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Listening to America

#1348 Tulip Poplars

Listening to America

Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landing and then are joined by two special guests. Jeff Huss of the Huss and Dalton Guitar Company in Staunton, Virginia talks about a very special project: the Jefferson Edition 00-SP Custom guitar which is crafted in part with wood from Monticello. Later in the program, Monticello's head gardener Pat Brodowski tells us about the trees the wood came from and why they had to be cut down.

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0:00.0

Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour, podcast listeners.

0:03.1

And as always, thank you for listening.

0:06.6

So one of the things we talked about today

0:10.4

is the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the surface of the moon,

0:17.0

Tranquility Bay.

0:18.0

He was meant to say one small step for a man.

0:23.7

He muffed it and said one small step for man,

0:26.4

which made it less logical,

0:27.7

but it's one of those great statements.

0:29.0

So we talk about the moon landing,

0:30.3

then we talk to Jeff Hus, from Hus and Dalton guitars.

0:33.4

Their company obtained some wood from Manicello

0:36.3

and has made some very interesting guitars.

0:39.5

And then we talked to Pat Brodowski,

0:41.8

head gardener at Manicello, and she explains where those trees came from.

0:46.0

But you would not have known before we made that call that she posed in one of the trees.

0:50.4

No, I hope we can get that photo and post it on the website.

0:53.0

She was going to send that photo.

0:54.0

And we did get a bunch of stuff from Huston Dalton.

0:57.0

I have played Huston Dalton, and they are.

0:59.0

Where did you play one?

1:00.0

There's a gentleman here in town by the name of Don Bauru who I know. So he brought it in to show and there there. But that wasn't one of the it wasn't one of the two of the poplars. No, no, no, no, it's just one of their guitars. I think during the interview he said they've made about 5,400 guitars.

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