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Monticello adds new furnished room to Behind-the-Scenes Tour

The newly refurnished North Octagonal Room

The Second Floor North Octagonal room has been restored FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 2, 2013 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—Visitors on Monticello’s Behind-the-Scenes tour will now experience a newly furnished upstairs room as part of their tour starting this week. The north octagonal bedroom on the second floor is now being interpreted as “Aunt Marks’ Room,” the space occupied by Jefferson’s sister. The room has been installed to help interpret family life at Monticello. Anne Scott Marks (October 1, 1755 - July 8, 1828), Thomas Jefferson’s youngest sister was called “Aunt Marks” by Jefferson’s children and grandchildren. She had no children of her own and was left impoverished after her husband’s death in 1811. She came to live at Monticello in 1811...

Wine Festival at Monticello 2013

No better place to experience wine and history! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 28, 2013 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 Charlottesville, VA.—The fourth annual Wine Festival at Monticello celebrates Thomas Jefferson’s lasting influence on the Virginia wine industry—and kicks off Saturday, May 11, 2013, 6-9 p.m., on the West Lawn of Monticello. Jefferson has been called “America’s first distinguished viticulturist” and the “greatest patron of wine and winegrowing that this country has yet had.” It was at Monticello where Jefferson stored his favorite wines from European vineyards in his wine cellar and grew grapes in hopes of producing his own wine. During the Wine Festival at Monticello, visitors can enjoy the splendor of spring, taste Virginia’s best selection of wines and stroll...

2013 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals To Be Awarded to Laurie Olin, Robert Mueller and Wendy Kopp

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 5, 2013 Media Contacts: Brevy Cannon, 434-243-0368 and Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 5, 2013 — The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership, to, respectively: Laurie Olin, a distinguished professor, author and renowned landscape architect whose designs include the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, D.C. and Bryant Park in New York City. Robert S. Mueller III, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who has led the bureau’s post-9/11 transformation. Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, which has inspired more than 38,...

Thomas Jefferson Foundation welcomes new trustees Glynn D. Key and Gilbert P. Schafer, III

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 21, 2013 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA–Glynn D. Key of Washington D.C. (and Trevose, Pa.) and Gilbert P. Schafer, III, AIA, of New York, New York, have been elected members of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the private, nonprofit organization that has owned and operated Monticello since 1923. Key, a Chattanooga, TN native, has a distinguished record of service to Jeffersonian interests. She is a 1986 graduate of the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar, Jefferson Scholar and chairwoman of the Honor Committee. She received a law degree from the University in 1989, and while in law school served as the student representative on the Board of Visitors. In 2004 she was appointed...

Monticello, Montpelier, and CACVB Re-launch Presidents Passport with Sweepstakes

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 18, 2013 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau (CACVB), Monticello and Montpelier announce the re-launch of the Presidents Passport— a cooperative marketing program designed to encourage tourism to the greater Charlottesville area—with a significant sweepstakes totaling more than $1,000 in prizes. The program, “Presidents Passport,” is supported by a marketing partnership with the CACVB, Monticello, and Montpelier. The program now has more than 7,700 members and has connected more than 55 travel partners in the area, ensuring that members of the program will have access to all the best the Charlottesville area has to offer....

King elected chairman of Thomas Jefferson Foundation Board

Monticello's new chairman, Donald A. King, Jr.

Goode elected vice chairman FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 1, 2013 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—Donald A. King, Jr., of Keswick, Va., has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., the private, nonprofit corporation that has owned and operated Monticello since 1923. King succeeds H. Eugene Lockhart, Jr., of Keswick. David Goode was elected vice chairman. The officers’ terms began January 2013. “Gene Lockhart has benefitted Monticello with his strategic acumen and global perspective on the Foundation’s activities. He is a true friend to Monticello and was an exceptional leader,” said Thomas Jefferson Foundation President & CEO Leslie Greene Bowman. “Under Gene’s tenure we opened the Robert H. Smith...

Telling the History of Slavery: Scholarship, Museum Interpretation, and the Public

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 5, 2012 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—The Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello today announced it will host a landmark conference Telling the History of Slavery: Scholarship, Museum Interpretation, and the Public, at the Robert H. Smith Center at Montalto, February 22-23, 2013.This two-day event will feature panel discussions exploring recent innovations in slavery research and its impact on scholarship and public interpretation. Bringing together leading experts from across academia, museums, and documentary filmmaking, Telling the History of Slavery will include four panels, each with four presenters and a commentator, a plenary address by noted slavery historian Philip Morgan of Johns Hopkins University , and...

Monticello Lowers Prices to $5 for 5 days in December to Celebrate 25th Anniversary as UNESCO World Heritage Site

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 16, 2012 Media Contact: Lisa Stites,434-984-7529 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—Monticello is lowering general admission prices to $5, December 7-11, 2012, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its inscription on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. Five dollars was the price for a ticket to Monticello in 1987, the year Monticello and the University of Virginia, along with the Great Wall of China and the Acropolis in Athens, were first recognized as ‘World Heritage Sites.’ The World Heritage Committee selects sites to inscribe to the World Heritage List based on specific criteria. The UNESCO Criteria for Selection states that each site must be “of outstanding universal value” and meet one of the ten...

Thomas Jefferson Foundation Installs Marioff HI-FOG® Water Mist Fire Suppression System to Protect Monticello for Future Generations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 14, 2012 Media Contacts:Lisa Stites, Monticello: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 Marioff, James McGuinness: james@mcguinness@marioff.net; (508) 231-2536 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—Nov. 14, 2012- The Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello has installed a Marioff HI-FOG® water mist fire suppression system as part of its ongoing efforts to protect Jefferson’s iconic home. The Foundation was incorporated in 1923 to restore and preserve Monticello. Marioff, part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), is a leading provider of water mist fire protection technology and supplier of system solutions worldwide. During his lifetime Thomas Jefferson was no stranger to the devastation of fire. On February 1, 1770...

Pulitzer Prize-winning, Bestselling Author Jon Meacham Launches New Book—"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" at Monticello

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 7, 2012 Media Contacts:Lisa Stites, Monticello: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529 Maria Braeckel, Publicity Manager, Random House / Spiegel & Grau / The Dial Press: mbraeckel@randomhouse.com ; (212) 572-2721 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham launches his newest book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power from Monticello, November 11, 2012. In Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Meacham brings to life the complete man, from birth to his last days—through the Revolutionary War and his years as President. Readers will see the Founding Father who wrote the Declaration of Independence, steered the states to nationhood, and as a master politician and President, doubled the size of the country through the Louisiana Purchase. Meacham...

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