South Carolina’s capital building. This building is notable for a couple of things. Union General Sherman sacked Columbia near the end of the Civil War. The building shows the damage from Union cannons that stood over across the river and lobbed cannonballs at the building. Essentially vandalism. The other notable is the flag that flies here. It is a Confederate battleflag. It finds itself in the news often. South Carolina takea a lot of heat for refusing to remove it. However, there it is. And its not the flag of the Confedeacy, it is the battleflag. It is a symbol of oppression for blacks and yet anyone who goes before a judge in South Carolina stands in a room facing both the US flag and the Confederate battle flag.
As I strolled the grounds there was a black woman and her two small children. I heard the child say something to her mom who replied, “I don’t know baby, ask this man”. “Excuse me sir”, came the little voice, “what is that?” She was pointing to the Confederate battle flag.
and what did you reply to the little girl?
Glad somebody went for my dramatic pause.
I said it was an army flag. And I looked at her mom and said it was the Confederate battleflag. She said, “Why don’t they take that down”. I told her I didn’t know which is a lie, but not something I wanted to discuss with a polite stranger.
By dramatic pause what I mean is, I had gone on to say what I told her but the intermittent internet connection must have dropped before I finished. 🙂
Hi Greg
Great pictures, you must have a good camera. Hay I was wondering if you checked, are there any Fosters in the phone book.
I have a VERY good camera on this trip. Am very grateful for the loan of it. Its been a pleasure to use its zoom especially.
There are either dozens or hundreds of Fosters in every phone book. Considering, for example, that there were three families of Fosters in Union County in the late 1700s that were not related to ours (total populationof the county then might have been 5000. So to find Fosters in modern phonebooks doesn’t necessarily mean cousins. In fact the odds are against it.