Join Travis McDonald, the former director of architectural restoration at Poplar Forest, for a fascinating look at Thomas Jefferson’s private retirement retreat. In 1809, Thomas Jefferson retired from a long public life. Most people have little knowledge of what he did in that well-deserved retirement. Knowing that he could not get his essential quiet time at Monticello, he had begun construction of Poplar Forest in 1805 while still president. Jefferson started using his intimate and private ret