Christy Campbell
Monticello Staff
Museum Shop/Sales
Greenwood, VA
About Me
I'm the Floor Manager at the Visitor Center Museum Shop, and have been at Monticello for almost twelve years. My co-workers get a kick out of the fact that I love spiders. When I find one scuttling across the shop floor, I catch it in a Jefferson cup and take it outside instead of stomping on it. Besides American history, I enjoy stargazing, science & nature, genealogy, literature, and music.
The Museum Shop does stock the Picture Book Biography of Thomas Jefferson, but we are temporarily out of it. E-mail me (ccampbell@monticello.org) and I will notify you when we have it back on the shelves. I'll see what I can do about getting the King...more »
Oops..the above link (for purchasing the Catesby print) is no longer working. Here's a new one: http://www.monticellocatalog.org/112232.htmlmore »
Students from Kindergarten through grade twelve can send their questions to Thomas Jefferson (channeled through a cadre of Monticello's Jefferson scholars) via this link, "Ask Thomas Jefferson." It is a wonderful teaching resource, and I am continually impressed and encouraged...more »
Jefferson kept at least four mockingbirds as pets during his lifetime, and christened his favorite one "Dick." I didn't know until I read this article that wild mockingbirds didn't inhabit Monticello mountain until about 20 years after Jefferson's death. It's rare...more »
Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe! Customers come into the Museum Shop looking for this. As the article points out, the first American recipe for ice cream was written in Jefferson's own hand.more »
Among the most fascinating things available for purchase at our Museum Shop are authentic coins from Jefferson's lifetime. I like to imagine who might've held them, and for what purpose they might've been used. Holding one of those old coins is really holding a piece of...more »
The response to the stunning new 15-minute movie "Thomas Jefferson's World," shown in the theater on the courtyard level of the Smith Education Center every 20 minutes throughout the day, has been tremendous. The film is the result of the combined efforts of scholars at...more »
Customers frequently come into the Museum Shop with questions about a specific flowering plant they saw on the Monticello grounds that they could not identify. The great majority of the time, we have a Garden Shop employee available who can quickly identify the plant based on the customer's...more »
This musical instrument, which uses the same principle as the old finger-around-the-wet-wine glass trick, apparently garnered quite a bit of notoriety in the 18th century. Though several notable composers, Mozart and Beethoven among them, wrote music specifically for it, the instrument fell out...more »