Good day citizens and welcome to what would Jefferson do our weekly opportunity to

discuss current American events with President Thomas Jefferson.

Good to see you Mr Jefferson. Good to see you, Mr. Jefferson.

Good to see you, my dear citizen.

Mr. Jefferson, I recently had a very enlightening conversation with a young man from Lynchburg, Virginia.

He serves on the city council there, sir.

Well, that was the home of my second house, a popular forest.

My most productive farms were in Bedford.

I used to go out there once or twice a year to supervise the management of those farms,

largely tobacco farms.

Those properties came to me in my marriage to Martha Wales Skelton on the first day of January 1772 and so I made

a pilgrimage a couple of times per annum and eventually I decided to build a home there so I would have more comfortable quarters.

It's an octagonal home called Poplar Forest.

I was going to ask you about that.

Now I don't know if you're aware of Mr President, but in in my time that second home of yours has been

restored as accurately as possible to the time when you occupied it and it's

open to the public people can go tour it and see it and it's open to the public people can go tour it and see it and it's it's somewhat of

an architectural anomaly it's very unique you said eight-sided right it's

octagonal it's a bit of a gimcrack. I was fond of the octagon just because it's a

fascinating geometric design but also because it's a great light gathering design.

You have more walls for more windows. I just was doing it in a

kind of a whimsical creative way and it didn't have any of the necessity of

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