In a recent Washington Post article, supporters of a Lost Cause monument unsuccessfully argued to have a Confederate statue moved from a county courthouse steps to a local cemetery. The article sets out some of the counter-challenge arguments we described in our prior post. But eventually the small community of Isle of Wright rejected
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Cemeteries and Lost Cause Monuments: The Counter-Challenge
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Cemeteries
While the greater public sentiment has turned against statues honoring the Confederacy, cemetery operators should anticipate a counter-challenge to the removal of a Lost Cause monument. Support for the Lost Cause monument can be just as fervent as the calls for its removal. With emotions running high in both directions, the removal of the Lost…