Bob Hughes
Monticello Staff
Guide
Charlottesville, Virginia
Interests
About Me
Recovering lawyer. Now Monticello House Tour Operations Manager
Charles: Like TJ's orrery, you are one of our treasures. Your new orrery,camera obscura, ladder and model wine dumbwaiter all help to bring Monticello & Thomas Jefferson to exciting, more interesting life for visitors and staff.Bravo!more »
Thomas Jefferson & John Marshall playing 8-ball for beers(low alcohol near beer of course)in the Dome Room conjures up quite an image. But, alas, the facts interfere, again, so perhaps we should avoid all references to "Monticello Skinny."more »
“Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear” when TJ was buying Louisiana, preparing Lewis to write intelligently about the eventual expedition west would find and ignoring the $2500 cap placed by Congress on the purchase price. See Robert Livingston, (who?) and James Monroe spend...more »
Here, the visitor can join Jefferson as he moves through a “typical’ day at his beloved Monticello. Help him record the weather. Fill the pens as you “drudge” with him at his writing table from ”sunrise to one or two o’clock” responding perhaps to the “persecution” of the 1,267 letters he...more »
In this Family Letters Digital Archive, viewers can get a look at complete transcriptions of correspondence between Jefferson’s immediate and extended family. Want to know about Nicholas Trist’s quinine order in 1825? You’ll find the answer in a letter from Joseph Coolidge. Here you can read...more »
This site offers a regularly changing glimpse into Jefferson the prodigious letter writer. At any given time, viewers might find a copy of his original musings on atmospheric phenomena, wagering, a trying trip to Natural Bridge or a humorous rejection of yet another request that he buy or sign a...more »
Very good tool for anyone interested in archaeology at Monticello since it keeps visitors to the site up to date on the Foundation’s current research programs and allows downloading of technical reports and data.more »
Index for the House opens access to many resources for anyone wanting a general overview of Monticello, architecture, material culture,pictures and FAQ.more »
Good “thumbnail” sketch of Purchase with an “insider” view of what motivated TJ to eventually buy all of Louisiana and the impact of the purchase on the nation. Includes the secondary players like Livingston.more »
Great resource for anyone looking for “basics” of Jefferson’s life.more »