In June 2020, I wrote a post on this site calling for the Fiscal Court of Jessamine County to “Relocate the Jessamine Confederate Monument” though I didn’t organize anything politically.
Around the same time, a local student sought the same thing.
Now, local pastors are urging the removal of the Confederate Soldier’s Monument on the courthouse lawn in downtown Nicholasville to the city-owned Maple Grove Cemetery. This echoes my 2020 suggestion and has an historically sound basis.
The pastors have also created an incredibly well-produced and informative video:
It is time. #MovetheMonument