Roots Housing
Seminar participants will be housed in convenient, secluded professional-student residential facilities of UVA at a cost of approximately $1,200 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 in the complex. Two participants will live in each four-student suite, with private sleeping accommodations and studies. The rent includes basic housekeeping services, but participants should bring 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. These residences lie within comfortable 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 UVA's dining facilities. Participants accompanied by family, partners, or pets may make arrangements for themselves through any of the Charlottesville-area websites (or other on-line services); University students absent for the summer create a lively subletting market under leases they must sign for a full twelve months. Thirteen or fourteen of the fifteen participants normally use the Seminar housing.
Past experience has shown that participants need not all bring automobiles to Charlottesville. Carpools, using the vehicles of those who do, have proven more than adequate to make the two-mile run to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities from the participants’ housing. The residential complex where participants will live has ample parking immediately adjacent, for a fee of $25 for the entire session of the seminar.
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 intersections.
