Situated on a mountaintop outside Charlottesville, Virginia, Monticello, a 5,000-acre plantation, was the home of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, third President of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia. Monticello is the only historic home in the U.S. on the United Nations’ World Heritage List.
Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson – designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than 40 years – and its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
This is Historic Garden Week at Monticello, with special programs focusing on the grounds, horticulture and nature. What better way to celebrate spring and all its new beginnings than with a visit to this historic site?
“If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to…Monticello.” – from “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” by Maira Kalman
For more information, please visit Monticello.org. To purchase “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” please visit bn.com.
Image and info courtesy Monticello.
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