Is it too late to call a time out in this endless wrangling about who shall be memorialized on Mathews Court Green, or for that matter Gloucester Court Green, or in any public space? We will state two opinions: 1. that public sentiment and a sense of significance lay behind the erection of all present monuments, and should drive the placement of future monuments; and 2. once monuments are in place, their removal, or transfer to any other entity, especially a private group, warrants long, careful, and skeptical consideration. This newspaper has called several times for erection of monuments in Gloucester and Mathews to the enslaved workers who, after all, constructed many of the mansions and public buildings that today we revere as historic treasures. Large parts of the local economies were produced by these unpaid, involuntary workers. If we could recognize that legacy permanently, in bronze and in stone, perhaps one of the deepest and most hurtful thorns in the local fabric could be r...