Amongst the wonders of nature, particulate that we can stand next to the fishpond to welcome the bloom of the snowball behind me. We have the beautiful purple iris, and of course the digitalis, and the foxglove about to bloom. What a pleasant occasion. Without any further comments, as i have a few moments before i continued my walk to the garden, and i think gardens is a most pleasant subject to a most pleasant subject to attend to today. I ask for the first question. Ofwe do have a number questions for you relating to gardening. The first is, have you always left gardening . Thomas jefferson you asked me if i have always loved gardening . I assure you that you cannot be born in the wilderness and the forest primeval without an early love of all of natures wonders, the great abundance our creator has provided us, and to realize we merely have to cut out what pleases us and plant accordingly. I served 40 years in public service, and yet i have often thought, if heaven had given me a pos
Wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we talked about free communities, free folks in the north and how we came with this representation of freedom. Freedom. The question of freedom and what does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean . In particular, what did it mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war, Edward Stanton and general William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were preachers, pastors, lay Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that the freed people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . And what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . The group of 20 people who was ostensibly representative of freed black folks in the community selected garrison frazier, a 67yearold man to be the representative of the community. To speak for them. General sherman asked him what did
Fishpond, to welcome the balloon of the snowfall. There, the beautiful purple iris and of course the pansies, and the digitalis, the foxglove about to bloom. So, what a pleasant occasion, and particularly to welcome our friend, mr. Steve light, to be with us again, to welcome your questions forward. So, without any further comment, as i have a few moments before i continue my walk through the garden, and i think gardens is the most pleasant subject to attend to today, i ask for the first question, mr. Light, if you will. Yes, thank you, president jefferson. We do have a number of questions for you today related to the theme of gardening. The first question is, have you always loved gardening . Thomas jefferson oh, you asked me if i have always loved gardening . Well, i assure you that you cannot be born out here in the wilderness and the forest primeval without an early, early love of all of natures wonders, the great abundance, and to realize to cut out what pleases us and plant accor
Charlottesville, virginia. Thomas jefferson good afternoon, my friends, my fellow citizens. What a pleasure to greet you once more here on our mountain at monticello. What a pleasure to be out of doors here amongst the wonders of nature, particularly that we can stand together underneath this in one of my favorite places. Iris, the beautiful purple and the pansies and the digitalis, the foxglove about to bloom. What a pleasant occasion, and particularly to welcome our friend, mr. Steve light, to be with us again to welcome your questions forward. Without any further comment, as i have a few moments before i continue my walk through the garden, and i think gardens is the most pleasant subject to attend to today, i ask for the first question, if you will. Thank you, president jefferson. We have a number of questions for you today related to gardening. The first question is, have you always loved gardening . Thomas jefferson you asked me if i have always loved gardening . I assure you tha
What does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular, what did freedom mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war Edward Stanton and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah georgia. They were preachers, pastors, late Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . Particularly, what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . The group of 20 people whose ostensibly rebranded of of free black folks and the community selected garrison frazier, a 67 year old man to be the representative of the community. To speak for them. General sherman asked them, or asked him, basically what did he understand freedom to me especially in light of the emancipation proclamation . He said basically taking us from under the yoke of bondage and placing us where we can reach the po