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The rise and fall of America's monuments
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Stone Mountain in Georgia
Stacy abrams called it a blight on the state and asked for its removal. It became a big issue in her last gubenatorial race, and will probably be another issue this fall. The project was begun in 19 14 by a confederate widow who wanted to honor her husband. She hired a sculptor named gutsen borglam to carve just ahead of lee on the mountain. But he was actually fired from the project because he was embezzling too much of the funds without produce enough carving. They blasted his head of lee right off the mountain.
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