Length: 60 minutes
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monumental/id1709713467?i=1000646871775
Ashley C Ford is the host of this podcast. The name caught my attention when looking through podcasts to listen to. In the recent past there has been a lot of discussion about monuments and several monuments have been removed, so I wanted to see how this podcast addressed the issue.
The episode I listened to was Bringing Monuments Home. It focused mainly on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery Alabama. I felt like the episode was too long and would have been better served as three separate podcasts.
The beginning focused more on how designers create monuments and how abstract art seems to be in fashion currently as Ford notes “Whatever you bring to the space becomes what the space is about.”
Next was the meat of the podcast documenting Fords trip to Montgomery. There are several clips of interviews with people associated with the monument.
Finally there is the third segment that addresses technology and monuments. It discusses Apps like Kinfolk that will allow you to visit a spot and see an AR (augmented Reality) image of a monument that has never been built.
If each segment had been its own 30 podcast I probably would have been interested in listening more but as a 1 hour podcast it didn’t capture my attention and make me want to listen again. I will not be adding this podcast to my library.
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
Louis D. Brandeis
