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Monticello’s ICJS co-hosts National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution annual conference |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—J.F. Bryan of Jacksonville, Fl., Pamela Reynolds of Richmond, Va., and John “J.B.” Birdsall of Charlottesville, Va., 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.
J.F. Bryan, IV, a Jacksonville, Florida native, was involved in the insurance industry for thirty years; he spent the last 13 years as President of Independent Insurance Group before the Company was sold to American General in 1996.
Bryan currently serves as Chairman of the Board of LISC (a local initiative to redevelop challenged neighborhoods). He serves as Chairman of the Reinhold Foundation...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Friday, May 11, 2012 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—Gold-medal-winning gymnast Nadia Comăneci will be the featured speaker at Monticello’s 50th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony.
Considered one of the best known gymnasts in the world, Comăneci was the first Olympic gymnast to score a perfect 10 and leave her indelible mark on the history of the Games.
Born in Onești, Romania, Comăneci became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 2001. She has also retained her Romanian passport, making her a dual citizen.
Her illustrious career as a gymnast reached worldwide fame during the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada, when Comăneci, who was just 14 years old at the time, earned seven perfect tens,...
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Book showcases Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary vegetable garden
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529
Charlottesville, VA –Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States of America was a revolutionary gardener. Today, the vegetables and herbs Jefferson favored are thriving in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden at his home Monticello. Extensively and painstakingly restored under Peter J. Hatch’s brilliant direction, Jefferson’s unique vegetable garden now boasts the same medley of plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the early nineteenth century. The garden is a living expression of Jefferson’s genius and his distinctly American attitudes. Its impact on the culinary,...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Monday, April 16, 2012 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529
Charlottesville, Va.—Revolutionary chef Alice Waters will visit Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, April 19 and 20, 2012, as part of a celebration of Jefferson’s legacy as a farmer and our most famously epicurean President.
Waters’ visit precedes Historic Garden Week in Virginia and the launch of Peter Hatch’s new book “A Rich Spot of Earth” Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello. Alice Waters wrote the foreword for “A Rich Spot of Earth,” which debuts during the “National Book Launch: An Evening with Peter Hatch”, April 23, 2012, on the West Lawn of Monticello.
In the foreword Waters writes, “We desperately need to reconnect ourselves to the pastoral and self-sufficient...
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The edited travel diary of Thomas Jefferson’s granddaughter, Ellen Wayles Coolidge, will be released this December.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529
Thomas Jefferson promised his five-year-old granddaughter Ellen that one day “you will become a learned lady and publish books yourself.” Coolidge’s first book, a diary she kept as an adult woman, will be published this December by scholars at Monticello’s Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England: The Travel Diary of Ellen Wayles Coolidge, 1838-1839, edited by Ann Lucas-Birle and Lisa A. Francavilla, will be co-published by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Thomas Jefferson Foundation...
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