Liz Marshall
Monticello Staff
Tour Guide
Guide
Charlottesville, VA
Interests
About Me
House Tours, Family Tours, Plantation Tours, Behind-the Scenes Tours, Educational (school group) Tours, Special Seasonal Tours
Focus: Bringing history alive at Monticello!
For those of you who have previously been to Monticello, you may be surprised now to see that the dining room is no longer a Wedgewoodesque blue. It has been repainted to a color Jefferson chose for this room…a chrome yellow! Just this past year, a descendent of Madison Hemmings visited and...more »
This photo of Jefferson’s bedchamber almost includes the skylight on the ceiling. It does include the three elliptical windows cut into the wall to provide sunlight and ventilation to a clothing closet. When Jefferson redesigned Monticello, perhaps much of his rationale was to bring more...more »
During his last 25 years, Thomas Jefferson used a polygraph or “copying instrument,” as his grandson described it in the Executor’s Sale of 1827. This machine was invented and named by John Isaac Hawkins in England. The patent rights later were assigned to Charles Wilson Peale, a friend of...more »
This photo of Monticello’s West Front with the fishpond and the reflection of the house in the water is truly a great photo opportunity. Don’t miss it. To make it perhaps even MORE spectacular, have your family, friends, significant other, or you pose on the pathway behind the flowers facing...more »
Speaking as a tour guide at Monticello, these Family Friendly Tours are so much fun. I have had multi-generations on tours! I still can’t decide if the kids like it best or their parents or their grandparents! This is a very interactive tour packed with information for kids and for adults....more »
If you listen to this 1949 recording, you will hear the voice of a man who within 13 seconds tells you his name, where he was born and that his grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The man speaking is Fountain Hughes. He sounds just like a grandfather giving young people advice. His...more »
In our Griffin Discovery Room, a hands-on-museum, esp for kids, but frankly adults love it too, there are computers for budding architects to use. One of the programs offers choices of building materials, styles of windows, domes, columns, pediments, balustrades, etc to design a house. All...more »