One of them was a letter from someone we've talked to before, the Texas school teacher. You can go back to Monticello, you've never been to Poplar Forest.ĭS: 02:53 It's a great show this week because Jefferson's back and he's answering questions.ĬSJ: 02:57 These letters are great. It would've been interesting.ĬSJ: 02:48 Well, you're still young. The ivory tablets.ĭS: 02:28 You know, you think back and you have this sort of common grade school taught impression of Jefferson, which is not really.ĭS: 02:37 And then you start to see artifacts and things that he touched and.ĬSJ: 02:42 Imagine if he had had a 3D printer.ĭS: 02:44 I wish I would've known then what I know now. And so that was my first thing.ĬSJ: 02:26 His little PDA. So my first exposure to Jefferson was, what a gadget guy!ĭS: 02:18 You know, I mean, everything from all of this surveying equipment of his to his sunglasses. And you know, you drive in and there's that museum sort of in the parking lot area.ĭS: 02:11 Well, that's where I started. I knew of you and I know you were there and both of us were there and that was, you know, it was a big deal, but because I was there it was like, I've never seen Monticello, I got to go. Now, we didn't know each other.ĬSJ: 01:50 The big signature event that launched the Lewis and Clark bicentennial.ĭS: 01:53 We didn't know each other. He's not saying philosophers.ĭS: 01:37 That's way different than my first exposure.ĭS: 01:42 Well, do you remember when the Ken Burns Lewis and Clark documentary came out?ĭS: 01:46 You and I both were in Charlottesville at the same time. I come from an agrarian background sort of, but I thought, that's a big deal. I mean, why are farmers the chosen people of God? What? Why farmers? Now, I get it intuitively. The first thing I learned about him, David, was this statement from Notes on Virginia, Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.ĬSJ: 01:19 I thought, wow, what does that, I mean, look, that's weird. No, I was talked into it and the first thing that I learned about Jefferson and I knew nothing except that he was on Mount Rushmore and that he was a great man. I got started, you know, people always ask me, how'd you get into this? How'd you get into this? As if it were my life's dream to dress up in tights.ĬSJ: 01:02 It was not. John de Crèvecœur, Letters from an American Farmer, that classic book of agrarianism that was written in Jefferson's time. That was the letters,ĬSJ: 00:48 Hector St. And then we also talked about a letter from Joe Mello, which was really fun. We had questions from Mr Jeff Woods, he's the one who, he ended his letter with a Jefferson, slavery, fossil fuels thingĬSJ: 00:30 Tried to cheer Jefferson up a little.ĭS: 00:30 And we also had one from Tim Bryant.ĭS: 00:36 Mr Jefferson, and you, were a bit hard on him, but you did answer his question very well. Jenkinson: 00:20 Back into the barn.ĭS: 00:21 Yeah, we had great questions. So this week we finally got Jefferson to come back.Ĭlay S. We've been talking about books and so many things and live performances and things like that. I am pleased to say that this week we are joined by president, Thomas Jefferson. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)ĭavid Swenson: 00:00 Good day listeners and welcome to this week's podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour. Yale Law School: Letters From an American Farmer by J. In this week's Jefferson watch, a journey to Yellowstone National Park.ĭownload this week's episode. Jeff Woods, who sort of reinforced the idea that Jeffersonianism can still work, that those checks and balances and Jeffersonian harmony are still possible, even in the crazy world that we live in today. Texas did not follow the Jeffersonian paradigm of development, and Jefferson found that a little hard to take. We also answered a question from a teacher at David Crockett Middle School in Amarillo, Texas, and Mr Jefferson had a bit of criticism for the state of Texas. John de Crèvecœur's Letters from an American Farmer, published in 1782.Ĭrèvecœur, the French physiocrat, wrote a beautiful book about agrarianism that Jefferson found fascinating. President Jefferson answers listener questions about Jefferson as a guide for our troubled times, Jefferson’s views on slavery, and his thoughts on J.
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