Rob Cox speaking at Monticello's Jefferson Library
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Can seeds be political? Can a gardening how-to book also be a radical tract? In this talk, Robert S. Cox, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the American Philosophical Society, introduces us
to Philadelphia nurseryman Bernard McMahon, author of The American Gardener's Calendar, friend of Thomas Jefferson, and critical member of a large and colorful group that determined the fate of the scientific findings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (from the 2004 Historic Plant Symposium).
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