There really is that cooperation that is always going on between the three parts. We took a driving tour of the city. Know of charlottesville, because it is on the back of the nickel. Coachella right . Monticello, right . Yes. That Little Mountain as he called it. Course waserson of born here, april 13, 1743. His father had moved out here to the west to get land. His father, Peter Jefferson, was a surveyor and coauthored in the official new map of virginia. At that time, it was nothing like it it was the best map of virginia. Little tommy was raised on this man who would god and explore and make maps and discover. If you think about it, Peter Jefferson was using scientific experiments to make the unknown known coming to create maps and to carve out of this unknown backcountry, Beautiful Image of a map. It is very poetic. Its a metaphor for jeffersons mind, this guy who was constantly learning. The idea of science knowledge with discovery. We are heading to the top of the hell now. Yes, climbing monticello. Acres of estate. We are going to go to the highest point, which jefferson called note also. That is the Little Mountain. Was part ofn jeffersons 2000 acre estate. Of course, we should point out where hundreds of people of color were enslaved for many many years. And we can see mulberry road from appearance as well. Thats right, mulberry row, jefferson considered it the industrial part of his estate, of littlead a number factories and workshops that were manned a people of color, just next to the garden. We are getting more and more of a few of charlottesville. Appear . . We see from. University hospital, just beyond that the dome of the uva rotunda. Thats the historic core of the university of virginia. To the right of that, you can see the big dome of the Old University hall, that was pulled to the very 60s. Thecan see what is becoming 21st century skyline of charlottesville. We are experiencing a tremendous boom in development. Its a good problem to have, but it is still a challenge. We have this great aerial view of downtown. Should we had there now . Yeah, lets go to the heart of downtown. We are driving into downtown charlottesville through the old belmont neighborhood, which started here in the 1890s. That is downtown charlottesville. Our humble skyline, you can see the pavilion, which is at the east end of the downtown mall, the outdoor music venue. Headingoing to be towards the very top of the old monticello hotel, from 1925. That is on Historic Court square where we will go. Oft is the original heart the town of charlottesville. He mentioned the downtown mall. Downtowne showpiece of. That is our postcard view, the downtown mall. Mallottesville pedestrian was created in 1976. It was an effort to try to preserve the historic core of charlottesville. They turned it into a pedestrian mall. It was an architectural and design fad in the 1970s to create a break pedestrian malls. Most of them and america did not survive. There some but did very well and. T survived to this day charlottesville is the first part of 1976 it has since been expanded to east, west, into some side streets. A terrifics been investment in the community. Fillede downtown mall is with people constantly. He cant move on weekend nights in the summer. Live music, art, youve got the buskers at every corner play music. Its just fantastic. It wasld also point out really controversial at the time, when the city council of charlottesville made that vision to close off main street. If you think about it it was counter intuitive. Refunding to the fact of car culture, all the new Shopping Centers that were opening on 29 north. How are we going to keep people interested in downtown, keep them coming downtown . They are all getting in the cars and driving to the suburbs, a we will close of to cars. It was counter intuitive. But it works. Square thein court upper mall county courthouse. When they greeted charlottesville in 1762, they laid it out on either side of the three notch road, which was the historic colonial road of richmond. Cross the blue ridge up into the valley. Charlottesville is a plant town laid out on either side of this historic colonial road. The courthouse was located here on the hill, which was on the. Dge of town, the original town this is the historic core of the town of charlottesville. Statue, who chef is depicted there . The 1909tatue is confederate statue called, at the ready. It depicts a confederate soldier, who is standing with a gun battle ready to go into battle to fight, preserve human slavery in america. What the confederacy certainly stood for in other writings. Confederateumber of prosouth statues here. It has been contentious. As it is in communities across the software they have monuments the celebrate and venerate historic u. S. Confederacy. I have to credit a lot of people been a part of this conversation , that i think people have made an effort to ,ave unenlightened, progressive inclusive, fruitful conversation. Upse statues did not go during the civil war. Late 1860sn the after the war. They go up in the 1870s. They went up 60 years after the war. Most of them in the 1920s. The storm on jackson statue, robert e lee statue, they were very much a part of what we now the a lost cause, which was south narrative. After the civil war it was a start Historic Division is him, rating a new history about the civil war and saying, it had nothing to do with slavery, it was only about states rights. Even though at the time of the civil war they were writing, this is a great deal to do with slavery. The property lee statue goes up in 1924. A lost cause,h what supremacist statement on the on the landscape. The charltons city council decision, 32, to remove the robert e. Lee statue. They did not talk about the Stonewall Jackson statue, the 1909 confederate soldier statue, specifically the robert e. Lee, which went up in 1944. The decision was to remove it. I do not think that they does a city of virginia have the authority to remove a statue . There is state legislation to keep those things in place. Let not of richmond will charles bo remove that statue. Theres also the question of where does the money come from to move it . Be cheap. Statue isat that abhorrent, and what it refers to, that White Supremacy is a lost cause. That said, i am one of the people who believes it should stay. Why . It should be a tool to teach people about the lost cause which most people havent heard of. Between at that tension how we remember the past and talk about the past, and what actually happened. I would like to see new signage, statues to talk about the Civil Rights Movement here in charlottesville. Statue should be there to remind people of what happened in the 1920s. Now we are approaching the University Part of town. You see to the left all of the buildings, some very new, that are part of the University Medical system. Entering the heart of the University Community. At the top of the hill you can see the rotunda which was the library. This section of town years called, the corner. This is the corner of the corner, where the historic entrance to the University Grounds Committee Main road to charlottesville holding their corner. The corner of first five city blocks. This is the heart of the University Community here, where you get a lot of bars and restaurants, shops, that cater to the University Community. This long walk up to the rotunda will take you up to the. Cademical village and rotunda the university of virginia that the state charter in january in 1819. Morning,pened monday march 7, 1825. Long enoughved just to see the first year of classes. That has been a dream of his for over 40 years, to create a new hed of university for what truly believed was a new kind of country. Why was that important to him . Specificallycation was important to jefferson because it actually fulfill the dreams of 1776. You can have a revolution, but as long as the wealthy elites run everything, you are going to find yourself back in the same problems that you had before the revolution. The key was creating a new kind of school that would teach the principles of the democratic enlightenment to successive. Enerations thats what the university of virginia was about. As farce was concerned, james madison, who was just as much involved in the project that became the university of virginia, they believed that uva was the insurance policy for the american revolution. And that it would be here on the grounds of the university where the flame of the enlightenment would burn brighter than anyone else in the world. The university of virginia today has gone from academical village city with study 20,000 students. Compared to many universities, that is still relatively mediumsized university. But its quite big and sprawling what weross much of would consider the west end of charlottesville. So we see monticello, youve driven through the downtown. Now we are hearing University Grounds. Thinking back on the city, you have lived here for 40 30 years. What would you like to see for the future, what is your ideal dream for charlottesville . My ideal dream charlottesville will continue to experience this tremendous growth which we are experiencing right now. Those ade all of best place to retire. On and off we have been number one on all of those lists, which is great. For to be a victim of its own success, but the problems we have are the problems we want. You want people to want to live in your community, to want to visit and experience all the things you love about your hometown. Charlottesville would be, as it grows and as we write this new century in brick and stone and mortar, not just on paper, but as we write our story on the landscape, i would hope that people would have the experience that i have had of falling in love with a place, and having it mean so much to you. Your own experience of being alive i would hope that the would have that joy that i get every
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