Boundary Stones
Thomas Jefferson’s 1235-Pound Religious Freedom Cheese
Special | 2m 25s
In 1802, President Jefferson received a mammoth cheese with a message about religious freedom.
If you lived in Washington, DC on New Years Day of 1802, you may have noticed a giant wheel of cheese arriving at the White House — a gift to President Thomas Jefferson from a Massachusetts church. But this enormous cheese hadn't traveled hundreds of miles for purely celebratory reasons; no, this cheese had a message about religious freedom in the United States.
Boundary Stones is a local public television program presented by WETA
Boundary Stones
Thomas Jefferson’s 1235-Pound Religious Freedom Cheese
Special | 2m 25s
If you lived in Washington, DC on New Years Day of 1802, you may have noticed a giant wheel of cheese arriving at the White House — a gift to President Thomas Jefferson from a Massachusetts church. But this enormous cheese hadn't traveled hundreds of miles for purely celebratory reasons; no, this cheese had a message about religious freedom in the United States.
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Boundary Stones is a local public television program presented by WETA