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Highlighted 05:35 pm May 15th 2008

Monticello really gets new boss

by Hawes Spencer

Monticello really is getting a new director. Yes, we heard change was coming last September, but it’ll be hard to imagine the place without 24-year veteran Dan Jordan. The new boss, Leslie Greene Bowman, hails from Winterthur, an Americana, decorative arts, and architecture museum based in a rich person’s house in Delaware.

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