SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 & SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3: The Arboretum grounds are open. However, the entrance and parking lot are closed.  Please park on the street.

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A Young Gardener

The cultural and political legacy of Thomas Jefferson is complicated, just as the man himself was. The man who wrote that "all men are created equal" kept other human beings as slaves. The man who kept slaves also wrote "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it." The man eventually elected to lead the...

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