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Category: Confederate Rest

  • Maybe now the dead Confederates will be left to rest in peace

    Catching up with history We think the Madison Council will move on Sorry to break this to you, but Blaska does not possess every super power. Yes, he has the amazing ability to look into the past. He possesses an incredible command of the obvious. But he cannot be two places at once. The squire…

  • Moral preening called out; Confederate Rest stone lives for another day

    ‘Hypocritical grandstanding’ Legendary Madison architect Kenton Peters put it to the chairman of the Landmarks Commission hard and often.  “Are you doing this,” Peters said of Stu Levitan’s about-face in favor of removing the memorial stone at Confederate Rest, “to show you’re against slavery?” That, Peters continued a few hours ago, was “hypocritical grandstanding.” You…

  • Confederate Rest stone is ‘too big’ for Stu Levitan; it’s got to go

    We’ll see you at 5 this afternoon (07-23-18) in Room 351 of the City County Bldg on Martin Luther Drive. That’s when the Landmark Commission meets.  Your stones are too small, Stu Say it ain’t so, Stu Levitan So the professional city staff serving the Madison Landmarks Commission says to keep the monument at Confederate…

  • Dane County Historical Society: let the memorial remain at Confederate Rest

    Removing it would be ‘an injustice to history’ June 18, 2018 Dear Members of the City of Madison Common Council, The Board of Directors for the Dane County Historical Society is opposed to the removal of the stone cenotaph erected at Forest Hill Cemetery in 1906 which lists the names of the 140 Confederate soldiers…

  • Union dead honored at Forest Hill Cemetery, then Confederate

    Gadzooks! What would Ald. Matt Phair and the Madison Common Council say! It was a beautiful Monday morning at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison where history was remembered, and honored, on Memorial Day. The most touching moment was when a Union re-enactor from the Civil War strode south from Union Rest, where memorial ceremonies conducted…

  • Will government’s guardians of history overturn Madison alders’ grave desecration?

    Could the feds take over Confederate Rest? It ain’t over ‘till it’s over — this being The Emerald City. We last reported that the all-powerful (perhaps too powerful) Landmarks Commission would need to weigh in once again on the shameful forced disappearance of the memorial stone of a charitable Madison woman, Alice Whiting Waterman “and…