Thesis

Stone Mountain Park began as a celebration of the Confederate cause, memorializing forever the famous leaders of the Southland. Over time, however, the park has changed from memorial to vacation spot. Economic pressures, changing attitudes about the South, and outside forces, like the Olympics, have diluted the park's Confederate focus and molded it into a marketable commodity, akin to a Southern Disneyland. The essays, biographies, documents and images in this site illustrate this process of commercialization.

• Introduction to Shades of Gray
  
• Timeline - The analytical heart of the project: succinct essays and images narrate the park's transformation from memorial to vacation spot.
  

• Appendices

  Key Players - The individuals, groups, and ideas that shaped the development of the park.
  

  Stone Mountain Archive - Exhaustive catalogs of Documents and Images of or about the carving and the surrounding park.

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