<story><title>Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/he-found-15-books-in-a-sierra-dumpster-then-he-found-out-they-belonged-to-thomas-jefferson/ar-BBLd9cM</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mncharity</author><text>Under similar circumstances, I ended up with the one-page 1740 Treasurer&amp;#x27;s Account for the Town of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1]&lt;p&gt;A neighbor died, and a relative came by and rapidly dumpstered their apartment.  Including a stack of family photo albums.&lt;p&gt;Now, I&amp;#x27;d a childhood experience of family sorting things into two boxes: &amp;quot;toys to donate to the school sale&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;childhood photos and keepsakes&amp;quot;.  Think &amp;quot;all your eggs in one basket&amp;quot;.  The wrong box was then dropped off at the school.  A few hours later, it had been categorized as trash, thrown out, and was unrecoverably lost.&lt;p&gt;So I salvaged some of the albums in the dumpster.  And eventually got in touch with the family to ask, &amp;quot;are your sure?&amp;quot;.  They were.  But before I got around to throwing them out again, I found the document inside a folded photo card thing.  And wondered if there had been more in the dumpster, among that which I didn&amp;#x27;t salvage.&lt;p&gt;And if I died today, it would likely end up back in a dumpster.  Need to find it a better home.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vendian.org&amp;#x2F;1740&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vendian.org&amp;#x2F;1740&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/he-found-15-books-in-a-sierra-dumpster-then-he-found-out-they-belonged-to-thomas-jefferson/ar-BBLd9cM</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HenryTheHorse</author><text>I know Jefferson is complicated, but I encourage everyone to visit Monticello (his estate in Virginia) and see his library* .&lt;p&gt;The man was &lt;i&gt;obsessed&lt;/i&gt; with reading (and gardening).&lt;p&gt;* On a related note, I&amp;#x27;d also strongly encourage people visiting NYC to visit the JP Morgan Library. It&amp;#x27;s spectacular.</text></comment>