Actually, TJ and US. Tomorrow, Saturday, November 6th, Dear Husband and I are going to listen to Thomas Jefferson speak at College of Du Page, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
Yeah, I know he’s been dead for a century and a half. Clay Jenkinson speaks to an audience from Jefferson’s point of view. He’s done these visits for almost ten years through WGN Radio and it’s sponsors, and I think this will be the last of his visits. I just couldn’t let the opportunity pass. I’ve wanted to attend each of these sessions and just couldn’t call in at the right time to get tickets, so you can imagine how excited I am that we will get to attend tomorrow’s session.
A friend from exercise told me that she and her daughter had attended one of his previous visits, and she was sure we would enjoy it. I’ll post more tomorrow, but you can be sure we will have had a great time!
Arrrgh!!!
It's just my state of mind!
That sounds like an interesting endeavor. Hope you enjoy and learn something at the same time.
It was very interesting, Bogie, and I’m sorry that this is the last of these programs to be sponsored by WGN. I’ll have to surf now and then to see if he is doing other performances.
We watched a program on cable a week ago that gave us information about Jefferson’s life, which helped to prepare for this session. We’ve learned a lot about Jefferson from the program and from Jenkinson.
It was interesting that his last comment was to espouse the idea that democracy depends on a literate populace and that we need to do more to see to the education of our young. He also suggested that we turn off the TV and pick up a book, something that Dear Husband is fond of saying.