Chattahoochee River
Atlanta
The Chattahoochee River didn't have to be beautiful.
With a name like that, we just wanted to go so we could say, "Chattahoochee".
But of course, God's amazing creation and the good ol' NPS do not disappoint...
Look! A different kind of trillium on this side of the US!
This crazy adventurer.... 💙
was also able to stop at Stone Mountain because he had schools there one day...
Stone Mountain is a huge exposed granite wall displaying a carving of
Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.
You can imagine the controversy.
The private owners of Stone Mountain allowed the KKK to meet there, beginning in 1915.
The man originally commissioned to do the carving in 1916 abandoned the project in 1925
and went on to begin Mount Rushmore.
The state of GA bought the land in 1960 and no longer allowed the Klan to meet on the premises.
Work began again on the carving in 1964 and was completed in 1972.
Great dinner conversations were had about what this monument and its history represent.
This mountain, in the same area where MLK Jr's civil rights battles were birthed,
and where the Carters still live and work for peace through the Carter Foundation.
And then you have "Gone With the Wind"...
What a diverse and interesting nation we live in!
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