Another lengthy Mathews County Board of Supervisors meeting brought no resolution to the issue of whether the Confederate monument and the public land it sits on should be carved out of the county’s historic court green and deeded to private entities. A public hearing held last Wednesday, Sept. 21, had the stated intent of deciding whether any of the county’s publicly owned land should be sold or otherwise disposed of, but supervisor Dave Jones said near the end of the meeting what was actually on the minds of all those who attended—that “all this was about 60 square feet of property out here, and very little about any other property.” “We knew this was going to turn into nothing but a discussion on that monument,” agreed supervisor Mike Walls. Walls also explained the reason the board approved a motion during the August meeting declaring that Mathews County owns the monument and the land under it. He said he had discovered while researching the monument on the State Corporation Commis...