literature professor wrote a very thoughtful piece in the baltimore sun newspaper suggesting a new future for mountain is airy, suggesting that the united states of america should consider buying amount misery to make it a commemorative site. he argued, would not the most fitting outcome for mountain is really as a monumental museum where in a key moment from the country s past confined its rightful place in the public memory? the old edward covey house deserves our understanding and preservation. the fight between slave and slave breaker that took place there, is emblematic of two of the elemental teams of american history, the horrors of legally sanctioned racial violence, and also the nobility of the struggle against unjust authority. and then, here is the kicker from that piece. the professor says quote, preserving mount misery as a public site of contemplation, where the meetings of democracy and despotism are given a human