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...blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son ESTON, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson's two nephews, often said to have sired Hemings' children...
...blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son, Eston, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson's two nephews, who were often said to have sired Hemings' children...
...dissidents are most vocal about a corporate-expansion strategy that they claim has flooded some markets with stores. "I can put up with a Burger King but not with another McDonald's down the road," says Bob Srygley, a consortium member based in Monticello, Ark. Complains LuAnn Perez, whose store on Route 50 in Cameron Park, Calif., is flanked by others: "Business was great until four other McDonald's were built between Sacramento and us." She and her husband are suing the company over the sale of their business...
Hughes laid the groundwork for the issue by trekking to more than 100 cities, including Charlottesville, Va., home of Monticello, "where you couldn't sit down because everything was a historical monument," and Prout's Neck, Maine, where he looked upon the same "great, severe coastline" that inspired Winslow Homer. His cross-country expedition produced an eight-part mini-series, also called American Visions, which will air on PBS from May 28 to June 18, and a 635-page companion volume just published by Alfred A. Knopf...
...found a model in the ancient republics of Greece and Rome. Classicism, says Hughes, gave the country "a language of power and authority and continuity to the past, even though it was so new." The man who adapted classical architecture to the American Arcadia was Thomas Jefferson, whose home, Monticello, Hughes visits. Standing amid the emblems of Jefferson's artistic and scientific achievements, Hughes cites him as the "one person from all the dead Americans that I wish I could talk to" because of "the overwhelmingly attractive cast of his mind...