CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A line extended well into the corridor of the West Lawn waiting to get into the building and up the stairs to the Rotunda Room for at look at one of the two original copies of the Declaration of Independence the University’s creator, Thomas Jefferson, wrote.
The document, found in an attic in Albany, NY in 1955, is one of 26 remaining copies of 200 sent to the colonies from a Philadelphia printing press to alert them of its existence.
A-month-and-a-half into his new job, the event was the first major public-facing appearance for University President Scott Beardsley…