Today is the fourth the anniversary of the Declaration of Independance signing as well as the death of it's author-Thomas Jefferson. A few weeks ago, Traci and I made a trip to his home in Charlottesville, VA and brought back some pictures of the place. The one thing that I found interesting was the number of slaves he owned. He owned a little over one hundred slaves at any given time, but traded, bought and sold over 600 throughout his life. While, only freeing 5 of which they all belonged to the Hemmings famiy. The bottom picture is a Willow Oak that was grafted from, yes- a willow and an oak. He had several gardens for growing food, all lined up along the edge of the mountain side.
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Did you pick up an acorn from the willow oak tree for dad? You know how much he would like that.
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