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🗓️ 21 May 2019
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"Those forty books made a difference in his life, because he grew up in a house where there were books and book culture."
— Clay S. Jenkinson
This week on The Thomas Jefferson Hour, we answer listener questions including a query from a listener in Ireland asking about Jefferson's thoughts on the Irish rebellion and constitution, Jefferson's involvement in providing alcohol to troops, suggestions for a Jefferson library for children, and Jefferson's advice for Americans traveling in Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day listeners and welcome to this week's podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson |
| 0:06.7 | Hour and thank you for listening. |
| 0:10.3 | Listener questions this week. |
| 0:11.8 | We didn't get to all of them. I want to concentrate on one that we didn't get to, David, from Mr. Daniel Foster. |
| 0:20.0 | Said while painting the one that was on the outside of my house recently I heard you talking about Walter Raleigh and was reminded as well as Washington and other Burgess has had occasion to conduct official business in the Apollo room of the Raleigh Tavern in |
| 0:35.8 | Williamsburg. |
| 0:36.8 | Then he says in 1769 the governor dissolved the House of Burgesses, but they regrouped at the Raleigh |
| 0:44.8 | Tavern. |
| 0:45.8 | Jefferson was at both of the meetings there. |
| 0:48.7 | He said, I've been to the Apollo room many times, as have I, having once worked there. Your discussion of Walter Raleigh reminded me of Jefferson's connection to that tavern. |
| 0:57.0 | By the way, Jefferson once stands with Rebecca Burrell at a ball in the Raleigh Tavern. |
| 1:02.0 | Later, she would turn down his marriage proposal at Carter's Grove, |
| 1:06.1 | the drawing room where this incident occurred is still called the refusal room. |
| 1:11.6 | So Jefferson proposes to Rebecca Burrell, she's not going to marry him. |
| 1:16.0 | It's youth. |
| 1:17.0 | Jefferson's not ready for marriage either. |
| 1:19.0 | He bungled it badly. |
| 1:21.0 | He was awkward, you know, blah, know blah blah blah it's like everybody's |
| 1:24.2 | but to this day that it's called the refuse because think of how |
| 1:28.0 | humility I've never been there so what's it like is it like period or |
| 1:32.2 | yeah so colonial Williamsburg has all these recreated |
| 1:36.2 | buildings from that time, some of them are authentic, some of them recreated. It's one of the world's |
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