Lights over Atlanta hosts sculpture lighting ceremony

Lights Over Atlanta is a custom lighting design company that focuses on exterior lighting for commercial buildings, city landscapes, retail centers, and residential sites. The company recently approached Cobb Landmarks about donating permanent outdoor lighting for our new garden sculpture at the Root House.

​The sculpture, titled “Forget Me Not, America,” was erected to honor and remember the more than 1,200 enslaved people living in Marietta prior to the end of the Civil War. Cobb Landmarks partnered with Kennesaw State University’s School of Art and Design to create the sculpture.
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The lighting ceremony was held on December 17, 2021. Cobb Landmarks was honored to have Destiny’s Daughters of Promise in attendance. Through this partnership, students were able to attend the lighting ceremony, meet with the sculptors, tour the museum, and visit with our Food Historian and Living History Interpreter Clarissa Clifton.

Cobb Landmarks is honored to receive this gift from Lights Over Atlanta. The sculpture represents the work of students, poets, artists, and historians who came together for a common purpose - to shine a light on the 1,200 enslaved individuals whose names were not recorded and are now lost to time. We thank Lights Over Atlanta for shining a light on this important piece of public art.