The Federal Information Network speaks with Recreation Information Publisher Karl Teel about appealing things to do in and close to the nation’s money. This week:

• discover why the writer of the Declaration of Independence is also identified as the father of Virginia wine, at the Thomas Jefferson Wine Festival, at his “other” plantation, Poplar Forest, not to be confused with the Montpelier Wine Competition, which occurs in May possibly (Forest, Virginia, nowadays, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.).