Karen Stuebing
Veteran Member
If it made you stop for a moment and think, then I guess that's good. To those who commented that the rope was there to stabilize it, I thought so at first too. Probably just denial. It doesn't make sense. If something made it fall it would just bang against the porch and break or the head would come off.
Karen
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'Let us cross over the river and sit under the shade of the trees.'
Last words of General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsvillle during the US Civil War, 1863.
Karen
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'Let us cross over the river and sit under the shade of the trees.'
Last words of General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsvillle during the US Civil War, 1863.
to go and look at it. When I came back to thank him, I had a long conversation with him. Turns out it was his family's land for miles around. They own a sawmill as well. He asked me if I saw the tombstone in the far right corner and I said yes. He told me that his family had owned slaves and when the Emancipation came, one woman had no family and nowhere to go and asked if she could stay and became part of their family. That was her grave and tombstone. And it was a real tombstone not one of those pieces of slate sticking up out of the ground with no name. I thought the story interesting after seeing the statue. I asked him if he had seen it and he made a face and said yes. He was a very genteel gentleman and it was obvious he found it distasteful. As I'm sure many locals do. But people around here believe in a man's right to do what he wants with his property without interference. So maybe in a way it forces people to confront something that is usually very subtle.