Here's the update. A few months ago, I had a dream that a confused Thomas Jefferson knocked at my door. One second, he was walking into a room at Monticello and he next, he was standing in front of an apartment door. Once I quizzed him unmercifully and accepted this bizarre tale, we had a great time.
Jefferson was a red-head. He's got a bit of a Conan O'Brien look, doesn't he. Both he and George Washington were 6'2" -- tall for the 18th century. The average height for men in the American colonies in the 1770s was 5'8". That was three inches taller than in Britain, which was most certainly due to a better diet.
