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Visitors can experience the sights and sounds of Mulberry Row, Monticello’s plantation hub
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Friday, June 3, 2011 Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—Beginning June 4th and 5th, Monticello’s visitors can discover the sights and sounds of Mulberry Row, Monticello’s main plantation road, during Mulberry Row: Monticello’s Main Street weekends. Mulberry Row was the hub of the plantation’s domestic and light manufacturing activities performed largely by Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved African American workers.
“In Thomas Jefferson’s time, Mulberry Row was not as it appears today,” says Linnea Grim, Monticello’s Hunter J. Smith Director of Education and Visitor Programs. “Then, it was a bustling hub of work and cultural activities. ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Thursday, May 5, 2011 Media Contact: Lisa Stites 434-984-7529
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—Muhtar Kent, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, will be the featured speaker at Monticello’s 49th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony.
The event at the home of Thomas Jefferson begins at 9 a.m. and is open to the public free of charge.
Kent is a dual citizen of the United States and Turkey and someone whose life has been influenced by his travels around the world and shaped by opportunities he has had in the U.S.
“I consider myself an ‘unabashed optimist’ and learned this trait from America itself,” said Kent. “Coca-Cola has grown up right beside America. We have reinvented and renewed ourselves...
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Garden Club of America presents Peter Hatch with Medal for Historic Preservation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Monday, May 2, 2011Media Contact: Lisa Stites, 434-984-7529
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.— Monticello’s Director of Gardens and Grounds, Peter Hatch, often quotes Jefferson’s Memorandum of Services to My Country (September 2, 1800), “The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to it's [SIC] culture.”
A scholar and gardener, Hatch has dedicated his life’s work to restoring Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary garden at Monticello. His...
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Award-winning author Andrea Wulf presents new book April 18
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—In celebration of the Garden Club of Virginia’s restoration of the twenty oval flower beds and the winding walk flower border, Monticello will hold a garden party during Historic Garden Week in Virginia, with award-winning author Andrea Wulf on April 18.
Considered “America’s Largest Open House,” Historic Garden Week in Virginia, held April 16-23, 2011, is a celebration of Virginia’s most beautiful gardens, homes and historic landmarks.
This year, marks 70 years since the restoration of the winding walk flower border and oval bed plan at Monticello. Each April, colorful tulips dominate the stage at Monticello. But what you see today—the beauty and splendor of the gardens had virtually disappeared after...
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.—Peter G. Peterson will be the featured speaker at Monticello's commemoration of Jefferson's 268th birthday on April 13 at 10 a.m. on the West Lawn of Monticello. Peterson, who established his eponymous foundation in 2008 to advocate for fiscal reform in the U.S. will receive the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, one of the highest honors presented by U.Va. and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Peterson is the 5th recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership. He is the founder of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, whose mission is to increase public awareness of the nature and urgency of key long-term fiscal challenges threatening America's future and to accelerate action on them, and he supports other charitable...
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March 21, 2011 — The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation will present their highest honors, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership, during Founder's Day activities on April 13. The awards are presented jointly by U.Va. and by the foundation, the independent, nonprofit organization that owns and operates Monticello.
The recipients:
Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, will receive the 2011 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
Cynthia D. Kinser, chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, will receive the 2011 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.
Peter G. Peterson, philanthropist and founder of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, will receive the 2011 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal...
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