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Monday, September 29, 2008 - 05:00
Part of my work for the Jefferson Encyclopedia is to canvass the Information Files here at the library. I look for research reports and documentary references that Monticello researchers have done over the years. Many people never knew that there was information out there on a particular topic. ...MORE »
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A Summary ViewThursday, September 25, 2008 - 13:22
A patron asked us about a very unusual quotation the other day: apparently someone, sometime said that Thomas Jefferson was "...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father..."; this was supposedly a comment made by Jefferson's...MORE »
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 15:13
It was announced this week that the Homestead Resort in Bath County intends to restore the historic bathhouses that surround their famed mineral pools (now called the Jefferson Pools). Thomas Jefferson is just one of the thousands of Virginians,...MORE »
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 15:32
For your reading enjoyment, here are some other possible names for this blog that we either came up with ourselves or that were submitted by creative family, friends and coworkers:
- A Nickel's Worth
- From TJ to you
- Blogocello
- Commonplace Review
- "Your Tomgnosis", Jeffereuna, or TJ Ousia (from a contestant armed with a Greek dictionary)
- Blog of the Revolution
- Sage of the Blogosphere
- Monticello Rumblings
- Annalou and TJ Too
- When in the course of blogging events MORE »
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A Summary ViewMonday, September 15, 2008 - 05:00
Picking up a recent Economist magazine, an article discusses how desalination of the oceans for usable water is becoming less expensive these days. San Diego has built a large plant, as have a few Australian cities. What does this have to do with Jefferson? It is science related, thus...MORE »
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A Summary ViewFriday, September 12, 2008 - 11:55
Thought our loyal readers might be interested in some other Jefferson-related events coming up soon:
September 13, 2008
Accuracy and Elegance: How Fry and Jefferson Made a Better map of Virginia
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VAMORE »
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A Summary ViewFriday, September 12, 2008 - 11:49
The next program in the Virginia Heritage Resource Center's Mining the Treasure House lecture series will be held at noon on Tuesday, 16 September 2008 in the conference rooms adjacent to the lobby of the Library of Virginia at 800 East Broad Street in downtown Richmond. The speakers will be J...MORE »
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A Summary ViewWednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:17