Flutterby™! : Stone Mountain 2002-02-21 15:07:21+00

Stone Mountain

2002-02-21 15:07:21+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Bad snapshot time, I apparently couldn't get the right exposure out of the little digital: I love the mountains around Chattanooga, but by the time you get down to Atlanta it's flat and boring. Except for Stone Mountain, a big granite monolith that's gradually being turned into an amusement park. But the geology of the rock is pretty cool for those of us with rock fetishes, and there's a large monument of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson carved into the side. I got one picture a little closer, but for some reason the exposure and the zoom still sucks, and it doesn't capture the scale.

The laser light show they have on weekends during the summer is something everyone should attend at least once. Not because it is spectacular or anything, the same show has been running for the past twenty years with just slight updates in the song selection, but because it is the only place you are going to find a crowd of 5,000 to 20,000 people that is about 35% African-American watching a tribute to the Confederacy with every one in the crowd truely enjoying themselves.

Christ, you forgot to mention the Beer Belly lifesupport units toting coolers of Budwiser up to watch the show and fire thier six shooters into the sky to many a "Rebel Yell"!