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Music

• Waveland by Noam Pikelny.

Notes

• I relied a lot on the extensive articles on the Monticello historic home’s site maintained by the University of Virginia.

• As well as Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance by Damon Lee Fowler.