Time’s Up for the Talbot Boys

Originally published at https://www.splicetoday.com.

About 10 protesters were already in front of the Talbot County, MD courthouse when I arrived. We were gathered to protest the County Council’s decision last week to keep the Talbot Boys monument — honoring local soldiers who fought for the Confederacy — on the courthouse lawn despite years of requests to have it torn down. By one p.m., nearly 100 people…