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PICK: Spring Wildflower Walk

About blooming time: All those April showers brought plenty of May flowers to the gardens at Monticello. Peggy...

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Tracing the music: Get in your steps and a history lesson during David McCormick’s Black Fiddlers of Monticello...

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French connections: In his four years as the United States minister to France, Thomas Jefferson came to love all...

PICK: History in a Glass

Wine diplomacy: If you’re interested in celebrating presidents, pairing them with wine may be the way to go. In a nod...

Carving out history

Thomas Jefferson never wrote about the food at Monticello. His kitchens were stocked with ingredients from around the...

Ash disaster

As if COVID-19 weren’t enough, central Virginia is fighting another plague, only this one—the emerald ash...

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Sowing the seeds: Take your faith in mother nature to the next level in 2021 with perennials such as rattlesnake...

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Viewing the past: Always wanted to visit Monticello but never had the time? And now that you have the time, the front...

Passed down

“We were scattered all over the country, never to meet each other again until we were in another world,” wrote...

Facing the past

Back in 2018, the wedding site Zola published an article titled “8 Unique Charlottesville Wedding Venues,” including...