#1477 Ten Things About Abigail Adams
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🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Lindsay Chervinsky joins Clay Jenkinson this week for the next in a series of programs titled "Ten Things". The conversations center on historical figures from the founding era, and ten things you may or may not know about them. This week: Ten Things about Abigail Adams.
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Mentioned on this episode: Abigail Adams: A Life by Woody Holton, Adams Family Papers, The "Remember the Ladies" Letter
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners. |
| 0:04.1 | As always, thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:06.5 | We appreciate it. |
| 0:07.9 | And we appreciate your support without your support, |
| 0:12.4 | without you listeners, we would be nothing. |
| 0:15.3 | And so thank you for that. |
| 0:18.0 | This week on the Jefferson Hour, |
| 0:21.0 | we are joined, of course, by the creator |
| 0:23.4 | of the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Mr. Clay Jenkinson. |
| 0:26.3 | And one of our favorite new contributors in 2021, |
| 0:30.1 | Lindsay Chervinsky. |
| 0:32.5 | Clay, you and Lindsay came up with this concept |
| 0:35.0 | of doing 10 things about historical figures. |
| 0:39.5 | And we started with Hamilton. |
| 0:41.6 | And this week, joyfully, we move on to Abigail Adams. |
| 0:47.2 | I am so fascinated with Abigail Adams. |
| 0:50.1 | And you can open her book of letters |
| 0:53.8 | and just find gems in the things she wrote. |
| 0:57.0 | And she left us a lot of letters. |
| 0:59.0 | She wrote marvelous letters. |
| 1:01.3 | She actually, this comes up in the program. |
| 1:03.2 | She wanted John to burn their correspondence. |
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