In today’s installment of his This Land column in The New York Times, Dan Barry visits Monticello to investigate everyone’s favorite local race-related conundrum—the relationship of Thomas Jefferson to his slave Sally Hemings. Barry focuses on the efforts of both Jefferson and Hemings descendents, at a reunion last year, to gain entry to the Jefferson family cemetery. Their request was denied by the Monticello Association, Barry reports, out of concern for the grass, which “had taken years to grow.”
 Dan Barry writes about the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings in today’s edition of The New York Time. |
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Lessons from the Ten Miler
The Eagles to swoop into JPJ [March 28]
The country-rock stars bring hits like “Hotel California” and “Take It Easy”
Gunman fires at vehicles on I-64 [March 27]
Two wounded, treated and released; shooter still at large
Bob Gibson to leave The Daily Progress [March 26]
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