Roots Housing
Seminar participants will live in convenient, secluded, recently refurbished University of Virginia (UVa) professional student residential facilities, at a cost of approximately $1200 for the five weeks. These air-conditioned suites have two single bedrooms, one and one-half baths, and shared cooking facilities and living areas; laundry facilities are located within the complex. The rent includes basic housekeeping services, but participants must provide their own linens and kitchen utensils. Frequent and reliable bus service connects the area to the University’s central Grounds, the main libraries, and dining facilities. An intramural University athletic complex adjoins the apartment area. These residences lie also within walking distance of a major shopping center offering full-line food markets, coffee shops, restaurants, a Barnes and Noble, Kinko’s, and other conveniences (and necessities). If desired, participants may purchase meal plans at the dining facilities of the UVa’s newly renovated Student Center.
Past experience has shown that participants need not all bring automobiles to Charlottesville. Carpools using the vehicles of those who do drive have proven adequate to make the two-mile run from the participants’ housing to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. However, municipal public transportation in Charlottesville beyond the vicinity of the University runs on limited routes and at only moderate frequencies. Bicycle lanes in the University area and adjacent parts of the city allow reasonably safe – if also sometimes hilly – cycling, but the route to the VFH would take a cyclist along a very busy, narrow, highway with complicated and dangerous intersections. Having a vehicle will undoubtedly be convenient, and the residential complex where participants will live has ample parking immediately adjacent, for a fee of approximately $25 for the entire session of the seminar.
