Stone Mountain

We went to Stone Mountain today.  There is a very large park there but we went mainly to see carving and the museum. 
We saw a short film about the men who did the carving.  In 1916 the Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned Gutzon Borglum to start the carving.  It started out to be just a carving of General Robert E. Lee. He abandoned the project in 1923 and later went on to complete Mount Rushmore.  Augustus Lukeman continued the work until 1928 when work stopped for the next 30 years. In 1963, Walker Hancock was selected to complete the carving, and work began in 1964. The carving was completed by Roy Faulkner.   Stone Mountain is solid granite and the carving process employed many local stone workers from the area quarries.
The finished carving now depicts three Confederate leaders of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (and their favorite horses, "Blackjack", "Traveller", and "Little Sorrel", respectively).
Here is a picture of the mountain and a close-up of the carving. 
        


Another good day.