Monticello Newsletter: Spring 2006

Contents

President's Letter

From the History Files

• Jefferson, Trumbull, and painting 'Yorktown'

On the Mountaintop and Beyond 

• Development of visitor center is progressing

• CHP: Preserving a natural legacy for two decades

• Fifth-graders get special view of life at Monticello

• Original Jefferson-owned chairs return

• Artists to speak at annual July 4 ceremony

• New lecture series on Jefferson offered this fall

• Biennial symposium scheduled for September

• Monticello receives award for preservation efforts

• Second 'Retirement Series" volume is now available

• A souvenir shard from a visit to Shakespeare's house

• Architectural artifacts being catalogued

• Outdoor theater is newest addition to the parkway

• News and Notes About Monticello

2005 Gift Report

• Generous donors help advance the Jeffersonian legacy

• The Monticello Cabinet