Monticello Blog

  • TJ's Ill-tempered Goat

    by Anna Berkes
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    One of our informants encountered a story, related by one Thomas Bloomer Balch, a Presbyterian minister recalling that in his childhood in the D.C. area during Mr. Jefferson's presidency, a little boy wandered onto the grounds of the President's House and was killed by TJ's "ill-tempered goat."

  • Monticello Music

    by Performances by Sugar Ridge Quartet, Pete Vigour, L. Mackey, and J. Deal.
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    Jefferson was an accomplished amateur violinist and an avid concertgoer who once declared music is "the passion of my soul." This time we present a selection of music related to Jefferson and Monticello, ranging from popular tunes to classical pieces.

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