He found 15 books in a Sierra dumpster. Then he found out they belonged to Thomas Jefferson.

[TomSea]

Sacramento Bee:

He found 15 books in a Sierra dumpster. Then he found out they belonged to Thomas Jefferson.

 Jordan Cutler-Tietjen


Courtesy of Max Brown via MCT In this undated photo provided to The Sacramento Bee by Max Brown, an assortment of heirloom family photos are shown, which he found among the old documents in a dumpster in Incline Village, Calif., in December 2014. After finding worn books once owned by Thomas Jefferson in a dumpster in 2014, Brown became a detective, beginning an archival search for answers that would span three years of his life, 220 years of the country's, and connect the hands of an American founding father to his own.

In December 2014, Max Brown was picking through an Incline Village dumpster for a community service project when a collection of 1980s cassettes caught his eye. Fancying himself a collector, he pulled them out and inspected them.

Then he noticed the substantial pile of worn books buried beneath them.

Then it started raining.

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