NEWS

Literary festival visitor parking set; Cameron on campus closed Saturday

CHAPEL HILL -- Visitors to the North Carolina Literary Festival this weekend (April 5-6) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may park free in the following campus lots:

For Julia Alvarez’s free public talk at 7 p.m. Friday (April 5) in Memorial Hall and the reception afterward (call 843-5660 for ticket information), parking will be free in the Hanes and Swain lots off Cameron Avenue.

Cameron will be closed from South Columbia Street to Raleigh Street from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday (April 6).

Saturday’s festivities will be on McCorkle Place, the grassy area off East Franklin Street approximately across from the Post Office. Visitors may park free in the Bell Tower lot off South Road; the lot behind Nash Hall on Pittsboro Street near McCauley Street; and the lot at the corner of Pittsboro and McCauley.

Buses will circulate through the lots regularly from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. to take visitors to the festival and back.

The Morehead, Hanes and Swain lots will be reserved for the handicapped and festival participants. Visitors may be accommodated in those lots if space allows.

The Town of Chapel Hill’s pay lots off Rosemary Street will be open, and Chapel Hill Transit buses will operate. For bus routes and schedules, visit http://www.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us/transit/routes/ or call (919) 968-2769.

For more information on festival parking, call Kristen Gravitte at (919) 843-4104.

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Note to media: Five spaces will be reserved for media in the Swain visitor lot on Friday and Saturday, April 5-6; plan to show I.D.; parking coordinators will be available to help.

News Services contact: L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589; on Saturday, cell (919) 219-6374; pager 216-2038.