The new museum being built at Stone Mountain Park is set to do a little truth-telling. That’s the problem.
Whose “truth” will it tell?
Truth these days is an elusive commodity. And truths concerning the Civil War have been a battle for 160 years.
In 2022, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association’s board selected Warner Museums to head up an $11 million, state-funded effort to curate a museum at Memorial Hall, which overlooks the park’s (in)famous carving.
Warner’s body of work ranges from the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville to civil rights museums like Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, where four Black girls died in a 1963 bombing, to a Confederacy museum in Alabama.