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Monticello Podcasts

By: Thomas Jefferson Foundation
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  • Stories and news from the worlds of Thomas Jefferson, the larger Monticello community, and the life of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
    Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. 2005-2024
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Episodes
  • Restoring Monticello's Flower Gardens

    Restoring Monticello's Flower Gardens
    May 31 2024
    In 1924 Monticello’s new owners began the process of restoring the gardens Jefferson had designed for his mountaintop home. But after a century of differing uses—and sometimes outright neglect—by various owners and caretakers, very little evidence remained of Jefferson’s original plans and plantings. It was a daunting task, and it could have ended quite differently were it not for the perseverance, personalities, and ingenuity of several individuals committed to restoring Jefferson’s vision. In this episode of our “In the Course of Human Events” podcast, Monticello’s Curator of Plants, Peggy Cornett — with help from colleagues Monticello Senior Historian Ann Lucas and guide Elizabeth Lukas — tells the story of how two relatively young organizations, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and the Garden Club of Virginia, worked together to restore Jefferson’s unique vision for his flower gardens and laid the groundwork for future historic landscape restoration projects at Monticello and elsewhere across the United States.
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    21 mins
  • Family and Freedom: Critta Hemings and Zachariah Bowles

    Family and Freedom: Critta Hemings and Zachariah Bowles
    May 24 2024
    13 mins
  • Fruit Grafting and Jefferson's Favorite Garden Nurseries

    Fruit Grafting and Jefferson's Favorite Garden Nurseries
    May 17 2024
    18 mins
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