During his time in France in the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson made an extensive trip to England. He met the king, toured fashionable gardens, and according to his traveling companion, John Adams, he even took a splinter from a chair that allegedly belonged to Shakespeare. Join us for a live Q&A with Thomas Jefferson, interpreted by Bill Barker, discussing this trip.

A virtual Fellow's Forum with Linda Binsted examines the pathway Jefferson travelled and the methods he employed to purify the brick edifice to better attain the planar volumes depicted in Palladio’s folios.

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