What Makes A Memorial? (2)

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Part 2: From A Shrine to a Much-Loved President in Washington D.C., to Sacred Ground in a Secluded Wood on the City's Edge. Thoughts on What Makes a Memorial Memorable

How Long is This Post? About 2,700 words, 13 minutes

Running in two neat rows down the left side of the photo, the memorials to the enslaved people of Belmont Plantation are as anonymous as the lives they commemorate. And yet, here they are, bearing silent witness two centuries on, to love and remembrance. Image: Annette Laing, 2022

Continued from What Ma…