Commissioner Dee Clemmons
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Try to tell me there is no racist motivation behind that persecution of local history...
Posted on 05/24/2017 7:59:47 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Nash Farm Battlefield and Museum announced on Tuesday plans to close the museum, apparently after Henry County District 2 Commissioner Dee Clemmons requested they remove their Confederate flags from display at the property.
The museum property, owned by Henry County, housed a large artifact collection, period clothing exhibits, and history of the Nash Farm and family from the Civil War era battles that were fought on the site.
“These stories were told mainly through primary sources, sometimes secondary, but never tertiary sources. To exclude any Confederate flag would mean the historical value has been taken from our exhibits, and a fair interpretation could not be presented to each guest,” the Friends of Nash Farm Battlefield Inc. on the Nash Farm Battlefield Facebook page. “Confederate flags were on this hallowed ground, as were the Union flags. To remove either of them would be a dishonor.”
Bill Dodd is the museum’s curator and member of the Friends of Nash Farm group. He told the Herald Wednesday that the owner of the majority of the museum’s collection felt as though he was no longer welcome at the museum and did not have the support of Clemmons.
Dodd explained that over the last few months Clemmons has requested changes including the removal of an entrenchment replica used for living history tours and re-enactments.
“We did that,” Dodd said.
Weeks later, Dodd said a Henry County employee showed up on behalf of Clemmons and removed the Confederate battlefield flag from the flag pole. The employee took it into the museum and told volunteers they could display it only inside the museum.
“Two weeks ago Saturday, (Clemmons) came into the museum and stated that all Confederate flags needed to be removed,” Dodd said.
Dodd said the closing of the museum is a loss to the community.
“Over the years we’ve had more than 10,000 school children visit the battlefield for our living history program and visitors from 15 foreign countries and every state in the union,” Dodd said.
At this point, Dodd said he’s “done.”
“I’m tired of doing battle with our commissioners,” he said. “It’s not (Clemmons’s) decision alone, but if I don’t have the district commissioner’s support, how can I expect to have the support from any other BOC members.”
The only items remaining in the building are display pieces relocated to Nash Farm from Heritage Park and approximately 3,000 artifacts that belong to Henry County. The pieces were discovered during archaeological digs on the battlefield site.
Clemmons could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but appears to stand behind her decision.
“I will not apologize for asking that the CONFEDERATE FLAG be removed FROM A COUNTY OWNED PARK and given back to the private owner as it was not a flag owned by Henry County,” stated Clemmons on her Facebook page. “This has caused me to receive hundreds of nasty emails and Facebook posts. Over the years, the Confederate battle flag has come to mean different things to different people. To me and many other United States Citizens it is emblematic of slavery, racism and the bloody battles that made the Civil War the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. WE CAN NOT ERASE HISTORY BUT WE DON’T HAVE TO RE-Live it.”
In a March 16 email from Clemmnons to her fellow commissioners, provided to the Herald Wednesday afternoon by the county, Clemmons said she had received “overwhelming” requests from her constituents that the flag be removed.
“I was surpised that we have this flag in our county inventory flying high for almost eight years,” Clemmons wrote. “When I investigated further … I was relieved that the flag did not belong to Henry County and that the owner would graciously place it in their personal dwelling. If any of you would like the flag placed back up speak now. If you get concerns from citizens, refer them to me.”
Clemmons also wrote that her thorough research had revealed that “this flag has no historical relevance to the undocumented battlefield” and that she felt its removal would prevent the county from exposure to lawsuits for hate crimes or discrimination.
The museum, located at 100 Babbs Mill Road in Hampton, plans to officially close June 1, according the Nash Farm Facebook post.
Visit henryherald.com for updates.
Commissioner Clemmons is Taliban.
Der beez a offay in DAT woodpile!
So did anyone on the board “speak up” about putting the flag back up, or did they all cower?
Commissioner Dee Clemmons
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Try to tell me there is no racist motivation behind that persecution of local history...
Before whichever flavor of snowflakes (AntiFa, BLM, etc.) show up and torch the place.
No, it’s what racism looks like.
She needs to hear from people who don’t agree with her.
(770) 288-6001
“I looked at that FB page and it seems to be a hoax.”
Plausible deniability. “But it was a hoax. How did we know people were really going to show up and riot?”
Taliban did it in Afghanistan.
I think ISIS has done it some in Iraq/Syria.
Georgia gave us Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga), a flaming Marxist nutcase with an openly anti-Semitic father (both black by the way).
Now we have another leftist wackjob just looking for a fight, and she’ll probably get reelected despite doing the old “Stalin photographs eliminations” and historical revisions.
Time for somebody to establish an private tax-exempt, educational museum to replace this one. I won’t have liked the Confederacy but still, history is history, good or bad, and sometimes the bad has to be told too (otherwise it is called a ‘coverup’ like Sen. Robert Byrd’s KKK career).
Disgusting.Look for the mudslime outreach to take its place.Spend no money in these areas and certainly dont move there.
Hoax. Sam Houston was a Unionist.
Yes, Sam Houston was a Unionist, but facts don’t matter to the radicals that want to tear our history down.
A Civil War museum is the place for a CSA flag.
Okay Buster, Mr. D.U. Hotshot! Listen up!
I win, you make the check out to Free Republic.
I lose, you make the check out to Jim Robinson.
Got it?
Yeah, yeah, okay! Hurry up and deal. I can't wait to kick your a**.
Time to do the deed FReepers!
By erasing history, she ensures that we will relive it.
What ever happened to the supposedly 1st rule of journalism, the “Who, What, When, Where and How” in news reporting?
Illegals offend me, lets deport them now.
But you will continue to try.
I do believes I sees a whitey in that woodpile! She mus’ be doin’ de ol’ `blacker than thou’ minstrel bit.
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