By the way, if Stone Mountain goes, can Mount Rushmore be far behind? As I learned from listening to C-SPAN's Booknotes a week ago, the architect of Mount Rushmore was a former Klansman (he also was presiding over Stone Mountain until he was dismissed because of Klan politics.)
Isn't that a private park?
I believe so, and I didn't mean to imply that it was under the NPS - I was just going from one subject to another in my post. Rambling, in other words.
Stone Mountain Park is owned by a private concern. I think they're called "Silver Dollar City", which should probably give you an indication of what's ahead for the attraction--can we say "tourist trap", boys and girls?. I believe this means that the carving itself is private property, so it should be protected...I hope. This is Atlanta we're talking about, a city that has succeeded in becoming about as Southern as Detroit these days.
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