CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – In the summer before his 12-hour PBS miniseries “The American Revolution” airs in November, acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns is coming to Monticello. Monticello has already had to add afternoon July 3 show at PVCC at the foot of the mountain for “Revolution: An Evening with Ken Burns”… adding a 3pm show after the 7pm quickly sold out. He talked about the series recently with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where a lot of the film was made saying the big names are in the series, but he also has spent a lot of time telling the story of the ordinary people who fought the war. He filmed it in Colonial Williamsburg because the war was fought in an era where there were not photographs or film, so the place where so many buildings of the revolutionary era exist is there.

In addition, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation officially announces Burns as the keynote speaker for the 63rd Annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. More than 50 individuals from countries around the world will take the oath of citizenship at Monticello on Independence Day.
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