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By Rich Flowers
rflowers@athensreview.com May 25, 2021
The historic Athens Cemetery is the scene of a Memorial Day program on Monday.
The Athens Cemetery Association invites everyone to the ceremony, beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial, near the entrance to the grounds on South Prairieville Street.
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nd District Court Judge Scott McKee will deliver the keynote address. McKee is a military veteran who was deployed overseas in Afghanistan. He has spoken at numerous events, such as the Veteranâs Day observance at the East Texas Arboretum and the Henderson County Peace Officers Memorial on the courthouse lawn.
Photo by Cynthia R. Greenlee
In Asheville’s Triangle Park, a vibrant mural depicts real Black businesses on the Block, such as John Darity’s cab company.
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Overlooking downtown Asheville, North Carolina, from a vista in the city’s hilly East End neighborhood, DeWayne Barton points to a tall gray-and-white tower under construction.
“At the top [end of the price range], you’ll pay $750,000 to live in that building,” he says.
That future high rise is being constructed on the same ground as quarters for enslaved people who spent their bondage serving guests in one of the city’s hotels before the Civil War.
An Eagle Scoutâs project that placed a memorial in Monumentâs town cemetery has stirred debate. Courtesy MRFF
A memorial installed Oct. 3 at town-owned Monument Cemetery as part of an Eagle Scoutâs project drew criticism from local residents, who asked the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) to seek its removal.
Since MRFF urged the town by letter last month to remove the memorial or the religious language and imagery that refers to a specific religion â Christianity â Americans United for Separation of Church and State has joined the campaign.
The monument, funded largely by donations through the VFW Foundation, was made possible through efforts of Boy Scout Michael Carlson, aided by other Scouts and leaders of Boy Scout Troop 8 of St. Matthias Episcopal Church, according to
Priscilla Ndiaye Robinson looked across the empty fields where her Southside neighborhood once thrived. “It’s all gone,” she said. “One thousand two hundred businesses and homes were lost.”
The neighborhood, where approximately half of Asheville’s Black population lived, suffered major upheaval under Asheville’s urban renewal program in the 1970s and 1980s, one of the largest urban renewal projects in the Southeastern United States.
Ndiaye Robinson’s memories of childhood delights a neighbor’s cupcakes, playing with chickens, charging up the grassy hills are tainted by sadness and umbrage at what happened. “It broke up a loving community. It tore up families,” she recalled.