Thread:CaitlinM/@comment-30339728-20180311013636/@comment-34076922-20180311203709

The book is called the Invisibles - a story of the first slaves in the white house. It's a very detailed book with great information but there is once chapter where words are repeated in the same sentence (ie: at the Hermitage, blah blah, haped at the Hermitage) - and double speaking like that is unncessary. There are sentences that start with And (a no no) and the grammer at times is difficult as it was 1800's speak.

It is a great source of information and much is not known in basic history, however this chapter on Andrew Johnson is waaaayyyy to long and discusses a lot of his time as running horse racing under the "presidential mansion", where he had stables, trainers and bet on races. Quite interesting, but diverts from the basis of the white house slaves and more about Johnson and his negro jockey's. We are on the next to the last chapter now. The last chapter is ia few pages to polish off the concept of the book - then my son has to read over a few things to refresh his memory (we read this together,out loud so we could discuss and write down vocabulary words) and then he goes on to his writing part of the project.

We have visted Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Ashfield-Highland (Monroe's home) -- we missed Madision's planation since it was closed the weekend we went to visit that area)... but I have not been to Tenn and the Hermitage. I hear it's an amazing place (my son looked up the website) but that's a long road trip from NJ. =)