length: 2 hours.

Nov. 20

Fellows Forum: Thomas Jefferson and States' Rights
Tomasz Wieciech, associate at Jagiellonian University's Institute of Political Science and International Relations in Cracow, Poland, will discuss his work on Thomas Jefferson and the doctrine of states’ rights. 4 p.m. at Monticello's Jefferson Library. The talk is free, but space is limited. Please e-mail to register.

Nov. 24

Fellows Forum: The Flames of Insurrection
Jason Sharples, Ph.D. candidate in history at Princeton University, will discuss his work on the phenomenon of the slave conspiracy panic, my research uncovers the shared cultural scripts with which people approached and described slave rebellion plots between 1670 and 1780 in colonial British America. 4 p.m. at Monticello's Jefferson Library. The talk is free, but space is limited. Please e-mail to register.