monticello you can see where buildings were located. they will tell their ancestors stories, anybody can google that quickly. you can also use it when you are not at monticello. the real strength is doing what you are talking about and how it changed over time. >> we also had an outdoor audio to were helping outside of the interpretive period. we get back to the retirement years, all those buildings would have been there from 1817 to 1836. that is when we chose to interpret it. >> i think we have time for one more question. i would like to know as museum directors and leaders, do you think public memory as oranced more by reenactors by multimedia and digital items? videos.podcasts and thank you. >> are there reenactors? we use a jamesr madison and dolly madison reenactors who are very good at what they do. one guy reads the same newspaper that madison would have read 200 years ago every day. he is really into it. ages exactly the same as madison was. it is strange. think with costumed iserpretation is done, it very hard to do it well. looking at a plantation site in particular, it is hard to do well. you woul

monticello. those interviews are collected and many of them are available online. just google getting word monticello and you can hear the oral histories from the descendants of those enslaved at monticello. it's ongoing and the director is in this room. it helps us engage with a very important and invested community about how we talk about slavery, and we are in constant communication with the descendants of the enslaved to talk about how best to work on these things. that will be an exhibit pace. with panels on the walls and probably some digital stuff so you can go in and learn. the room next door is going to be sally hemmings' room. the most sentinel change in the history of monticello was in the year 2000 when the thomas jefferson foundation said that we believe thomas jefferson was the father of sally hemmings' children. there are a lot of reasons that is the case. a whole lot of research. as the research got deeper and deeper, eventually it came to a point where it's fairly difficult to deny that thomas jefferson was the father of sally hemmings' children. note, i don't

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monticello. those interviews are collected and available online. google getting word and you can hear from those descendants who were enslaved by thomas jefferson and his family. it's something that helps us engage with a very important and invested community into how we talk about slavery and we are in constant communication with descendants of the enslaved community at monticello to how best work on these things. it will be a pretty standard museum exhibit space with panels and probably some digital stuff to go in and learn. the room next door is going to be sally hemmings room. the thomas jefferson found sa-- there are a lot of reasons that is the case. a lot of things built up to it. a whole lot of research. as the research became deeper and deeper, it eventually came to a point where it's fairly difficult to deny that he was the father. note i do not say impossible because people still do, but most academic historians do not. one of the lines i use most often to talk about this, there is more evidence that thomas jefferson was the father of sally hem