PhotoArtists, art historians and preservationists have weighed in on what to do with the decommissioned Confederate statues, and on questions of their artistic merit. The Alliance’s artistic director, Susan V. Booth, approached the Atlanta History Center with the idea of staging the play alongside its collection of Civil War artifacts. “I said, ‘Hell yeah,” recalled Mr. Hale, who said he was already a fan of the book. “It fits into our new strategic plan of working with other institutions and getting different people from different ZIP codes and different interests in here,” he said. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Hale is not a historian but a history buff, an Atlanta native with a law degree from the University of Virginia.

Source: New York Times January 21, 2018 15:00 UTC