When today’s Mystery Photo was taken, it must have been turning toward springtime, the new leaves on the trees indicate. Figure out where this photo is located, and send your answers to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
Several people recognized a distinctive angle photograph of the reflecting pool at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in downtown Atlanta. They included Pat Bruschini, Peachtree Corners; Steve Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Lindsay Borenstein, Atlanta; Ross Lenhart, Stone Mountain; Virginia Klaer, Duluth; Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill; Lou Camerio of Lilburn; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. The photo came from George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Peel’s research turned up this: “Today’s mystery photo is of the Waterfall Memorial at the Tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 968) and Coretta Scott King (1927 – 2006), part of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in the King Historic District of Atlanta.
“The pool is made up of a series of steps/waterfalls that have a simile taken from the historic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech during the 1963 March on Washington, D.C., in which King declared:
“WE WILL NOT BE SATISFIED UNTIL JUSTICE ROLLS DOWN LIKE WATER
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A MIGHTY STREAM.”
“It is also worth noting that Dr. King was originally buried at South-View Cemetery on Jonesboro Road in Atlanta, the same place as his parents. His body was reinterred in the King Center Tomb in 1970, though at the time, much of the surrounding architecture did not exist and was only completed between 1977 and 1981. When Coretta King died on January 30, 2006, she was also buried elsewhere because the original tomb was only designed to hold one coffin. Her body was reinterred next to her husband in November 2006.”
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