Restoration of the Garden at Monticello Under Way
Virginia hosts Garden Week as Monticello joins the program to restore Jefferson's long vanished garden. The plan relies on original drawings, expert notes, and funding from Garden Club of Virginia with researchers and Charlottesville architects guiding a faithful three acre east garden revival.
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Virginia
Williamsburg
James Monroe
Fredericksburg
America
Monticello
Charlottesville
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Jefferson
Garden Club of Virginia
Monticello Garden
Garden Club
Fiske Kimball
Coolidge
Massachusetts Historical Society
Thomas
University of Virginia
Milton L. Grigg
R. T. Halsey
Metropolitan Museum
New York
Charles Moore
Fine Arts Commission of Washington
Kimball
Grigg & Johnson
Pigs Went on a See America First Tour With De Soto
Four hundred years ago a herd of pigs accompanied Hernando De Soto on his expedition from Florida to the Ozarks. The text recounts the cross country trek, hardships, clashes with Native peoples, and the eventual dispersal of the herd after De Soto’s death in 1542.
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de Soto
Everglades
Florida
Ozarks
Arkansas
Hernando de Soto
Cuba
Tampa Bay
Florida Peninsula
Bay
Soto
Mississippi River
Mexico
Georgia
Carolinas
Chattanooga
United States
Alabama
Mississippi
Missouri
Oklahoma
Tampa
Moscoso
New Spain
Monticello the Self Made Architect Thomas Jefferson
A profile of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello detailing his rise as the plantation founder and self taught architect. It covers site selection on Little Mountain, 1770 construction begin after Shadwell fire, and his hands on control of design, materials, furnishings, and layout including hidden service passages and a lone bottle dumbwaiter.
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Muaich
Thomas Jefferson
Rivanna River
Shadwell
Ivanna River
Monticello
Jefferson
Harvester Runaway Keeps 28 Horses in a White-Knuckle Chase
George Dowd of the Bronx recalls a July 1913 Idaho Falls incident where a steam boiler valve failure sent 28 horses and a harvester tearing across a wheat field. Steel cylinders burst from the spinning machine as Dowd clung to the reeling platform, narrowly escaping serious injury after a mile-long ordeal.
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George H. Dowd
Bronx
N. Y
George
Europe
George Dowd
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Harvester
WNU Service
Panama’s Historic Ports Blend Past and Canal Era
In Cristobal, Balboa, and Panama City the old harbor towns reflect centuries of arrival and trade. The Atlantic port marks entry to leased territory, with Panama City and Colon described as ancient yet shaped by modern military importance and diverse merchant heritage.
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Canal Zone
Atlantic
Republic of Panama
Panama City
Colon
Balboa
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Thomas Whatly
London
Whatly
Mer
Texas
Texas Plains
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Adventurers’ Club
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