a violinist. He loved music and surely would have loved dance. Great way to honor Jefferson. (And Washington for that matter.)
Interesting that we don't have an Adams Memorial. I don't think he was quite as much fun as Jefferson and Washington.
http://lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=1241(article on Jefferson's fiddling as well as his brother's)
And Washington
The private assembly, the public ball, and the afternoon dancing party served the same role for Washington and his generation that government receptions, embassy cocktail parties, and officers’ clubs serve today—venues to bring the political leaders, diplomats, financiers and military people together under favorable and visible conditions. For most of his career, George Washington depended entirely on the inter-relations between these groups of people, socially, economically, and politically. In many cases, dancing was simply an excuse for a party and one of several activities at the event. In 1774 Philip Fithian described a ball to which he escorted the wife and children of his employer, Virginia plantation owner Colonel Robert Carter. From about two in the afternoon until eleven that evening Fithian was fully occupied in conversation, dining, and observing the beautiful surroundings and the activities of the other attendees at cards, singing, drinking and dancing.
About Seven the Ladies & Gentlemen begun to dance in the Ball-Room—first Minuets one Round; Second Giggs
; third Reels; And last of All Country-Dances; . . . The Music was a French-Horn and two violins—The Ladies were Dressed Gay, and splendid, & when dancing, their Silks & Brocades rustled and trailed behind them! —But all did not join in the Dance for there were parties in Rooms made up, some at Cards; some drinking for Pleasure; some toasting the Sons of america; some singing “Liberty Songs” as they call’d them, in which six, eight, ten or more would put their Heads near together and roar, & for the most part as unharmonious as an affronted — (Fithian 56–57).
http://www.colonialmusic.org/Resource/GW&Dance.htm
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