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Monticello has hosted many visitors in its over two-hundred-year history, both as the home of Thomas Jefferson and as a museum. This livestream discusses what visiting Monticello was like in Jefferson’s time and today with Thomas Jefferson, interpreted by Bill Barker. We discuss the many people who came to Monticello during Jefferson's lifetime, and the enslaved people behind the scenes who made Jefferson’s reputation for hospitality possible.