Founder's Day

    "Jefferson didn't work in a vacuum", he was in constant contact with people like Latrobe, Thornton, Neilson, and Cocke. The idea of a university came after over thirty years of working on legislation on education. The built plan for the university evolved over five years until it became an elongated ten pavilion plan. The professors would live and teach in the pavilions and the rotunda housed the library. It was a complete package that demonstrates through architecture the orders-modern, classic, and their relation to each other. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. Tonight the fire works are blazing in celebration. It's the 271st anniversary of JT's birth being celebrated this weekend.  It's going to be an exciting night.