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I am Jim Sharp. Worked at The Hermitage now for eight years as an interpreter of
Jacksonian history. There are several items in this house that you see that
are behind the scenes items you do not hear a lot about
At this point I'd like to tell you about one that interest me the most
that would be outside of Jackson's library down on the first floor
in that hallway there's a closet under the steps that had just bolted material
for making
dresses and shirts and things that was there in jackson's time
right across from it is a closet that the ladies placed in there in after Jackson die
they mention they'll wanted to a place where they can hang their
coats when it come out and have their business meetings in Jackson's library
where
now sometime in the late 70's early 80's they had some
interns from college studying the ladies minutes at their meetings
and they ran across this note in there were the ladies said
they wanted to add that closet a place where they could hang their coats
and they had to be careful not to destroy the original wallpaper
So that is the interesting part; you go in, open that door
which the general public doesn't get to see, look in that closet, it has our winter
coats in it now
but right there in the back of that wall as the original wallpaper. A big chunk of
it is taking out that they
took out and sent off to have that paper reproduce
and the reproductions on the halls downstairs
today that's a little behind the scenes thing
of the wallpaper in the hall way