“Put the historic monument back up and remove the Vance name and then install the names of people who made Asheville what it was.”

“Put the historic monument back up and remove the Vance name and then install the names of people who made Asheville what it was.”
Last month marked the 400th anniversary of the introduction of slavery to North America, triggering a new round of national soul-searching about human bondage and its complex legacy. And closer to home, Lost Cause-era monuments to Confederate figures at Calvary Episcopal Church in Fletcher also raise significant questions about the country’s troubled history and this region’s place in it.
Alas, alas! To travel from New Bern to Buncombe now would cause you many tears John, unless your heart is harder than I think it is.