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The friendly ghosts of Christmas past haunt President James Monroe’s Ash Lawn, his “cabin castle” near Charlottesville. Monroe, his wife and their two daughters are part of the holiday spirit of the early 1800s evoked by the special pageants and programs held there throughout December.
Amidst the traditional decorations of evergreens, holly, mistletoe, rosemary and other fragrant herbs, visitors to the restored mansion can imagine the family as they were described at a holiday reception of another age. Monroe, tall and well-formed, was dressed “plain and in the old style,” with small clothes, silk hose, knee buckles and pumps fastened with buckles.
The “very gracious” Mrs. Monroe was regal looking in a superb blue velvet gown, “her neck and arms bare and beautifully formed, her hair in puffs and dressed high
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