We’re celebrating #EarthDay , with #JamesMadison ’s drawing of the #earth in its place within the entire #solarsystem . It appears in a notebook he used during his student days, either at Donald Robertson’s school or at Princeton.
Library of Congress.

It’s #HistoricGardenWeek in Virginia, and we invite you to stop and smell the #flowers (at least virtually!) in Montpelier’s #gardens with our blog post: “A Paradise of Roses.” buff.ly/3IZ5FlG

We’re celebrating #Spring at Montpelier!

#DolleyMadison wrote to friends in April 1837 that she was stuck inside on a day “when the beauties of Spring would lure me to my garden.”

Kendall Madigan photo, courtesy of the Montpelier Foundation.

#OTD 1848, 77 men, women, and children attempted to #escape from #slavery in Washington DC on the schooner Pearl – including Ellen Stewart, a 15-year-old girl #enslaved by #DolleyMadison . See Ellen's story in our video “Fate in the Balance.” buff.ly/3IW81BS

We’re celebrating #Spring at Montpelier!

#OTD in 1831, #DolleyMadison wrote “We have now, beautiful weather, & our garden and grove begin to charm me with musick & flowers.”

We’re celebrating #Spring at Montpelier!

#DolleyMadison wrote to her niece Mary Cutts in 1825: 'We have had two weeks of spring like weather, when the birds came out with their summer song and I went to gardening.'

Kendall Madigan photo, courtesy of the Montpelier Foundation