Musician Dave Matthews, sitting beside the president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Leslie Greene Bowman, was the speaker at the annual Monticello Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony today. The rocker called us a "nation of immigrants" and welcomed the new citizens with a reminder about the meaning of the motto on the great seal of the United States, the Latin phrase E pluribus unum, meaning "out of many, one." Matthews says he "came into town late," straight from his summer tour schedule, and felt a "little addled," but delivered a speech enjoyed by all.
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