Celebrating the Fourth

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A special celebration and performance commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette visiting Thomas Jefferson at Monticello in November of 1824.

Featuring music by David McCormick and first-person interpreters portraying Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Martha Jefferson Randolph, and Israel Gillette Jefferson.