Jonathan Phillips

If you’ve heard the saying “The South will rise again” well on Saturday it almost did. I went to shoot the Confederate Memorial Services at Stone Mountain Park. This is the eighth year that they have been held here in front of “the world’s largest confederate monument” but this is the first chance that I have gotten to experience the show. Spectators, dressed in uniform or period dresses, came from Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and of course Georgia. There was gun and cannon fire, as well as speakers, a bugler, a bagpiper, infantry, more speakers, women in hoop skirts and a few yee-haws.

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The Big Apple Circus has come to Stone Mountain Park. Tonight they performed a special show for children who are vision and hearing impaired. They had headphones giving a play by play description of the action going on in the ring for the kids who could not see and sign language interpreters for those that could not hear. After the show they invited a few of the children and their families into the ring to experience some of the sensations of the performers, their costumes, their animals and some of the stunts that they performed. It was a very cool experience.

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