Bluegrass music! 22nd ann Confederate Memorial Day Service, Stone Mountain Park, GA (April 19, 2025) скачать в хорошем качестве

Bluegrass music! 22nd ann Confederate Memorial Day Service, Stone Mountain Park, GA (April 19, 2025)

Fantastic bluegrass music at the 22nd Annual Confederate Memorial Day Service at Stone Mountain Park, Georgia (April 19, 2025). A delightful, family-friendly event held every year! Join us next year as we celebrate American living history! Stone Mountain is a massive exposed granite dome rising 1,686 feet above sea level in DeKalb County (about 16 miles east of Atlanta). The Venable brothers purchased the mountain in 1887 for quarrying operations. In 1915, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) commissioned sculptor Gutzon Borglum to carve a massive relief honoring the Confederacy. Borglum started work in 1923 but left in 1925 amid disputes, having completed only a portion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Augustus Lukeman took over briefly, finishing Lee's figure, but progress stalled due to funding issues. In 1958 the Georgia Legislature created the Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA) and bought the 3,200-acre property for $1.1 million, explicitly "as a memorial to the Confederacy." Carving resumed in the 1960s under sculptors Walker Hancock and Roy Faulkner, depicting Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on horseback across a three-acre surface (90x190 feet, recessed 42 feet deep)—the world's largest bas-relief sculpture. The park opened on April 14, 1965 (centennial of Lincoln's assassination), with the carving dedicated in 1970 and completed in 1972. It became Georgia's top tourist site. The SMMA's statutory mission, enshrined in Georgia Code §12-3-192.1 (from the 1958 Stone Mountain Memorial Act), is to "maintain an appropriate and suitable memorial for the Confederacy," explicitly honoring the "bravery and heroism" of Confederate soldiers who fought in the 1861–1865 "Civil" War. This includes preserving the carving as a tribute to figures like Davis (Confederate president), Lee, and Jackson, and surrounding features like the Memorial Lawn, museum, and annual events such as the Confederate Memorial Day Service. #heritage #bluegrass #bluegrassmusic #americana #south #dixie #historymatters #legacy #culture