On The Road #231 By Hank Silverberg My wife and I had a chance this past weekend to take a long-planned getaway--delayed a bit by that bout with Covid-19 I already wrote about a few weeks ago. If you read this blog on a regular basis, you know I am a history buff. I believe everyone can learn a bit from the past, or you will be condemned to relive it. So, our trip to Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson's vacation retreat, was a search for knowledge and lessons from the past. Poplar Forest is 77 miles southwest of Charlottsville, Virginia, where Monticello is located. Jefferson inherited the land for his vacation estate from his father-in-law, and those folks in Forest say Monticello would never have survived if it wasn't for the income Jefferson got from this second estate. (Jefferson's Poplar Forest estate. Photo by Jody Silverberg) Those who know Jefferson's whole story know he never finished Monticello. He was always fiddling with n