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Blog Archive: 5/2011

May 18, 2011

A nickel worth of scents

by Chad

A couple of years ago, while I was on my way up to a meeting at Monticello, I was walking by one of my favorite blooming trees, the Mimosa Tree, and saw a woman lying on her back motionless with her eyes closed. It was one of those moments when your first thought is to worry about the person’s health, but you first voice your concern in an innocuous manner. “It’s an amazing smell,” I announced as I passed to see if she would respond. more »

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May 10, 2011

Into the Woods!

by Fraser D. Neiman

First Archaeology Workshop Tours Monticello Mountainmore »

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May 7, 2011

Breaking Ground: Gillette Family Garden

by Monticello

Smithsonian Gardens Horticulturist Erin Clark amending the soil.

In January 2012 the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), in partnership with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, opened the exhibition Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty. The exhibition is on view in the NMAAHC gallery at the National Museum of American History, Behring Center (NMAH) through Oct. 14, 2012.more »

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May 6, 2011

Jefferson-era Recipe: French Beans

by Leni the Cook

Time for the May installment of our monthly series in which we post a recipe from The Virginia House-wife, a recipe book published in 1824 by Mary Randolph, kinswoman to Thomas Jefferson. Leni Sorensen, our African American Research Historian and a culinary historian of national repute, has once again made this month's dish and here we include her notes and pictures. FRENCH BEANSMay 2011more »

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May 5, 2011

What was Mulberry Row?

by Christa Dierksheide

Let’s begin with what Mulberry Row wasn’t.more »

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May 3, 2011

Congratulations to Monticello’s Peter Hatch

by Leslie Greene Bowman

Before Peter Hatch’s arrival more than thirty years ago, Monticello was extolled as great architecture, and the home of one of the country’s most important figures. It was Peter who uncovered Jefferson’s experimental garden at Monticello, recognized its revolutionary influence and restored it for posterity.more »

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