The next program in the Virginia Heritage Resource Center's Mining the
Treasure House lecture series will be held at noon on Tuesday, 18
November 2008 in the conference rooms adjacent to the lobby of the
Library of Virginia at 800 East Broad Street in downtown Richmond. 

The speaker will be Ellen C. Hickman, editorial assistant with the
Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, who will discuss
contemporary visitor accounts of Thomas Jefferson and Monticello that
offer interesting insights on the former president in his retirement
years. Her talk, entitled "In Conversation He Was Quite Unrestrained":
Visitor Accounts of Thomas Jefferson will outline a project underway at
the Thomas Jefferson Foundation to gather and publish visitor accounts
and discuss how they alter our understanding of Jefferson. 

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that space is limited. For more information on this and other programs
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