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Join us on November 17, 2024 for a special celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette visiting Thomas Jefferson at Monticello in November of 1824.
11am: Kids activities, French lessons, games, food, and wine tastings open and are available throughout the day
11:30am: Reenactment, Lafayette Returns
As the 50th anniversary of the Revolution approaches, famous Revolutionary War hero Lafayette returns to America from France. Welcome him to Monticello, witness his reunion with dear friend Thomas Jefferson, and reflect on America's promises of liberty and equality as these Founders look to the future.
Performed by Bill Barker, Mark Schneider, Nicole Brown, and Jamar Jones.
12:00pm: Lightning Talk, Lafayette's Return to Albemarle
2024 marks the bicentennial of Lafayette’s triumphal American tour, when the last surviving Revolutionary War general visited every American state and inspired massive patriotic celebrations wherever he went. J. Jefferson Looney, the Daniel P. Jordan Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, describes both Lafayette’s touching reunion with Jefferson at Monticello and the formal ceremonies and dinners with which the Charlottesville community greeted Lafayette, and sets these festivities within the broader context of Lafayette’s extended stay in the United States.
12:30pm: Meet Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette
Guests can meet and ask questions with Jefferson and Lafayette (featuring historical interpreters Bill Barker and Mark Schneider)
1:00 pm: Beyond the Performance
Join historical interpreters Nicole Brown and Jamar Jones as they discuss the craft of portraying people of the past.
1:30pm: Lightning Talk, Lafayette's Return to Albemarle
2024 marks the bicentennial of Lafayette’s triumphal American tour, when the last surviving Revolutionary War general visited every American state and inspired massive patriotic celebrations wherever he went. J. Jefferson Looney, the Daniel P. Jordan Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, describes both Lafayette’s touching reunion with Jefferson at Monticello and the formal ceremonies and dinners with which the Charlottesville community greeted Lafayette, and sets these festivities within the broader context of Lafayette’s extended stay in the United States.
2:00pm: Reenactment, Lafayette Returns
As the 50th anniversary of the Revolution approaches, famous Revolutionary War hero Lafayette returns to America from France. Welcome him to Monticello, witness his reunion with dear friend Thomas Jefferson, and reflect on America's promises of liberty and equality as these Founders look to the future.
Performed by Bill Barker, Mark Schneider, Nicole Brown, and Jamar Jones.
2:30pm: Meet Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette
Guests can meet and ask questions with Jefferson and Lafayette (featuring Bill Barker and Mark Schneider)
3:00 pm: Beyond the Performance
Join historical interpreters Nicole Brown and Jamar Jones as they discuss the craft of portraying people of the past.
4:00 pm: Program concludes
4:30 pm: Monticello property closes
This is an outdoor event; please dress accordingly.
In the event of rain or severe weather, the program will take place in the visitor center theater and classrooms with an adjusted schedule of events.
Listen to this podcast about Lafayette's twelve-day visit with his old friend, Thomas Jefferson, which was marked by dinners and celebrations. It struck many as memorable at the time, including two men enslaved at Monticello for whom, even decades later, Lafayette's visit held special meaning.
On July 3, 1789, just before the storming of the Bastille and two months before he returned to America, Jefferson purchased a number of busts from famed sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. Among these was a terra-cotta patinated plaster of Jefferson's trusted friend, the Marquis de Lafayette.
