#monticello — Public Fediverse posts
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New in Squeak 6.1:
The new tree browser stays true to Smalltalk's traditional four-pane browser style, but uses a file directory metaphor to display and edit system categories, classes, and message categories in hierarchical panes.
It also directly integrates package information from #Monticello into the left pane.
And after 20 years of drag and drop in Squeak, you can finally drag all parts of browsers between different panes to refactor your code!
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Monticello IL Community Garden celebrates decade of service | Community https://www.allforgardening.com/1893299/monticello-il-community-garden-celebrates-decade-of-service-community/ #10Years #community #garden #Illinois #KribyMedicalCenter #LocalNews #MonicelloCommunityGarden #monticello #UniversityOfIllinois #wand #WandNews #wandtv
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Mr Jefferson's Library (5 part series)
Michael Goldfarb visits the Library of Congress and Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello in Virginia to see how Jefferson's reading shaped the beginnings of American history.
#MichaelGoldfarb
#LibraryOfCongress
#ThomasJefferson
#Monticello#BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek #BBCBOTW #BBCBookOfTheWeek
(15 minute episodes) (very fast reading presentation style)
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What Broke Monticello
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The Founding Fathers’ Favorite Flowers – These 8 Varieties Were Must-Haves in Their Gardens and Should Be i… https://www.allforgardening.com/1851804/the-founding-fathers-favorite-flowers-these-8-varieties-were-must-haves-in-their-gardens-and-should-be-i/ #AlexanderHamilton #CardinalFlower #CottageGarden #credit #FlowerGarden #FlowerGardens #FoundingFathers #garden #gardening #GeorgeWashington #GettyImages #HardyPerennial #monticello #NorthAmericanNative #ThomasJefferson
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Hype for the Future 200O: City of Monticello, Minnesota
Overview The City of Monticello is a notable community slightly west of the Mississippi River within Wright County, Minnesota, along Interstate 94 and Route 25. Notable parks in the area include the Bertram Chain of Lakes Regional Park and the Montissippi County Park, both within close proximity of the Mississippi River.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/hype-for-the-future-200o-city-of-monticello-minnesota/
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Monticello's Narrative Under Scrutiny: Echoes of the Past Resurface
Monticello estate found a 250-year-old brick kiln. Curators are also changing how they tell the story of Sally Hemings and enslaved people.
#Monticello, #Archaeology, #SallyHemings, #ThomasJefferson, #History
https://newsletter.tf/monticello-old-brick-kiln-sally-hemings-history/
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Archaeologists found a 250-year-old brick kiln at Monticello. This is part of new efforts to show the lives of enslaved people, like Sally Hemings.
#Monticello, #Archaeology, #SallyHemings, #ThomasJefferson, #History
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Hype for the Future 192A: Lewis County, Missouri
Overview The County of Lewis is a notable county in the northeastern portion of the State of Missouri, home to iconic communities such as Lewistown, Canton, and Monticello, with the City of Canton home of Culver-Stockton College and the community of Monticello serving as the county seat.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/hype-for-the-future-192a-lewis-county-missouri/
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Hype for the Future 188G: Piatt County, Illinois
Overview Piatt County is a notable county located in Central Illinois and is home to communities such as Mansfield and Monticello, including the Prairie Fire Glass, Monticello Railway Wabash Metro Depot, “Polar Express” museum, and North State Street Historic District in the latter community, which serves as the county seat. To the northeast is the Monticello Railway Museum, located near the Interstate 72 and Route 105 corridors.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/hype-for-the-future-188g-piatt-county-illinois/
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Visiting the Peony Garden at Allerton Park https://www.allforgardening.com/1752294/visiting-the-peony-garden-at-allerton-park/ #allerton #AllertonParkAndRetreatCenter #BlueDragonflyCatering #garden #GreenhouseCafe #MemorialDay #monticello #Mother'sDay #peonies #Peony #PeonyGarden #RobertAllerton #UniversityOfIllinois
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Hype for the Future 186A: City of Monticello, Indiana
Overview The City of Monticello is a community located in and the county seat of White County, Indiana, along the Tippecanoe River between Lake Shafer to the north and Lake Freeman to the south. Indiana Beach is notable resort to the north, while the inner Monticello area is notable for strictly residential and agricultural communities.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/hype-for-the-future-186a-city-of-monticello-indiana/
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@xankarn Nice article! I think the #museums museum ed world would enjoy it.
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I am very proud of my students’ work this semester trying to think through a safe educational path between the University and Monticello. https://www.instagram.com/p/DSdbstYEp1S/ #UNESCO #cville #uva #monticello #preservation #education #BikeTooter #WorldHeritageTrail #I64
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https://sites.google.com/view/heritagetrail/home Today was the final presentation for my class at #Monticello . If you find you want to run from the University to Monticello you might like this route #running #UVa #WorldHeritageTrail
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https://www.monticello.org/exhibits-events/calendar-of-events/details/climb-the-mountain/2025-11-01/ This should be wonderful if you can make it out. #Monticello #cville
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#OTD (Oct 12) in 1930, Jack 'Legs' #Diamond is shot five times by an unknown gunman in the #NewYork #Monticello Hotel on 64th Street.
