Tomorrow night at my local library I’m giving a presentation on three men with ties to public universities in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Mason either started a college, or decades later had a college named after them. (I’ll let you figure out which is which.)

The most interesting part of my research was that I kept coming across the name Lafayette, as in, the Marquis de Lafayette.

Seriously, was there any piece of early American history this guy wasn’t a part of? He’s like the Forrest Gump of the 18th and 19th century.

He probably exaggerated a little when he said he was bigger than Jesus, but not by much.

Further info? Come to the Cascades Library in Sterling, Virginia, tomorrow night at seven.