Friday, September 26th.  Reception at 3.30p.m.  Talk at 4.00pm. 
Launch of Annette Gordon-Reed's new book, The Hemingses of Monticello:
An American Family (W. W. Norton; $35.00; September 2008).     
Gordon-Reed's history of the Hemings family presents new and never
before revealed information about the Hemingses, Jefferson, and his
white family. The Hemingses of Monticello tells more than the story of
Sally Hemings' life with Jefferson and their children. It traces the
family from Elizabeth Hemings, the family matriarch and mother of twelve
children, six by John Wayles, a poor English immigrant who rose to great
wealth in the Virginia colony, to Monticello, from where most of
Jefferson's slaves, many of them Hemings family members, were sold at
auction six months after his death in 1826.
Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York Law School and a professor
of history at Rutgers University. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson
and Sally Hemings; an American Controversy, 
After her Talk, Gordon-R eed will autograph copies of her book, which
will be availab le for purchase.
At the Jefferson Library. Free and open to the public.
 
For more information, call 434-984-9822.


Location: 1329 Kenwood Farm, Off State Route 53, the Thomas Jefferson
Parkway.

Directions:
From Washington D.C. (North)
Take Interstate 66 West.
Get off Interstate 66 onto Route 15/29 South. 
As you approach Charlottesville from Route 29 South, continue onto the
Route 250/29 Bypass South.
Get off the bypass onto Interstate 64 East (Richmond).
Take Interstate 64 East and get off at Exit 121A. (Follow the signs for
Monticello.)
At the second stoplight, turn left onto Route 53 (Thomas Jefferson
Parkway).
Follow Route 53 up the mountain for several miles. You will pass Michie
Tavern on your right, and then you will pass under a large stone bridge.
Keep driving past the entrance to Monticello, which is on your right
just after the stone bridge.
The Jefferson Library is approximately 1/3 mile further on your right.
You will see a white gate and an oval sign that says "Kenwood Jefferson
Library" in front of the property. If you pass the Jefferson Vineyards,
you have gone too far.
Turn in through the white gates and continue up the driveway. There are
parking lots to the right and left, and handicapped parking available
directly in front of the library or around the back.

From Richmond (East)
Take Interstate 64 West.
Get off Interstate 64 at exit 121, and turn left onto Route 20 South.
(Follow the signs for Monticello.)
At the second stoplight,=2 0 turn left onto Route 53 (Thomas Jefferson
Parkway).
Follow Route 53 up the mountain for several miles. You will pass Michie
Tavern on your right, and then you will pass under a large stone bridge.
Keep driving past the entrance to Monticello, which is on your right
just after the stone bridge.
The Jefferson Library is approximately 1/3 mile further on your right.
You will see a white gate and an oval sign that says "Kenwood Jefferson
Library" in front of the property. If you pass the Jefferson Vineyards,
you have gone too far.
Turn in through the white gates and continue up the driveway. There are
parking lots to the right and left, and handicapped parking available
directly in front of the library or around the back.
From Lynchburg (South)
Take Route 29 North to Charlottesville.
Get on Interstate 64 East to Richmond and follow this until you get off
at Exit 121A. (Follow the signs for Monticello.)
At the second stoplight, turn left onto Route 53 (Thomas Jefferson
Parkway).
Follow Route 53 up the mountain for several miles. You will pass Michie
Tavern on your right, and then you will pass under a large stone bridge.
Keep driving past the entrance to Monticello, which is on your right
just after the stone bridge.
The Jefferson Library is approximately 1/3 mile further on your right.
You will see a white gate and an oval sign that says "Kenwood Jefferson
Library" in front of the property. If you pass the Jefferson Vineyards,
you have gone too far.
Turn in through the white gates and continue up the driveway. There are
parking lots to the right and left, and handicapped parking available
directly in front of the library or around the back.
From Staunton (West)
Take Interstate 64 East and get off at Exit 121A. (Follow =0 A the signs
for Monticello.)
At the second stoplight, turn left onto Route 53 (Thomas Jefferson
Parkway).
Follow Route 53 up the mountain for several miles. You will pass Michie
Tavern on your right, and then you will pass under a large stone bridge.
Keep driving past the entrance to Monticello, which is on your right
just after the stone bridge.
The Jefferson Library is approximately 1/3 mile further on your right.
You will see a white gate and an oval sign that says "Kenwood Jefferson
Library" in front of the property. If you pass the Jefferson Vineyards,
you have gone too far.
Turn in through the white gates and continue up the driveway. There are
parking lots to the right and left, and handicapped parking available
directly in front of the library or around the back.

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