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2022-2023 Common Read - How the Word is Passed: Monticello Plantation

"There's a difference between history and nostalgia"

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Monticello

Aerial Of Monticello Mountain

Image courtesy of Monticello Digital Classroom, https://classroom.monticello.org/media-item/aerial-of-monticello-mountain/

Monticello Plantation House

Monticello House

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Recreation of Sally Hemings's Cabin

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Interior of Sally's Hemings's Cabin

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Monticello's Kitchen

Image courtesy of Monticello Classroom, https://classroom.monticello.org/media-item/monticellos-kitchen/?highlight=kitchen

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