Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's Birthday: Program and Selections for Its Celebration, Wednesday, April 13, 1910, in the Schools Alabama Ican imagine no event which can be more appropriately celebrated in the schools of the State than the birth of Thomas Jefferson. His work for the cause of education, for the uplift of the masses, his statesmanship, his patriotism and prophetic vision have made the South, especially, what it is in an educational way. Let us do him honor. Jefferson wrote his own epitaph and it is inscribed on his tombstone at Monticello. It reads as follows: Here was buried thomas jefferson Author offithe Declaration of 'american Independence, of The Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia. On the bit of paper upon which Jefferson had written the inscription that he desired on his monument was added the fol lowing sentence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.