A Yankee Visits Charlottesville, Where Gen. Lee Is Under Cover - WSJ

A Yankee Visits Charlottesville, Where Gen. Lee Is Under Cover - WSJ
"This city seems to be in mourning.
On the campus where Thomas Jefferson planted the “academical village” that grew up to be the University of Virginia, the university’s statue of Jefferson was briefly swathed in black plastic.
In nearby Emancipation Park, a 26-foot-high equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee remains swathed in black, mostly to prevent defacement. 
In the wake of the Aug. 12 riot between fanatics of the neo-Nazi right and the new Red Guards of the Antifa left, an uneasy atmosphere prevails throughout Charlottesville, as if awaiting, like Pompeii, yet another eruption..."