The topic of Thomas Jefferson seems to pop up often, in relation to very diverse topics. In today’s Washington Post, there’s an article about Madeira, the Portuguese wine that was popular in the 18th century. The restaurant in the Jefferson Hotel in DC has bottles of Madeira from 1780, so if you want to drink like Jefferson, you can! For a price, of course…
Hammond-Harwood House
The mission of the Hammond-Harwood House Association is to preserve and to interpret the architecturally significant Hammond-Harwood House Museum and its collection of fine and decorative arts, and to explore the diverse social history associated with its occupants, both free and enslaved, for the purposes of education and appreciation.