well, i'm peggy cornett, and i'm curator of plants at monticello. basically, i'm the plant historian here and i do a lot of work with educational programs. so guides working with. public garden programs that we have throughout the year and of course lectures and that sort of thing research and i consult a great deal with the garden staff on the appropriate plants and both here at in the gardens and also at the center for historic plants. and i'm jason young. i'm the manager and curator of historic gardens and i manage the team that takes care of all of the areas from the visitor center up as well as adjacent areas on the thomas jefferson foundation properties. so overall we have about 2,500 acres and we take care of all of it. so starting with the historical side of the monticello gardens. how do you know what was planted in the gardens during jefferson's time? well the best thing that we have is that jefferson was really good about documenting and he kept a garden journal if you will that was about 60 pages long and in that garden journal he docume

well, i'm peggy cornett, and i'm curator of plants at monticello. basically, i'm

sowelcome to our monticello live stream with curator of plants peggy cornett and manager and curator of historic gardens. jason young today. we are discussing monticello's gardens during both jefferson's time as well as spring planting and plant production at monticello today, please post your questions in the comments and let us know from where you are joining us.

well, thank you so much everyone for watching and especially thank you to peggy cornett and jason young and all of the staff who works on the gardens here at >> former clerks of the lake -- of the late justice ruth bader ginsburg discussed her role and the fight for gender equality. the american college of trial lawyers and supreme court historical society cohosted this event and provided the video. >> good afternoon, welcome to the cle program, being presented in conjunction with the supreme court historical society. the program is a tribute to the late justice, ruth bader ginsburg. and, is titled the 25th anniversary of the vmi case -- remembering our bgn united states versus virginia, 1996. the moderator for today's program is jr chris murphy. she is the director of publications -- is clare cushman. she is the director of publications of historical society, an accomplished author and blogger on all things supreme court, including the journal of supreme court history. importantly to us, clare is a good friend of the college. she will lead the live panel discussion after the presentati