1. Blossoms
The flowering trees and plants festoon the city in white and pink blossoms. Petals fall like so much confetti.
Mar 09, 2010
15 Reasons to Love Charlottesville in Spring
HIGHLIGHTS
Wrapped in Mystery
A guide to U.Va.'s student societies.
A New Kind of Leader
The Batten School was created to develop 'challengers of the status quo.'
Where We Study
When finals are approaching at U.Va., the air seems charged with anticipation as students take to the libraries and cafés en masse and energy drinks fly off the shelves.
Over Seven Billion Served
Last October, the 7 billionth person on the planet was born. Professors explain the dynamics of the population boom and demographic transition.
What Can the New Frog in Town Tell Us About Our Eyes?
A biology student explains a U.Va. professor's new experimental animal
Theater as You’ve Never Seen It Before
Set designer Lisi Stoessel (Col '06, Grad '08) creates fantastical places.
What’s Up, Doc?
The human body is a complex machine of about 10 trillion interconnected cells. Researchers at the U.Va. Health System are working with new technology to keep everything from our brains to our blood sugar in good shape.
Can Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Prevent Crime?
Why U.Va. students are teaching Russian literature at a juvenile correctional center
1976: A Royal Visit
On July 10, Queen Elizabeth toured the Academical Village, where 18,000 people watched her stroll down the Lawn.
Lady Gaga Recruits U.Va. Bullying Expert
Lady Gaga's lofty goal and a Foundation stacked with experts well-suited to help achieve it.
Jefferson’s Secret Bible
In the twilight of his life, Jefferson began exploring his faith and deepening his understanding of the Bible and Christianity.
Spirit of Adventure
Two documentaries portray challenging journeys and the importance of family
Body Builder
Mike Curtis helps athletes recover from injuries and maintain peak form
New & Notable
Listen to six innovative albums by 15 must-hear alumni musicians.
Eyes on the Olympics
U.Va. athletes play vital role in Team USA’s path to No. 1
Comments
I am very proud of my kid and the fact that she will graduate in May. But I'll miss Charlottesville! Who knows, I just might decide to retire there!
It's so hard to decide what's better - the blooming gardens on Grounds, or a warm afternoon of lacrosse... Oh, this makes me so homesick for Charlottesville!
And, for those of us old to remember, there was Easters....
Karl, yes! Who could forget the mudslides at Mad Bowl, and everything else that went with Easters?
Where the heck is rowing in all this? You mention other spring sports and "paddling" for goodness sakes but totally neglected UVA's rowing program, one of the top in the country. Shame on you!
Easters...
Easters ... mud football in Mad Bowl ... Finally walking to class without a coat ... Foxfield ... So many memories. I'm homesick!
Yeah, Easters... I still have the t-shirt!
I started as a first year student in 1952 at Kent House ("new" dorms) and remember the big party weekends well. I became a Kappa Sig my second year and the Quadrangle Party we threw (for free) during Easters. Dean BFD Runk made us put up a wall to keep people out of Rugby Road, but it didn't work. Eventually I graduated from medical school and now live in California, but I still miss Albemarle County. M. MacLeod
"In the 1970s, the Dogwood Festival parades featured notables like Elizabeth Taylor and, on Charlottesville’s bicentennial, Queen Elizabeth II." This is how "but I read it somewhere" stories start. Elizabeth Taylor visited Charlottesville a number of times during her marriage to John Warner, particularly during the 1978 U.S. Senate campaign (and including at least one visit to Foxfield), but you may want to check your sources on whether she actually appeared in a Dogwood Festival Parade. (By the way, her first trip to the area was in 1955, to film scenes for the movie GIANT with Rock Hudson.) Queen Elizabeth II visited Charloteville and UVA (walking down the center of the Lawn from the Rotunda and speaking in front of Cabell Hall) for the Bicentennial of the United States in 1976. Charlottesville celebrated its bicentennial in 1962.
The remedy to Dr. MacLeod's melancholy musing is to repair more often to Charlottesville. The pipes, the pipes are callin' -- throw a few more parties. Physician, heal thyself!
What a great town! I was there for med school, too, and now we come back about once a month to a dear little apartment we bought on JPA. May God in His wisdom bring me back there on a more permanent basis one day!
Did anyone notice the boys with the beer bong in the lower left corner of the bottom Foxfield photo. Too funny!
I miss working with Special Programs, PK German, and the rest of UPC to get Springfest put together... the extra work was always work it to get to hang out with such great people and I will never forget getting up early to scoop mud out of Mad Bowl to get it ready for Robert Randolph and the Family Band!
Frisbee on the Lawn and the Beaux Arts Ball are some of my most vivid memories of spring.
Je vais aller aux USA pour la première fois, voir ma fille et son compagnon à Charlottesville!!! Youpi! She will graduate in May (je ne sais pas comment le dire en français!) Vive le printemps à Charlottesville!!!!
As a current student, let me just say that few things are as satisfying as walking to class feeling light sans coat (as someone previously mentioned) and reading in the amphitheater in between classes.... Welcome back spring, my flip flops and I have missed you.
As a son of two alumni (father, college '82, medicine '86; mother, nursing '83), I've heard tons of stories about easters. I can't imagine what it was like. They won't let me wear their vintage t-shirts, but I would pay a lot of money for one
CLAS 84, I also enjoy tubing down the James, and visiting (and volunteering for) wineries. I'll be pouring Delfosse wine on Friday 04Jun at this reunion.
Jason, I grew up in Charlottesville, and as a local, attended a few Easters celebrations. They were a lot of fun 8>
Yes RLB, Elizabeth Taylor was a grand marshal of the Dogwood Parade. Knew it was around 77 or 78. I just turned to the internet to find the year. Wanted to tell people what year I saw her.
Leave a Comment