Charlottesville, and that is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byways and National Heritage area. So we are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus and southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, the most northern part of the National Heritage area. And of course, you will hear a little about charlottesville as well. If you we often talk is head out monticello jeffersons driveway you are driving on the scenic byway. And you are driving 180 miles north to gettysburg. Which is the other end of the National Heritage area. And within that 180mile plot of land, we have 11 sites. Of course, monticello, madisons home in montpelier, brent will talk about these places. We want to thank, of course, the Charlottesville Albemarle convention bureau, one of our wonderful partners. Kurt, the executive director is here tonight. Thank you. Without further ado, i will introduce our guest. Brent glass is the direct
Support and sponsorship of this program as well. Of course, the library system, and we really appreciate the everson madison region ally braer. We are, of course, in sh charlottesville, which is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byway as well as National Heritage area. We are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus as well as our southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, our most northern part of our National Heritage area, and of course you will hear a little bit about charlottesville as well. The way we often talk is if you head out monticells, jeffersons highway and turn left you are heading on the National Scenic byway and you drive 180 miles north to gettysburg which is the other end of our National Heritage area. Within that 180mile swath of land we have nine president ial sites including James Monroes highland, which sarah is here as our guest as well. Of course, monticello, madisons hom
Mountain Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It is a subject, which the Thomas Jefferson foundation has been a pioneer in researching and present a largely the collected essays published earlier this year by the university of virginia press. Theyre entitled by virtue my happiness, slavery of Thomas Jeffersons monticello is regarded as an authority on the subject. The book was released to coincide with an exhibit on slavery of monticello in the Smithsonian National museum of African American history which is cocurated by the staff of the Thomas Jefferson foundation. 70 of the descendents of those commemorated attended the opening night. After 50 years of archaeological and historical research, Thomas Jefferson foundation is now in the next phase of interpretation and restoration project funded by the National Endowment of humanities by private reports that the project is called the landscape of slavery, mulberry road in monticello, which includes creation of many exhibits, key sites, a web
This evening we have cspan here. Is the microphone working back there . We have just one microphone here to ask questions. Cell if you need access to this microphone, if you are sitting over there you can go back there. I want to welcome Lilly Ledbetter who has come this evening to talk about his new book grace and grit. This is the first time Lilly Ledbetter has been to politics and prose. He is from montana which is why think he has written many books. Including the song of the dodo which expects a medal for Natural History writing. He holds honorary degrees from Colorado College in Montana State university where he serves as prof. Of western american studies. He has won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including esquire, the advantage and rolling stone. The third of these awards was for a National Geographic storing called when stock went wrong. National geographic now, David Quammen has the title contributing editor which gives him
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