“I am all for never seeing a Confederate flag again, but we need proper context for our precedents who lived in a world so different from our own.”
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“I am all for never seeing a Confederate flag again, but we need proper context for our precedents who lived in a world so different from our own.”
After recently unearthing (unmonumenting?) a time capsule put there in 1897 from the now-refurbished Vance monument memorial in downtown Asheville, plans to place a new capsule into the rededicated monument have been made by local officials. What insights into (now-modern/by-then-ancient) Asheville will future inhabitants of the region be able to divine?
With the iconic, 118-year-old obelisk set to begin a restoration process this month (and renewed examination of the native son/former Civil War governor for which it is named), here are some suggestions for new uses of the reinvigorated Vance Monument.