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Monday’s Monument: A Simple Act of Kindness, Columbus, Georgia

Monday’s Monument: A Simple Act of Kindness, Columbus, Georgia

by Susan | Nov 13, 2020 | Monuments

As the story goes, in 1883 a young woman working at the Eagle and Phenix textile mill got her skirt caught in a piece of machinery. It tore the lining of her skirt and her life savings, which she had sewn into the lining for safety, tumbled out onto the factory floor....
Monday’s Monument: Piedmont Park Angel of Peace, Atlanta, Georgia

Monday’s Monument: Piedmont Park Angel of Peace, Atlanta, Georgia

by Susan | Jul 16, 2018 | Monuments

Cease Firing – Peace is Proclaimed, or just the Peace Monument, sometimes referred to as Gate City Guard, was designed by sculptor Allen George Newman and dedicated in Piedmont Park on October 10, 1911. It depicts an angel staying the hand of a Confederate...
Monday’s Monument: John Lewis Hero Mural, Atlanta, Georgia

Monday’s Monument: John Lewis Hero Mural, Atlanta, Georgia

by Susan | May 21, 2018 | Monuments

John Lewis moved to Atlanta as a founding leader of SNCC— the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—with an impressive resume as an activist. As a Fisk University student he’d been arrested for leading sit-ins and protests. In 1961 he helped spearhead the Freedom...
Monday’s Monument: Salzburger Monument of Reconciliation, Savannah, Georgia

Monday’s Monument: Salzburger Monument of Reconciliation, Savannah, Georgia

by Susan | Mar 12, 2018 | Monuments

Salzburger Park, a half-acre piece of land next to Emmett Park in Savannah, was the very place, on March 12, 1734, that first group of German-speaking Lutherans, known as the Salzburgers, landed in Georgia and were welcomed by General James Edward Oglethorpe. They...

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