Hello, and good afternoon my name is andrew i am a director of the International Center for jefferson studies. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker who is here on the launch of perm much anticipated steady the hemming of monticello and americans family. She is professor of law of the new York Law School and professor of history at rutgers university. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson sally henning, which remains most influential study of the subject. She has written numerous articles on jefferson and edited forthcoming reader on jefferson and rates which will be published by Princeton University press. She also had had time to complete a short biography of Andrew Johnson which will be published in the fall of 2009. Please join me in welcoming a net cord in reeves. [applause] thank you, very much for that introduction i love how he says that. [laughter] say it again. Say it again. It is great to be here among some many people that i know. Such a familiar place to me i came bac
Charlottesville, and that is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byways and National Heritage area. So we are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus and southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, the most northern part of the National Heritage area. And of course, you will hear a little about charlottesville as well. If you we often talk is head out monticello jeffersons driveway you are driving on the scenic byway. And you are driving 180 miles north to gettysburg. Which is the other end of the National Heritage area. And within that 180mile plot of land, we have 11 sites. Of course, monticello, madisons home in montpelier, brent will talk about these places. We want to thank, of course, the Charlottesville Albemarle convention bureau, one of our wonderful partners. Kurt, the executive director is here tonight. Thank you. Without further ado, i will introduce our guest. Brent glass is the direct
In now 31 states. 24 have paused or rolled back their reopening plans. Dr. Anthony fauci warns were knee deep in the first wave of this pandemic and that it is getting worse. Cases and hospitalizations are soaring so quickly in texas the military is deploying medical personnel to help in some parts of the state. Dozens of hospitals in florida are completely full and out of icu beds, this as were learning that two of the nations largest testing labs are warning of some major delays. Were covering all the angles this hour. Lets begin again with rosa flores who joins us in miami. Good morning, rosa, what is the situation there. You know, poppy, theres a lot of concern here, both local officials and medical experts about the number of hospitalizations and the increase they are seeing specifically here in mime dade county. Lets start with the facts statewide. 43 icu units have hit capacity meaning these hospitals have zero icu beds available. On top of that, theres two other icu hospitals w
The kind of crisis and concern about what was going on in the states . All of which provided some of the impetus for the creation of a central federal government and that will be the subject of our next class. So ill see. And now for the main event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of je
And now for the main event we are so thrilled to have derek baxter here with us today the author of in pursuit of jefferson traveling through europe with the most perplexing founding father. Joining us today from fairfax, virginia where he lives with his wife and children and in his words. They lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomass jeffersons travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. Great. Well, thank you. Thank you scuppernong and and cspan. Thank you everybody for watching. So. So yes, this book is about its about me following jeffersons travels across europe and its really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we dont often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president