Posted on 07/14/2015 11:09:04 AM PDT by barmag25
I haven’t been in years, but I always enjoyed it.
I saw Ray Charles on the lawn 20-25 years ago; it was great!
I guess he couldn’t see the carving.
;-P
Yep. I’ve seen it myself.
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Y’know...I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some feral ‘youts’ found a way to get their hands on some RPG’s (I’m sure they’re out there somewhere for the right price) and snuck in and fired them off at the sculpture.
Wonder what would happen then?
How can a small group dictate a whole nation. Stone Mountain is part of southern tradition. It does not need a poke in the eye. Much time and effort was put into the design of the park. Here is what I wrote yesterday:
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the late 60’s, while at Griswald Winters and Swain, we developed the master plan for the park at Stone Mountain. For the open meadow at the base of the sculpture, we provided individual landscape settings for each of the thirteen confederate states. The individual designs featured each state’s flowers and trees, along with their individual state flag.
Each landscape setting was positioned and chosen based upon the order of each state’s succession and framed so that there was no obscured view of the sculpture. This was many years ago, and was developed to show reverence for southern history: a history that should not be dismissed.
17 posted on 8/1/2015, 10:13:38 AM by aloppoct (stucnsf)
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