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QUESTION OF THE WEEK- What's your favorite TJ factoid?

published March 27, 2008

   

Chrissy Benninger: "He was a redhead. He had strawberry blonde hair, according to the pictures."


   

Christian Tamm: "The thing that comes to me is that he's the man, he's one of the ones who made it all happen, this nice thing called America that everyone came over here for."


   

Caroline Polk: "That he spent all the family money and died broke."

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When I was small, the only mention of slavery on the Monticello Tour was "food was removed from the dumbwaiter by the servant." THE SERVANT? I wondered if he wore a suit with gold buttons. And if he was the only one.

posted by Laura Wallace at 4/2/2008 5:27:49 PM
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