In the second global pandemic summer of 2021, the Olympics limped along in Tokyo. A new strain of the coronavirus, called the Delta variant, took hold across the world. The American-led military coalition left Afghanistan and the Taliban stepped right into the vacuum, reinjuring an already devastated country. Grecian islands burned, and temperatures soared from coast-to-coast in North America. Mask wearing was brought forward to take its place as the flash point of the political divide.
And, more monuments were removed, including the Robert E. Lee Monument, the Stonewall Jackson Monument, and the Conqueror of the Northwest, also known as the Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea Monument, in Charlottesville, Virginia. In another area of the country, a new monument to replace the deposed Columbus bronze in Wooster Square in New Haven, Connecticut, debuted as a conceptual drawing. In other words, amid great continued upheaval—political, social, and ecological—monument removals and reimaginations continue...
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