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Thanks to the good people at #Monticello for the kind hospitality today. This is a difficult time to do public history and I find the dedication and service ethic admirable. #preservation #education
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Researching the Bell family of Charlottesville, formerly enslaved at Monticello by Thomas Jefferson, I was surprised to learn that their historic home is now a tall bank building on the Downtown Mall appraised at almost $15 million (number 5 on the linked map)
https://www.charlottesville.gov/DocumentCenter/View/14622/Charlottesville-Downtown-Walking-Tour-Map-PDF?bidId= #cville #BlackHistory #Monticello -
Trying to understand how UNESCO presents the linked UNESCO World Heritage sites of the University of Virginia and Monticello to an uninformed international audience. They spell out a lot of things I assume as common local and national knowledge and despite saying "Charlottesville" a lot, show and describe nothing in Charlottesville. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/442/video/ #preservation #culture #uva #cville #monticello #tourism #travel #UNESCO
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Inside the Library of Congress’s Collection – Library of Congress
Photograph of digital display by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Inside the Library of Congress’s Collection
The nation’s library is an ever-expanding temple of knowledge and creativity. Here are a few of its most incredible, unexpected, and otherwise historic jewels.
Written by Ron Cassie | Published on July 24, 2025
During the War of 1812, British troops famously torched the US Capitol, burning down the still-new home of the fledgling country’s legislative body. Also going up in flames? Roughly 3,000 books, largely about law, that made up the Library of Congress’s core collection.
Within a month, former President and noted bibliophile Thomas Jefferson offered his personal library as a replacement. His offer was warmly received by many in the House and Senate, but not by all. Massachusetts representative Cyrus King, an opposition Federalist, argued that Jefferson’s diverse holdings—which included works in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, and Old English, as well as a translation of the Qur’an—would foster his “infidel philosophy” while being “in languages which many cannot read, and most ought not.”
The bill narrowly passed, along party lines, and Congress paid almost $24,000 for Jefferson’s 6,487 books. On May 8, 1815, as a final wagonload of books left Monticello, Jefferson wrote to Samuel Harrison Smith, who had helped facilitate the sale, that “an interesting treasure is added to . . . the depository of unquestionably the choicest collection of books in the U.S. and I hope it will not be without some general effect on the literature of our country.”
Jefferson eventually got his wish. Today, the Library of Congress is a national jewel. Its main building on Capitol Hill, opened in 1897 and later named for the Founding Father, is home to a domed Main Reading Room that endures as one of Washington’s most elegant spaces. Within the library’s collection of more than 178 million items, the world’s largest, are a number of incredible treasures—and across the following pages, we’ve highlighted some of our favorites.
More incredible still? Most of what the institution has to offer is accessible with a simple library card.
In many ways, the modern library is the brainchild of former Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Spofford, a visionary who lobbied Abraham Lincoln for the job and then stayed on through nine (!) Presidents. Spofford led construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building and a major expansion of the collection, working toward his broader goal of establishing a national library. He succeeded yet never lost sight of the institution’s original mission to serve legislators: For decades, the Jefferson Building and the Capitol were connected by an underground tunnel equipped with an electric book trolley and pneumatic message tubes. Lawmakers (or really, their staffers and pages) could send book requests to librarians via the tubes, and librarians could send books back via the trolley.
In the early 2000s, the book tunnel was demolished to make room for the underground Capitol Visitor Center. A separate, pedestrian-friendly tunnel now links the two buildings, where librarians can still be spotted wheeling book carts from time to time. That’s hardly the only way the library has evolved. Its physical collection is now housed in three Capitol Hill buildings and other facilities in Maryland and Virginia; its digital collection, begun in 1994, contains more than 900 million files; its collections of sounds, music, prints, moving images, and photographs date back more than 100 years and continue to grow alongside audiovisual media and communication.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Inside the Library of Congress’s Collection
#2025 #America #Books #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Monticello #Reading #Science #Technology #ThomasJefferson #ThomasJeffersonLibrary #UnitedStates
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Monticello has material posted on this topic. "There was never such a time in Virginia as during the visit of Gen. Lafayette." https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/lafayettes-visit-monticello-1824/ #Monticello #Virginia
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I have been struggling for decades to figure out how people and goods have moved around the #cville area over time. This horseback video that my former Planning Commission colleague Liz Russell worked on answers some questions for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dOEnQrDUs #Monticello #histodons #preservation
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#Hammond Castle in #Gloucester, #MA reminds me of Thomas #Jefferson 's #Monticello. Both men were avid inventors whose intellectual interests can be seen in the houses they designed. Although Hammond made his name in #radio, #wireless, and other electronics, he loved #medieval history and classical music.
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https://youtu.be/k-WhTDvTiXA #Radio #WBCQ #Monticello #Dxing #Gqrx
9.330 Khz WBCQ Wordl's - 0500/1657 UTC 1234567 English
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Distància total: 5.590,44 km (3.473,74 milles)WBCQ is an international shortwave broadcast station located in Monticello, Maine, USA. We broadcast on 7.490 MHz, 9.330 MHz, 5.130 MHz, 3.265 MHz, and 6.160 MHz. We’ve been bringing access to the airwaves for people like you since 1998.
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View of #UVa and #charlottesville looking down from Montalto near #Monticello on a gorgeous day