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Listening to America

#1313 Gratitude and Thanks

Listening to America

Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving from the Thomas Jefferson Hour. This week, we speak to four friends including Lisa Suhay, who tells us about her new book America the Grateful; Pat Brodowski, the head gardener at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello; luthier Kevin Muiderman, who gives us an update on the ukulele he is building for Clay; and Nashville-based songwriter Brad Crisler, who tells us about his plans for Thanksgiving in Alabama.

Find this episode, along with recommended reading, on the blog. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about our Cultural Tours & Retreats with Clay S. Jenkinson at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

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0:00.0

Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners, boy, didn't we have fun this week?

0:04.9

We called a bunch of people and a couple of them just kind of out of the blue without any,

0:11.3

we didn't ask for permission, we just called called him I had talked to you yesterday and I said

0:15.3

we should talk to Lisa Suhay of Chesapeake about her new book America the Grateful and

0:21.4

I said my friend Kevin Moiderman up in Grand Forks was making me a

0:25.8

ongoing saga of the ukulele. I've been saying to him for a week I want to

0:30.4

get you on this program he turns out to be a world-class instrument maker.

0:34.8

He's going, I think he said he's going to spend Thanksgiving in Paris.

0:38.3

Yeah.

0:39.3

Delivering a guitar. You and I are like Bowman, Gry pew, rain, marmouth, bismar.

0:45.3

Nothing wrong with those places either.

0:47.3

And you suggested that we call Pat Bredowski.

0:50.0

I'll tell you why, because I actually actually was curious do they celebrate Thanksgiving at

0:54.0

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello the answer is no but I'll tell you what they have a

0:57.9

harvest festival at the end of September which has now become a kind of clearinghouse for some of the most interesting thinking on

1:04.9

agrarianism in the world.

1:06.1

We heard the story again of you comparing the fruits of your labor to Monticello's gardens.

1:11.5

You know what my corn looked like when I was there it looks like the corn you get

1:13.7

in a Chinese restaurant you know what I mean they like the corn the size of your

1:17.3

little finger and then I said you know what we've had too much fun let's just call

1:21.4

Krizler out of the blue that was weird we haven't talked to him for a long time

1:26.0

and i didn't expect that we would get an answer i thought we'd get his answering

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