September 18, 2009, 6:00 p.m.

A Conversation with Mr. Jefferson Dinner Program Featured at this dinner program at Heritage Hall on Main Street will be David Best portraying Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.  The title of his reenactment will be A Conversation with Mr. Jefferson.

Mr. Best is a 1950 graduate of Harvard University.  He was a member of the adjunct faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis for 17 years before retiring in 1999 as an associate professor. He is a fellow of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping and is a life member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors.

As an avocation he presents one-man shows as Thomas Jefferson and as George Washington.  He is known locally and nationally for these presentations before groups ranging from kindergarteners to attendees of national conventions.  In his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson at the age of 82 the setting is in Mr. Jefferson’s Monticello study.  For members and guests of the Ohio County Historical Society  Mr. Jefferson will reminisce about his life from age three to his retirement years at Monticello.

Cost of the dinner program is $12.00 for members and $15.00 for nonmembers              Program only (7:30) is $4.00 for members and $5.00 for nonmembers.

Registration deadline is September 16.