WilliamF.Connelly

Is This What James Madison Had in Mind?

MONTPELIER STATION, Va. -- It certainly wasn't this way in 1820. Watching the sun fall behind the mountains from the front porch of James Madison's Montpelier home, I am alone. In Madison's time, there was beauty but, I imagine, not much quiet at the bustling homestead. A tour revealed the rest of the home of our fourth U.S. president (1809-1817), not refurnished and restored as the Monticello residence of Madison's friend and neighbor, Thomas Jefferson, but impressive in its unfinished state. The small-of-stature Madison even ceded the spotlight to his vivacious wife, Dolley. But the giant ...

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